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Red Bobble Hat

December 9, 2008knit and crochet

I’m hooked on crocheting! I found these skeins of yarn in a secondhand shop for ￥200 for two of them. The label says that it was wool made in Marabá, Brazil. This hat used up about 1.5 skeins of the yarn. The finished hat is not as slouchy as I want it to be, but [...]

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Navy suit and white shirt

December 8, 2008kidswear

Sidra needed a navy knee-length pants and a white shirt for the school concert, so I thought I’d just made them myself instead of buying some. The shirt fabric is white cotton with some interesting thin pintucks on it. The pants fabric is navy thick cotton, and I also made a matching jacket to the [...]

Tagged as: jacket, Japanese pattern, pants, sewing, shirt

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Puff stitch crochet beret

December 4, 2008knit and crochet

I finished it this morning. The beret is supposed to have a bow on the side but unfortunately I ran out of yarn. Love it. Pattern is Puff stitch Crochet Beret with Bow by creativeyarn, found from Ravelry .

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Mentioned in Threadbanger

December 4, 2008life

This morning, I found this post on Threadbanger about Burdastyle. Yes, that’s me and my denim hat ^.^

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Japanese knitting needles and a new project

December 3, 2008knit and crochet

Yesterday I just found out the reason why Sidra’s hat is too small (and why my fingers hurt when I’m knitting). The reason is: I didn’t know that Japanese knitting needles sizes are different than US sizes! D’oh. It means that all this time I’ve been struggling to knit with needles that are 2 sizes [...]

Tagged as: crochet, in progress, knit

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Birthday Camera Test

December 1, 2008life

My lovely husband gave me this new camera for my birthday present. It’s Panasonic Lumix G1 with two interchangeable lenses, 14-45 mm and 45-200 mm. Yay! This baby is a digital SLR targeted for female consumers, with the Japanese ad showing some ladies in kimonos holding these cameras easily. So, although it’s bigger than the [...]

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Easy crochet headband (or my first crochet!)

November 30, 2008knit and crochet

When I started to try knitting, I joined Ravelry, a community for knitters and crocheters, to learn about knitting and have a look at all those patterns and projects. Naturally I’d bump into some crocheted projects too, and then I started to get curious. I chose this easy crochet headband from creativeyarn because it is, [...]

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Birthday Morning

November 30, 2008life

Taken with my new camera, a birthday present from my husband. Yay!

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Yellow hat

November 27, 2008kidswear

I finally finished it in about three days, and it turned out to be, uh, a bit too small for Sidra. Darn it. But as usual, he’s very excited about the new hat. I added a pompom on top of the hat and another one of those bug button on the hat. This time, the [...]

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more knitting

November 25, 2008knit and crochet

Yes, that’s the yellow yarn again. I call them my learning yarn. After I finished my first knitting project, I still have 4 skeins of them that I use for trying out stitches. Yoshimi has so kindly sent me a pack of JP10 double-pointed needles, so I am now learning to knit in the round. [...]