Little Purl of the Orient

Some Yarn-y FOs

This morning, I woke up from a poor night's sleep, determined to do some cleaning around the flat. It has been horribly messy for weeks, or even months. One of the things that definitely need clearing is my various projects and stash lying everywhere. I started putting away things and it felt great! So I engaged in my elder daughter, JY's help to take some photos of FOs lying around before I pack them up.

I started to make Wisp, a free pattern from Knitty, way back when during our holiday in Penang. It is a complete copy of Kerstin's here (ravelry link). 2 skeins of Koigu KPPPM in P713 colourway in 5.00mm needles. I omitted the buttons totally.

And before Wisp, I was making La La's Simple Shawl(a free ravelry pattern) during our Easter holiday. This is a monster to photograph because of the reds. It took 1 skein of Trekking sock yarn in #147 colourway, plus Knitted Wits merino sock in Chocolate for the border.

The latest is this crochet scarf from 1 skein Habu Tsumugi Silk in Beige. This is the 4th start and finally the yarn finds a pattern that it likes and I'm glad. It is on the small size but I'm fine with it as I'll use it for the aircon on the bus. The pattern is from this Japanese book: ISBN4277171788 and I used Clover #5 hook.

I think for the next post, I should explain a bit about what went wrong with the sewing of my Leia. So long for now.

Where was I?

I was feeling all heady from your compliments for my last 2 sewing projects, the linen tunic and the Swiss Dot top. I felt suddenly brave, and I took the Leia pattern, a design from Tamanegi-Kobo website. The pattern is a pdf download, colour-coded for the different sizes and with a 10cm test square so that you know you are printing the right size. These are all very important to me, unlike the not-so-clear printing instructions from the Twinkle Sew book. I do like a number of patterns in that book and hope to get there some day. I digressed. Long story short. My attempt at Leia didn't work out and I was so deflated.

Then my FOs couldn't be photograph well. I've finally blocked the La La's Simple Shawl and the Pink Wisp but I just couldn't get them to look nice in the photos.

So I started 3 new yarny projects all at the same time. I needed the comfort of familiar grounds again. Here they are:

Audrey In Unst from Twist Collective a complete copy cat of Olga using Avril's Silk Wool that she and Joujouka helped me to buy in Tokyo earlier this year. And the background fabric is a new addition to stash. A bold grellow wool floral. What should I make with it?

I needed a summer project for this year so I started this linen top from this book. The yarn is Katia Lino that a few knitting pals got at the Spotlight closing down sale.

And of course there should be a portable project such as a shawl and I'm crocheting this one using the Avril/Habu Tsumugi silk. This is the 4th pattern that I tried out with this yarn and it seems to click this time.

Yarn: Habu/Avril Tsumugi Silk
Pattern: From ISBN4277171788
Hook: Clover 5
Background Fabric: linen with black eyelet from Shamshuipo

Actually, I have this bus project that I haven't blogged about. They started off as miters but I grew tired of them. Now I'm log-cabining cream-coloured yarn all around to make a Gees Bend inspired afghan. Hope I could keep up.