Retarded post, again
May 13, 2008 at 2:24 pm | In All Finished Crafts, Craft - Books, Craft - How-to's | No CommentsTags: book, Chinese knotting, craft book, 石畳編, magazine, paper, paper strips, recycled, tutorial, weaving
How my desk looks like always reflects how my life is going on. The picture on the left shows a small part of my desk roughly 10 days ago. It simply became worse and worse until I started packing up for the trip. My desk at home is empty right now, while I am creating another mess on the desk in the hotel room in a small old town north to Berlin. I am sure I will clean up before we leave….hopefully…. 
Jumper that cannot jump
May 1, 2008 at 9:29 am | In All Finished Crafts, All My Sketches, Craft - Books | 1 CommentTags: knitting crochet yarn sketch doll jumper
I actually finished this jumper I have been working on train last week but I felt reluctant to show it because it does NOT fit! The pattern was from a Japanese pattern book ヨーロッパの手あみ (Spring/Summer 200 
that was just released this February. I really wanted to try this jumper pattern as it is a mixture of knitting and crochet. Japanese pattern book sometimes only provide patterns for one-size, which is usually very slim. Therefore, I tried to calculate the number of stitches to fit the pattern to myself. Obviously I overestimated my own size.
Sort of free patterns
April 12, 2008 at 11:28 am | In Craft - Books | 1 CommentTags: magazine, pattern, mci
Errata for the baby special issue of MCI came out today. Although they are not complete patterns, some people can certainly make use of them without looking at the original magazine. I got this issue on March 30 while I was waiting for my train in Metz. I finished reading it before I got to my room and became reluctant to open it again. It sort of disappointed me. I mean the cover has already been much worse than usual. The content inside doesn’t look any better than the cover, even though there are still some interesting parts. I guess I just had an extremely high expectation for MCI.
Walilie! They look like brothers
April 9, 2008 at 9:01 am | In Craft - Blogs, Craft - Books, Craft - How-to's, Craft - Inspirations, Craft - People, Craft - Websites | No Comments
A virus called Cross-Stitching
December 28, 2007 at 9:52 pm | In All Finished Crafts, Craft - Books | 4 CommentsTags: blue, book, cross stitch, dishcloth, embroidery, french
My last cross stitch project, i.e. my first cross-stitch project, dated back to early 2004. The colorful world built by crosses was not so fascinating for me, not to mention that the amount of required threads scared me out of it. I could barely imagine myself working on cross stitching projects again. However, things are changing all the time. Just like picking up knitting again, I also made my second cross-stitch project before the end of year 2007 after seeing many friends working on cross-stitches and reading some amazing books.
Twisted
December 23, 2007 at 9:33 pm | In All Finished Crafts, Craft - Books, Craft - People | No CommentsTags: alan dart, bone, cotton, knit, thread, white
“The exams for this year” are finished, but I have been sort of trapped in a working-hard me and couldn’t get out of it immediately after the exams. We are going to another city to visit a friend tomorrow. I hope this would help. 
Holding on
December 18, 2007 at 7:02 pm | In All Finished Crafts, Craft - Books, Misc. | No CommentsTags: book, Crafts, knitting, sweater, toy, toys to knit
I’ve written two exams and there is only one more to go for this year (there are 4 more in January.). I am sorry that I couldn’t reply any emails/comments and that I’ve been invisible from IM’s lately. Thanks for the nice comments, nice emails and nice messages to me!
Knitting weekend
November 18, 2007 at 10:53 pm | In All Finished Crafts, Craft - Books, Misc. | 1 CommentTags: bib, france, knit, knitting, one skein, petal, petal bib, weekend
Do you know what is worse than being stuck away from home? The answer is being stuck away from home and losing the internet connections all the time. That is my weekend. The internet stopped working on Friday night. After the connection is back to work on Saturday afternoon, the signal remains unstable. Even right now, when I am typing, I got disconnected from time to time, which is extremely annoying. Besides, I accidentally deleted several movie files I haven’t watched on Saturday. This morning, I was waken up by three girls talking loudly in the corridor. I tried to take a nap after lunch, but I was waken up 20 min after by a girl and a lady who seemed to be her mother talking in the corridor AGAIN…..I really tried hard to enjoy the lonely weekend here, but miserable things don’t go away. 
Crafting in the new place
September 17, 2007 at 9:22 pm | In All Finished Crafts, Craft - Books, Misc. | No Comments
When I said it seemed the weather is better here than in SB last Friday, the professor’s response was “oh, come on, it’s not that different.” And he’s actually right. After many days of wonderful sunshine, it starts raining on our first day of this semester, raining just like it is in SB! It makes it extremely difficult to take a picture inside the room this morning when I was expecting some sunshine.
Back to Internet, partially
September 15, 2007 at 9:11 pm | In Craft - Books, Craft - How-to's, Craft - Inspirations, Craft - Websites, Misc. | No CommentsI finally figured out how to break the evil closed loop of getting internet access: McDonald’s! Can you imagine? The truth is one of the McDonald’s here provides free wireless access so that I can activate my school account which is needed for internet access in the student residence. The bad thing is it’s not real internet access…..no instant messenger, no ssh, nothing but http…..in other words, there is no way for me to work remotely in the dorm.
Anyway, I am online again!
Blahblah- eiscat: MCI is going to release on the 21st~
- eiscat: it seems the new MCI issue is out. a good excuse to cross the border~
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- eiscat: jet lag......*yawn*
- eiscat: the latest threadbanger episode is cool!
- eiscat: so......IM is not possible now?
- eiscat: It's really not so straightforward......
- eiscat: good~
- eiscat: cannot put twitter badge in wordpress blog.....:(
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