it's been a looooong week....

The past week has been such a loong week... hubby just got back from a week's training from Finland.. and I have missed him so much.. I've never missed him this much before...  GETTING SWEETER??? hehehe

Anyway so what have I been up to while hubby is away?  PLAY of course!  ... before you make any ideas will show you what I did this past week.. I decided to play some stitches and search for some yarn to play with.

I also have another test knit which luckily I get to submit it on July.. :) yay! more time to do other knitting / crochet stuff.

So let's get on with the agenda for today...

Here is my Rosewood Shawl - to be submitted on July - a TEST KNIT

I had a hard time doing the lace at the beginning.. I had to rip the first 2 pattern repeats 4x! I was frustrated, couldn't understand how such a simple pattern couldn't get into my stubborn head! 

To make the long story short, I got it eventually and now I finished 8 pattern repeats, yeah still slow huh, because I can't help missing my honey hubby that's why..  and decided to put this away for awhile as I can't concentrate.

While I was missing him.. and knowing me... I can't sit still without tinkering something.. I need to keep my mind off so... first I did some mending on my kids shorts..sewing, fixing things at home.. but still can't stop this nagging voice that I have to do some more challenging stuff.

So I ransack my yarn storage.. and got a nice Monaco Thread (viscose) 

and look for some stored patterns on my hard drive...and this what I found...  Isn't it gorgeous? 

The stitch pattern is very easy.. it has three kinds of stitch pattern but I'll discuss it more on my next blog.. so for now I'll show you where I'm at on the pattern, I'm almost done on the back part of the bolero, and I really enjoy the thread I use on this...

As I have said I will tell you more about those two mentioned patterns on a my next blog.

Below is the close up look on the stitch pattern...