Thursday, January 29, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Totoro can haz dust ball?
My collection of Studio Ghibli stuffies has grown!!! About a year ago, one of my best friends got me an awesome Totoro stuffie while he was interning in Beijing ^_^ And I thought that was awesome, but then a couple weeks ago my Totoro found a dust ball friend (courtesy of my now boyfriend's trip to Japan)!!!
I also got some other interesting presents, including the cutest toe-socks I've ever seen! SQUEE!
And this bag, which he thought was really funny (and then K-Snow and I explained that "Chu" means kiss... and hence the XXX are probably kisses... -.-)
WHEE PRESENTS ^o^ But Totoro's new dust ball buddy definitely wins the prize for most awesome ^_^
I also got some other interesting presents, including the cutest toe-socks I've ever seen! SQUEE!
And this bag, which he thought was really funny (and then K-Snow and I explained that "Chu" means kiss... and hence the XXX are probably kisses... -.-)
WHEE PRESENTS ^o^ But Totoro's new dust ball buddy definitely wins the prize for most awesome ^_^
Monday, January 12, 2009
Winter Knitting 08/09 - Part 1: Herringbone Scarf!
This is one of the two knitting projects I've been working on this winter. Originally I wanted to do the "Henry" scarf from knitty.com, but I really suck at knitting scarves sideways because I just lose count of all the stitches way too easily. Not to mention the tubular edge thing didn't work out to great when I did a test swatch...
So instead I decided, well I've never done a herringbone texture before, so why not! And my attempt to keep it from curling quite as much involved putting a seed-stitch edge on it, but that doesn't seem to be working as well as I thought. I think I'll just have to try to block the living daylights out of this guy when I'm done...
It's also the first time I've done a scarf using sock yarn... It takes much longer than any other scarf I've done T.T
But enough talk! here's some pictures!
All crumpled up...
Seed stitch border...
The herringbone texture...
It's not visible from the pictures, but the herringbone isn't very even, mainly because it took me awhile to get a hang of the whole knitting through the back loops thing... But I think it'll turn out decent ^.^
YAY!! Yeah, this one is the one I worked on all winter break (3 weeks) and it's not even halfway done yet. I reminds me of the anime "Maria-sama ga Miteru" though because I watched the whole first season of it while knitting this.
So instead I decided, well I've never done a herringbone texture before, so why not! And my attempt to keep it from curling quite as much involved putting a seed-stitch edge on it, but that doesn't seem to be working as well as I thought. I think I'll just have to try to block the living daylights out of this guy when I'm done...
It's also the first time I've done a scarf using sock yarn... It takes much longer than any other scarf I've done T.T
But enough talk! here's some pictures!
All crumpled up...
Seed stitch border...
The herringbone texture...
It's not visible from the pictures, but the herringbone isn't very even, mainly because it took me awhile to get a hang of the whole knitting through the back loops thing... But I think it'll turn out decent ^.^
YAY!! Yeah, this one is the one I worked on all winter break (3 weeks) and it's not even halfway done yet. I reminds me of the anime "Maria-sama ga Miteru" though because I watched the whole first season of it while knitting this.
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