Ripping is learning!

Tonight I was going to finish the front, sew up the seams and have a new angora vest! I did finish the front and sew up the seems. Tried it on - fit like shit! I'm a big girl so I put some extra in the sides. Looks like crap! Changed the neck front from the pattern. Looks bad!

So tomorrow I will rip out about 10 cm of the front and back and sew it up again and try it on. This is all my learning process from my new year resolution to try more difficult things. Ripping is learning - right? I'm going to get Nettie to help me decide what to do with the neck! I need some help and moral support.

But my rockin' socks are a great success. I love them. You know, I wouldn't spend $20 on a new pair of socks but I think nothing of buying sock wool for that price. I guess I am more a process knitter as opposed to a product knitter.

Three diets!

First diet - the Pastry Diet.

All I can say is I am thankful that this bakery does not live in Canberra!!
That is a shot of one of the four cases full of THE most delicious bakery goodies ever. Chocolate cake to gain 20 kilos for! And the rest is just amazingly yummy and only 1 mile from my mother's house!

This is hard to see but the bread in the window is all shaped like sea creatures - star fish, a big octopus and turtles. It is really cute. It is the best bakery I have ever been to. Oh, oh, and the baker is a chocolatier too!

Did I say it is only 1 mile from my bedroom over here? Will I be able to try everything before I come back in a week?

The Wild Ginger diet -

this food is soooooo gooood and I have been here twice! My son brought me two nights ago and my friends just took me there tonight. Those are sechuan beans with pickled turnips and pepper scallops.

Duck is their specialty - make your own duck rolls.

And the best company too.

And the Knitting diet - all you can knit and it's not fattening at all!!!

There was a sale at the LYS (can you believe I hit a sale in the short time I am here!!) I picked up some 40% off Angora and before I could quickly get it out of my hand the woman who owned the store came up to me and said "Oh, you should take it and give the little bunnies a home!" so my mom bought me enough for a red angora sweater. Am I a lucky girl or what?

And look what came in the post today - way way cheaper than at home and no postage. I am in heaven.

Now I only have to live until I am 153!

I am sleeping with my angora tonight!!