The Weekend

I had a wonderful weekend!  It didn’t start of as wonderful at first, coz mom woke me up at 8:30am on a Sunday morning just to ask me one question.  ONE. :(   I woke up groggily and because the answer to the question required some thinking, it stirred up some brain juices and I was fully awake before I knew it.  I so know I had wanted to sleep some more and not get up till at least 10.30am!  Lazy, I know.

It was only 9:15am when I was done with rolling on the bed, stretching, and washing up.  What was I to do?  CSI didn’t start till noon.  Oh well.  I looked at the strand of Chrysocolla Jasper beads and wanted to do something with it, but it didn’t happen.  I wanted to work with wire, but couldn’t get my brain to figure out how to incorporate the beads into the wiring.

So I picked up Swarovski pearls and crystals instead.  And I landed up with something pretty good (to me anyway).  Hehe.

It’s still not complete though.  I am not quite sure how I want the back portion to be.  It would either be repeaters of what’s in front, or a plain crystal-pearl-crystal-pearl back.  I’m leaning towards repeaters, coz I think it would look more polished.

I’ve also started work on a pink version of the Richmore top.  The upper front and back are already attached together, but I uh, lost interest in its progress.  To the side it goes, and to something new I start.  :P   Received luscious 100% silk yarn from both Thailand (eBay) and Halcyon Yarn… both are gorgeous yarns, but the Thailand one is of a heavier weight compared to the Halcyon one, and therefore, unsuitable for the delicate shrug I’m working on to complement the wedding dress (if it works out to be how I imagined it in my head).

Therefore, I’ve started work on a jacket/shrug with it.  It might go with the spaghetti-strapped white dress I’m planning to use for the ROM ceremony.  And yeah, it’s crochet again.  :P   I’m a bit paranoid if I would have enough yarn for a knitted piece (I have 800gms but haiya, who knows?).  If I have leftovers, I’ll probably knit up an Evelyn Clark shawl with it.  :)

The beloved’s scarf remains unfinished, but time is passing quickly~ he will be back end of next month!!!  I’ve to finish it by then!! hehe.  Wish me luck.  As for the green shrug, I am still not done tucking in the tails.  Sigh.  For the blue shrug, contemplating frogging the edges and putting the original edges back in.  I noticed that with washing, the top will hang… and the edges would therefore, technically, hang much better than it did before.  We’ll see.  Wish I will have more inspiring weekends like the last!

2 comments so far

  1. Charlotte on

    Would you mind telling me where you got/get the RichMore yarn and pattern? I’ve a friend whose daughter desperately wants to use a pattern from Rich More Best Eyes Volume 99 as her wedding dress, but we’re coming up empty on sources for the pattern (and possibly the yarn) here in the US.

    Any help at all will be MUCH appreciated!

    • theimpatientcrafter on

      Hi Charlotte, I’m sooo sorry for not having replied earlier ~ I have been busy with work so have not been updating this blog for a while (and it’s tied to an email I hadn’t checked for quite a bit ;) ) Ok, down to business. The Richmore pattern was from a Richmore book I bought (in Japanese, though) from a Kinokuniya store: http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/indexohb.cgi?AREA=03 (that is for the US site). I don’t have it by my side at the moment, I’ll grab the ISBN number for you in a couple of days, ok? :) Buzz me if I forget! :) As for the yarn, I used DMC Petra and not Richmore yarn. Yarn here in Malaysia is crazily expensive. However, you can try this site for the Richmore yarn (lucky you in the US!): http://www.showersofflowers.com/shop/index.php?action=category&id=1&subid=71


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