Friday, July 10, 2009
A great crowd of knitters and crocheters!
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We had a group class last Sunday. The knitting & crochet babes came in for a session of catching up, chit-chat and snacks.
Here's
Melissa. She's new in knitting and has just joined us.
And of course,
Chai Bee and
Leena also came along. Both of them were focused on getting a crochet flower pattern right while
Francisca looks on her own project notes.
If you are wondering why Yvette and Louise are staring in the space on the right, there's a little toddler (Yvette's son) that I couldn't squeeze into the frame. He's such a charmer!
Various projects are shared and discussed. Oohs and aahs around when finished projects are shown (especially Jenny's!) and sheepish confessions of those where there are serious lags in the progress department.
Everyone enjoyed the session tremendously!
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Thursday, July 02, 2009
Beginner but not quite
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Everytime around this year, that's when people begin to look at picking up crafting.
While I don't have photos of every new customer who joins us (that's the challenge I face since I am the enabler & photographer at the same time), here's
Francisca who has joined us sometime in Apr.
Technically speaking, I wouldn't really consider her a newbie as she has some previous experience with basic knit and purl techniques.
Hence, for the
first project she got on her needles when she joined us, we decided she should attempt
simple lacework.
Since then, she has started 2 more projects.
So for those of you who are wondering about the way we structure our course, there is no standard structure or course level. We tailor the coursework according to what your current skill level is and the challenges you would like to overcome etc -- everyone has specific needs and that's what we aim to address individually.
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Monday, June 08, 2009
Another blossoms!
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That's a tacky title, I know.
But it's not anywhere further from the truth. This top is called the
Lotus Blossom from IK Spring/Summer issue 2006.
(sorry for the lousy pictures, I am still slowly trying to re-DI the photos to make them decent.)
This is knitted & completed by Fonny in Dec 2007. And yes, there are still loads of photo backlogs so you will see all the lovely FOs by the ladies in the group.
If you can recall, Jenny also knitted this
IK project piece up way back in 2007 (do scroll three-quarters through; it's a long post.)
On a side note, I am not sure if anyone else have this habit.
Whenever I see a nice FO, I would try to locate the source. I am always intrigued to see the original modelled garment or item as found in the magazine or pattern book to see if there's any major variation.
For starters, as a group, we are habitually into the act of altering the patterns to fit so the finished results do sometimes look slightly different --
like the one in the previous post.
There are also more extreme efforts where we lengthened tunics to make dresses, or eliminate sleeves entirely.
That's my personal favourite exercise: short sleeves don't do much for me; I much rather go sleeveless. So at times, I love admiring others' FOs, it never ceases to be a surprise and delight session.
I'll try to put up a photo of the original magazine model so you can make comparisons. But you do know that it may take a while, won't you? [grin]
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