Happy and Healthy 2009........................

Hi. In another hour, 2009 is coming. Looking back, I wasn't blogging much but I have a very good 2008. Knitting still continous but in a smaller projects and lesser pieces. Some major changes in last couple months and much like the last 45 days!! After the IOD Conference in October, I resigned my old jobs which is so much a relief due to increasing workloads and various other unfavoriate condition.

Guess what, then I sproung my ankle the day before my last day!! So my week off was a resting week at home. It's very hard fall appearantly and couldn't walk for almost a week. I got a aircast and it helped a lot. I started my new job in a limping foot!! Luckly, it's light working and I managed to sit most of the time. My ankle is almost healed now, but still got smaller swallon and numbness feeling at time. My uncle and anut even mailed me couple bottles of chinese medicines from Cleveland, OH. How nice? Then, I also realized if I weight lesser, my ankle might recover faster with the lesser 30lbs on it. I still hold on the stair-reel when I "need" to walk down the stairs.

We started a new Christmas traditions that no gifts exchanges. It's so much easier especially with my bump ankles. I was way so behind on my Christmas Card, so it has to make it before the Chinese New Year Card, 1/26/2009, year of the OX.

My knitting group's Brenda gave us yarns and Maylene, my great knitting buddies, spinned lots of pretty yarns. I should have pictures tomorrow taken by tomorrow.

There's few things I like to accomplished/keep it up in 2009:
1. Established a healthy eating and exercise habbit.
2. Organized my yarn stock and sell all of them and gain my garage back!!
3. Furnish the Oakland condo. (paint, curtains, kitchenwares, simple funitures)
4. Completed the quilting blocks, sew 4 quilts.
5. Monitor and reblance my profolios once a month. First Saturday of the month.

Happy 2009

Little, little flower sock, so purple and pink

Yarn: SWTC "TOFUTSIES", 2/3 is used
Needle: 2mm Size 0; Addi 40" two sock on one needle
Pattern: Little flower
Start: Augest 8 2008
Ended: Augest 29, 2008

Hello, I haven't been posting for many month. It's been crazy busy at work front. This's one of my KAL socks which have been keeping up monthly using for SAM4. I need to find the past few month's photo.

Labor day is coming and I got 4 days off with my comp days. It's been been hot day the couple weeks, I am not making any plans and keep indoor and stay cool.

Lots of beautiful Felt Clogs

These are the Clogs that made by my sister. They are knitted with the New Zealand Wool. I felted all most of them for him. All the different color combination. Some small, some medum and some large.

Second Koigu Fingerless Mitten

Yarn: Koigu (Orange, pink, purle) 2/3 is used
Needle: 2mm Size 0; Addi 40"
Pattern: Self
Start: Feb 3, 2008
Ended: Feb 5, 2008

This is my second pair of fingerless mitten. It's very fast and the color come out very nice. I gave that to my sister and she is wearing them already..... on to my sock knitting!

koigu fingerless mitten

Yarn: Koigu (Aqua-Black-Green) 2/3 is used

Needle: 2mm Size 0; Addi 40"

Pattern: Self

Start: Jan 38, 2008

Ended: Feb 2, 2008

This's my first mitten. I have few one skein of Koigu left from the sock yarn pile. It's relative easy. I adopt the amount stitches from various pattern. I like the outcome and I am onto the next pair. It take about 30g for one pair.

New Year Sock - Jan 2008

Yarn: Noro Kureyon Sock #40

(Aqua-Brown-Purple Multi)
Needle: 2mm Size 0; Addi 40"
Pattern: New Year Sock
Start: Jan 13, 2008
Ended: Jan 23, 2008

I took a spinning class couple weeks ago and we stop at a LYS in San Franciso, I bought this yarn since the color was so interesting. It's not an easy yarn to knit considering I am doing this with one needles, so I stopped for few days with all the tangles. By the time, I start the short row heel, the color were not match. This is my first short row heel and it's even more difficult with the darker color. I come back after couple days and got the heel done. I did cut off few yards out trying to match the color. I need to wash this and it will become softer like most knitter recommended. There's only 4 more days in this months, I got more sock to do!!