Stalled

It has been a while. Sadly, not much knitting gets done. And I missed going for classes and my wonderful knitterly friends.

Baby JJ has been quite a handful recently, as he had crying and fussing spells. I am just crossing my fingers that one fine day he decides to be more cooperative.

It is no longer an option for me to handle several projects at one go, therefore, I am now focusing on finishing the blanket, and next up would be the green tunic dress.

Meantime, I should stock up on chicken essence

Before I sign off, would like to wish everyone a Happy Labour day in advance!

Multi-tasking

If your baby cannot self-soothe to sleep or wails unless he is being carried to sleep, but you really want to do some knitting, here is a 4-step process on how to carry a sleepy baby and knit simultaneously:

1. Make sure that baby is asleep or very drowsy.

2. Grab an easy knit project, write the pattern on a sticky note, paste it on the little one’s butt, and knit away!

3. Remember to regularly perform cursory pats on his little butt, to soothe him to sleep.

4. If there is any sign of baby awakening, immediately put the knitting aside and attend to baby to ensure he does not become an angry bird.

Knit Craving

I have been hoping to be able to get on with my projects before I forget how to even cast on. Time is not on my side, unfortunately.

Managed to knit a few rows this evening while the baby finally zonked out after a full day of crying.

I was really happy to touch some yarn and take a breather, even though it was less than an hour. I think I have a high need baby to deal with, it is tough but I have to just get through this stage.

Even if I have no time to knit, it just feel great caressing the lovely yarn and my WIPs.

A short breakie =)

Hi! I’m taking a short break, so I may not be updating the blog as frequently as I would have liked.

Once things are more settled with the new baby, I hope I will be able to squeeze in a little time for knitting. Right now, it is virtually not possible.

See ya in a while!

FO: Newborn Pumpkin Hat

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Busy Mom Designs, Crochet, pumpkin hat

I woke up this morning feeling that I had to crochet something. Don’t ask me why; I just had this funny idea to make something cheery.

So I immediately look through Ravelry, and chanced upon this cute pattern designed by Tricia Roberts from Busy Mom Designs. I had in my stash some coloured acrylic-cotton yarn from Spotlight, which will do the job just fine as the yarn is not scratchy and quite stretchable.

This little newborn pumpkin hat would be a very quick project to crochet if not for the fact that I was trying to get the measurements right through trial and error as the yarn that I had was of a different weight from the original pattern.

I spent the whole morning crocheting and ripping the hat, and managed to finish it in the late afternoon.  The hat looks kinda small, but it measures the same with another store-bought beanie for newborns. I suppose it should be fine, at least for the first few weeks. As I needed a model, I tried to fit the hat on my rabbit but alas, he was not the most cooperative animal.

I hope it fits my boy’s head, if not, I will have to frog it again.

 

English High Tea @The Courtyard

Went for English high tea with two friends at the Courtyard, Fullerton.

We had initially wanted to go for another place, but was unfortunately fully booked even though we tried to make reservations a week in advance. Nevertheless, we had a wonderful afternoon chilling out and catching up.

Sharing some photos taken – the 3-tiered high tea set with desserts and savoury sandwiches. We had asked for numerous refills for the mini sandwiches as we were feeling more inclined towards the savoury stuff.

Managed to take some closed up photos before we start devouring them.

The macaron was good;

So were the scones with cream and jam. I must say the jam’s really good – it was not too sweet;

and the seafood waffle roll.

As this weekend is supposed to be the Valentine’s Day special, some of the desserts came in heart-shaped patterns. However I noticed that there were not many couples around – those who came for the high tea appeared to be family or groups of friends.

It was good that the price did not seemed to have increased because of Valentine’s Day special. Tomorrow I will stop my feasting already. Need to do a bit of room cleaning and stuff.

How did your weekend go?

Cafe Knitting @Starbucks

Of course I am still knitting. Went to Starbucks today to catch up with that.

However, the progress for various WIPs are moving along in a ”leisurely” pace. I have to slow down, as I’m getting sleepy easily.

Just a few more days to go before I meet my little boy, so I’m hanging in there and trying to pack the rest of the week to do some catching up with friends (i.e., feasting) before the confinement starts.

Frankly speaking, I am not looking forward to the recovery stage but it is something that all mummies have to go through. Being easily restless and always needing to have something to do, I hope I will survive this.

The very least let me be able to do some knitting or scrapbooking. I guess I will have to hold on to any sewing projects for the time being as it will be too difficult to move around with the drawing of patterns, cutting and ironing.

Will be having a knitting class on Friday, so I shall update on the class works soon after. Weekend’s coming, so have a good one!

Beaded earring(s)

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beads, blue beads, earrings, transparent beads

I finally got down to doing up the other side of the earrings that I had lost previously.

Although I had wanted to make more new ones, I couldn’t seem to find any inspiration to do so. Guess it is time to hit the sack instead.

 

Burb Cloths

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burb cloth, cotton fabric, fannel

Completed several pieces of burb cloths yesterday morning. As usual, I woke up quite early and was restless.

Mulling over the list of to-dos, I knew I had better get my butt off the bed to finish up what I had done halfway last month where I had already cut out pieces of fannel and cotton fabric for the cloths.

Making burp cloths is practically effortless – unless you want fancy designs like bias tape edgings or ribbons, it just takes a couple of minutes to sew two pieces of rectangular-shaped fabrics together with the right sides facing, then flip it inside out, run a finishing stitch at the edging, and viola, you are done.

They are good for simple, yet quick-to-do gifts too!

Gentle Reflection, Seeing the Larger Picture

~~When you let go, you give yourself peace~~

Been taking a long time to learn it. Its probably going to be a never-ending process.

Everything looks so much better when being able to confront fears and embrace the now and then, using the energy more wisely, to forgive oneself and others, to give and receive without conditions.

Sometimes it is so hard; but it is worthwhile to keep this at the back of my mind.