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I love this pattern – GAIL.
it’s just perfect if you love lace, and it doesn’t really take you too much time to finish one.
My second Gail was using Sundara Fingering Silk merino yarn, it’s just perfect for it.
I love the touch of the yarn, it’s so soft and warm to knit with it. (I knit with air conditioned area, so, it’s ok to knit warm yarn…)
It’s so much easier to knit if compare with the linen yarn that I used for the 1st Gail. This time, I knit 6 repeats, it goes so well. And my friend Caron just loves this size, not too big and not too small. 
Oh, forgot to mention, I gave the 1st Gail to my best friend Angel. She came over to my house for visiting and when she tried that Gail , she loves it, and I found that it really suits her so well. So, I gave it to her.
Now, I dont’ have any Gail for myself. But I will definitely use one of my Seasilk to make one more Gail. But, this will be after I arrive China.
Everyone, just six more days, and we will head to Hong Kong, and then ShenZhen ….
Please keep us in your prayers:
1) safe trip
2) away from Swine Flu…
3) jetlag
4) and the hot humid weather over there…..
Excited news:
We will go to St. Thomas to watch the “Day out with Thomas”… Yeah, all of us will take 2.5 hours driving to this little town to watch Thomas the Train. We can’t wait for it. :)
Especially Erika, she loves (adores!) Thomas the train…. I can’t imagine how excited she will be tomorrow when she sees the actual size of Thomas. haha
Oh no! I am a bit guilty now…
I am building up my wips again!
Sigh…
I don’t know why I am easily get bored with one single project.
And always want to start something new.
I am now knitting :
1 scarf for my aunt (seasilk)
1 scarf for myself (Silver silk)
1 scarf for myself (the Cherry Fizz)
1 dress for my daughter Erika (Little sister’s dress)
Little sister's Dress (using Japanese Cotton yarn)
Tell me that I am not the only one who is building WIPs all the time. 
Besides Knitting, I have nothing to do but playing with Erika.
She learns so fast recently and picks up and imitates what we do !
She is always trying to count “one” “two” “three” when she is going downstairs, and she will say the name of the animals, objects or letters when she plays puzzles.
It’s really cute.
(but, it’s almost the stage of Trouble 2…sigh, she starts throwing things , she found it really fun! but, I didn’t pick them up for her, just want her know that this is not FUNNY and not appropriate to do that.)
I will have lots of things to LEARN (Parenting) too.
I finished the NORO silk garden little shawl last week, and I already started a new project with silk yarn.
This silk yarn was bought in a local yarn store (Linda’s Craftique).
It’s from Handmaiden Fine Yarn, named samira silk, the yardage isn’t a lot though, but 2 skeins should be enough for a scarf.
The pattern that I am using is the OLD pattern that I bought long long time ago, Japanese feather scarf.
I love this yarn’s color, SILVER, I think, it’s actually grey, but with the SILK shiny effect of the yarn itself, it looks like “SILVER”.
Knitting silk is very different from WOOL, for wool , they are more stretchy, but silk, it’s another story.
THey are soft, smooth, and silky to knit, but not stretchy at all.
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OTher than knitting, I already packed the stuffs for donation, the good thing is: someone will come over and pick them up, I don’t need to MOVE them to the station. This really helps me to save time and energy!
After the removal of all stuffs, Erika and I will move to my mom’s house, and then I will do BIG BiG clean up for our house.
I hope I will have SOME energy to knit at night before sleep.
my little one helped out cleaning ! HA!
Why so blue?
Stuffs for sale, this is showing only part of it!
EMOTIONALLY: my husband just left to Hong kong Last Sat, and then he will leave to Shanghai on the coming Friday from there.
CD Cases from UMBRA, looks pretty good on the wall.
I am not very down because of his leaving, I know that Erika and I will meet him very soon (around April).
But I was quite frustrated to look at the MESS at my home. Because we need to clean up everything inside the house before we move to my mom house.
Books for sale!
I found that we still have lots of stuffs ‘hidden’ somewhere around the house. And I am going to sell them off. My last (very last) “garage” sale will be on the coming Sat, from 9am till 11:30am only. It’s a very short period of time, because I can’t hold it for too long, it’s really tiring though. (sorry, no reserve, no special appointment and everything in FIRST COME FIRST SERVE basis.)
Used shoes for sale
But, I am taking everything EASY and SLOW. And also grabbed sometimes to knit too.
KNITTING in BLUE :
Ishbel shawl , started pattern A
I started a beautiful shawl project: Ishbel. I was inspired by my best friend Angel, she made one with sock yarn that was bought from my stash, it’s so gorgeous! So, I am going to make one too.
I am using Noro silk garden sock yarn (S252) for this shawl, so far I love it.
Noro silk garden yarn, color: S252
It’s not a big project though, and I think I can finish it very soon.
(May be I didnt’ touch the needles and yarn for so long, that’s why I have the ENERGY to knit it fast!)
I am going to CHINA very soon (as mentioned in my previous posts), and I want to destash my knitting books / yarns (very few of them) here.
Please contact me either through email (lillian dot yanyan dot wong at gmail dot com) or leave a comment here or through Ravelry.
I prefer PICK UP (I live in Markham area), or if you don’t mind to pay for the mailing cost, then, let me know, and I will calculate the cost for you.
If you need a picture of the book , let me know and I can do that for you. Because I am going to save up some time on picturing, I just list out the titles with author’s names. (All books and yarn are in good condition)
All prices are in Canadian dollars. Thanks.
(you can pay me by cash for PICK UP , and paypal for mailing service.)
YARN: (ALL GONE)
KNITTING & CROCHETING BOOKS
1) 25 bags to knit (EMMA KING) $8
2) Knit one , Felt too (KATHLEEN TAYLOR) $9
3) Knitting Never Felt Better (Nicky Epstein) $12
4) Malabrigo BOOK ONE (Cornelia Tuttle Hamilton) $10
5) Filatura Di Crosa , Zara & Zara plus 2005 (Tahki Stacy Charles, Inc) $7
6) Miss Bea’s Seaside (Louisa Harding) $3 (hold)
7) Miss Bea’s Rainy Day (Louisa Harding) $3 (hold)
8 ) Rowan Felted Collection (SARAH HATTON) $10
9) Nashua BLOOM, spring and summer 2007 (NASHUA) $6
10) Ella Rae book 8 $10
11) Jaeger Handknits, JB 43 (12 designer garments using Aqua, Siena, and Roma) $6
12) Jo Sharp HOME book number 4 , $7
13) Simple Knits with a twist (ERIKA KNIGHT) $5
14) Maran illustrated KNITTING & CROCHETING, $6
15) Chic Knits for Stylish Babies (Patricia Wagner) $9
16) Itty-bitty Hats (Susan B. Anderson) $9
17) Soft + Simple knits for little ones (Heidi Boyd) $6
18) Adorable Knits for tiny tots (Zoe Mellor) $5
19 ) Junior Knits (Debbie Bliss) $10
20) THe Little STory book of LITTLE KNITS ( Marie Wallin) $12 (HOLD)
21) Essential Baby (Debbie Bliss) $10
22) Runway Knits (Berta Karapetyan) $9
23) Cornelia tutte Hamilton , NORO book number 2 , $10
24) bag STYLE (PAM ALLEN & ANN BUDD) , $9
25) Knit with Beads BEAUTIFUL GIFTS (Scarlet taylor) $5
MAGAZINES:
A) Debbie Bliss, Fall/winter 2008, $5 (HOLD)
B) Rebecca No.29, Jan -Sep , $6 (HOLD)
C) Rebecca No.32, Aug – Jan, $6 (HOLD)
D) Rowan Magazine Number 41 , $12
E) Phildar Special Twenty no. 458, Autumn -winter 06/07 , $7
F) Phildar Enfants Autumn – Winter 06/07, $7
G) Phildar TenDANCeS No.456 , Autumn 06/07 , $7
H) Phildar TenDANces No.480 , Winter 1 07/08, $7 (HOLD)
I) Family Circle, EASY KNITTING Holiday 2004, $1
J) Knit.1 , Fall/winter 2005 , Men’s issue , $1
K) Knit.1, Spring/summer 2008, $3
L) Vogue Knitting, Holiday 2007, $4
M) Vogue Knitting, Spring/Summer 2006, $3.5 (HOLD)
N) Vogue Knitting, Spring/Summer 2007, $4 (HOLD)
O) Vogue Knitting, Fall 2007 (Silver Anniversary Collector’s Issue) , $4 (HOLD)
P) Interweave KNITS, Winter 2008, $5
Q) IK, Summer 2008, $5 (HOLD)
R) IK, Spring 2008, $5
S) IK, Holiday 2007, $4
T) IK, Spring 2007, $4
U) IK, Winter 2006, $4
V) IK, Summer 2006, $4 (HOLD)
W) IK, Fall 2006, $4
X) IK, Spring 2006, $4
Y) Phildar Pitchoun Autumn – winter 2006/07, $7
SEWING books and Magazine
i) Burda (with patterns) , 9/2008 , $6
ii) Zakka Sewing (Therese Laskey + Chika Mori) $15
iii) Amy Bulter’s Little stitches for little ones (with patterns), $18
iv) Printing by hand (Lena Corwin) , $17
