tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86718067542005498142024-02-19T07:57:05.097-05:00Geny in 3RTrying to figure out how to do things my grand-mothers did but never got the chance to show me.Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-12506060349078582112014-07-25T10:11:00.001-04:002014-07-25T10:11:37.577-04:00Mid- that became end of July post<div class="MsoNormal">
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another month and a half went by without me writing anything. AND, I've been writing this post for the past week without posting it because I didn't have all the pictures that I want. I don’t have any other good excuse except that I've been busy with work, vacations, house renos and the usual sewing, knitting and weaving.</div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">My sewing
class ended at the end of June, and it was quite productive, although not as
much as I had hoped and planned for. I still have tons of projects to work on until I
start again in September. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">I was able
to finish 2 pieces that I've been wearing this summer, a 3-tiered skirt, made
in a piece of batik I bought last year during a shopping spree, and a tank top
made with a cute polka dot fabric bought at the same time. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">The skirt
pattern is actually a “recipe” I found on the internet and saved on my Pinterest: <a href="http://sharonsews.blogspot.ca/2006/07/two-hour-gypsy-skirt-from-threads.html">http://sharonsews.blogspot.ca/2006/07/two-hour-gypsy-skirt-from-threads.html</a>.
I love it, and it was so easy to make, I hope to make another one before the
end of the summer.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">The tank
top is actually taken from a Burda dress pattern, which was, as usual, heavily modified
to fit me. (If I try to find the pattern's name or #, I will never publish this post...)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">On the
knitting side, I finished a very pretty little ensemble, taken from Vintage
knits for modern babies: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">(It’s the
only picture I have, taken in the car on our way to the party where I gave it
to the new parents; I sewed the buttons on the way). The cardigan is<a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/matinee-jacket-6" target="_blank"> Matinee jacket</a>, the
booties are <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/ruby-slippers-3" target="_blank">Ruby slippers</a>. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA"><br /></span><span lang="EN-CA">Those VERY cute buttons (<a href="http://www.buttonmad.com/">http://www.buttonmad.com/</a>)
are from la <a href="http://lamaisontricotee.com/" target="_blank">Maison Tricotée</a>, bought at the Tricoté-serré day I went to in
Nicolet in June. Yarn: <a href="http://www.berroco.com/yarns/vintage-dk">http://www.berroco.com/yarns/vintage-dk</a>,
as for many of my baby projects.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">I started
another project from that book (<a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/charming-raglan-pullover" target="_blank">Charming raglan pullover</a>), with the same yarn, but in dark denim). The
baby is due very soon…but as usual, I’m knitting a 6-month, so that gives me a
little time…I went to Alexandria, 4 hours away from 3R this weekend, that
gave me time to get a little further. Obviously, I need to travel more to be more productive :-) The back, front, and half of a sleeve are done. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">Off my loom
is my last baby blanket, woven for baby Victor, born back in April (I’m not a
fast weaver…and I didn’t take that one off until I finished the whole warp.). I still need to hem it, but I already love the result! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">I don’t
think I’ll try to add a border to that one, I like the yellow stripes enough as
a decoration. I made a boo-boo with this one at the beginning, when I took off
the previous blanket, and I was not sure at all it would end well, but
with a wash, it looks very good! Pattern is from <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Handweavers-Pattern-Directory-Anne-Dixon/dp/1596680407" target="_blank">Anne Dixson’s book</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">If you
remember my last post, I had also made a boo-boo when I warped my loom a few
months ago. I worked the remaining of the warp in 2 separate projects; on one I
just tried a few things using 2 colours at the time. I love those colours
together, they remind me of Slovak traditional clothes, such as <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/497929302524769771/" target="_blank">this</a></span>. </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">The other
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with it? Still TBD. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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if for sure, it’s that I won’t be using my 60” loom anytime soon again. We are
renovating our basement, and my loom will be stored for the next few months. I
hope I still remember how to warp it when I get it back. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Meanwhile, our garden has started producing, despite my total lack of TLC.<br />
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Yes, that last image is a baby toad I found close to our cucumbers. We've also enjoyed the presence of a ground hound in the past months. She has been nice, and so far, has only eaten our grass and some our our cucumber leaves. <br />
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last thing I wanted to share is that I finally used my ice cream maker to make
this<a href="http://www.scoopadventures.com/blueberry-mojito-ice-cream/" target="_blank"> Blueberry-mojito ice cream</a>. All I can say is: OMG, YUM! I don’t think I
can EVER buy ice cream again. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-12934252957828433582014-06-01T21:03:00.001-04:002014-06-01T21:03:49.129-04:00Almost 2 months later...I have no idea where the time went. I've been wanting to write, but each time, I thought about pictures that should be taken, downloaded and played with, and I didn't have the courage to do it. But I took pictures in the past few weeks, so here are a few things that I've finished, that I'm currently working on, or planning to work on very soon!<br />
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First, the dress. After almost a year working on it, it is finished, and it is, I think, perfect. I got a lot of compliments on it, and not only from people who know knew I had sewn it!<br />
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We (my sewing teacher and I) had to modify the original pattern (<a href="http://www.abramsbooks.com/Books/Gertie_s_New_Book_for_Better_Sewing-9781584799917.html" target="_blank">Gertie's shirt-dress</a>) a lot, not only because it didn't work on me, but also because the fabric (bought last year in Paris...sounds good, no?) is much thicker than what she used . But now, I have the adapted pattern, and I'm hoping to make another one, I don't want to have worked that much for only one dress! </div>
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So, as you can see from that picture, I was recently in New York! One of my man's close friend is turning 40 this year, and his girlfriend planned a secret trip to NY for him. He thought he was going fishing with his friends, but then we told him we had his passport, a 2nd suitcase with clean clothes, and that an extra day off had been taken care for on Monday. 10 of us spent last weekend there, just discovering the city. It was a lot of fun. </div>
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I didn't do the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/may/01/me-made-may-meet-the-bloggers-who-sew-their-own-wardrobe" target="_blank">me-made-May</a> thing going around in the blog world, because I don't have enough home made clothes for that, but I did a me-made-NY. I left on Friday wearing my tunic (picture in previous post), wore my new dress on Saturday, a skirt I made last year on Sunday, </div>
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and a brand new top that I had just finished the previous week on my way home: </div>
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That's actually a muslin to make sure that all the alterations we made on a pattern would work, but it is wearable. And I decided that I don't like that pattern, so I'm not going to make the real version.<br />
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I've started the summer session of my sewing class with a few less complicated projects. It's a lot of fun. There is 3 weeks left and I'm hoping to have the time to make these pieces (not going to happen, but I might be able to finish them before I start again in September).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Working on the top I brought to NY</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm making a top from that pattern, because I don't have enough fabric for the whole dress. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cute Japanese top</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and hopefully a cute Japanese skirt</td></tr>
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I also cut the pieces for a 3-tier skirt, which I would really like to bring to the Hungarian dance camp I'm going to in a few weeks.<br />
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I've also finally finished hemming this blanket, now to find a way to add a little border to it:<br />
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Talking about weaving, I'm almost done my last baby blanket:<br />
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However, I discovered a boo-boo in the warp:<br />
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I don't know if you can see the 10th inch from the right? Yeah, the one that is a yard shorter? I guess we forgot a turn when we did that one. After spending some time being sad at the idea to waste 39 x 1 yard, I decided that I will separate that last yard into 2 narrower pieces. Hopefully it will lead to something, I just don't know what, yet, but it's going to be fun to experiment with colours and patterns!<br />
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The last thing I'm working on is this cute little baby cardigan, for a future Alice who should be with us in a few days:<br />
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It's Matinee jacket, from <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/matinee-jacket-6" target="_blank">Vintage knits for modern babies</a>, in <a href="http://www.berroco.com/yarns/vintage-dk" target="_blank">Berroco Vintage DK breezeway</a>. I love it, it's so classic. Driving down to NY from here helped a lot, as I was able to knit for several hours in a row.<br />
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Lately, I calculated how many people I know who just had a baby and didn't not receive anything from me yet. and how many more are expecting, and I came up with a total of 9. NINE! That's crazy, I just can't keep up with you, friends! I'll have to keep knitting for size 6 to 12 months, so even if I'm done after they arrive, it will still fit them. And I don't really see <b>me </b>getting anything new anytime soon!Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-54178463193868203442014-04-13T11:39:00.000-04:002014-04-13T11:39:09.960-04:00Back to making <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There is more to add to our winter trip: Georgetown, which I loved so much, Singapore, and then Kuala Lumpur, which was everything I had expected when I planned our trip. I'll get back to it, but I also want to write about things I've been making for the past few months.<br />
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On the knitting side, I'm happy. I knitted not only one, but 2 pairs of socks! First pair was knitted in Asia; after trying so many times before, it finally happened, thanks to my new <a href="http://www.knitpicks.com/needles/6_Rainbow_Wood_Double_Pointed_Knitting_Needle_Set__D90307.html" target="_blank">Knit picks rainbow wood DPN.</a> These needles are perfect, not as slippery as metal ones, not as sticky as bamboo needles.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First pair</td></tr>
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Pattern for both pair is <a href="http://www.sweetpaprikadesigns.com/vivace-socks.html" target="_blank">Vivace </a>from Sweet Paprika designs. I'm totally biased, since Elizabeth, one of the owners of that company, is the one who taught me to knit, but I just love how she writes her patterns, this one is very easy to follow for a first pair of socks. And I love the picots! <div>
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Another thing I knitted is a pair of little converse for a baby. Both his parents love sports, so chances are that he will too! Patterns is this: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/converse-baby-booties, but I didn't find it that easy to follow, and I don't know why. I'll have to take a closer look at it before I try it again. </div>
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And I just started Fuse, for the 5th or 6th time? But this time, having experienced socks, DPN don't scare me anymore, and I think that it's going to be ok. </div>
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I've also been sewing. The dress I started last summer became my sewing class project, then was pushed aside while I made a tunic that I brought (and wore almost every day) in Asia. </div>
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But now, I'm almost done with the dress as well. I might even finish it this week; I'm excited that I'll soon be able to wear it, since it will be perfect for spring. And I'm also excited about starting something new! </div>
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I'd like to make myself a skirt and a few tops before I go on vacations at the end of June. </div>
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I'm also done with the 3rd baby blanket. It's off the loom, and I'm working on the hems before I try to add a crochet border. </div>
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Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-15188075804832108302014-03-15T13:09:00.000-04:002014-03-15T13:09:10.227-04:00Time offWe've been back from Asia for well over a month now, and somehow, we already almost forgot that we have been on vacations at all. It feels like it was so long ago, and it has been so busy here since we got back that any rest we got just disappeared in a few days.<br />
This is the first time I get back to the blog, and I just noticed that the pictures from the last post are not showing. I'll try to fix that later today, but before that, I wanted to close the loop on the trip. I'm sad I didn't keep writing as we travelled, but somehow, I just didn't find the time to do it. Maybe we just got too busy.<br />
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So here it is: After Kota Kinebalu, we went to Sandakan, where we quickly went to the Sepilok forest edge resort. Sepilok was an important part of our trip, because that's where the <a href="http://www.orangutan-appeal.org.uk/" target="_blank">Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre</a> is, and not too far from there is also the <a href="http://www.proboscis.cc/the_sanctuary.html" target="_blank">Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuar</a>y, 2 places where we were looking forward to visit, especially that it is by promising my man that we would be going there that I managed to convince him to come along with me in Malaysia.<br />
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We were not disappointed. The resort was wonderful. We saw plenty of apes and monkey in the 2 days we spent on those 2 reserves. The Orangutan centre was in the rain forest, while the Proboscis one was in the mangrove, so we got to see 2 completely different environments. One of the highlights of these few days was to watch an orangutan eat a few doughnuts, clearly not enjoying the chocolate frosting on one of them. The doughnuts were left by an evil tourist (or maybe tour-guide, we think..) who wanted to attract the ape out of the forest so tourists could see them closer. It was so wrong, as the rehabilitation centre is making so much efforts to make them become independent, but it was still awesome to see. <br />
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We also spent a few hours on the Kinabatanagan river cruise, where we got to see more orangutans, proboscis and macaques in their natural environment. We also managed to see a very rare bird (I can't remember the name now, I'll come back to it when my man wakes up!) <br />
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Following those few wonderful days, we had a whole in our schedule, so we spent a few days in Sandakan. It was not really worth it, except for the visit of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Newton_Keith" target="_blank">Agnes Keith's house</a>, an American author who spent the 2nd world war in a Japanese camp near Sandakan and the visit of Sim Sim, a stilt village with an awesome seafood restaurant.<br />
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Following those few days, we left Borneo. But that will be part of another post, as that's already a little bit long, and I want to add pictures.<br />
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<br />Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-55455884301379433442014-01-04T03:57:00.000-05:002014-03-16T18:15:32.303-04:00More of BorneoThe last time I wrote, we were just arriving in a resort in Labuan, where we just spent a few days of doing almost nothing. The beach was not that great to swim in, but I loved the pool. Unfortunately, it was so hot so early in the morning that we both burned and got a mild heat stroke, so we ended up spending a lot of time in our a\c-ed room watching BBC news and bad movies.<br />
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We've also spent a few days in Kota Kinebalu, the capital of the Sabah state. I really liked this town, especially the food!<br />
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Next was Sepilok, land of apes and monkeys! Pictures coming soon!Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-24904332318987657942013-12-28T05:16:00.000-05:002014-03-09T08:44:13.351-04:00BorneoWe arrived in Borneo a few days ago. We first landed in Kuching, the capital of the Sarawak state. We spent a day there, before we left for the <a href="http://www.permairainforest.com/" target="_blank">Permai</a> Rainforest Resort where we spent Christmas. It was awesome. We got to sleep in a tree house, which was very comfortable. There was a beach, there was a pool, there were rainforest trails, and there was a very good restaurant with a special Christmas dinner. We got to see monkeys from our balcony, so one of my goals has been met! One thing about the rainforest is that it rains a lot, and quite often. So we did not spend much time at the beach nor in the forest, but instead decided to go visit the Sarawak cultural village not far from the resort. It was interesting to see how the different tribes of the region used to live. We left Kuching with the intention to come back for a few more days before we go back to Kuala Lumpur, there is a lot more to see around there!<br />
We then headed to Brunei, where the immigration rules (the written ones, at least) scared the hell out of me! But going through customs was not that bad. We had a reservation in a resort in another Malaysian town, which is an hour away from Brunei by ferry. We had thought that we might go back to visit, but we didn't see anything at the airport or on our way to the ferry that inspired us much, so we got a stamp in our passport for 2 hours spent waiting for a ferry. Instead, we have spent the past 2 days doing nothing but enjoy the resort's pool, the room's AC and the wonderful pineapple juice and virgin pina coladas of this resort. We also visited a bird park, and tried to swim in the sea, but the bird park was hot, humid and a little depressing, and the sea was not much fun. We are leaving tomorrow morning, we will take another ferry to Kota Kinebalu.<br />
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<br />Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-20344934840966322412013-12-23T07:23:00.001-05:002013-12-23T07:23:25.687-05:002 days in Kuala LumpurSo, what to say about KL? The 2 words that come to my mind are: hot and overwhelming!<br />
I think that the stress and tiredness of the past few months and of the trip + jetlag + the intense heat and humidity of the city caught up on us, minus the adrenaline of the exotism we felt in China, so we probably did not take advantage of the city as much as we could have.<br />
Moreover, this city is truly overwhelming, it's like landing in 3 countries at once, between Indian, Malaysian and Chinese people. And the contrasts...We've been in the most elegant shopping malls I've ever seen, and in awesome markets that were quite messy (guess what I prefered...). The sounds of the calls for the prayer are followed by the churches' bells, and we can hear Christmas carolls everywhere. I'm happy we'll be back for a few days at the end of our trip, so we'll be able to better explore it.<br />
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We're now in Kuching, Borneo. More pictures to come!<br />
Merry Christmas!Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-84694099351244368402013-12-21T08:15:00.000-05:002013-12-21T08:15:54.157-05:00VacationsI haven't been good at all at writing this semester, at the risk of sounding like a broken record, it was just too busy. But now, all the funding requests are done and submitted, and I'm off for a month. I'm actually writting this from Kuala Lumpur, where my man and I arrived in the middle of the night, after spending 3 days in Shanghai.<br />
This has been a looong trip. We left Monday morning around 9am to take a bus to Montreal, followed by another bus to the airport, then a first plane to Toronto, a second one to Vancouver, and a third one (over 13 hour-long) to Shanghai. Once there, we realised our luggages had not followed, so we just took the high-speed (300km\h) train to town, where we bought a 3-day metro pass, and went to our hotel. We didn't stay in long, because we wanted to get over jetlag quickly. So the first day was spent disovering the Bund and the old town. Here are a few pictures.<br />
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Our luggages showed up at the hotel as we were about to go to bed, how lucky are we? </div>
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The second day we visited the zoo, and the people's square and around. The zoo was a lot of fun, although I spent the day freezing. </div>
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So, my impression of Shanghai after less than 72 hours spent there? It's cleaner, better organised than I expected of a country with so many people. It's very easy to get around, EVERYTHING is in English. And the food is to die for! On the other hand, people kind of don't talk unless they're trying to get you into the famous tea-scam, they push or almost hit you non-stop in the metro and on the street. Nobody seems to be following any circulation rule, and the weirdest thing is that nobody ever says a word about it, as if it's just normal that you almost get hit by a bike/car/bus/scooter, etc. at every single corner. Also, Shanghai is really, really rich, and I just kept thinking about what happens in order regions of the country, and did not feel comfortable about this opulence. Lastly, Facebook and Bloger did not work while we were there. It was a good reminder that despite all the Starbucks, Gap and other North American ways of living, it's still China. So, I'm happy I saw it, but I would not go back. Next post: Kuala Lumpur!!!</div>
Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-78007923946455565072013-11-09T19:43:00.001-05:002013-11-09T19:43:40.588-05:00Dark NovemberWell, it looks like this fall is just going to be crazy until the end. Or at least until December 13, when I finish working for over a month! I haven't been in vacation for more than a month since I was a master's student, over a decade ago. Meanwhile, I am paying for not taking much time off this summer, because I'm just exhausted. But hey, that's one last month to go, and given all the work I have, it should go by very quickly, and I've got lots to look forward to at the end!<br />
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Somehow, despite the running around of the past months,<i> </i>I still managed to do things.<br />
I went apple picking and made apple sauce with a LOT of cinnamon. We made candied salmon and we got a slow cooker that we used a few times.<br />
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But that's it, I have not canned tomatoes, nor made jams as I had started to do in the past years. Too busy, too tired, and still working on our grape jelly and plum and strawberry jams from last year.<br />
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On the weaving side, good news. The blankets have both been sent and received by their new owners, Emoke and Aron. After I finished hemming the blue one, the hem frayed when I washed it, so I had to do it a second time. I decided to hopefully solidify it by adding and extra blanket stitch. The final result looks like this (not super nice, but I was learning):<br />
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I had taken the blankets off the loom before the whole warp was completely woven (I hope to have 2 more blankets on it). I used the 2-stick heading tip from <a href="http://peggyosterkamp.com/weaving-twostick-heading/" target="_blank">Peggy Osterkamp's weaving blog</a>. I re-attached the warp last week, and it looks good, although I have a few things to fix.<br />
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Another thing I did was this (see picture below) with knitting markers, to keep the treads in the right sections as I re-warped the loom. It worked pretty well, and I'm happy I found a use for those markers I never use!<br />
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Knitting is also pretty good. After the last booties, I had time to knit another pair, this time red, for a future baby named Florence.<br />
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<a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/baby-janes-2" target="_blank">This pattern</a> was so easy...but so cute! I knit it in about a week and gave them to the mama this morning. <br />
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Tomorrow is our weekly knitting meeting at the local coffee place. My heart is bursting with pride when I see people who started knitting a few weeks ago finishing scarves (and not any scarf, <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/big-herringbone-cowl" target="_blank">this one!</a>), and starting baby sweaters. As much as I am proud of all these girls who are learning and running with their needles and yarn, as much as I am realizing that I am a bad knitter! It took me so long to finish my first few pieces, and even now, I can't make anything without having to knit it at least twice, if we consider all the mistakes I have to fix as I go...Anyway, I try not to get to depressed by that though, and try to feel better by telling myself that I must be a not-so-bad teacher:-) <br />
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Also in the knitting news, last week I went to Montreal with 2 friends for a yarn shopping day. We visited 3 stores, dropped the blue blanket, and stopped at my favourite Indian restaurant for a yummy lunch. I had just received a <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/vintage-knits-for-modern-babies" target="_blank">new book I ordered with baby patterns</a>, and I bought yarn for a few projects. I'm ready for any other friend who is planning to procreate! I also bought yarn for <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/wayside-lace-cardigan" target="_blank">this project</a>. I can't wait to start it!<br />
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So this is it for now, have a great week!Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-59590685399135426652013-10-14T13:27:00.000-04:002013-10-14T13:27:01.622-04:00Fall Hello,<br />
I think that October is my favourite month of the year. I love the colours, I love the weather that is warm one day, and cooler the next, so we can enjoy long walks outside as well as cozy, homey activities, such as making soups. I didn't realize how much I love October until last year, we were in Transylvania for 2 weeks in October, and it was a chock for me to be away from here.<br />
I missed this:<br />
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Not that Transylvania is not full of trees in the fall, but they become yellow. Not orange, and not red. And I missed that a lot last year.<br />
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However, this year is a busy October, and I'm not taking advantage of it as much as I should. Today is Thanksgiving in Canada, and I've been so busy that I didn't plan anything outside of home for the weekend. I mean, I had plans, but they were not well thought out, and didn't happen. With the big trip coming, I don't mind that much, but for sure next year I want to rent a cottage and spend some time in the forest!<br />
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So, besides my busy work (sending funding proposals and bursary applications all over the place), I've been busy with the wine class (I love it, but I realize how much more there is to learn...), trying to to make it to all my yoga, zumba and pilates classes (not as successful I I would have wished when the semester started), trying to make things (not to bad, considering the little time I have to invest) and cooking things.<br />
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In the making things, I managed to finish these for little Victor, born in the Nederlands last week (a few days early, I must say, so for once, it's not my fault he didn't get them before he arrived!)<br />
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I now need to start a few more baby items (everybody is having babies around me. EVERYBODY!). I also want to start <a href="http://brooklyntweed.net/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_3_18&products_id=98" target="_blank">Fuse </a>, a pattern I bought last year and didn't get around to start yet. This morning, I went to our weekly coffee gathering, and I did the swatch. I think I will like it a lot! And I love the <a href="http://www.knitrowan.com/yarns/rowan-tweed-aran" target="_blank">yarn I bought</a> for it.<br />
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Talking about our coffee gathering, I'm very proud to report that we got a few regular knitters joining almost every week, and that 2 of the new learners have completed, or are very near completion of their first F.O.! I'm just so proud...<br />
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The other thing I finished is the hem of this woven baby blanket. (to see the pattern, it's the picture above).<br />
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I've decided not to add a crochet edge on the blanket. The main reason is that I still don't know how to crochet. The 2nd reason is that I washed the 1st blanket, which shrank significantly. I knew it would, so it's not a problem, but I forgot to do the lace and attach it before I washed the blanket. Bad idea. I feel that by the time I try to figure out how to crochet, and calculate how much of the lace would shrink, etc. I will never send out the blanket. My dilemma was then: do I wait, and potentially never send those thing to the babies, or do I take a big breath, decide that the blankets are already quite nice, and send them so they can actually be used?<br />
I chose option 2, and the 2nd blanket is currently being washed so I can send it out tomorrow.<br />
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I guess I'll be perfect in another life...or with another baby. Meanwhile, I will try to start my next blanket this afternoon, to get back into the weaving mood.<br />
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More news soon! Have a good week!<br />
Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-85144363216274569092013-09-22T21:11:00.001-04:002013-09-22T21:11:48.292-04:00Back to school Although I'm not a student anymore, the "back to school" season is in full swing for me!<br />
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It started with yet another change at work: my supervisor moved from the chiropractic department to the kinetics one and I followed him. My 4th move (and 5th office) in 2½ years...<br />
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Then I started going back to the gym more regularly. Yoga twice a week, pilates and zumba once a week. I don't see any change yet, except that I'm always hungry!<br />
Then I went back to my sewing classes. I'm starting with a pain of pants this year.<br />
Then, with a few friends, we started meeting at a coffee place over the weekend to knit and chat. Fun!<br />
Then I started a wine tasting class with a friend from one of my labs. I like wine, but I don't even know how to express what I like, so hopefully this will change me into a social wine drinker. I really liked my 1st class.<br />
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Meanwhile, some stuff also gets done!<br />
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Like this vest:<br />
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And like these blankets, finally off the loom:<br />
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I also started this, which may travel across the ocean if everything goes according to plans:<br />
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I bought a big bag of carrots, because they were on special, but of course, being 2, there is absolutely no way we can eat them all. So this morning, I took out my big canning pot and made soup. I started with onions, carrots and broth, and then divided the soup and 2 and made a batch of tarragon-cumin-carrot, and another batch of curry-ginger-cumin-carrot. I put them in mason jars, and will freeze them, this way I will have easy lunches to bring with me. I think that making 19 jars cost me less than $10, thanks to the super sales on onions and carrots! <br />
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Otherwise, life is busy but good. I keep celebrating my 40th birthday over and over. Thursday, my man and I went to a local <a href="http://www.kinipi.ca/fr/spa-bains-nordiques-trois-rivieres.aspx" target="_blank">spa</a> for dinner and baths. I used a gift certificate I received from one of my labs last June. It was a wonderful evening, and I finally discovered which is my favourite restaurant in 3R!<br />
Then, on Saturday, <span style="font-family: inherit;">we </span>went to <a href="http://www.magasingenerallebrun.com/" target="_blank">Magasin general Lebrun </a>, an old fashion general store that doubles as a museum and concert hall. I had received tickets for the traditional male a cappella band <a href="http://www.lescharbonniersdelenfer.com/" target="_blank">Les Charbonniers de l'enfer</a> (Hell'<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">charcoal-makers</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">). It was wonderful, and as you can see, we couldn't have been closer to the band! </span></span></span><br />
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The other thing that keeps reminding me of my big 4-0 is that we are busy organizing our big trip! Montreal-Vancouver-Shanghai-Kuala Lumpur-Borneo-Singapour and back! All our planes tickets are bought, and most of our hotels are booked. We are getting our vaccines this week, and then all we'll have to do is to wait for December to arrive! </div>
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Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-22697927712584224452013-09-05T22:18:00.000-04:002013-09-05T22:27:32.754-04:00End of summerThe last few weeks have been all about enjoying the end of the summer. I know summer only ends in a 2 weeks, but there is a frost warning tonight in 3R, and I have been sleeping with my fleece nightgown and socks for the past few nights (that's the price to pay to sleep with open windows as late as possible!)<br />
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So, first, Santa Fe. </div>
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It was awesome, and weird, because so...exotic. I travel quite regularly, but this was not a place I expected to go one day. That's probably why I just said yes enthusiastically when my friend invited me to join her and a few other ladies to spend a week there; my past experience taught me that I always enjoy going to places that were not on my bucket list, since I have no expectation whatsoever. </div>
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And I was not disappointed. I spent week in the desert, staying in a charming adobe, visiting Navajo pueblos, drinking margaritas, enjoying the most wonderful food and shopping for silver and turquoise jewelries. I felt very far from my dear Transylvania and all its trees! The colours, the smells, the landscape, everything was so different, while being so North American. </div>
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Since I came back, we got to go a nice baptism, and then this weekend was the moment I wait for all year long: camping at Lac Clair. </div>
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Lac Clair holds a very special place in my heart. Five years ago, I was invited to spend a weekend there by one of my good friends, the same guy who, a few months later, became my man. We have been going back every year since, and each single time, the magic of that place calms me down as soon as we get there. This is one of the only place on earth where my billion lists don't follow me...as much. </div>
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This year we rented a freshly renovated tiny cabin. We went to bed at around 8:30 pm, and I slept like a baby until my man woke up at 4am to restart the fire. I decided to go out and spent about 15 minutes just staring at the moon and the stars, before I went back to bed. </div>
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Somehow, I haven't had insomnia for the first time since Christmas since. I'm crossing my fingers it will last, and I'm hoping we can go back before the end of the season...</div>
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In other news, I have 5 inches left on the woven blanket, the greylina you see being blocked on the picture is only missing its button band, and awesome news, a few students from one of my research lab decided they needed something to do during their break at the hospital (they're nurses), so they decided to learn how to knit. We got together last Monday in a coffee shop, with a few other friends, and spent a few very pleasant hours together. We are doing it again this Saturday morning, I can't wait! </div>
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Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-19016068910357969202013-08-07T20:18:00.000-04:002013-08-07T20:18:24.330-04:00Another thing to cross off my list(s)!Short post to say that 26 months after starting it, I finally wore my funky skirt at work today.<br />
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What I really like about this skirt (besides the fact that I was able to save it from a terrible disaster) is that because I cut it all wrong over 2 years ago, I didn't have enough fabric to redo the lining of the belt, so I bought some green fabric, which I had enough of to also line the hem. It adds a cute touch, I find, and even better, in a town that is so windy, I didn't have to hold my skirt down once all day! The Hungarian dancer in me can't wait to wear it to dance and spin!<br />
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My man is not at all convinced by that fabric, but I really find it funny. And it matches with everything! A perfect travel skirt for next week!<br />
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Talking about travels, I better go and start packing. Talk to you soon!Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-50701236391156163752013-08-03T13:54:00.000-04:002013-08-03T13:54:10.671-04:00Lazy, busy summerAlmost a month since I wrote last. I didn't have much to write about anything crafty, now that my blouse is done. I actually wore it for the first time yesterday, because we've had heatwaves that prevented me from wearing anything with sleeves before that. I'm still amazed that it fits so well, although I noticed it is a bit big on me...I don't think I lost any weight, I think the fabric stretches easily. oh well.<br />
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I've been busy in the past few weeks enjoying summer and going places.<br />
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Early July, I went to a family reunion, where I saw a few of my many, many cousins. My mother was the youngest of 10 kids, and they all had several kids themselves. My mum being over 70, it means that at 40, I'm one of the youngest of my cousins, and it also means that many of them are already grand-parents. There was a lot of people, at least 4 generations, if not more, at that family gathering. AND it was only a small portion of the entire family.<br />
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To be honest, I didn't recognize half of the people, but it was nice to meet them all once again! Some I had not seen in many, many years. And thanks to Facebook, I hope we will stay in touch this time.<br />
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We've also been enjoying summer by going out a lot.<br />
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And I've been enjoying rediscovering Montreal with some friends...<br />
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I've also had a little bit of time for sewing.<br />
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You may recall that I had started this skirt a few years ago:(<a href="http://genyin3r.blogspot.ca/2011/06/sewing.html">http://genyin3r.blogspot.ca/2011/06/sewing.html</a>) I had bought fabric and the pattern thinking I could figure it out. I cut the pieces (without measuring anything nor thinking that maybe, the sizes on patterns have nothing to do with the clothes sold in stores). Resulted a major panic and an almost depression, and everything went back in a bag and was almost forgotten until it was moved into the new house. I decided to take a look at it, wondering if my sewing courses could help save this catastrophe. Well...I had re-cut the belt, and had to buy extra fabric for the lining, but I think that it will be wearable once the hem is done. I will not show it to my sewing teacher, because I did not do things very well, but again, it will be wearable, which is a lot more than what I expected when I took it out of the bag a few weeks ago.<br />
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I also knitted a bit, although it doesn't show much. I actually frogged (rip-it, rip-it) what I had done for the front, and started it again, because there was a very visible mistake right at the beginning. It looks much better now, so I'm happy I did that. I'll be flying across America next week, so I'm hoping I can maybe finish it by the time I come back!<br />
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I am not able to weave right now, because I ran out of blue yarn, and that's where I'm at in the baby blanket. I ordered some more, but the place I buy it from is closed for a few weeks for vacations. Hopefully it means that I will have received it when I come back from my own vacations. That will leave me 5 days to finish it if I want to give it to Emöke, the baby it is intended for, on her baptism. I don't think that would be too difficult, except that I have to learn to cut it off from my warp, and learn to crochet to make a border. I really want to be positive, but I'm having doubts...the only thing that can save me is that the baptism is about 4 hours away from 3R, so if I get to learn on time, I'll have an extra few hours in the car for the borders. The smart thing to do would be to learn to crochet while I wait for the yarn to be delivered...hum, that could work...Since I'm not 100% sure of the final size of the blanket once it is going to be washed, I can't actually crochet the lase and hope to sew it later. But I still can learn. Pinterest, save me!!!<br />
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And despite the heavy rains, and crazy heatwave, we have a little bit of a garden:<br />
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Next week, I'm leaving for Santa Fe. I'll be there for a week. There is a big <a href="http://swaia.org/Indian_Market/Indian_Market_2013_Dates_and_FAQs/" target="_blank">Indian market</a>, and I'm going to meet my friend from Lillooet who I haven't seen in over a year. That's going to be fun! I don't have any plans, except for resting and shopping, so I should not be disappointed!<br />
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We also started to plan our big trip to Malaysia. It looks like we will stop for 3 days in Shanghai on our way there, and we will also probably spend much of our time in Borneo. It's starting to be really, really exciting!<br />
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Have a good week, I'll take a lot of pictures in Santa Fe! And hopefully, there will be lot of weaving happening!<br />
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After a few weeks of running around - well, I never <i>really </i>stop running around, but we had a guest researcher at work whom I entertained a lot in the past few weeks, so it meant a lot of going out, restaurants, diners, concerts, festivals, eating too much, going to bed late, drinking alcohol every night and not sleeping enough - so, after all <b>that </b>running around, and with the researcher gone back home on Tuesday morning, I had a little time to myself to do things. </div>
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Things like weaving for Emöke:<br />
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(Don't worry, nothing weird grew on my chin over night, it't just that our mirror, being from the 60s, is stained.)</div>
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I can't, can't believe I finished my blouse! It's so wonderful to put it on, and that it fits! I'm so not used to it! </div>
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So this morning, I was very happy to cross that off my several lists. </div>
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Yeah, I have several lists. Almost like a list of lists. </div>
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1. First, I have my little notebook. It seems to be a very mysterious thing for people around me, who keep asking me what I write in it. I started to carry a notebook on me over 10 years ago, when I spent my summer in Europe a few years in a row. It was so convenient to have it to note the train schedule, coordinates of people we met, things we saw or heard about as people kept suggesting what to visit, recipes and even things to remember do when I get home. I still always has one on me, and over the years, I developed strict criteria of what a perfect notebook should be like: plastic cover, so it lasts for a long time in the bottom of my bags, spiral binding, so it's easy to tear out pages when needed, and the right size so it doesn't take too much room, but you still can write enough on it. In that note book, I have, on the first page, the schedule of buses between 3R and Montreal; at the end of it, I have a list of random things I would like to do eventually (having it at the end of the notebook means I can add items indefinitely). And in the notebook, I have several lists: what I have to do this week, things I would like to do to the house (room by room), knitting patterns, grocery lists, etc. </div>
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Over the years, several people have questioned me about this notebook. They like to open it, and look at my lists as if it was a secret code, or as if they expected to find out I'm a famous poet writing under a pseudonym or something, and they are usually disappointed by my weekly menus, shopping lists, website addresses and ideas for next year's garden. The blouse was in both "to be done eventually" and "to be tackled this week" (for a few weeks in a row) lists. </div>
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2. Second, I have a craft notebook. Once in a while, I receive notebooks as presents from people who want to make sure they really understood my <strike>somewhat obsessive</strike> standards, and be part of that mysterious thing I do.This is actually one of those, and, as it didn't fit any of the above-mentioned criteria, I just could not use it as my next lists notebook. But it was cute, with a matriochka on the cover, and I still wanted to use it...so I transformed it into a "craft database", with lists of what I would like to knit, sew, weave and crochet (whenever I learn) in priority (because, with Pinterest, it's easy to get carried away, n'est-ce pas?). I also added a list of fabric I have, so I know what I can do with what I have. I was hoping it would stop me from buying more fabric. </div>
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Except that it doesn't work so far, because I just spend my last weekend buying a ton of material. </div>
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I have a problem. I know.</div>
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If at least, being over-organised on paper meant I was organised in real life. But not. Or at least, it takes me a looong time to find the perfect settings that will lead me to actually do something concrete. </div>
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Every time I go downstairs, I see this, take a deep breath, roll my eyes, and go watch tv. Sometimes, I try to move a few things around, but that never last for long, and never give much result. I just din't know where to put all my stuff. Until last week, when I did this: </div>
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Anyway, further house organisation will have to wait a bit, this weekend I'm going away to a family reunion, and I'm helping organize the last km of a race between Toronto and 3R (I'm very good at organizing things for others...) </div>
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Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-51030317512998663632013-07-05T16:31:00.001-04:002013-07-05T16:31:25.685-04:00Last post, part 2I just realized last night that over half of my last post did not appear when I pressed published...I never intended to write only about how I felt about my new age...there is way more to say about everything else I'm trying to make these days!<br />
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The last words of the last post were: I started...so although I lost my text, let's try to get back to what I was saying...<br />
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I started sewing a new dress with my friend from the farmers and the bus. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/34967485@N07/7609969994/" target="_blank">This is the pattern</a>, and this is the fabric, bought in Paris:<br />
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It's a bit thick and stiff, so I'm a bit worried about the final result, but I think it's cuuuute!<br />
Of course, we had to modify the pattern quite a bit to fit me. Thank god for my friend who does have a strong spatial intelligence, because I would never have been able to do it by myself, although we used a technique found in <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Fit-Real-People-Clothes-Pattern/dp/0935278656" target="_blank">this book</a>, which I find much easier than what I did in my sewing class with my blouse.<br />
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In other news:<br />
- I'm very proud and happy to say that my man has finished his Master's classes. There is an essay left, but no more weekends in Québec City, nor group papers to write for him! Hurrah!<br />
- The baby I knitted booties for a few weeks ago is here! We visited her and her parents last weekend, and she is sooo cute and tiny and perfect...<br />
- This weekend, my man and I are going to the <a href="http://www.mondialdescultures.com/en-CA/home" target="_blank">festival </a>where we met 9 years ago. I am not volunteering this year, but he is, although not full time. I was not going to go, in case he was called and I had to spend the weekend by myself, until I heard that one of my good friends from Toronto, who I never get to see, is also going as a musician. Add that to the fact that I know a lot of the other volunteers, and ha, just like that, I booked a nice hotel room (how classy! we always slept in very small bunk beds with a lot of people in a gym as volunteers!), and we are going there as tourists to party with our friends! Moreover, some other friends wanted to go to the same city on Saturday morning to go shopping for fabric. How perfect is this going to be? ah, being 40 and being able to do that is nice, after all! :-)<br />
There were maybe other news in the post that didn't get posted, but I can't remember what they were.<br />
Have a great weekend!<br />
<br />Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-90644240279173459762013-07-03T21:10:00.000-04:002013-07-03T21:10:57.242-04:0040A lot and yet not much has happened since the last time I wrote.<br />
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The most memorable event is that I turned 40 last weekend. I was very lucky, and my birthday was celebrated several times. First with my colleagues, who managed to integrate a special celebration into a party I organised for our research group. What was the funniest is that I actually got paid to organize my own surprise party during my work hours...<br />
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I also got to party a bit with my Hungarian friends in Montreal at a concert with live musicians from Budapest, and with my family.<br />
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I have to say that I'm not really enjoying being that age. A part of me is very happy to finally being comfortable and have a great quality of life. But another big part of me doesn't like being so comfortable, and misses the very fun life I had in my 20s, when I travelled with my big backpack all the time, and was always busy organizing things right and left. I don't think I have the energy to get back to that kind of life (especially the part where I had to check my bank account every day to make sure I had enough money to pay for my rent and all those plane tickets!) but I don't think I do quiet well. I was asked to make a wish before I blew my candles, and I could not think of anything that I really wish. That might be my problem.<br />
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Anyway, that's it about this age. Back to more fun things, such as:<br />
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My blouse is almost ready. I have a few buttons to add, and one last hem, and I can wear it. I discovered that although I love hand sewing, I hate sewing buttons. They never end where they are supposed to. Anyway, after all that work, it is not a few buttons that will get in my way...<br />
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<br />Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-53279449692233498152013-06-08T21:03:00.000-04:002013-06-08T21:03:25.444-04:00Hand sewingMore and more, I realize that I love to sew by hand. This week I got to test that love by spending a lot of time working on the cuffs of my blouse and other projects. I still love it. It makes me zen. <div>
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First thing I worked on is a dress I bought in Paris (woah, that sounds good, no? I bought it in Paris...)</div>
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Anyway, of course, when I bought it, it did not fit me too well, as it happens with most of my clothes. It fit me just enough for me to buy it and hope that now that I am taking sewing lessons, I might adjust it. </div>
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In the past, I just bought a lot of safety pins to fix my clothes. I even found some black ones in Slovakia (I bought a lot of them!), which are now scattered all over my clothes, mostly on my blouses, trying to keep "the" gap closed. </div>
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Anyway, I had a lot of hope, but was still pretty realistic about if and when I might actually fix it this time, and was already looking for safety pins when I got invited to a baptism, and asked to wear something with flowers. This is what I needed to get into action. Safety pins are good for work clothes, but a baptism? I should really try to get a real way to get that dress to hold on me! (yeah, I just made up that rule). </div>
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So last week, I brought the dress to my sewing class and asked my teacher what to do. My problem is always the same: Big breast, no shoulder, big gaps in between both. </div>
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Now, let's just hope it is not too cold to wear it tomorrow. I'll try to take pictures with me wearing it.<br />
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The other hand sewing I did this week is on my never-ending blouse...I had to fix part of the cuff before going further, and I managed to do it watching TV Friday afternoon (one of my awesome boss told me to go home early, because I had a difficult week at work...).<br />
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And this is what it looks like now...I went to another 2½ hour class today, and still didn't manage to finish it...I'll go back on Monday evening, hopefully for the last time until I start again in September. I love my sewing class, but I'm looking forward to start my next project!<br />
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There was also a little bit of knitting in my past few weeks. You remember how I totally s<a href="http://genyin3r.blogspot.ca/2013/04/in-need-of-vacations.html" target="_blank">crew up a pair of booties I made for a friend?</a> Well, I finally made 2 pairs.<br />
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Pair #1 was given last week to Aron, who is getting baptized tomorrow, and who, in this picture, is proudly sitting on the blanket <a href="http://genyin3r.blogspot.ca/2010/12/new-year.html" target="_blank">knitted for his older brother</a>. <br />
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Pair # 2 will be given tomorrow to a baby who is due Monday...<br />
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I think it is the first time I will manage to give a baby present before the birth! I'm so excited! And with the weather we have been having in the past month, I know both babies will be needing them, which makes me even happier. I love contributing to keep babies comfortable and warm. Now, I just have to get back to my loom for them to have blankets as well...<br />
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PS: lost knitting looks like it is definitively lost. With some yarn, a set of Denise interchangeable needles, my sewing needles and my camera charger. I think I'm getting over it...I will try not to mention in my my next post...</div>
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Paris was amazing, my aunts were amazing, the apartment, 5 minutes away from the Seine and the Eiffel Tower, was amazing, the bread, the cheese (oh, the Roquefort!), the wine, <b>the free time</b>, the shopping, it was all amazing.<br />
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I'll write more about the shopping next time...<br />
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Meanwhile, I've been back for a little while now, and the housewarming party was last weekend. We calculated that 93 people (70 adults, 23 children) showed up. I still can't believe it, it was pretty awesome, although I didn't have the time to sit down, or chat, or even eat. I spent my day saying: Hi!! so happy you could make it! Yes, just put the food on the table, and please find a chair...<br />
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It's also been busy at work, with a BIG proposal due very soon, and a translation contract I got right before leaving for Paris. Add all the final unpacking of boxes before the party, and last night was the first night I could sit at my loom in a long time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not my loom, but the last room to be ready, our office!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I asked my friend what colour she liked, and she said she liked them all...so here is the first part of her baby blanket, with all the colours I have! I love the pattern! (although I obviously made a mistake in the first red part...)</td></tr>
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I didn't touch my sewing since the last time I wrote, although I now have enough books, fabric, buttons and ribbons to make myself a whole wardrobe, but that will be the topic of my next post.<br />
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I didn't get to knit much either, so I'll work on something for another a later post as well. But I still didn't find the knitting a lost a few weeks ago. And I'm convinced that for some odd reason, my camera charger was in that same bag. (I went to buy an emergency one 10 minutes before the store closed the day before I left for Paris).<br />
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Anyway, good night! I decided to go to bed early tonight, for the first time since I got back from vacations (yeah, a need more vacations now...)<br />
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<br />Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-69671163408432472162013-04-28T08:36:00.000-04:002013-04-28T08:36:04.533-04:00Going to Paris in 5-4-3-2...1 day before I'm off to Paris!<br />
I have so much to do before I leave that I won't write much, except to say that:<br />
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<li>Last weekend was spent in Montreal eating and partying with friends and at the airport picking up a famous epidemiologist. I spent the week driving her around the city, taking her to restaurants at night, explaining her how things worked in the department and research group, even having her here for our first BBQ of the year. It was awesome, she was so interesting, an intellectual like I like them, who can have a discussion about anything, because she can find something interesting in anything. I'm very happy I got to spend so much time with her, it was a very intense intellectual stimulation, even if it meant not to be home one single evening. </li>
<li>I have 10 inches left on 1st woven baby blanket, hoping to start blanket #2 today. Now I have to learn how to crochet the edges. </li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">36 inches done, 4 more to go! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I really like the pattern, I can't wait to see what it will look like when I wash it.</td></tr>
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<li> I still didn't find the knitting I lost 2 weeks ago. That included a set of Denise interchangeable needles, yarn, and other stuff (I can't remember what else was in the bag). It is very frustrating, because it was almost, almost finished. </li>
<li>My blouse is also starting to look more and more like a blouse. I'm really hoping to finish it before the end of the sewing semester (early June). </li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Can't believe I know how to make collars! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I will totally wear that, one day! I can picture it with my jeans skirt.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Still can believe I can make collars!!!:-) </td></tr>
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<li>I went to a weaving class last weekend. The highlight of the day was to meet 2 new expats from Montreal in 3R. The other highlight was that I was feeling comfortable around all the looms. I think I'm slowly becoming a weaver. </li>
<li>Other highlight of the past few weeks: I started to take the bus with a girl I met in the farmers' circle, and discovered that we have a lot of common interests. Well, that shouldn't come as a surprise, since we both belong to the same craft circle. But we also share the fact that we follow sewing and knitting patterns in English (oh, being able to talk to someone without having to check/translate every single word I say...), we both want to learn the complete way (no short cut that our fellow farmers like so much), we like to make our own clothes, and we like vintage sewing patterns. We discussed the possibility to have a sew-along this summer, because we both want to make <a href="http://www.blogforbettersewing.com/2013/01/california-adventure.html" target="_blank">Gertie's shirtwaist dress</a>. I think that after having sewn 2 skirt and 1 blouse, I can tackle this project, especially with the help of someone with much more experience than me :-). </li>
<li>My man decided to organize our housewarming party (a year after we got the house) on May 18. Those who know me and are not on Facebook, consider yourself invited. We will try to get the house ready on time...and have enough alcohol so you can't see what is not finished. </li>
<li>Oh my, I'm leaving for Paris tomorrow, and I have nothing ready, except for my passport, plane ticket, a few euros from previous trips and list of stores to visit. I don't even have my aunt's address. I didn't even talked to her about the trip yet, her sister (who I am travelling with) organized everything. I hope she knows I'm coming. Those who know me know that this is not normal. However, I'm hoping that this will mean real vacations. I have a friend who went to Paris last week, and on his Facebook status, he mentioned that he had to wait several hours on a Tuesday morning to visit the catacombes. This is now the only thing that is on my list as NOT to visit. </li>
<li>I have 24 hours to find my camera battery charger. It is probably somewhere with my knitting :-( </li>
<li>Ok, there is one other thing that is <b>almost </b>organized for that trip, and it is what knitting I'll bring. I decided on Graylina, except in a red that will match my blouse. I just need to find needles to do the ribbing, since the ones I need are on the lost knitting. </li>
<li>I might have forgotten to tell you that a few weeks ago, my man invited out to lunch, and asked me if I really, really wanted to go to Malaysia for my big 4-0 this year. He was not too warm to the idea, but had to give his vacations dates at work, so a decision had to be made. Final verdict: we are going to Malaysia for 4 weeks over the Christmas holidays! I can't wait, I am so excited. </li>
<li>Meanwhile I also bought tickets to Santa Fe in August, where I will spend a week with my friend from Lilloet and a few of her friends. </li>
<li>Life is good, very good. </li>
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Talk to you soon about Paris! Have a good week!Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-90674700094590238382013-04-12T18:44:00.001-04:002013-04-12T18:44:43.407-04:00In need of vacationsWell, first thing I want to say is that life is good again! After a very intensive week training the person who replaced me at the university chiropractic clinic, I'm now finally back in my quiet research jobs. It's still 2 jobs, and it is still not permanent, but at least, it's only 2 jobs with 1-year contracts, the longest I've had in a few years (including the last jobs I had in Montreal). It makes such a difference, although I still need to rest from the 4 last months' craziness. I don't seem to be able to get that at home. I just look around and get depressed about the house and everything I should be doing in it. But then I have no energy to do it. So I get more depressed.<br />
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The knitting, sewing and weaving also suffered from this lethargy.<br />
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For example, I knit those<a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/blue-jeans-booties" target="_blank"> baby booties</a> at the speed of the light, because I wanted a friend to bring them in Hungary at the end of March to give to a friend who is expecting. But something went very wrong..I did not notice anything before I almost gave them to him. The plan is now to knit a 2nd one for each of them. While in vacations.<br />
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I also started a little <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/baby-sachiko-kimono-sweater" target="_blank">kimono </a>for another friend who was expecting (she had a beautiful baby boy last weekend). It's an easy knit, which I keep fixing, because I seem to have forgotten how to read instructions. Or that there are instructions to be read. I don't have a picture here because I can't find the bag in which it is. Vacations, vacations...please come soon!<br />
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I missed about 3 sewing classes in the past month, between Washington and a meeting. So when I went back this week, I was wayyy behind everybody else, although one of the things I love about this course is that everybody can go at their own rhythm. The other excuse I have for being behind is that I had to do everything twice so far, mostly because we had to modify the pattern to fit me after the first try, but also because I can't seem to be able to sew straight anymore. I have to admit that I am a little bit happy that we had to modify the pattern, because I have been complaining my whole life that nothing fits on my unexistant shoulders, and this seemed to have proven my point.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looks more like a pyjama than a blouse, I know</td></tr>
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Did I show you my beautiful fabric, and the beautiful buttons I found to go with it?<br />
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I can't wait to wear it, and I feel I should knit something to go with it. I'm thinking about <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/angostura" target="_blank">this</a> or <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/graylina" target="_blank">this</a>. What do you think?<br />
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The good news of the week is that after about a month, I finished warping my loom, and started to weave a little bit.<br />
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It's a baby blanket for the baby that was born last weekend. I better hurry if I want him to get it before he enters kindergarten! It's a beautiful pattern, easy to follow, but I still need calm and quiet so I don't get confused between the treadling. Can you see the mistake I made already? The problem is that in our new house, the loom is facing the TV. So I got totally distracted when my man started watching it while I was weaving. I will try to weave with ear plugs, so see if it makes a difference, but it is something I already wrote down as having to change when we redo the basement.<br />
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So, really, I need vacations. I can't keep working like this, one stitch/one mistake.<br />
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The only thing that can help is a little trip, and I am looking forward to Paris a lot! I think that the fact that it was not planned, nor even part of my bucket list makes it even more exciting. I mean, of course, I'm happy to go to Paris for a week, but it is not in my top destinations, so I have no expectation, and no plan, except for having a "café-crème", and a glass of good wine. <br />
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Well, of course, I started to make a list of interesting stores to visit. Most of the addresses I found <a href="http://larrosoir.canalblog.com/archives/2009/02/03/12231317.html" target="_blank">here</a>. I looked around, and most stores seem to still be open (the post is from 2009).<br />
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But there are still 17 days before I leave...Hopefully that means about 40 inches of baby blanket, but I suspect it will be 17 days of mistakes. Until then, I'm going to go play in the snow, because, yes, of course, we are getting 5 to 10 cm of snow today. It's a very wintery spring, this year. Meanwhile, in Paris, they are expecting 23 degrees this weekend. Imagine in 17 days! Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-27056929101644976802013-03-23T08:53:00.003-04:002013-03-23T08:54:28.516-04:00Back to winter wonderlandI spoke too quickly, of course; we got an extra 20 cm of snow this week, bringing us back to winter. But of course, we, being used to Canadian winters, know all about this annual mid-March storm, which bring big heavy flakes of wet snow: it's the last storm that brings an eventual spring...I'm happy to have a little bit of white covering the ugly grey of our early spring.<br />
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The only thing is that this year, I had already experienced a little bit of real spring, by spending a few days in Washington last week, where I presented at the <a href="http://www.chirocolleges.org/accrac/" target="_blank">ACC-RAC</a>.<br />
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The presentation went very well, and my team wan 2 prizes out of 9. I was very proud of our postdoctoral and PhD students who wan. It was also fun to meet authors I heard about over and over in the past 2 years I've been working with this research team.I managed to wear something I made (and to take a picture of it...)<br />
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Being there for work, there was not too much time to visit, so we carefully prepared our itinerary for the one day off we had.<br />
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We ended up spending half a day visiting all the main monuments<br />
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And then spent the second half of that day visiting the Smithsonian museums. I was there with my man and 3 male students, a chiropractor, a kinesiologist, and an engineer. The guys decided to visit the museum of Natural History to see the dinosaurs, and I decided to visit the <a href="http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions" target="_blank">Museum of American History</a>.<br />
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It was awesome. I had time to see everything, from the different wars that USA participated in to Michelle Obama's inaugural gown. There was a lot about American pop culture, with Kermit the frog, Dorothy's ruby slippers and Julia Child's kitchen.<br />
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Washington was also great for its wonderful food: we had awesome Mexican, Ethiopian and Turkish food! Nothing that can be found in 3R!<br />
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And I had a little time to knit..waiting for the plane on the way back. I also managed to go to a yarn store near our hotel, but I didn't have much time to shop, because my boss was with me. I ended up buying the cutest buttons ever. I'll take a picture for the next entry.<br />
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Then I came back to work. I was supposed to go back working full time as a research clerk (not sure at all of the translation...), but somehow, because of a few misunderstandings, I still worked 4 jobs this week. But Monday morning, my replacement is supposed to show up at the clinic, and April 1 should be when I go back to a quiet. life of only 2 jobs. Just in time to start preparing for my next trip: a week in Paris with my 2 aunts, who are both 80 and over, but incredibly active, curious and interested in everything (just the way I hope to be at their age). I think it's going to be a lot of fun!!!<br />
More details in the next entry. Have a great week!Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-91438733941293145492013-03-09T14:17:00.000-05:002013-03-09T14:17:31.836-05:00First FO of the yearThe end of February has been snowy here. We got a lot of snow for several days in a row, non stop. It was beautiful. And now, 2 weeks later, BANG! I woke up this morning and it is spring. Temperatures are over 0, the sun is out early (although we change the time tonight), the birds are back, and there is a constant sound of water, because of all the snow that is melting. It feels very feng shui.<br />
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Crafty news...<br />
This week, I finally, finally finished my <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Genyke/folded" target="_blank">folded</a>. By the time I finished it, I just wanted to throw it out of the window, and set it on fire :-(<br />
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Everything went so well, including the sleeves with DPN and including the folding, so I was not ready for the nastiness of the collar. Everything that could happen happened. I redid it about 14 times. I blame myself, for making stupid mistakes and thinking that from one row to the other, I could remember how to start a short row with a YO (not!). But there is something in that yarn, mixed with needles, that just drove me nuts in the last few hours I spent on that sweater. Somehow, it was as if the needles were so big, they made everything so loose, and it created wholes. At the end, I didn't know if they were actual wholes or loose stitches and I kept trying to fix things that were maybe not wrong. I ended up deciding that that would be it, because even if I wanted to undo some rows to start the collar again, I had no idea where I would have had to start from. I tried it on several times (even while I knitted it, which I think contributed to the loosening of the stitches) and it was ok. The I tried to block it. Oh my. As soon as I took it out of the water, I knew there was something wrong. I felt the whole thing stretching, and I as I was placing it to block, I was not able to put in into place.<br />
So here is the result (it's not as bad as I expected, but still...):<br />
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All the shape at the waist has disappeared. The collar fits because I redid the BO 3 or 4 times until it was tight enough. I also knitted only 3/4 of the rows I was supposed to after the folds. Anyway, it's wearable, and it's a nice casual sweater, but I think that if I was to knit it again, I would just do it one size smaller.<br />
This week, I went back to familiar baby patterns, so the next few weeks should be easier in terms of knitting for me.<br />
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In the past few weeks, I also worked a little bit on my next sewing project in my sewing class, but there too, the results are not convincing. I cut the pattern and the fabric, and started to assembly it, but I had to undo everything I did because the pattern had to be modified to make the shoulders smaller. The crafty life of a pear-shaped woman is not easy!<br />
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However, something that is going well is weaving.<br />
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Last week I practiced finishing techniques.<br />
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And I started to warp my loom for baby blankets, with the help of a lady I met in my weaving class a few weeks ago. So far, so good. I can't start to weave the patterns I chose!<br />
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The rest of my life is good. I bought Valerian and used it for about a week, and it helped a lot going through the nigh without having insomnia. This week, I woke up only a few times, and last night I had a wonderful 7 hours of sleep in a row. Digestion problems are also going away. I know everything is getting better because my work situation is getting better, and that both are linked. I practised the presentation I'll be giving next week in Washington, and instantly felt so much calmer. The very frustrating thing is to know what causes all the health problems, and yet not being able to control them. My work situation should improve again when I come back from the conference next week, so let's see if I get my energy back then.<br />
Have a good week!<br />
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<br />Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-60823664751695676562013-02-18T21:03:00.001-05:002013-02-18T21:03:45.485-05:00Getting closer to the baby blanketsI'm just coming back from my weaving yarn shopping expedition. I don't know if the blankets will be well woven, but they will be nice colours!<br />
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I took today off from work, thanks to the the days of overtime I accumulated, because I spent the weekend at a Hungarian folk dance camp with a lot of my friends, and I knew I would have trouble waking up this morning. I spent a good part of the weekend celebrating that I quit one of my jobs on Friday. Life will get back to normal soon! Meanwhile, I didn't get insomnia since Friday. It may be due to the fact that I partied a lot on Friday and Saturday night, and that I went to bed at 4 am on Saturday night/Sunday morning, but I have been able to sleep all day on Saturday in a cabin shared with a bunch of people, and I did not wake up once last night. I know it is all psychological and due to the stress and exhaustion, and it is so frustrating that even if I know it, it doesn't stop! Let's see if knowing I will finish contract #4 soon will change something, or if I need more tequila shots to sleep all night!<br />
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I did wear my new skirt at Saturday night's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A1nch%C3%A1z" target="_blank">tanchaz</a>, but didn't get the chance to take nice pictures. I only threw my camera at my man when someone asked me to dance and asked him to take a few pictures.<br />
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So here they are. That's all I have. I guess we'll have to wait for spring to get more, because that skirt is made of cotton and I can't wear it in this weather...I'm very happy with it. And it was great that some people who follow the blog recognized it when I arrived at tanchaz!<br />
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Going to Montreal means that I saw my friend and knitting mentor <a href="http://www.sweetpaprikadesigns.com/about.html" target="_blank">Elizabeth</a>, so I got to work a little bit on my <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Genyke/folded" target="_blank">folded</a>. I found a mistake in the pattern (a missing word), but besides a little moment of panic because I didn't know what to do, I think it is coming along nicely. I'm doing the raglan and decreasing for the neck, and I have a few stitches to graft to attach the sleeves. So I probably have one or 2 weeks'worth of bus rides left to work on it. <br />
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This is it for this week's updates. I have great weaving plans (including warping my loom, and travelling far away from 3R to discuss weaving with an expert) for next week, but I'll write more about them when they are confirmed. Have a great week! I'm going to bed, even if it is not even 9 yet...<br />
<br />Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671806754200549814.post-11311934710163933012013-02-10T13:08:00.000-05:002013-02-10T13:08:14.160-05:00Past few weeksTime is flying by, but at least this time, I have things to say about the past few weeks.<br />
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There has been mostly a lot of work. How I do that, I don't know, but I always get myself in this kind of situation (I think the answer is that I don't know how to say no, and I'm kind of addicted to the feeling of being useful...I have to work on that...) Anyway, I'm still working 3 contracts, with 4 supervisors, 7 employees that report to me, about 88 undergrad students and 15 grad students with a lot of questions about a lot of things calling, writing to me, and knocking at my door. On top of that, I'm going to present the result of a small research project in Washington next month, and I did not start the presentation. Not surprisingly, the quality of my work, my interest in it, and my whole health are suffering. I've started to have insomnia, waking up in the middle of the night thinking about what I forgot to do, and I'm at the point where I don't digest anything - a-ny-thing. This week, supervisor #3 asked me if I could do more days for him, and I almost had a panic attack. I had to put a break on a few things that I was doing outside of work and that brought more deadlines and stress. That is already making a huge difference. Fortunately, my situation at work is known, and changes should come soon. I'm just looking forward to see what "soon" means...<br />
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Meanwhile, some fun things have happened too!<br />
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The office is starting to look like an office<br />
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There has been a Sunday at a kite festival.<br />
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There was a weekend in Montreal, with a brunch, a haircut at my favourite salon, knitting and Indian food with good friends, traditional dance and music concert, late chat with my parents, and my aunt's 80th birthday brunch, with a lot of champagne! (Too busy, I did not have the time to take any picture).<br />
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There is a second almost finished skirt (the plan is to wear it next Saturday night!)<br />
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And Friday and yesterday, there has been a wonderful weaving class.<br />
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It was given by the weaving guild of a town not far from 3R. I went as much to distract myself from work than to learn something, because I have big plans to meet someone who I think will be able to teach me a lot and answer all my questions in a few weeks. But I had left my name to that guild a few months ago, and when the lady called me back last week, I decided it was an excellent way to take some of the overtime hours I did over the past weeks, without staying home alone, which would have led me to do laundry and stress over things that are not done in the house.<br />
So I rented a car and went. We were 3 students, including a very funny 79 year old lady. I learned a lot of stuff that I didn't know I needed to know in order to plan my weaving projects. I'm now able to plan everything down to the exact price of the pieces I will weave. It was also a good time for me to learn this, after I actually warped my loom once, and woven a few things. Tonight, I'm planning to apply what I learned to a present I want to weave for 2 of my expecting friends, and the teacher has agreed that if I do all the planning and send her a copy of it, she will correct it before I go buy my yarn next week. I told her it would be like my exam to pass the course. The 2 other students also decided to come with me yarn shopping, so that will be a fun expedition!<br />
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And I finished my 2nd sleeve this morning! I decided to block both sleeves before I continue knitting the <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Genyke/folded" target="_blank">sweater</a>, mainly because I was such a novice DPN knitting, the tension is not nice and created some ugly holes. I'm hoping to be able to fix a bit of that with the blocking.<br />
By the way, although I'm not "enjoying" knitting with DPN yet, the 2nd sleeve has been way lass painful to knit than the 1st one. Also, I learned that the metal needles I was using, even if it was more difficult, in order to get used to them, were not a good choice. Because they were big, and the yarn small, their weight probably contributed to the tension problems. So, as you can see on the picture, I switched back to the bamboo ones, which are much easier to use, although my tension gets very tight when I use them, so I cannot say I enjoy them more, except for the fact that they helped me finish much faster!<br />
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I'm now going to make soup for my lunches this week, hoping it will be easy to digest while being healthy! Have a great Sunday afternoon, and talk to you soon!Genyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799874093587335821noreply@blogger.com0