Since Mimi has gone, my knitting has speeded up. Mimi is no longer there watching me with a curious look playing with my needles and yarn, and he is no longer there dragging the yarn down and trying to roll the yarn ball with his paws on my couch. So tonight I have quickly finished the front piece and two straps of a Mohair vest and I guess for the back piece and seam sewing, I only need no more than 3 days.

However, after I finished the half of the work, I found myself in the mood to start something else. It looks like it’s very hard to only focus my energy on one project at a time. If I did, I would lose my interest very quickly. I am a person who is eating out of my bowl and meanwhile looking at someone else’s bowl. That greedy and that distracted

Another project I wanted to try is to use the old Mandorla yarn to knit a beret hat. I love beret, never felt fed up with it.

My oldest beret was red and the fabric was flannelette. My Mom bought me when I was about 10 years old. I loved it so much although at that time my hair style didn’t really suit a beret. I had been wearing it until I became a quite young teenager.

I never denied that I am beret obsessed but I’ve only two berets in the wardrobe at this moment, one is beige and another one has a mixture colours of pink, black and blue, like a patch work from Gypsy, which I bought from Li Jiang Ancient Town (Beautiful River Ancient Town from Yun Nan Province). And I am so switched-on to add more of them into my collection as long as I see something could catch my eyes. I think beret is an elegant way to represent a woman’s gracefulness. It’s unusual and different from most styles of fashion accessories. And with wearing it, you are also wearing a kind of woman’s feature of exquisites and delicate. You know that you have to walk, talk and behave like a woman