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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!
I received two packages today!
what a surprise when I opened the mailbox!
First, I opened the first parcel from Norway, it’s a beautiful scarf made by my scarf exchange partner, Marianne.
She outdid this for me!
1) my favorite color: purple, the pattern for the scarf is very beautiful with a cable in the middle and rounded ends.
It’s so pretty with the crocheted flower with shawl pin.
2) she also added 3 balls of yarn, two from Drop designs, the Alpaca , and the other ball is silk alpaca, very soft and bright color.
3) the chocolate from Norway , can I say more? I really love chocolates. 
Then, I opened the second parcel, it’s from my secret pal 13 partner, she knew that I am leaving to China very soon, so, she kindly consider that and made a very special gift for me. She made many things for me , hey, it’s ONE of A KIND!!
1) few dish cloths, which is very functional for me to use them in the kitchen.
2) a very very fine lace work: dolly, I don’t think I can do that in my life, the ‘thread’ she used is really fine. I really admire my partner who really did a good job on it.
3) a very big , beautiful shawl made by my partner again, it’s a crocheted shawl, it’s gorgeous. When I showed it to my husband, he couldn’t wait to take this picture for me.
4) two packs of Lindt dark chocolate (yummy! my partner is worried if it’s too dark for me, no , I like it, I like the little ‘bitterness’ of the dark chocolate!
5) a pair of circular needles, she is so thoughtful that she knows that I will travel to China, and she bought me a pair of ‘plastic’ ones that is SAFE on the flight! Thanks!
6) a hook, with a fancy top , which she said that I can use it as a shawl pin. Yeah, I agree with her.
7) a skein of Knitpicks yarn, this is my first time to receive BROWN color yarn, and I actually want to buy one , because my daughter looks good in brown, hey pal, you read my mind!
last but not least, a box of Lace knitting cards, I did think about buying this on my own when I saw them in the bookstore, but, I put it back as I thought I had too many patterns. Ha, you’ve got me this set of cards, thanks, I will bring them with me to China.
Thanks… pals, you guys really know my taste! I love them all.
and your packages just brightened up my day, and gave me SO MUCH MORE energy to pack my stuffs for the move!
Finally I took some pictures of my new/old FOs.
Here is the Norwegian Hat for Erika:
The Queen anne scarf on me:
Erika loves this too.
Yarn: Noro silk garden lite, pattern: Queen Anne Crochet scarf (Free pattern!)
Finally took one without Erika's hand.
THis is another unfinished Queen Anne scarf, using Rowan Tapestry.
Queen Anne Crochet scarf using Rowan Tapestry
Alhambra scarf using Seasilk, yeah, my favorite yarn: very silky, and very shiny GOLDEN Seasilk!!
Alhambra scarf
A little scarf for Erika, using the left over Malabrigo from my Grande hat.
little scarf for Erika
The grande hat (from boutique knits) .. I love this hat…
love the yarn too, first time to use the Malabrigo worsted weight. It’s so soft and easy to knit.
In the pattern , it suggests to use bulky weight, but I used the worsted weight, it works well too!
I couldn’t take a clear picture of myself with the hat…
I shall ask Vincent to take one for me later.
Yarn: Malabrigo worsted wool, needles: 4.5, 5 , 5.5 and 6mm needles.
Last one is the Neck warmer (from Luxury One skein wonder book) :
Yarn: Mission Falls 136 wool, one skein only, and using 5.0mm needles
I finally finished one Queen Anne scarf, this is NUMBER 2, I used Noro Silk garden lite for this scarf. It looks even better than Rowan Tapestry.
I could able to finish it in 1 1/2 hour, well, just used one skein, and only 30 motifs in total. (in the pattern, it suggested to have around 50 -60 motifs?!) OH well, just because I only bought one skein, I can’t make it longer. BUT, I am happy with that length, you know, it just depends on how you match your top.
I pictured this scarf with me tonight, I know, the picture isn’t that good, and I even used ‘watercolor’ effect in photoshop, haha…
I think I need to take pictures for all my FOs tomorrow … and hopefully Erika won’t disturb me while doing the shooting.
