My Scribblings Journeys of a mom and wife

November 21, 2009

A Puff Stitch Hat and A Rasberry Scarf

Filed under: Lifestyle — claudy @ 1:35 pm

Glad that Bean loves the scarf and hat! Once she puts them both on, she found herself very pretty in the mirror, then she didn’t want to take them off anymore.

The hat, I was using is a crochet method. This pattern is called Puff Stitch.

Puff Stitch:

  • *Wrap yarn over the hook,
  • Put it through the loop,
  • Wrap the yarn on the back,
  • Repeat 4 times from *.
  • Now there should have 9 loops on your hook
  • Wrap the yarn over and put them through the 9 loops to make 1 Puff Stitch.

Structure:

  • Start with 5 chains and join
  • First round: 6 Puff Stiches
  • Second round: 12 Puff Stitches
  • Third round: 18 Puff Stitches
  • Forth round: 24 Puff Stitches
  • Fifth round 24 PS and so on,…
  • 3 single crochet for the last 3 three round.

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For the scarf, I use knitting method: Raspberry

row1 n 3: purl,
row2: K1, *(K1,P1,K1) into next stitch, P 3tog*, repeat from * to last stitch, K1
row4: k1, *P 3tog, (K1,P1,K1) into next stitch* repeat from * to last stitch, K1

November 19, 2009

Lunch Box for Bean

Filed under: Menu — claudy @ 2:21 am

 

Seems Bean likes the lunch box a lot. I also like it very much. I kept eating during the making process.

 

Scarf for Spawn (Pattern: crossed-stitch rib)

Filed under: Lifestyle — claudy @ 2:10 am

 

Since last year I started knitting the scarf for Spawn. It took a while but I finally finished this week after a lot of long breaks. I am now feeling release, because Spawn can’t complain anymore about waiting for his hand knitted scarf.

Here is the pattern:

Row 1: P1, *Tw2R, P1, rep from *.

Row 2: K2, *P2, K1, rep from *.
 

My first fondant cake

Filed under: Menu — claudy @ 1:53 am

My first attempt of baking fondant cake

It tastes nicer than marzipanned but it is super super sweet, even Spawn couldn’t bear it.

Ingredients for the fondant:
250g marshmallow
2 table spoons of water
1 table spoon of shortening
500g icing sugar
Food coloring colors
Cake writing pen
 

1. Firstly add 250gr marshmallow + 2 tsp water + 1 tsp shortening in a bowl and place it in the microwave for 1 minute.
2. Then stir it.
3. Dust your table with icing sugar and continuously add icing sugar and stir the fondant until it is smooth.

4. For color, you need to add some food color into the fondant.

 

Here is the food color

This looks like a lipgloss, but it is well a Cake writing pen

Here is my final result. What do you think he?

 

November 14, 2009

Extra@Paris

Filed under: Day Out — claudy @ 12:42 am

An attractive Smart Cabrio parked in the street in front of the museum. Haven’t seen this model before. Found it quite cool.

During this trip, we traveled mostly with the metro. Here is one of the metro station, it was quite in chaos!! The cables just hanging around everywhere.

 

Just passed by a real estate agent and had a look at the house price in Paris. Prices were extremely high. The asking price for  a 88m2 flat is 840 000 euro.

 

Besides cleanness of my first impression in a metro, we also found how important mobile phones are for the French.

 

Our sweet memories of anniversary.

 

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