However lately ever since I’ve joined a dance group, I feel more lively thanks to my friend Vita. I forgot how much enjoyable it is to spend time with friends who’s from back home and also compatible. All these years I’ve lived in US, the back home people I’ve meet usually end up not friendly or more like I don’t know how to interact with them.

We laugh, we dance, we talk. It’s the simple everyday life that makes life bearable. I do believe spending time with good friends is one of the key to happiness.

I’ve included a video where my dance group and me danced on stage for the first time at University of Minnesota where they have gamelan instruments. I didn’t think we did too bad for our first stage. We’ll be on stage again at the Festival of Nation May 1st at 7pm. If you are in the area, come and see us dance and also learn about other countries.

Indang Sumatran Dance from Bill Cunningham on Vimeo.

Knitting update:
Entrelac socks

yarn: KnitPicks Gloss sock yarn in Pumpkin and and Cocoa 2 skeins each color
needle: US 0 (2.00mm)
method: dpn for toe, and the rest of the body using magic loop
duration: 2 months 1 week 6 days

These socks had been my faithful companion at work breaks. Because it is in entrelac technique, each small square made it perfect to take away stress at work and break away from computer screen. Who knew, I was actually more productive if I knit during breaks. I do bring a couple of simple books to read during breaks, but seriously I look at documents and computer screen all day long, last thing I want to do during breaks is to read.

GAAA (Great Aran American Afghan) update

I started this project on April 19th, 2008 and about 2 years later this afghan is almost finished. Knitting each square of the afghan was stressful and educational at the same time. Because each square in the pattern was done with different people, so each square will have different gauge and needles called for. Theoretically each square is supposed to have 12 in square, but seriously as much as I tried to have each square to be 12 in square, it was not going to happen at all. On average each square differs about 1in to 0.5in in dimension. However, the beauty of this afghan which still fathoms me, once sewed up each square’s unevenness get canceled like a mathematical formula. None of the square looks so distorted once sewed up.

My cat already claimed this afghan even before the afghan is done. Heck even the fat-but cat claimed the blanket by kneading the blanket.

Katherine Hepburn Cardigan update

After knitting this cardigan on US 1 (2.5mm) and US 0 (2mm), it’s finally off the needles!!! The pattern calls for about US 4 and 5 and why did I knit this on US 1? Apparently each yarn reacts differently to one’s tension. Since the yarn content is 100% cotton, of course it’s not going to get same gauge as it is with wool.
Started this project at the beginning of the year and hopefully I can wear this for summer which I believe I should have time to wear this for spring and summer.

Here is some of my knitting sample work for you to see.

Hope there’s a bidder out there for my skills. Wish you good luck

started: April 19th 2008.
needles: it varies for each square from US 4 (3.5mm) to US 8 (5.00mm)
yarn: Lion Brand wool-ease solid-heathers, color: Fisherman

The fun part is to rearrange the squares and sew them together.

fiber related updates.
spinning:
I have technically 3 spinning projects. One of them has gone to UFO pond because I don’t have the drive the continue spinning that cotton on coin tahkli. Next time I’m spinning cotton it’ll be on a wheel.

Current spinning projects are:

Fiber: Cranberry Sorbet Panda 4oz
bought: Knitter’s Palette
spun on Spinsanity spindle 0.83oz cherry blossom.
target yarn: sock weight 3ply.

Marine Corps

Mysterious fiber 2.5lb
bought: Shepherd Harvest 2009
spun on: Mach 1 wheel
target yarn: worsted weight 3 ply.

knitting

Entrelac socks by Eunny Jang
yarn: KnitPicks Gloss in Cocoa and Pumpkin
needle: US 0 (2.00mm)
method to make the socks: magic loop

I must say this is actually a fun and very portable project. Because you are knitting entrelac and since each square is so little to knit, it gets pretty addicting. I’ve been bringing this project to work to knit on breaks and lunch breaks.

GAAA (Great Aran American Square)
On the last square Someday I’ll post a photo before each square is sewn into a blanket and after it’s sewn.

That’s all so far for updates. Ahhh the sun has finally come up. I think it’s time for me to knit some more
Until next time.

After much tweaking and poking around including talking to my server provider to help upgrade to newer SQL, at the end it’s better to start over. Yup starting over.

When I started this blog, there’s a lot of unorganized links especially on how I post photos. Now that I have a flickr account, it’s just easier to link my photos to flickr. The photos won’t get lost and the links will always be valid.

And guess what? A very good friend of mine designed me a logo to connect my blog, my photography and etsy store. I’d rather use that logo as an identity to connect all those rather than having individual sites. At least it’s looking more professional that way