Saturday, December 31, 2022

Baby knits for James

 

I started knitting a baby vest for James when he was in his 13th month. I only finished it properly (ie. tidying up all the loose yarn & cutting them off) in December. I have alot of leftover yarn so I'm trying to knit a beanie with a similar cable pattern (see top right of above image). I wonder if I'll ever finish the beanie cos tis my 1st time knitting such a pattern & I dunno how to finish it...

Drawstring Bag



I signed up for a PA (People's Association) Beginner's knitting course at imPAct @ Hong Lim Green.

I started knitting this drawstring bag on 5 April. Even though the course ended at the end of May (I signed up for the follow-up Advanced knitting course after that), I only finished it properly in September!!

Sunday, December 25, 2022

Review of 2022 - by books read (others not including Book Club)

This year marks 11 years since I joined The Hungry Hundred Book Club

📚I read all 11 books assigned for 2022 🎆

Here's a list of other books I read in 2022:

1) Mabel Cheung Yuen-ting's An Autumn Tale (張婉婷 的《秋天的童話》) by Stacilee Ford

2) Peter Ho-sun Chan's He's a Woman, She's a Man (陳可辛的《金枝玉葉》) by Lisa Odham Stokes

3) Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's Infernal Affairs - The Trilogy (劉偉強、麥兆輝的《無間道》系列) by Gina Marchetti

The above 3 books are part of The New Hong Kong Cinema series published by Hong Kong University Press.

4) No Longer Human by Dazai Osamu 太宰治の「人間失格」(This was assigned for Book Club in July 2020)

5) American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (楊謹倫)

6) Tamamo The Fox Maiden: and Other Asian Stories (Comics Anthology - includes Gene Luen Yang's From the Journal of the Monkey King)

7) Level Up by Gene Luen Yang (Illustrated by Thien Pham)

8) Molly's Game by Molly Bloom

9) Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs (RIP)

10) The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

11) World Record Holders by Guy Delisle

12) Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

13) Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

14) The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel 

Taking a leaf out of Raymond Briggs's Father Christmas: Happy Blooming New Year!