The girls and I went to Central yesterday to meet with Siow Chin and Marjorie at the Pacific Coffee Company branch in the IFC mall (look at the views from the top). We were a few minutes late, as I wanted to stop off for a little prezzie -- picked up something from the See's shop that recently opened nearby, always a treat in my family for holidays or something special, and here "flown fresh from California".
To be honest, I didn't get to knit much, as Julia was extremely energetic and couldn't sit still, not even to eat her lunch. Laura, however --
focussed marvellously. Some six months ago, she said out of the blue, "I want to learn to knit!" I tried not to show how excited and pleased I was, and later we went to Michael's and bought some yellow yarn and "trainer" knitting needles. I cast on and worked a row for her, and she would knit two or three stitches and get bored, and not pick it up for weeks. But the other day, she suddenly mentioned it again for the first time since January, I think, and stuck with it for a whole row, 20 stitches. She seems to have gotten the hang of it, although of course still has a five-year-old's attention span. She was also secretly pleased at the idea of knitting with my friends, so asked for her knitting soon after lunch yesterday.
Marjorie brought her pale yellow Phildar pattern project, learning the jogless jog -- Siow Chin had her Angel sleeve in that lovely rose-colored Rowan Cotton Wool -- I managed to do one whole row on my Forbes Forest scarf, while trying to keep Julia from climbing on the other tables. We chatted about Hong Kong yarn shops, small children, work (Siow Chin's husband and mine might actually know of each other already). It turns out that Marjorie lived in Alhambra for a while -- my grandparents lived there for almost fifty years, and I did myself for a while. Small world, eh?
But the girls reached their limit after about an hour, so we said goodbye. We took the opportunity of our being in a mall to go to Dymocks for a birthday-present-to-be and the new Harry Potter book for David, then caught the bus for home and an afternoon in the swimming pool.
Mm goi, Siow Chin and Marjorie!
It was really enjoyable meeting with you and your charming little ones. They were so good! It's sad that you'll be leaving so soon, we should have met up earlier.
Posted by: Siow Chin | July 17, 2005 at 06:05 PM