I've done the sweater!

Long time no see!! Gosh,I almost forgot this blog...
It's not easy for me to make English blog. I was beeing soooooo lazy!
In Febrary and March I was pretty busy. I went to Toronto to see my hasband and his family, I was invited one of my friend's wedding party, I met other friend who lives far from Tokyo where I live...

Anyways I'd been knitting little by little and then I've done it finaly.
ta-da!!!!!

It was really fun to knit. I usually drew my eyebrows though...
I'm so happy to finish it. The fit of this sweater is perfect. I'll be able to wear it till summer.(^_^)v

my sweater

As I finished mom's vest, I've been knitteng my sweater.

Actually I started three things at the same time, these two and my dad's vest. I've done both of back side. I like St st but knitting pattern is also fun! I made a mistake at the begging so I started all over twice or three times.

When I knit this sweater with an absent way, I always forget some pattern. I work weekday so I decided to knit my sweater only weekend. During weekday, I knit my dad's vest. It's plain vest so I do only St st, so I can knit with an absent way. It's no problem! Anyway my dad wants to wear the vest when he goes to play golf in Feb. I have to make it! I hope it's done till then...

Crochet Vest

I've finished a crochet vest for my mom.

I usually don't do crochet but I could finish it. Though it's much better than I thougt, I wanted to make more beautiful sticth if I could...
When I wear it, I look as if I wore extra clothes. Maybe because of the colour and the double knitting yarn. Should I have used thinner yarn...? I didn't use same yarn in a knitting book, which has pattern of this vest, but I used a yarn that is same length and weight. How difficult to guess completion from yarn!
I liked doing crochet, the thing is, I could finish faster than knit, and it was easy to count stitches. It was really fun.

Happy New Year!!

boy! I couldn't have any new post in Dec...
I went to Toronto, Canada to see my husband and his family around christmas. It was not so cold but of course it was colder than in Tokyo. I stayed only 11 days then I left for Tokyo on 27th Dec. If I could stay in Toronto on 27th, I could have been to Romni Wool, which had boxing day sale on 27th... I heard that everything's 25% off!! oh, man! I was so sad! But actually I have lots of yarns so I have to knit something before I buy new yarns.
I've been knitting 3 things (a vest for my dad, a crochet vest for my mom, a sweater for me) at the same time. I'll try to show those on this blog.
Anyways, I hope that all of you are having a good time!

It's not good!

Oh, man!! I haven't had a new post for a month...
I started working so I don't have enough time. BUT writing English in this blog is for me. Remember Your Original Intention.
I got a job about a month ago. I input some data on PC. I keep watching screen all day, that's why I don't wanna touch PC in my room. Oops! I'm excusing now.

I usually input data all day but I had different task since yesterday. The task was making questionnaires. Though the questionnaires had already been made, I copied it 1500 sheets of paper and then folded to put in 500 envelopes... Those papers made my hands dry! and I cut everywhere on my hands... I'm glad I've finished the task!


I'd stepped away from this blog but I've still been knitting, of course!
I made cabled newsboy cap from stitch'n bitch nation. I used cheap yarns from 100en-shop (it's same as dollar shop). I didn't think they sold wool 100% yarns. I was surprised. The cap is really warm and cute. Here, in Japan, it's really warm (I mean, compare with in Toronto) so I can't use now though...

herringbone gloves finished!!

wow! I haven't had new post for a month. After I came back to Japan, I didn't do nothing... I sometimes play with my nieces, see my friends, read books and sleep a lot.... How lazy I am! Maybe I'm not good at assimilating myself to new surroundings. And "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence". When I was in Toronto, I missed Japan but now I really miss Toronto.
I was so hungry for Japanese books I was reading a lots even in the bathroom. I haven't gotten new books, which I've ordered to a library so I started knitting again then the gloves were done.

I think.... I started it this August...I knitted other things so I almost forgot about it, and actually I made right hand of the gloves twice, because I dropped lots stitches and the fingers were too long for mine. I may have got bored to knit it... But anyways I've done! I little bit worried about the colour but now I really like it. The wrists are so long that it's really warm.

Winnie gave me a comment for last my post about this gloves (thanks!) , so I'll try to explain how to knit soon. My English is broken so don't expect so much!

present for my friend's new born baby!

I knitted a baby cardigan and "buddy" from knitty for my friend. I don't know well how to finish (I mean sewing seam and so on) so it doesn't look nice so much... I felt a little bit bad so that I add baby cloth from GAP and made "buddy". Buddy is so cute! I mistook leg parts and put arms in too low place though.
I'm really busy because I go back to Japan next week. Next post will be written in Japan...