The theme this week is group photos. That’s me on the right, with two of my cousins. Our families were on holidays together when this was taken. I was almost two here I think.
Month: August 2007
Good mail
Look what arrived in my mailbox yesterday! A reproduction print from a painting by Jade, and she also included these cute japanese fabrics. Thanks Jade! I looooove the print so much, it looks so much better in person. It’s so sweet, and Jade has such great attention to details. The print is titled “no wanna sleep”, and I think it would be just perfect in Annette’s room (since she never wants to go to sleep either!) Check out Jade’s etsy shop for more of her prints!
Flashback friday
I’ve been following with great interest the flashback fridays that Angela started. It’s nice that old photos are not forgotten. I myself love looking at old photos, whether they’re of me, my parents, or someone else’s. I don’t have many of my childhood photos here, most of them are at my parents’ house, thousands of miles away. But I do have an album of my baby photos, which my mum brought here when Annette was born (for lets-see-who-the-baby-look-like purposes 😉 ) This week’s theme is ‘fancy dress’. I can’t find a photo of me in fancy dress, and since this is my first flashback friday posting, how about we just start from the very beginning? This is me and my mum, I was just a few months old here in 1979.
Looks like I had very yummy fingers!
And here’s something new that I’m working on. It’s the Little Majolica sweater from Interweave Knits Fall 2006. The yarn that I’m using is Merinos Fine 100%, by Moda Vera, in pale green and deep brown. I bought them for cheap (I think it was under $3 a ball) at Spotlight, but it’s nice and soft and comes in great colours.
One sock, two socks
I now have a pair of Jaywalker socks, yay! After all the sewing, I kind of miss my knitting. So after the market I immediately picked up the Jays again and got the second sock done.
Pattern: Jaywalker socks, by Grumperina
Yarn: Socks That Rock lightweight in ‘G Rocks’
Needles: 2.5mm circulars, magic looping
Modifications:
– Picot edging instead of ribbing.
– Casted on 68 sts. When I started the first sock, I did the smaller size (76 sts around). But my gauge must have been off, because it turned out too loose for me (of course, I didn’t realise this until I got past the heel, and no, my feet are not super skinny — my gauge was just off because I was using a slightly larger needles than in the pattern). So I just casted on 68 sts, and knitted 6 sts in between the double decreases/increases instead of the 7 or 8.
You might notice that the striping here looks a bit different from the first photo I took of it, because the numbers of stitches per round are different. (Cara did a post explaining the striping behaviour of self-striping yarns here — it’s in the number of stitches!) I kind of preferred the way it was striping before I changed the number of stitches, the stripes seemed more defined somewhat. But I suppose it’s better to have socks that fit isn’t it.
I do love the yarn though, definitely my favourite sock yarn. So soft and easy to work with. And the colours! I just love the colours.
