Finished - Blue Cardigan

Finally, it is finished. It takes me one day to crochet the edging and flowers and sew the buttons. It looks nice and I love it. I am wondering whether I should use the pink or cream colour for the edging as suggested by the yarn shopowner. I think the cream colour is more appropriate for the adult and pink for the young girl. Therefore, I pick the cream one. But the light colour cannot resist the dirt, hope my friend won't mind and like it.

Choosing the button is another headache problem. My mother suggests to pick the simple one and don't make anything fussy. So the simple small and transparent button is picked. Once again, hope my friend like what I choose for her.

Blue Cardigan

Hey, Hey, My friend's blue cardigan is 95% finished. This is my fastest record to knit a cardigan within 10 days. I knit days and nights that my hands and fingers feel very tired. I hope this will fit her and she will like it. I will send her an email and ask her to read my blog, so she can preview her cardigan.

The next thing needs to be done on this cardigan is the edging and button. I have planned to use other colour thinner yarn to crochet the edge, may be the cream colour.

After all are finished, I will post it and she can view the full completed one.

My Friend's Cardigan

I just got an email from my friend of Vancouver, said that she would like to have a cardigan as the picture shown. The cardigan is for her to be worn in the office and she prefers no wool. So this yarn is chosen, it is 100% Arylic in light blue. I should be hurried to finish it for it will be brought back to Vancouver by her another friend, who will leave Hong Kong around Mid July. It is lucky that my friend chooses a simple one, I think I can finish it on time.

Baby Sock is Finished

Baby sock is finished. Only one is knitted as this is my sample for practicing the knitting of sock. I am happy that I can knit sock now and I think I will knit more for myself when winter comes.

As I said in the last post, my challenge is how to join the front and back of toe. I follow the "kitchener stitch" instruction of a book, it is quite ok at the beginning of stitches, but I mix up all the steps of the coming stitches. I have tried many times, still cannot success. This makes me so frustrated that I put it down for a few days. It is lucky that searched from the internet, there is a tip of doing "kitchener stitch". I follow it and it works. It really works when I try once. What a clever way to do it and I really get what I am doing. You see, one more time to prove, internet is the greatest.

I am very happy of this sock and it makes feel so exciting for a few days. I do really enjoy knitting the sock. But there is one problem, I don't know whether there is any sock yarn (special for knitting sock - colourway yarn for stripe sock) can be bought at Hong Kong.

Re my red colourway cotton way, I still have no idea what pattern to be knitted. I have ordered the IK Summer 2006 via on-line a few days ago. Very eager waiting for this and hope that I can choose one for the cotton yarn.

My First Sock

My thumb is still not recovered yet, but I miss my knitting needle very much that I pick up the needle to try the sock. My first knitting of the sock.

This is the sample of knitting the heel and short row wrap. I use the waste yarn to practice it, I read the instructions again and again, rip and knit many times. It comes out like that, not so bad.


I feverishly knit a sock as per a baby sock pattern for it is easy and can be finished in a short time. You see, it is loverly.

Up to this step, my next challenge is to join the front and back of toe.

The thumb is Hurt

Re my last post "A Cotton One", I have knitted the 2 x 2 ribs for about 7 inches. But I don't like it very much after watching it for a while. I think I will rip it and find another summer cotton pattern. The colour is really nice, I like it.

I have not posted to the blog for about 3 weeks for my thumb is hurt. When I get up on one day, I feel pain on the joint of my left hand's thumb, I don't know why. I have tried some treatments but no progress. My mother gives me her chinese medicine oil, I don't what it is, it is quite smelly but acceptable (you know, mother always has traditional ancient medicine oil at home). I treat it on my thumb joint days and nights for about 2 weeks, it works. The pain is lessen and about 90% recovered. I hope the thumb will be recovered with one more week. This is why I have no much progress of my knitting. Bye now, I need to make some treatment on my thumb.

A Cotton one

Summer is coming, I always want to knit a cotton sweater. After searching all my stash, I have this very very thin cotton yarn. From the yarn label, it is for crochet lace, 50g/400m of each skein, and suggest to use 1.5mm needle, so you can image how thin it is. Browsing all my pattern books, I still cannot find a sweater suitable for this cotton yarn. After thinking for about 1 week, now I decide to knit a sleeveless cardigan using 2 string knitted together, there is no pattern, I design it by myself just pick this and that from the pattern books.


When combined 2 strings together, I can use 4mm needle to knit and it is more easy for me to handle. For the upper part of the cardigan, I will use this diamond pattern (I don't know why I love all kind of diamond patterns very much). For the lower part, it is 2x2 rib for about 5 to 6 inches long.

I only get 3 skein of this cotton on hand, hope it is enough to complete one.