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The scarf
Good morning! Today I’m going to share another interest with you: knitting. It’s quite new for me, unlike crochet that I was talkeding about in my last essay. <em>["I was talking" is fine but "I talked" just sounds a little bit more natural to my ear.]</em>
Some people thinks these two types of needlework have a lot in common but actually they are pretty different. Though it’s so easy for me to crochet as if I was born with theis skill, I struggle with knitting a lot.
Recently my friend has asked me to knit him a scarf with a reindeer design so I thought that it’s was a great opportunity to try something new. I’m not ready for to makeing the scarf itself at the moment but I’ve tried to knit some patterns in this style and I’ve found it rather absorbing.
It turned out you could knit every any pattern you liked and you could create it by yourself. And I really mean every any pattern.["every" is fine, but "any" is the more common phrase. "Liked" (not "like") to be consistent in the past tense with "could create", "turned" etc]
It couldan be pictures, words and or even formulas. Actually I’ve already had an experience in embroidereding the Green’s theorem on the to a picture for my friend’s birthday (my friend is a mathematician, by the way, and he’s found it pretty amusing), and now I have an opportunity to knit itn on his scarf :-)
<em>[I'm not clear in the sentence above if you embroidered Green's theorem on to a picture on a birthday card? Or on to an item of clothing? Something like "I already embroidered Green's theorem on to my friend's birthday card" or ""I already embroidered Green's theorem on to my friend's scarf for his birthday" would make it clear. ]</em>
So I’m really excited. Now I’m going to say a few words about the type of knitting that I found quite convenient for making a reindeer scarf. On the photo you can see not two different patterns but two sides of the same sample. To be clear, you get the white reindeer on the black background and at the same time you get exactly the opposite picture on the other side. That’s amazing in my opinion. I think I’m almost ready to start knitting the scarf itself. I hope my friend will like it when I finish.
<em>[A complicated idea nicely communicated in the last paragraph.I could simplify it slightly like I have below, but I understood it as written:</em>
<em>"In the photo you can see two sides of the same sample. In other words, you get the white reindeer on the black background on one side, and at the same time you get exactly the opposite on the other side."</em>
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</em><em>"Simultaneously" might work instead of "at the same time" in this sentence. </em>
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</em><em>Also, (I mention it because I think I saw the same error on your last piece of writing also), there is almost always a comma or a full stop after a bracket (since what is in a pair of brackets is usually a complete phrase), if you see what I mean.]</em>
0 votedJuly 29, 20151I forgot to upload this diary. :(
July 27th and 28th.
It has been hot since last week.
Many foreign customers came to my shop today!
The number of Chinese has lately been increasing lately.
I like them. :) We definitely need to build a good relationship!
It's quite natural, because we are neighborhs.ood. ;)
Today I went to the dentist. I didn't want to go there... but I needed to.that. Actually I've been scared of the dentist since I was a little.
I have to go there again next month...ouch! :p***Very easy to read, just a few small mistakes. Welld done!****
0 votedJuly 29, 20151- A question about refering to days of the week in French Please can somebody tell me if the following phrases are correct. I am grateful for your help! A lundi - until monday Le mardi - on tuesday On est mercredi - it is wednesday Jeudi dernier - last thursday Vendredi Treize - (Friday the 13th ... unlucky in French too?!) Ce samedi - this saturday Chaque dimanche - every sunday Merci bien!July 28, 201550
Crochet work
Hello, everyone! Today I’m going to talk about my handmade experience of handicrafts and I would like to begin with crochet.
I learned how to crochet when I was in summer camp in my childhood. There were a lot of hobby groups for children in their free time but all of them seemed extremely boring to me. Crochet seemed quite boring for me too but at least it can could <em>[the rest of the sentence is in past tense, so changed "can" to "could"]</em> be useful in real life, unlike “hand-made stuff out of natural materials”. So I chose a crochet hobby group and I didn’t regret it.
I was not good in at crochet then because it was my first experience, but I definitely got interested in it so I was practicing practiced all summer. Since then I’ve been doing crochet from time to time and I have become ame pretty skillful.
I think now I can make everything by could crochet anything now, even if I was standing on my head. Also I know that there are huge amount of amazing clothes that you can make by crochet and it which would be valuable because of its uniqueness, but it would requires time and a lot of patience from me to be honest.<em>[You could say "to be honest" here, but it is not necessary. Or you could say "It would require a lot of time and patience from me which, to be honest, I don't really have right now."]</em>
It’s a little dull to make the same pattern again and again for a person who likes more creative work, but at the same time it’s one of the most effective ways to distract your mind and calm down)),(so if you are looking for a way to relax I highly recommend crochet).
As for myself Personally, I prefer to make something nice and funny amusing <em>["funny" is acceptable, but I changed it to humorous, which is a bit more subtle. Funny suggests you would laugh at the designs. Humorous suggests more like they make you smile.]</em> like doilies or other design elements to make give my house character funnier or to make a gift for my friends.<em> [I changed 'funnier' again because I don't think you want to make people laugh. We use the expression "give something character" to mean we make it look unique, or to express some of our personality.]</em>
For example recently I’ve made 7 butterflies of all colors to put on on my wall, and or this bright doily to put under my new cactus.
A few years ago I made for my best friend an amazing doily that looks like a lake with three-dimensional black and white swans on it. but uUnfortunately I didn’t make a picture of it andso I can’t show you that doily at the moment) but it looks really great.)
I’m going to make a shawl for my mom’s birthday soon. I’ll let you know about it if it's worth it. That’s all for now.))
Inspiration for everyone! <em><-[This is nice, but not really an English expression :-)]</em>
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</em><em>["crochet" is a verb, so you can say "I crocheted some butterflies", or "I have seen people crochet clothes" not "I made some butterflies by crochet" or "I have seen people make clothes by crochet"]
</em>I enjoyed reading your work. I completely understood what you had to say, and also I think your butterflies are very charming! Well done and good luck.
0 votedJuly 28, 20155Correct me my sentences
I think that in paises orientales treat women as objects
the rights of women are violated by beliefs or religiónA literal correction:
I think that Eastern cultures treat women as objects.
The rights of women are violated by religious beliefs.
If you would like to express the same opinion but without generalising:
I think that <em>some</em> Eastern cultures <em>sometimes</em> treat women as objects.
The rights of women are violated by <em>some interpretations</em> <em>of</em> religious beliefs.
0 votedJuly 28, 20150- Ma Chienne Ma chienne est trés belle, mais elle est un peut bête! Elle doit être caressé tout le temps. Quand je arrête carressant, elle court a ma femme ou mes enfants. Si nous couchons nôtre mains, elle se confonds et elle dort. Elle s'appelle Bessie, et elle a treize ans. Elle est noir et blanche, et elle a une petite moustache grise . Elle est une chienne de chasse à la retrait. Elle aime bien la retrait. Elle vit dans la maison, et elle dort dans la chaise. Peut être elle est pas bête. Peut être tout le monde aiment caressé tout le temps aussi!July 27, 201550
