The Ugly Duckling

Hi Knitters,

The "awful" picture above is in fact the draft of Op. 4 scarf.
Yes, it is.  I admit that I am never good at drawing.

I just bought the Rowan yarns from a local yarn store, then I didn't know what to do.
Hahaha...Then I decided to make a draft and test on the iPad app called SketchPro.  It was fun.

Well, I did know that I wanna knit a scarf.  Then I thought of making some bobbles.  Yes, the dark dots you see represent bobbles.  Then I wanna add some nice border.  Cable knitting then came up to my mind.  See the curves I drew..............

The result, as you can see here, is quite different.  They are not even in scale.  Ugly Duckling then became a Swan!!!

"I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling."

I am surprised and very happy too.  You may want to meet the swan here:

http://eatinglemonknitknitknit.blogspot.com/2012/12/op-4.html

P.S. I forgot to mention in previous blog that I knitted with my beloved Takumi Velvet needles.

Thank you very much and

HAPPY KNITTING

Free Counting App

Dear Knitters,

I would like to recommend a free iPhone app for iPhone users.  It's simply called KNIT.
Press START:

First you add a project by pressing the "+ " sign:

Then you will be directed to this page:

Set up number of rows and stitches, then choose the category that you want to count.  In the above example, I chose to count the number of row for Op. 1 scarf project.   I then pressed the yarn ball on the right bottom corner:

Can you see the smile on the cute kitty's face and the change of yarn color?  It's red now!!! It means one row is done. How cute!!!!  Of course you can choose to count by stitch.  In the bar below the categories, there are three numbers: 1, 2, 10.  That's optional for one choose to count by every 1 row, 2 rows or 10 rows. So, do set everything right before you start.   

As shown in the right top corner, you can also take picture for your projects, take notes as well as setting the app. For more details, please go back to the homepage and press the little bar says "how to use".

This app is wonderful.  It's especially good for those, like me, cannot live without smart phone. One little thing I don't like about this app, is the long bar for ad.  Yeah, ads are as annoying as usually.  Well, it's a good free app.....hmm......  I'll stop complaining from now on.   Thank you cute kitty!!!!  And million thanks to the app developer!!!!!

HAPPY KNITTING