A blanket with an edge

Before I forget, I must tell you about this almost heavenly experience that I had whilst I was in kl last week. My friend's hubby treated us ( my friend and I ) to a Gommage experience at a turkish bath which is Hammam in Bangsar , KL! A gommage treatment is where your skin is scrubbed , masked and washed off to prepare for your hour long massage! The part where they actually scrub your skin is an hour as it involves cleansing the skin with henna and black soap , sloughing your dead skin off with a coarse mitt and putting on mask all over your body while you lie on these really warm slabs of tiles...bliss! Can I say at this point , all modesty is thrown out the window as you are given disposable undies and bikini tubes. Anyway, there was only my friend and I and the two ladies, so its not really an issue for me. After our heavenly scrub, I swear you could hear my skin squeaking against the dressing gown that we were given to wear, I felt oh so squeaky clean! We were then dried off and given some baklava and turkish tea, before we head of into our room for our massage!! It is sooo good! If you haven't tried it, I recommend it as it is so good! Sigh!!!

Alright , anyway, now that I'm back in reality, I have finally finished the edging of my crochet cream puff baby blanket. It was a close choice between a scallop edging and a picot one. In the end I chose picot as it doesn't drown out the design of the actual blanket in the way a scallop one does, in my humble opinion of course!
Here I present you the blanket with an edge hehe!




Another thing I've finished knitting recently is the Pagoda Bag (a pattern from an Australian Knitting Magazine called Creative Knitting). Yarn used here is a mixture of Jo Sharp silk ultra in black and Noro Kureyon in many shades of blue. It is made up of 2 squares knitted exactly the same and I just had to sew it together in the end. Still figuring whether my bag needs a cloth lining inside, I think I will put one in later, but at the moment, I'm just happy the way it is! There you go, that's what I have to show for this week. I hope my weeks ahead will be as productive. Have a good one!