Blog & Latest News Check in here for our latest news! The monsters are here!!! September 23, 2009 Not much to say except: YAY! We finally got it all together. Here’s just a few but there will be many more in the days to come!! Again, these wonderful monsters are patterns from the brilliant Rebecca Danger. You can find them here if you want to make your... Small update on post below September 22, 2009 I just got a wonderful email with Davy explaining her handicraft business in more detail. I hadn’t realized that she started the business on her own with only 50 USD in 2001 making greeting cards by herself to sell to a few market stalls and built it up over... Davy's Flowers September 22, 2009 So I wrote that I would post about Davy’s project and show some photos so here goes: So Davy works for the Phnom Penh City Hall on their urban poverty alleviation project. It had been supported by UN-Habitat, but once funding ended, she lost all her staff. Now it’s... Toul Sambo September 17, 2009 This morning I drove out to the Toul Sambo relocation site with Davy, PhD student Julie who has been doing research at the community even before the eviction, and two knitters, Mony and Rofi. Today’s visit was to meet briefly with the community, show them some knitted products and... BKK Stash o' Yarn September 16, 2009 I am back from Thailand and lugged home over 10 kilograms of yarn with me. The shopping was not as super as I had hoped, but I did bring back some reasonable quality acrylic semi-bulky yarn. I also picked out a sampling of bulky and super bulky yarns for... BKK September 13, 2009 I’m off to (one night in) Bangkok for two nights and 2 hectic days of trying to find all the goodies that are lacking in PP. I’m sure I can find most of what we need, it will just be a matter of being sleuth-ful and patient. I’m not... Finally, something about CK September 9, 2009 So I just finished a casual meeting with a woman from City Hall, Davy. She’s a project manager with a poverty reduction programme they have, but I didn’t hear much about this. She’s been involved in UNHABITAT and knows a lot of the poor communities in and around Phnom... Still unrelated September 7, 2009 So, there is still nothing new to report on the knitting front so I give you another photo: This is one of my favourite sites along the road from Phnom Penh to Ratanakiri. Usually, you see three or four motorcycles like this, traveling to the city together. I’ve been... 7 elephants September 4, 2009 So since there is not much to report on the knitting front (we’re knitting, we’re waiting for plastic eyes; hearing that over and over again is sure to become dull), I’ve decided to post some random photos of interesting things in and around Phnom Penh. For those of you... One down, two to go… September 1, 2009 My complaining paid off and one package finally arrived; the one from my sister. So I’ll keep complaining and hopefully that will enable the release of the second parcel from the PO, the one full of plastic safety eyes. If not, its countdown to my trip to BKK where... Bunnies! August 26, 2009 So our first project in the round was the Bunny Nuggets recipe from Rebecca Danger and below are some photos of the results. We started on 6 mm needles to get a feel for knitting on DPNs (double pointed needles for non-knitters) and I think with a bit more... The handsome knitter August 24, 2009 After a mostly hellish week in the provinces (hellish only because of all the travel, not because of the company, the research or anything else), I’m back in PP and back to knitting. This morning I introduced the knitters to knitting in the round. There was a lot of... Not much here to see this week August 17, 2009 I’ll be away for most of the week, doing research in “the field” for my MSc project so there won’t be any exciting updates here. I dropped off Mony, the one non-Cham knitter at the village that the other women are from this morning along with lots of yarn,... The cat came back… August 15, 2009 The start of the week was difficult because our beloved cat, Meow, had disappeared and was gone for 4 days and nights. We found out from neighbours that she had been attacked by a dog on Thursday night and disappeared shortly afterwards. I was despondent and spent most of... A troop of monkeys August 12, 2009 Today I read a news story about a man who was caught with a 1000 images of child pornography on his computer. He blamed his cat, claiming that the cat had walked on the keyboard when he left the room and had initiated the download. Yeah right! Now, if... Photo time! August 6, 2009 Some pictures for you to enjoy (sorry about the poor quality, don’t what’s going on…). This time of all the knitters and all of the finger puppets. We have elephants and monkeys, dogs and cats, giraffes and lions and pigs too. The knitters also developed their own version of... We're getting stuffed! August 5, 2009 I finally located some material suitable for stuffing. Well, I always knew about it but was hesitant to use it for our stuffed toys because I’m not sure how ‘fluffy’ it stays over time or how it will wash. I originally wanted to use polyester toy stuffing, but its... Finger puppets July 29, 2009 Here are some photos of finger puppets that we are practising to make right now. The patterns are from etsy designer Raynor Gellatly who designs very cute amigurumi with a finger puppet option for the body. The knitters are very happy to be working up the designs and enjoy... « Previous Page 1 …6 7 8 9 Next Page »
The monsters are here!!! September 23, 2009 Not much to say except: YAY! We finally got it all together. Here’s just a few but there will be many more in the days to come!! Again, these wonderful monsters are patterns from the brilliant Rebecca Danger. You can find them here if you want to make your...
Small update on post below September 22, 2009 I just got a wonderful email with Davy explaining her handicraft business in more detail. I hadn’t realized that she started the business on her own with only 50 USD in 2001 making greeting cards by herself to sell to a few market stalls and built it up over...
Davy's Flowers September 22, 2009 So I wrote that I would post about Davy’s project and show some photos so here goes: So Davy works for the Phnom Penh City Hall on their urban poverty alleviation project. It had been supported by UN-Habitat, but once funding ended, she lost all her staff. Now it’s...
Toul Sambo September 17, 2009 This morning I drove out to the Toul Sambo relocation site with Davy, PhD student Julie who has been doing research at the community even before the eviction, and two knitters, Mony and Rofi. Today’s visit was to meet briefly with the community, show them some knitted products and...
BKK Stash o' Yarn September 16, 2009 I am back from Thailand and lugged home over 10 kilograms of yarn with me. The shopping was not as super as I had hoped, but I did bring back some reasonable quality acrylic semi-bulky yarn. I also picked out a sampling of bulky and super bulky yarns for...
BKK September 13, 2009 I’m off to (one night in) Bangkok for two nights and 2 hectic days of trying to find all the goodies that are lacking in PP. I’m sure I can find most of what we need, it will just be a matter of being sleuth-ful and patient. I’m not...
Finally, something about CK September 9, 2009 So I just finished a casual meeting with a woman from City Hall, Davy. She’s a project manager with a poverty reduction programme they have, but I didn’t hear much about this. She’s been involved in UNHABITAT and knows a lot of the poor communities in and around Phnom...
Still unrelated September 7, 2009 So, there is still nothing new to report on the knitting front so I give you another photo: This is one of my favourite sites along the road from Phnom Penh to Ratanakiri. Usually, you see three or four motorcycles like this, traveling to the city together. I’ve been...
7 elephants September 4, 2009 So since there is not much to report on the knitting front (we’re knitting, we’re waiting for plastic eyes; hearing that over and over again is sure to become dull), I’ve decided to post some random photos of interesting things in and around Phnom Penh. For those of you...
One down, two to go… September 1, 2009 My complaining paid off and one package finally arrived; the one from my sister. So I’ll keep complaining and hopefully that will enable the release of the second parcel from the PO, the one full of plastic safety eyes. If not, its countdown to my trip to BKK where...
Bunnies! August 26, 2009 So our first project in the round was the Bunny Nuggets recipe from Rebecca Danger and below are some photos of the results. We started on 6 mm needles to get a feel for knitting on DPNs (double pointed needles for non-knitters) and I think with a bit more...
The handsome knitter August 24, 2009 After a mostly hellish week in the provinces (hellish only because of all the travel, not because of the company, the research or anything else), I’m back in PP and back to knitting. This morning I introduced the knitters to knitting in the round. There was a lot of...
Not much here to see this week August 17, 2009 I’ll be away for most of the week, doing research in “the field” for my MSc project so there won’t be any exciting updates here. I dropped off Mony, the one non-Cham knitter at the village that the other women are from this morning along with lots of yarn,...
The cat came back… August 15, 2009 The start of the week was difficult because our beloved cat, Meow, had disappeared and was gone for 4 days and nights. We found out from neighbours that she had been attacked by a dog on Thursday night and disappeared shortly afterwards. I was despondent and spent most of...
A troop of monkeys August 12, 2009 Today I read a news story about a man who was caught with a 1000 images of child pornography on his computer. He blamed his cat, claiming that the cat had walked on the keyboard when he left the room and had initiated the download. Yeah right! Now, if...
Photo time! August 6, 2009 Some pictures for you to enjoy (sorry about the poor quality, don’t what’s going on…). This time of all the knitters and all of the finger puppets. We have elephants and monkeys, dogs and cats, giraffes and lions and pigs too. The knitters also developed their own version of...
We're getting stuffed! August 5, 2009 I finally located some material suitable for stuffing. Well, I always knew about it but was hesitant to use it for our stuffed toys because I’m not sure how ‘fluffy’ it stays over time or how it will wash. I originally wanted to use polyester toy stuffing, but its...
Finger puppets July 29, 2009 Here are some photos of finger puppets that we are practising to make right now. The patterns are from etsy designer Raynor Gellatly who designs very cute amigurumi with a finger puppet option for the body. The knitters are very happy to be working up the designs and enjoy...
