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北京欢迎我 (Beijing Welcomes Me)!

I’ve been known to be impulsive. This is one such occasion. Returned from a dive trip a couple of weeks ago and decided, “… I need a real holiday.” Coincidently, Jetstar was having a 48hr sale and almost immediately bought tickets for Taipei next April with my dear friends Anne & Grace (was S$400ish return with taxes!). But April 2011 is another 8 months away, I need one sooner.

So I finally bought a ticket to Beijing for October! I actually have a travel guide that was purchased 5 years ago and somehow never made it (yes I am aware how outdated it is). It will be Autumn and I’ll be needing something to keep my neck warm… and so I made this! Found this super easy pattern Sev[en]circle Cowl by assemblage. Made with Moda Vera Pure Wool 8ply bought on sale from Spotlight.

I know it’s another month and a half before my first real holiday of the year but I’m really looking forward to spend a week in Autumn time Beijing. Also, this gives me some time to brush up on my atrocious chinese. I’m already checking out Beijing yarn stores – yes, I understand I have to learn knitting terms in chinese and I have no idea how to begin!!

Travel suggestions?

Aug 23, 2010 | Categories: fibre | Tags: assemblage, cowl, knitting, Moda Vera Pure Wool 8ply, wool | Leave A Comment »

I blame Fellini

2 years ago, I bought this 1950s vintage Simplicity pattern from Antique Dollhouse of Patterns. Only made this dress a couple of weeks ago while I was going through this Fellini phase and finding excuses to walk by Arab street to just look at fabric. Made some tweaks to make it more, 2010.

Worked on this over 2 weekends and redid the collar 3 times. First it was a pink peter-pan collar, because there is a thin pink line in my chequered fabric, then it looked like bad cosplay – like something out of a bad Hello Kitty nightmare. Changed it to white, it still looked too cosplayish. So decided to go with bias ribbon. The bodice was quite tricky too. Made countless adjustments to the darts both in the front and back.

This is Dixie taking a picture of Tammy taking a picture of me in my slightly messy office. Yes this is how we work roll. We cool liek dat.

Yes I know. The shoes were not working.

Jul 27, 2010 | Categories: fibre | Tags: dress, sewing, simplicity pattern, vintage | 1 Comment »

Adorable Things

It was supposed to be a crazy week and weekend at work – then things got pushed around the suddenly my weekend was free! I could go kayaking with my friends! Then, kayaking got cancelled. Hmm.

A friend did say to me “I wish you plenty of adorable things for your weekend“… I could work on my monster project, or I could start using my Hamanaka Futte Futte Felt Ball Maker I bought some months ago. So I made adorable felt balls with my bag of roving wool that has been sitting at the bottom of my yarn stash for the past 2 years.

I tried making felt balls manually a few years ago, that of course left my hands pruned, half cooked and scalded. This is a much safer and easier way of making adorable felt balls.

Quite a successful first attempt, did make 2 strange ones… but I have ideas for them already. Heh heh…

Jul 24, 2010 | Categories: fibre | Tags: felt balls, Hamanaka Futte Futte Felt Ball Maker, roving wool | 1 Comment »

New Stash

My stash arrived, lovingly lugged all the way from Washington! Even when he wasn’t here for a good part of the summer, a girl can still rely on her main GBFF. We thought it would be light, “It’s like a pillow case full, not heavy!” But it turned out to be quite heavy (maybe 5kg?). I missed him and I’m so glad he’s back!

Yarn is so expensive in Singapore and the above stash of Caron Simply Soft and Sugar’n Cream Yarns came to about SGD$94. It would otherwise cost me around SGD$10/ skein.

Looks like, I am going to be busy.

Jul 18, 2010 | Categories: fibre | Tags: Caron Simply Soft Yarn, Sugar'n Cream Yarn, yarn | Leave A Comment »

Panda Tattoo

Very tempted to have this adorable Panda inked on me. Amazing artwork by Singaporean illustrator Xiaobao. Check out his other great illustrations, so loving his Panda Revolution series.

Jul 09, 2010 | Categories: inspiration | Tags: art, panda, tattoo, xiaobao | 3 Comments »

Migration

I used to have a pretty successful blog sqpixels.net became e-xperiments.com that I created with Rapidweaver that documented my kitchen experiments and its evolution into crafting projects. For various reasons and my short attention-span, that blog doesn’t exist any more.

I have decided to manually re-post selected older entries (starting with crumbs) to this blog. I am starting from 2006, this process might take awhile.

Just added some baking posts. These were my initial baking experiments and the humble beginnings of Muffin Monday- where I would bake muffins and bring them in on Monday mornings to share them with my colleagues and clients. It got too expensive after awhile to keep it up. Muffin Monday also went on to become a successful food blog event.

Jul 08, 2010 | Categories: et cetera | Tags: e-xperiments.com, migration, rapidweaver, sqpixels.net | Leave A Comment »

Crocheted Purses

My crocheted purses are finally now for sale. Each purse is original and one of a kind made by me. A gorgeous array of circle motifs, each carefully hand-stitched together to hold your most precious and favourite things!

There is a limited quantity because I have a day job and unfortunately for the same reason, I would not be able to create bespoke pieces.

Made with 100% Cotton yarn. Dimensions available, 5.5in x 4in (14cm x 10.15cm) and 7.5in x 4in (19cm x 10.15cm)

Free Shipping to all Singaporean addresses. It is an additional SGD$3.00 to ship to an international address.

Visit my online store to view them.

P/S: Huge thanks to Zigg and Sandro for trying to help me with my CSS drama.

Jul 05, 2010 | Categories: fibre | Tags: circles, colour, crochet, hand made, motifs, purse, summer | Leave A Comment »