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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2020 FEBRUARY
Hello friends,
How was your February? So the coronavirus now called COVID-19 didn't go away huh? To date, Singapore has a total of 110 people who tested positive. 78 have recovered and were discharged. Seeing how aggressively the government is going about locating and testing suspected cases, I'm quite relieved the number of infection isn't higher. The number of infection is going to continue to rise. That's for sure. The number of infected cases outside China has exploded and that is very worrying. From today, Singapore closed its borders to travellers (regardless of nationalities) who have travelled through Iran, northern Italy or South Korea in addition to China. Just a thought: some countries which do not have a high number of infection are probably not testing for the virus aggressively enough. Oh, we've managed to buy a few little bottles of hand sanitizer. I bought 2 from a costume jewellery shop. Then I walked past another shop and they were selling Himalaya hand sanitizer. So I bought another 2 more little bottles because I've heard of Himalaya brand but not the first one I bought out of desperation. Then I discovered supermarkets have ready stock of hand sanitizer. Grr... So we have enough hand sanitizer to last us till the year 2024. My son was very happy to receive the hand sanitizer. Masks are still a bit hard to find at pharmacies and supermarkets. By chance, hubs walked past a pop-up and bought a box of 50 for $35 recently. We're still on the no-mask team unless we're sick so we're in no danger of running out of masks. Sometime in February there was panic buying of rice, instant noodles, canned food and toilet paper. Thankfully that has passed and life has pretty much returned to normal. During the period of empty shelves at supermarkets, I asked myself what would be the one food item I would hate not to have and it turned out to be carrots. Yes, carrots. Luckily carrots keep quite well. I buy 2 packets each time to last 1 week or so and I would get super annoyed if the supermarkets run out of carrots. Recently I had to go to the Immigration center to get my ID. Since it's a government agency, I thought the crew would be fully masked up. I was surprised that apart from the thermal scanning of body temperature, there were no other precautionary measures. To enter any library, (yes, library) I need to get my temperature scanned as well as scan my ID and the crew were fully masked. The immigration staff had to touch my hand to scan my thumbprint and because my thumbprints were faint, she had to do it a few times on both my thumbs. I couldn't wait to get out of the place to go wash my hands for 20 seconds and guess what? I couldn't find a washroom. I ended up using my hand sanitizer which also made me sneeze my head off. Then of course we had a medical emergency. My girl needed to see a ENT specialist ASAP but she had been delaying because she was scared of catching COVID-19. It didn't help that her doctor is located at the hospital which had a COVID-19 patient who was diagnosed late. The patient had Dengue fever AND COVID-19. Poor thing. Finally I put my foot down and decided my daughter's hearing is more important than the fear of catching COVID-19. Before we could enter the clinic we had to sign a health declaration form and go through the thermal scanning. There was a queue but it moved pretty quickly. Thankfully, the officers manning the queue were fully masked. One self-entitled woman went to argue with the crew insisting she be handed the health declaration form right away. I guess she didn't want to queue. I slapped her silly in my head. Alright, enough about the virus. In February I made a few pairs of shorts. For each pair, I played around with the crotch curve just for fun.
My daughter said this pair of shorts is a little short for me. I guess she's used to seeing me in mom shorts. I used this fabric which keeps growing in my store room. Each time I use some, I discover more. It's an ordinary pair of shorts with fold over band, elastic and I added in-seam pocket. By the way, is it in-seam or on-seam pocket? I discovered a bag of 1 yard fabric which someone had gifted me years ago. I used some to make the next 2 pairs of shorts. Same technique as the blue shorts, just a bit longer in reaction to my daughter's feedback. Just to change things up, I added side pockets and a separate waistband.
The above 3 pairs of shorts - I think they're okay for wearing out. For home wear, I made 2 using fabric which could have been a bed sheet or a curtain.
I don't know why I made 2 pairs of shorts using the exact same fabric. No pockets as they're for lazing around. And I promise I won't wear them out.
Posted by Projects By Jane 1 comments WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2020 CLEO SKIRT WITH SIDE ZIPPER This is my third Cleo skirt . Help. I clearly need an intervention. This time, I made one with a side invisible zipper. Rae has a post on adding a zipper to a Cleo skirt if you want to take a look. I used a cotton drill fabric which I have no memory buying. It's like the past 10 years I was a different person and I woke up and am just discovering all the stuff the other me did. Like buying this fabric. I started working on this skirt in December last year. Which was unfortunate because December 2019 was when I went through a crazy greedy phase (unlike my other not so crazy greedy phase) and ate waaaay too much. As a result there was a massive weight gain, especially around the tummy. And I was feeling sad about it because I was thinking I'm never going to be able to lose the extra girth. So I did the best thing I could think of (at that time) - I made the Cleo skirt to match my wider girth. It would be my "fat skirt". Of course I lost some of the girth in January and trust me, I'm not complaining. I was still working on the skirt in January and I could have re cut the waistband but I was too lazy and I also thought it's not a bad idea to have a "fat skirt". Also I didn't put on thaaaat much weight so I was sure I could still wear it. And I'm right. I wore it out last week and it works. Except I don't really like wearing loose skirts. I find that I have to adjust my waist every now and then. A bit irritating but I'll continue to wear it. The finishing for the zipper area wasn't as good as I would have liked. The first time I sewed the waistband I did it in one step sewing the zipper to the front and back. The finishing was great but I found it hard to move the zipper as the fabric is a bit thick. So I redid it in 2 steps. First, I sewed the zipper to the front. Then I sewed the back of the waistband to the zipper using a smaller seam allowance to allow the zipper to move. The finished skirt is 18" long including the waistband. I made the front and back body the same width because I found my previous Cleo skirts look a bit flat on the back. Hopefully this is my last Cleo Skirt. I should move on to other kinds of skirts.
Posted by Projects By Jane 3 comments THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2020 MY THIRD LACE SHAWL
I'm a very slow knitter. Not only that, I'm forgetful. Between being slow and forgetting I have a work-in-progress lace shawl lying around somewhere, it took me approximately 1 year 5 months to complete my third human-size lace shawl. The pattern is by Anna Dalvi and not super hard. Of course when I started it, it felt very hard. I used the Garter Tab to start and I had to redo it a few times to get it right. The one big difference between this shawl and the SkyWalker Lace Shawl or the first lace shawl I've made is the even rows are not purled. Instead I have one chart for odd rows and one chart for even rows. And of course for even rows, you have to use a different stitch from the odd row even thought the symbols are THE SAME. So confusing. Why do knitting patterns make life so hard? Like, why not use DIFFERENT symbols? I can't count the number of times I had to rip back because I FORGOT. Yes, I use a highlighter to colour the even rows but you know how your mind wanders when you knit and you forget. I had to use a lifeline for every row because otherwise I would give up. Although I know how to tink back most stitches, I can't for the life of me figure out how to tink back ssk or slip 2 stitches knitwise, knit 1 stitch, pass slipped stitches over. Grr... but I realised later that using a different chart for the even rows makes the lace pattern reversible. WOW. For that, it's worth all the headache, blood boiling, hair tearing and many many Hokkien swear words. The bind off is done using a method I've never used before. The end result is super stretchy. I love it. I watched this video to see how
it's done.
The finished shawl is 43" wide and 19" tall. I. did. not. block. it. And. I. Shan't.
And to play safe this round, I'm NOT asking my family members what they think of this scarf. After all the hard work, I'm wearing it the minute the temperature drops to 28 deg C. p.s. so cool of my family to model my lace shawl!!! Posted by Projects By Jane 3 comments Older Posts
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