an inbetween large project

I am almost done with Abbie's Tunic from Debbie Bliss Knitting Workshop, and being me, I grew impatient, so I decided to make small project just to keep my knitting up and not lose interest.

It's a doily called Sirius from the book Leisure Arts #4404, Stellar Beauties by by Julie Haberberger and Leisure Arts.

If you will look closely on the photo and compared it with the cover of the book, you will see that mine has somewhat missing some textures, yup I just realized after doing several rows that what I thought was a BPDC, I actually did the FPDC..(stupid me). Anyway I think the doily turns out okay, what do you think?

Project Details
Pattern: Leisure Arts #4404, Stellar Beauties

by Julie Haberberger and Leisure Arts

Materials: Monaco Crochet Cotton 8
Hook: Steel size 1.60mm
Size: 16"diameter
Project Started: June 25, 2009
Project Finished: June 30, 2009

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a roller coaster ride these past two weeks...

W oohoo again, this time I finish the other pair, (below is a photo to prove I did a socks) and just got to cast-on another sock pattern, this time it's from knitty gritty - Breeze, I first saw this on my Plurk through Twistedhausfrau (almost wrote @Twistedhausfru, fellow plurkers know about this ), and when I was about to cast-on the Nanners, DD saw the Breeze from Knitty Summer 07 and demand I made her one. I casted-on and was already near the Toe part, when I rip it all, you see I modify the number of stitches just so to fit for her, and that's where I got all messed up...will just redo the whole thing or probably make my own since i have a Sock Wizard software.

Pattern: Waterfall Socks by Northern Sunshine Designs
Materials: Scheepjes Invicta Extra
Needles: 2.5mm set of dpns
Started: July 12, 2008
Finished: July 26, 2008

So aside from sock knitting that's been keeping me away from my blogging,- please bear with me as it's very hard for me to write this down, (but have to do this), I think it will also help me move on, you see the latest member of my ohana - which I introduced on my previous blog, passed away last july 23. Doctor suspect that when I got her from the pet store, she was already sick and that her condition was aggravated when she was given her first vaccine. I will not go into details on how I tried saving her for the past 3 weeks...I just wanted to remember her when was still with us.

Now on to my next project, after finishing the Waterfalls, and can't fall asleep, I decided to start a crochet doily, and at 1:00am until 4:00am I was able to finish the spiral part of the pattern, and it took me 4 to 5 more days to finish the edgings, probably I was bored with that part of the pattern. The doily is from a Japanese book.

Pattern: Japanese Doily Book
Size: 20.8 inches
Materials: 2.10 balls Monaco Thread
Hook size: 1.25mm
Started : July 26, 2008
Finished: August 1, 2008

I also joined Ravelympics, I am in three groups, hopefully I can finished it in time, I also just joined the SOTSiii and Mystery Stole 4, will post the badge as soon I am able.