my first shawl is completed!

wow, last Aug in 2012, I bought 4 balls of golden mustard cotton yarn, Mondial Cable 5 Filo Di Scozia, to knit my first shawl, Ginkgo Shoulderette Shawl by Maggie Magali.(free download from Ravelry.com):P

Aug-Sep 2012
At the beginning, I thought 2/3 is Stocking sts & 1/3 is the lace  should be okay to finish it by 2 weeks.... (Obviously I was wrong). Cos the first part is boring just keep knitting bigger & bigger... so I stopped it somewhere in Sept. 

Dec 2012 - Jan 2013
I thought, "Hey I have to complete it and I cannot leave it halfway (not really 50% work done)". So I picked up again although a bit long boring journey. Knit, knit, knit... 

The Pattern instruction wrote abt the calculation & the chart was a bit confused me.... so at the FIRST round, I knit 8x15 per side Plus 2 sts at the beginning. HUH! The wrong thing began. I was happy to start my Lace part... I think it was around 2 to 3 rows of Lace (I was watching TV).. oh no... sthg wrong and the counting was not right.... then I frogged as Chinese New Year & holiday was coming....

Mar 2013
I know & I want to KO it ASAP. So one nite, I undo the lace and some part of the stocking sts. I also read again the instruction. THEN, I FINALLY finally understood how the calculation works!!!! 

The calculation should be (also my shawl used) 2 Garter sts + ((9x15)+2) + 1 Centre st + ((9x15)+2) +  2 Garter sts = 279 sts 

Remark: [the instruction said if you want to increase the size before the lace part you need an odd multiple of 15 stitches + 2]

When I got this calculation clear,... continue to knit knit knit my Stocking sts... When I started my lace was not smooth, the counting had some problem, my yarn was a mess & knots.... I spent my nearly 12 hours on Sun to keep knitting & solve the yarn mess!!!! Anyway,... I spent 2 more nights to finish it! YAY!!!!! 

Then I bought a set of Baby mat as this is my first time to do Blocking. So followed the instruction, I soak the FO into some cold water for 30 mins, then dry it and laid out on top of the mat. Tried to stretch it out evenly. wow! Looking good! 

So after one day drying! Viola! DONE!!!! 
So happy that I can finish it on time for my own birthday! 

love love, k

Red Wild Mushrooms

I haven't been blogging and even posting here & FB for more than a month...

The last 2 months were the most horrible period in my life. I have gone thru knowing my mum had a brain tumor, brain operation, chemo treatment, and ...she left us.... ALL PACKED IN ONE MONTH! WTF!*(#$#*#%&~))!(*$%&&% It is totally NOT easy to face it! 

BUT I still have my dad and my sister,... and my mum's mother (our grandma)& our auntie,etc... Since my mum was in hospital, I started to replace my mum to work with my dad... and now have been working for 2 mths, things are getting along but it would be still hard to telling customers my mum has passed away...

Last week, when I was at a bank, the teller asked me where Mrs is.. and I said my mum has passed away. I saw her eyes immediately turned red and my tears started running out...

well well well... stop telling you the sadness of mine... Let's talk something more cheerful as Life must go on!

I have been asked for pricing and custom-made but usually no response after quotation! XD (the orders I had before were all from my friends or my sister's fds). The day my mum left, I got my REAL first customer as she said that she paid me deposit for the Snowwhite bunny. When I saw that email I didn't know it is a good news or bad... as I told her that I need 2 weeks... so I started to make within the 2nd week as the first week was totally sad and tired... 

(actually 2 hours before I got a phone call from hospital on that early morning, I was knitting for another customer,.... and I should continue it NOW)... sorry, michael!!!

Then last week, my sister told me that her friend saw the Red Wild Mushrooms Pencil Topper from my FB page! She loves mushrooms and wanna know if I would sell it... so I made as her request, set of 3.... 

Here we go...

Now I am hoping that my family and myself are all in good health and recover from our lost soon.... and can be really happy for the rest of our life!!! Of cos I also wish all of u happy and healthy! ;)

love love, k

Organic Elephant 2: DONE

um... when did I start making this elephant? ... I think the elephant is not hard to make, but the outfit... lot of trimming... time killer... but hey I have finished it!!!! 


I thought I never make photo that can show their size for your reference. So today I made 2 photos that may help you know how big they are! :)

What do you think? do you like the size?!!?!

This month, my schedule has full already... but my head already thinking what I am going to knit NEXT!!!

What would you like see next? Can you give me some suggestion, please?! :D

love love, k