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It will be great if God gives us 12 more hours a day. I mean, 12 hours FREE to knit and sew. haha.
It’s tough to knit and sew quietly and peacefully while Erika is awake, and she seems like need more attention now…
Oh well, I can still manage to knit and sew a bit.
The Cable bag for myself
Recently, I am working two knitting projects: one cable bag from Debbie Bliss Family knits book, and the other one is a vest for Erika. This vest pattern was improvised from a Japanese pattern. I love the cable pattern from the bag in DB book, so I used part of the pattern for this vest, it looks good.
The Cable vest for Erika
The yarn that I used for the cable bag is Japanese yarn, and the one that I am using for the vest is Malabrigo silky merino. Ha, sounds funny, a Japanese yarn for a western pattern, and a western yarn for a Japanese pattern. I think this is called East meets West / west meets East knitting project!
The front and back of the vest.
I will post the picture tomorrow as I am a bit tired now to pick up the camera and shoot them. (at the same time, it’s lack of light source now… and I don’t like using flash… !)
Erika was quite fussy on eating few days ago, she ate less, and kept on spitting up the food that I fed her.
But, somehow, after two days like that, she was back to normal again.
My mom said that it’s probably of the teething again, and that made her uncomfortable to eat well.
hm… thanks God that this tough stage didn’t last too long, it really drives me crazy that she didn’t eat well.
As a mom, I always want her to eat, sleep & pee/poo well. 
RIGHT?
This is my first sewing Jacket for Erika.
The pattern is from Ottobre Design, Autumn 4/2008, the “Venny” Jacket. (size 80)
I love this jacket, however, I think I chose the wrong fabric, and I don’t know how to make a ‘lining’ for the jacket (in the pattern, it doesn’t say we have to add lining to it, but I think it should be better with it.)
Second, I still need to add buttons to this jacket , however, I have never try using the sewing machine to make button holes, I have to read the instruction from the machine, and try it tomorrow.
Anyway, I am happy with this jacket, I love this ‘weaving like’ fabric. (THe same fabric that I used for the bottom of the mini lunch bag in the previous post.) It’s on sale in Fabricland (only $4 or $3.50 for a meter).
The pattern book is GREAT. I bought them through ebay store, guess what, it’s FREE SHIPPING any where in the world, and it costs me around 19 dollars for a book with 33 designs inside!
Oh well, probably this pattern book is for more advance sewer, I found it ‘not easy to follow’, I just use my limited sewing knowledge to make this jacket.
I actually didn’t follow 100% of the pattern, you know, just tried to make it “WORKS” , haha.
I didn’t use elastic band for the sleeves, because I don’t know how to .. hahaha
THe instructions in the booklet is very limited (that’s why I think it’s for advanced sewer.) …
but, I will try to learn with some other reference books.
this fabric is quite sturdy though, it can actually 'stand up' like this..haha
I will make another top for Erika on the coming weekend, oh my gosh, where are my needles?
Am I going to give up knitting?
no, I won’t..
I will pick them up soon.
I didn’t put anything in my blog last week, I felt very tired because I did lots of housework for hosting few guests last weekend.
Finally, they were gone ,and we are back to normal again.
I managed to sew few things today, and two items were given to my friend’s son.
Baby bib with Japanese fabric, for Carter
Baby blanket for Carter
baby blanket (double sided)
I love all the sewing projects, they are cute and fast (and easy) to finish!
Another baby blanket with different colors
Burberry like fabrics (From FabricLand) - bib
bib with blue tone.
Personally, I love the bib the most.
I am also sewing a little denim dress for my daughter Erika, hopefully I can finish it off tomorrow and then post it up with Erika as a model.
For knitting, I finished the bag for my swap partner (it’s a hand purse knitting swap, I still have a week to send it out.) I really have to push myself to block it and then sew the lining and handles for this beautiful bag.
I also received a package from my ‘lace swap’ partner. It’s very yummy: 2 skeins of mini maiden (PURPLE COLOR! ) with a flower basket shawl pattern, also some chocolates and hand cream as well. THanks Clarie. You really know what I love. ;D
I am addicted to sewing recently, and ordered two magazines from ebay store.
What are they? THey are Ottobre Design magazines (For kids), OH, the designs are just gorgeous and cute, I can’t wait to make more for Erika.
funny face when playing the balls
Erika is 15 months old now, and she is learning fast, she starts to recognize objects, animals, few letters on the flash cards. It’s fun to play with her now, because she loves ‘hide and seek’, and making many funny faces to make me laugh.
covering her face
peekaboo
I am a pig!
This is my first sewing top, do you like it?
it’s a Kimono pattern from a sewing book by Amy Butler.
I love her fabric designs so does the patterns.
This top is not hard to make, and fits Erika quite well (the size is for 9-12 months old.)
the back
However, the sleeves are a bit long for her… And I am going to fix if because I know that one day will fit her well.
Kimono
Dear me, I am so busy recently that I really don’t have the time to update my blog.
But, today, I wanted to write something.
A special thanks to Amy, my SP12 secret pal.
She sent me a 2nd package, but somehow, we didn’t know why, and very disappointed that it was lost or something.. I hope one day I will see that package in my mailbox.
She was so kind to send me another 3rd package with many goodies inside.
Here is the picture, I especially love the mitten book. And just resist myself to start a project with Claudia Painted sock yarn. IT’s gorgeous!
I also love the yarn, it’s my first time to touch the EL silk yarn. Thanks Amy.
And really thanks for sending ERika a new cloth, she is so lucky! 
hahahaha
Besides the wedding decoration thing, I also knitted (and finished) a little baby shrug for Erika.
Since her dress (for wedding ceremony) is sleeveless, so, I guess she might be a bit cold in A/C area. The shrug was done, but , not very satisfied, it’s a bit too big for her.
Anyway, my hubby said that it looks good on her.
No picture yet , as I wanted to add something to it.
I also joined a hand purse swap in Ravelry.
I already started to knit that cable bag , and it’s half done already
it’s fast to knit a bag if using bigger needles (this is using size 6.5mm) .
My pal loves purple, it’s almost my fav color.
The yarn that I am using is Debbie Bliss Rialto Aran, plum color.
