Huggable House

My daughter received a gift from her mom one day after Christmas. Unfortunately, she couldn't get it on Christmas but got new gloves her dad.

I finished this project around 11pm on the 25th, so my daughter found it in the next morning. Either it was too big and scared her or it was very new, she didn't try to touch it at first! Oh my... She still hasn't tried to touch it yet... but I bought this book to make this huggable house!

In More Last-minute Knitted Gifts by Joelle Hoverson, I found this cute knitted house. I compared the price between Amazon.com and Amazon Japan because Japanese yen has been stronger than USD. Eventually I ordered the book from Amazon.

It was supposed to take 4 to 6 hours to complete, instead it took 12 hours. Isn't it lovely? But doesn't it look chubby? I think I put too much stuffing in it... It doesn't matterrrrrrr.

New Blanket

Finally I finished the blanket last night. It is pretty simple but took a while... I almost got bored of it for the repeated work. At first it would be only in two colors but I realized I would need more yarns. Instead, I added two more colors and became a four-color blanket. It could be longer than this, but it is good enough if I want to use it for the baby-stroller.

I hope she likes it.

A Kimono tsumugi

I've finished this tsumugi, which is a type of kimonos and also a type of weaving, a few days ago. My mom's friend is quite old and doesn't wear kimonos anymore, so she had the kimono unsewn and cleaned. She gave me the fabric then. I'm thinking about wearing it when I get really old because the color of this kimono is a bit too dark for me to wear now. Women in the 30's should wear brighter colors than this, don't you think?

Anyway, this was cut and made for short women for the first time; therefore, when I wear it, there isn't enough length for ohashori, that is a folded part of a kimono when you wear and it appears right beneath the obi. My height is about 5.4, and probably I'm too tall for the kimono! I won't care but the length in the photo looks obviously short!!!

Speaking of sewing, sewing a collar is the longest part and taking so much time. I feel like it'll take forever or even I won't finish it... However, after you finish that part, you just need to put sleeves on each shoulder. This is the happy part because you are almost done at this moment. The pictures above is 95 percent done and I just need to do the ironing. Although this isn't completed, I feel like it is finished! Yay!!!

Gift from Thailand

One of my old coworkers likes to visit Thailand and he just sent me a pack of gift. This is the second time he sent me something nice! I love these cute candles!

His children are already in their 20th and he is kind of retired. He is like my second dad to my since he is almost 50yo. Anyway, I have to thank him and want to show the beautiful candles to everyone.