Yimi Handwork

An area rug made from my old T-shirts and yoga pants Cut old clothes into long strips, then braid 3 fabric strips together, as you braid your hair, then stitch the braid to oval or round A round one which I made before Tips : 1. when braiding, fold the raw edges towards center, like binding strip, so no raw edges will show in your rug,           2.Don't cut too narrow strips.  otherwise, when braiding, it's hard to fold edges, and the folded strip will be to narrow.  I personally prefer 1"1/2         Some Blah, Blah,  People always say we need reduce waste to protect the environment,  to help the Earth, save our planet. Actually, the earth doesn't need anyone to save.  Pollution, climate changes will not destroy the planet,  tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes probably can only cause scratches on it. but to us, those are devastating disasters, we are the fragile environment-depending little cr...

I heard a cross stitch joke: A cross-stitcher was very naughty in this earthly life and didn't go to heaven. At the gates of Hades, she was met by the Devil. "Welcome," he said, smirking at her. "Let me show you around your eternal home." The Devil led her to a large room that looked uncannily like a large needlework shop. The stitcher blinked her eyes, wondering if what she saw was an illusion. No, it was true. The most wonderful needlework shop she had ever seen was right before her. Still unbelieving, she asked, "Is this real?" "Of course," murmured the Evil One. "Reach out and touch it." The stitcher was worried that she would be zapped by 1000 volts, but reached out anyway, unable to help herself. IT WAS REAL! "May I look around?" she asked excitedly, all the while thinking, This can't be Hell! This is too good! "Of course," said the Devil. "This is your eternal reward." The st...

Winter here is long, almost half the year, white and cold, at the same time, fun and beautiful. I can't tell how I feel about it. Sometimes I love it, but sometimes I hate it. You wonder why people hate winter? Yes! they were cars parking on road. And you wonder why people love winter? You wonder why people hate snow? It was our driveway after a snow storm. Our Kitchen door And you wonder why people love snow? The last rose in my back yard, it was beautiful, isn't it?

"Are you crazy?" My husband asked me, when he saw me cutting tons of 5" squares, sewing them together to make a big piece, and then again cutting the big piece into 3 1/2" square tilted windmill blocks, over 200 of them. This made him believe that he's right about patchwork: it's all about cutting big pieces into small pieces and then sew the small pieces into a big piece again, repeat the process if want to make it more complicated. "Not quite." I said, "Wait and see it finished. You'll know it's worth it." "When?" He asked. That question really shut me up. I have so many unfinished projects, who knows when I can finish it.

I spent the whole weekend on customizing this template, it's based on a template named "Scribe" created by Todd Dominey, which is provide by Blogger. I changed the width and length of the body and the side bar, background picture, pretty much everything. How do you think about the new look? Here is the original template

I'm quite ambitious recently, doing many things at the same time, but nothing got done yet. Wait a second, actually, one of them was completed. A cala lily trapunta wall hanging, almost done, just some quilting left, this is only a partial picture. A redwork wall hanging for kitchen, it has to been done before Christmas. This is the finished one, a fabric origami coaster, it is very fabric consuming. Those white green blue flower should be on the wrong side after folding, but I made a direction mistake when assembling. Next time, I'll only use allover fabric to make it mistake-proof. I started the crewel stitch long time ago, and planned to finish it before next year, a big question mark here, can I? My husband likes this needlepoint, it shouldn't take long.

Just found out Command & Conquer Red alert 3 was released half a month ago. Ever since I played the first game of this series more than 10 years ago, it becomes my favorite game series, can't believe it, so many years has passed by! I've never missed even a single releasing day until now. And this new game make me think, after I developed this new hobby:patchwork or purse making(what ever you call it), I hardly have time for any other things I used to do, such as, video games, yoga, karate... Whenever I have time , I want to sit down and make something. Although I hate to admit, I gain some weight, hmm, I mean quite amount of pounds. Maybe it's time to pickup some old activities, even for a few minutes a day. Once, a friend sent me a small poem she got on internet after she knew I started a quilting project. I do find myself there. When I do craft and som thing else need to do, I say just another half an hour and I stop, that's not going to happen, I just continu...

I'm back. :)I'm always amazed we can trip such a long distance in such a short time, one moment we are here, a few hours later, we can be anywhere in this planet. Always dreaming to live at seaside, warm weather, sand beach, forever green plants.... We now live far away from my dreaming land, whenever having a chance, we'll have a seaside vocation. Yas, we went to San Francisco, California Lot of people fished crabs here, a guy told us he could catch over 50 crabs a day, his secret formula was lemon juice. Flowers grow in sand, shining like jewelry. Those are not water drops, I actually touched. I have no ideas what this plant is, if anyone knows, please let me know.

I thought I could live without the net, I could go real stores instead of shopping online, I could watch TV and read newspaper instead of reading online news, I could mail/call my friends instead of sending emails or chatting in MSN,I could book all kind s of tickets by calling instead of booking online......life shouldn't be much different. I may even have more time to do other things. Then I lost my connection last week. I found life was much more tedious without it!

Have been working hard in the garden for a while, it's time to enjoy the fruits. Cherries attract lots of birds and squirrels, hmm, when picking those cherries I was afraid they would attack me for taking away their big meal. But they just went to higher branches or scattered away. :) Since the busiest time for gardening has past, I come back for crafts.:) I'm doing a crazy-quilted PDA cozy and writing a tut for the black & white Ipod cozy. Hope it will be done by the end of this week.

This year, we get a cold spring, but finally it gets warm and flowers are blooming.

After a really snowy winter, spring finally comes. This morning I found this small flower was blooming in melting snow. I've never known it's name, but it made me a day. Isn't it beautiful?