Saturday, March 14, 2009

Preview

Remember the crochet dress that Brenda (our maid) made for Charlotte? It didn't occur to me that I have a "sifu" (teacher) available 24x7 that I can take this opportunity to learn this skill until lately. When my company announced pay cut in Jan, we are entitled to get 2 days off every month and I started to wonder what I can do with this extra free time that I have.

While chatting with Brenda one day about the crochet workshop available at one of the mall nearby she said why not I go learn up this skill with the 2 days every month and I seriously think that was such a great idea! But I didn't go sign up the workshop, instead I went to a book store and started to look for books on crochets. I studied the instructions and I think I am able to interpret at least 70% of it. I was thinking, it doesn't matter even if I don't understand the instruction as Brenda is definitely able to figure it out. So I bought this 2 books, but they are in Chinese.



I started to look for a simple pattern, with simple instruction to start with. It has been months since I started my 1st piece of work. You must be thinking, "she is too free ah?", "she no need to work meh?", but the truth is I have been spending a lot late nights doing it. I can only do a very small portion at a time because I am not familiar with the work and I need to watch the time so that I will not take too much time off from my sleep hours.

It is not complete yet, but here is a sneak preview as I tried it on Charlotte today. Actually, Brenda has been making a lot of corrections, repairs and additional rows when I was away at work. Otherwise, it will take another few more months if I do it all by myself.


I think it looks great on Charlotte!

7 comments:

  1. That's very nice! Great job Mommy!

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  2. Wow, the dress, although not yet done, is so nice, the colors is perfect on her. And Charlotte looks so happy, I think she is looking forward wearing it.

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  3. Wow! It looks great. Charlotte is very luck that her mummy is so hardworking to make such a pretty dress for her (and more to come?)

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  4. Really looks soooo pretty!~ Mummy so geng~

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  5. Thanks everyone! I think I want to give the credit to my maid, Brenda. She contributed majority of it :)

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  6. Wow, what a beautiful dress. Charlotte's smiles pay off all the hardwork and late nights!
    And Mommy gets to learn new skills too...:-)

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