Recently I found out my cousin is getting marry this August. It happens to be the month when I will be doing my massive move to NC. My family has started calling me asking what i'm going to wear, and if I have an ao dai. The answer to that question is a BIG FAT NO. I didn't think about what to wear too much, but the thought of going to buy something for her wedding isn't appleaing to me. Why? because the last time I went on a major shopping spree, was during Christmas, like everyone else in the world. At the time, nothing in the store really jump out at me, and scream "BUY ME"

Tonight as I was taking a break from laying out stuff in Indesign, and was browsing yarn. It occurred to me.. WHY DON"T I MAKE an AO DAI!! **ding ding ding** With my heart beat going off the chart I went to get a drink, and told myself I was crazy. In my great idea moment, the shaping and moving of stitch, that I think most original came to me. This is making REALLY excited. But I'm telling myself I'm crazy. A DRESS?? how long is that going to take? Am I going to finish by August? UGH????

I'm doing it! I'm going to make the dress.... After I run the Idea by a certain person :) and if things goes well my crazy idea and my crazy self will be one. -laugh-

I write on my blog, during moments of great happiness and great sadness. Therefore my blog post are inconsistence, like salad dressing.

On Friday, the day of which I schedule another photo shoot with Chris, the sun never shine. No even once. The entire day was gray. If I wasn't hoping for sun, it would have been a relaxing day inside to knit. I was up all night before, I actually never went to sleep, to have everything ready for the shoot, which was schedule for 8.00 am that morning. Its been re-schedule for the 17th of march, the week after spring break. ALSO the day of the Interweave knits submission deadline. I'm not sure I will actually turn anything in. Because right now I'm not happy with any of my sweater Idea.

WHY? Because the guideline packets for this particualr issue submissions call is asking for mens wear with out the men... I wanted to turn my idea for sweater, particularly for MEN. The reason being, i read a bunch of why doesn't interweave knit have more thing men. I thought the same, so I thought, oh what a good time to address the issue. Anyway tell you when the deadline is over, if I turn anything in.

Today I give another template! The template is base on a size 2 dress form, which translate to a 32 size bust. This is only the front view of the dress form. I hope to draw up multiple view of the dress form. The next one I will work on is a side and corner view. I'm not sure if I should draw the back view or not, because its pretty similar to the front.

Yesterday I called up a friend up and we went and had a photo shoot of an item I'd design to submit to Knitty for the summer issue. It was a lot of fun! The weather was great and amazingly warm. The previouse day it was supper cold, in the 50's or something during the day and in the 30's during the night.

This is my first time submitting to Knitty, and I'm very excited just to finish the pattern and turn it in. I sent in a lot of picture, and I had forgotten to resize a few of them to the 1.5MB requested. I hope this doesn't hurt me in any way. I'm posting a picture from the photo shoot, to share with all of you. Its not a close up shot or anything, so i feel comfortable posting this. It'll give you a better idea of the place my friend and I went to take shoot. If you live in Gainesville you probably can guess it was Lake Alice, and you are right!


Click to download Dress Form.pdf

I've been on Ravelry for a some time now, but I've never sent in the request to get my profile and my design connected and today I have!

I'm test knitting a shawl right now. This is my first time Knitting shawls, I've crochet one before. I'm working on the border of the shawl right now, instead of finish witting my pattern! Urgh the yarn I'm knitting with is so addicting to work with i keep coming back and knitting the shawl. The yarn is the Unique sheep Tinsel toes in Aqua sky. The color is very hard to photograph because of the yarn luster. This picture is the closet looking to the yarn in person. In person the yarn is a tad darker, the shine makes the yarn look lighter in this picture.


Do you like the smell of yarn? Is it weird to like the smell of yarn. I must be really dorky to smell my yarn...lol