Wednesday, May 11, 2005
The rowing machine is great!! I do reps up to about 100-150 a day... it ached my bones a bit, but I'm glad to get into my exercising again after a whole yr of stagnating on the couch!! And for that matter, I picked up knitting so that I could still be productive while being unproductive... u know what I mean?Well, I'm still knitting... and I've got more orders now... I'm learning to do more patterns with knitting that otherwise I would only know with crocheting. But unlike crochet, I also learn I've gotta get more stuff to do all those cabling & getting a quilt effect, etc....
Kris finally brought me to Spotlight to pick my knitting patterns book up... And I picked out a couple of yarns... One is a soft baby pink Paton's cashmere with tiny baubles... I may have to go back to get another ball cos I only got 3... and i really wanna do a long scarf with this one... but, I'll make it first & see if I do need to make it longer, especially now that the vintage look is in & short scarfs are fastened with beautiful vintage brooches - I may just do that!! Means that I've gotta go shopping for a vintage purple or pink brooch... Hmmm... Maybe Sportgirl might have one... I'll just wait for them to go down in price a bit... Oooh, and talking about brooches, I may just get some dark blue/turquoise yarns cos my dad gave me a really nice Swarowszki brooch & I wanna be able to finally wear it!!
And the other is my normal scandal yarns... My cousin, Ain, wanted a peach-coloured scarf & really she's much too old for me to do a simple cotton yarn with stripes... So, I'm gonna make her the same scarf that I had made for myself earlier this year.
And yesterday, while out shopping with Chui in the city, I got 4 balls of extremely dark orange yarn with shiny strips to make Rahayu's scarf. I'm currently doing it & is already used up the 2nd ball... I'll be finished in no time!! It's coming out great & Kris actually likes it!! If I have to go into the city again one day, I'll definitely visit Bazaar cos the wools are interesting & they're clearing stock, so I can get the last few bits for half the price... And the next batch they bring in, I hope they bring in other interesting yarns too!!
And I wanna get a few brown ones for Tash's birthday as well... If I can get a nice brown vintage brooch, that'll be awesome!!! ok... set!! I know wat I've gotta do... Just need to write it all down!!!
Also, I've gotta go to Lincraft & get a few yarns to make some cushioncovers... Ooooh... have to get them cushions too... But it's getting to be winter soon, means that I've gotta fork out extra to pay them at full-price!!! Oh well... ~shrugz~
Anyhoos, I need to go do some housewifey things... I've been knitting the whole morning... it's time to do some real work!! And rowing... it's raining... it's gonna rain the whole week... So, I'm gonna have the curtains drawn so that I can see the splashes & sploshes of raindrops on the ground outside... hehehe... I've put the machine in the lounge, behind the sofa, but in complete eyeview of the TV & the curtains... for rainy days such as these...
toodlezzz..... >.<
