To : Hong Kong Subscriber of IK

Suddenly I come across that I haven't received my IK Summer 2007 upto now. May I know any IK's Hong Kong subscribers have received their issues ?? I hope mine won't get lost.

Reading - The Courage Consort

Borrowing books from the library is a good "no money" interest. Another fiction :



The Courage Consort by Michel Faber

In the title story, an English vocal ensemble travels to Belgium for a two-week residency at a rural chateau, an opportunity to rehearse a notoriously difficult and possibly pointless new composition. Their composer is a maniac, the group is full of sexual tension and fiercely differing temperaments - and what of the inhuman voice in the woods ?

In my opinion, I don't have interest on this book and quite boring.

Reading - The Man In My Basement

No knitting or sewing recently. Reading is my present interest. On and off, I have read many fictions which are borrowed from my district public library. At here, I would like to share the books with you.



The Man In My Basement by Walter Mosley.

Why a white man rents a black man's basement for the summer and offers a huge rental and why this white man wants is to be imprisoned in that basement in a specially constructed steel cage ?

PC also has its clothing

Human has their clothing, the doll has its dress, and even teapot has its cosy. Now, the PC has its also. This has been planned for a long time requested by my brother. You see, is it fit ??

PC without cover

PC with cover

The front of LCD monitor

The back of LCD monitor

The front of CPU

The back of CPU

Haven't finished yet - cover for the keyboard. I am still designing its shape. Any idea ??

Sew another shirt

Still nothing is knitted, and sew another shirt.





Since it is not my first time to sew a shirt, it is my first time to sew this kind of collar. It takes me quite an effort to put it in a balance way. The outcome seems not bad. Practice more will get a satisfied resuslt.

I am lazy to get a match button, you see, they are just very simple and ordinary shirt buttons (same as my last shirt that posted). What is my next FO? A shirt is also coming, a new fabric has brought but no idea of shirt pattern has come to my mind.

Been tagged of 7 random facts

I have been tagged by Andrea and Bonny Belle of 7 random facts about themselves. Those tagged need to write in their blogs 7 facts, as well as the rules of the game. You need to tag seven others and list their names on your blog. You have to leave those you plan on tagging a note in their comments so they know that they have been tagged and need to read your blog.

The facts:

1. I love chocolate. But whenever I eat it, there will have pimples, really annoyance.
2. I love knitting. I can take a week annual leave and knit day and night at home. Even don't go out to enjoy the sun.
3. I don't have TV at home. I know it is hardly to believe at HK. I better save my time to read the fiction and knit.
4. I like to stand still near the window to have a look at the street scene.
5. When traveling, I like to plan my own traveling schedule, eg. booking the transportation and hotel, the place we visit, the route..., and clip all the travel information on the newspaper.
6. I love to eat any kind of food except the food's ingredient has fat, spicy and wine.
7. I like to drink chinese tea and japan green tea.

Nothing is knitted, but something is sewn

I haven't written the blog for about 2 weeks, for nothing is knitted to post. Where is my knitting mood ? I don't know and hope that it will come back later. Therefore, I go to buy some fabrics and make shirts in this summer time. Sometimes it is very difficult to choose the fabric printing pattern, too many to choose and don't know how to choose. OK, use one rule : fall in love with the first sight.






Sincerely speaking, I am not good at sewing and this is the only one shirt pattern that I have. I like this kind of collar that make feel comfortable when wearing. I hardly draft this pattern from an very aged, aged, aged.... Japanese sewing book. I want to buy a new one at Japanese bookstore but cannot find any, it may because seldom people will make dress and shirt, so the bookstore owner won't keep the stock. If I have any chance to go to Japan again, I should search and buy more sewing pattern books instead of the knitting books. We don't find any difficult to buy Japanese knitting books at HK.

After sewing this shirt, it really inspirits me to sew more shirts and will try to sew a trousers. Another new challenge to me.