Family and fabrics

My parents are visiting from Indonesia at the moment. I haven’t seen them for a long time, so it’s good to get to spend time with them again. Plus they haven’t seen Annette since she was born, so Annette is also enjoying getting to know her ‘new’ Oma and Opa. They came laden with goodies for Annette. How many Hello Kitty lunch boxes and stickers can one little girl have? Never enough, apparently!

Before they came here, they asked me if I wanted anything from there. I thought of yarn, but Indonesia does not have a knitting culture (it’s a tropical country, wool yarns are unheard of over there!), so I said, um, fabrics? And my mum came good, she brought me a little pile of fabrics. Here are some of my favourites.

I vaguely remember having some pajamas made of the fabric in the second picture above, the one with the dots, houses, etc. My mum used to sew some clothes for me when I was little, although she doesn’t sew anymore now. I regret not taking any interest in learning to sew from her earlier. I didn’t have any interest in crafting whatsoever — be it knitting, sewing or anything else — until just a few years ago. Now my mum is quite pleasantly surprised and amazed that I have turned into a crafter myself 🙂

So for the past week Annette and I have been taking my parents around, did some sightseeing etc, and tomorrow we are going to yum cha. Yummm! I’ve finished my Coupling socks (photos soon), and Little Majolica is almost finished as well. Finally!