Hand-Dye Yarn in a Shrug

My hand-dye yarn is finally done!  It took me quite a while to finish this piece.  The actual knitting of the body is not bad at all, it was a border that took a long time. The pattern was from the Summer 07 Phildar magazine, but I didn’t have enough yarn, so I knit as I [...]

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Summer Cropped Cardigan

This is a fast project, pattern from the latest summer 07 Phildar magazine.  This is my favourite colour, in a summery yarn, Kim by Filtes (again!).  I used a total of less than 7 balls.

The pattern was using a combination of two strands yarns, but I was just using one strand with the Kim and it worked [...]

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Crochet Tank Top (Original)

This was the first crochet top I did about a year ago.  By then, I just started to crochet by learning the great book Stitch n’ Bitch and their tips are wonderful.  By coming different crochet patterns, I came up with this original crocht tank top. 

The bottom was a combo of seashells, and dc, which [...]

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What Kind of Yarn Am I??

It’s the web blowsing time for me tonight and surprisingly, I saw a lot of people did this “What kind of yarn am I test. I saw other people’s results are mostly “dishcloth”, so I was very curious to see what am I….and the result is below…..
 
   
  What kind of yarn are [...]

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Again, more pictures

I crocheted this bag last year based on a Japanese pattern from my girlfriend Lillian (aka Craftlover).  I was a beginner to yarn, knit and crochet so it took me like an hour to finish one square.  But it’s too pretty to give up so….here we go!
It’s now spring, so I should take it out [...]

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Debbie Bliss Cotton Short Sleeves Knit

Many people had commented on the Debbie Bliss yarn collection…and I have to say, after I knitted with it, I fell in love with it! The yarn is so soft to touch and it has a layer of shine to it under the sunlight. After the Rowan Cashsoft yarn, this is another yarn [...]

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More pictures for my knitted collection….

I finally took some more pictures for my finished knits.  They were knitted recently or in the past year and I never had a chance to post the good pictures on my blog.  So here they are…..
The first one is the Rowan Classic Cashsoft yarn with Phildar pattern, the front and the back view:

Here’s a [...]

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