Benzene Bag

So here’s the 411. I’m working on my first big project for Nicks. Nicks of course, supportive as ever, rolls her eyes and started counting my other big projects that never came to fruition.

Well.. it got started. That’s something innit?

Ok, let’s recap (with Nicks sniggering over my shoulder)

ah-ha. See that tiny arrow? those straggly bits are the only ones not done yet ok? (er.. yes they are STILL straggly bits not weaved in as we speak)

AH-HA. There is a sad, sad story behind this one (whacks Nicks as she breaks out laughing). I was working on.. Gawd i can’t remember now what I started this as. But it was from a free booklet, and you like knit squares with different patterns and then join them together? So anyways, I was knitting the squares, and carrying them around with me.. and i lost them. The bag, the needles, the yarn, the booklet. *Sigh* So in the end, i just thought I’d join them together anyways, and give them to Nicks so she can selimut-selimut herself at the ofice like nenek-nenek omputeh gitu. But if you noticed the ghastly stitching I did? So i wanted to cover them with the I-cord (note arrow). Yeah… the bankie STILL looks like this as we speak.

So aaanyways *glares at Nicks*. I am currently working on a cardigan.. my first ever seh! And well, my knitting has always been… sporadic and subject to mood.

As it happens, the one day that I felt like knitting, That was the day i left my knitting at the office.

But I sooo wanted to knit, you know? (Tetiba gatai tangan tu namanya). So I simply simply picked out a pattern off the net.

Ta-dah! Hexagon Purse.

cute right? Fairly simple, just increases and decreases, seed stitch at the opening and strap.

So I used my 6.5mm straight needles, number 66 and 20 Minlon Yarn 40g (because single yarn would be way too thin for my needles) and got started just as Akademi Fantasia came on.

And a week later (i.e. yesterday), Voila!

Tapi kan, macamana the pattern says “Purse” and akak punya turned out to be “Bag” ntah, akak pun tak tahu.

I did make the strap extra long, that’s true. Instead of the 100 stitches, I probably did something like 150 or more (I basically casted on until the needle could take no more), tapi itu pun when i sling it over, it nestles somewhere right on my tummy (NOT a fashion statment k?), i.e still a bit short.

But i thought it looked nice. I’m still waiting to try its strength though, as I hadn’t bothered to line the inside or anything.

But it was a relaxing, nice short project that actually looked functional.

I have plans for this pattern. (eh wah).

Oh and i called it the Benzene bag because the benzene ring is a hexagon. (Sila rujuk buku kimia organik anda, sekian)

Tummy Tuck – Steam It Up!

my yarn has decided to get itself all tangled up. *glares at yarn*

Must be the heat.

Not only that, this yarn decided to invite my other yarn for a tangling game. *sigh*.

The air-cond doesn’t seem to be cool enough. *glares at air-cond remote*

Yeah, must be the heat.

I’m feeling irritable.

Definitely the heat.

But I digress.

But i always do anyways. So hey, what the hey eh? *irritable tone*

I’ll confuse myself if I want to. *blissfully irritated*

Aaaaaaaaaanyways, been awhile eh?

I actually have been going places to eat, but i what i haven’t done is take pictures. Because i only usually remembered after I’ve eaten, and the plates were polished to a gleaming shimmer. So the point of the pictures were.. well.. kinda lost eh? What is there to write about a clean plate?

But I digress again.

A few weeks ago, my partner in food adventures and I went to makan. True, we have been lazy. We’ve simply eaten what was in front of us (usually what Bibik made lah kan). So that one time, we actually ventured out of our cosy haven and decided to get some fresh air and fresh tastes.

Far we travelled, long we searched (all of 15 minutes).

And here we are.

Silver Pot Chinese Muslim Steamboat Restaurant, TTDI.(Jauh la sangat kan?)

It was quiet when we arrived. Al-maklum lah baru bukak for evening. The kakak lari-lari from the back of the shop to greet us. AND it’s a smoking restaurant. I liiiiikeeeeeeeeee.

We had the Lover’s Set. I suppose it’s called that because the stuff comes in twos or fours.

Haaa now can see better.

I think the hunger got to us, though. We became so tamak and ordered extras.

Scallops and fish fillets (this is only a third of it ya?)

And i present.. my most tamak moment… The vegie fried rice.

Reminiscent of my Fatty Crab days, really.

But seriously, with such a lot of food, the rice was one that I couldn’t finish. (Knitwit not finishing rice is a feat on its own ok?).

Ah-ha. And here’s my boat, bubbling away.

I guess the trend nowadays is to have individual boats eh? which i like. Because i always liked the plain soup, whereas my friends prefer the tomyam. So this is like, perfect.

Gone are the days where you put those last two prawns into the big boiling pot, (sup tomyam pulak tu), waited patiently for them to be ready, blinked one nth of a second, only to find them in another’s plate, while the Tuan Punya plate goes ‘eh, this one your one ah?’ while happily munching away on my one.

Not that I eat prawns mind you.

Yes, the last word. Sedap.