Another crafty adventure

This is a a belated post, I couldn't possibly shared this any earlier, not before my private pincushion exchange with Margaret W was first delivered just so she don't get any hints that hers will carry a similar theme, LOL!

Removable top for storage of pins or just about anything

He seems to be asking "what are you looking at ?",  doesn't he?

A lacy neck warmer scarf with weaved fringe

Crocheting with Sidar Snuggly and multicolor yarns was an interesting change . Its fascinating to watch the multicolor yarns emerging like a color pattern as I go along . Finishing it off by weaving the fringe with  the multicolor yarns in chain stitch. Both are remnants yarns from my stash. There's no pattern for this, all I did was with ch, tr and db with a bit of fan like motif . Start with a long chain of  any length you desire. I supposed its the multicolor yarn that make this all interesting.

Stitching some seasonal smallies

A walk into yesteryear's

One Saturday morning in October, I had a chance to walk into the Old  KTM Railway Station located in the hub of the city with its Neo-Moorish/Mughal architecture that was built in 1910, designed by Arthur Benison Hubback, a British.  It been years since I last travel on a train, not the Komuter but in a real coach train.

Can you imagine its splendour during the times when it was the main station connecting the North, South and East Coast? There's so much history here.

Sadly the station is pretty quiet today, its glory all gone when the station's original importance diminished and redundant facilities were withdrawn. In the name of modernisation and technology, this station has been replaced, relocated to a newer facility known as KL Sentral. Today the station  caters only the intercity train services,  the Komuter Electric and cargo train. The entire building is almost deserted  except for a bus company that took tenant on one of its building facing the main road. The Heritage Station Hotel, fast food chain such as KFC and A& W was forced to close. As I ventured into its lobby, I found  some exhibits showcasing train equipments of yesteryear's at the far end. I supposed its an effort to convert the station into some sort of a railway museum?

A model of the coach which I actually did ride many-many years ago, travelling with my grandma from the North to visit my aunt Julie during the school year end holidays. All of a sudden I felt so old . LOL !

A model  locomotive

Lastly, a site model of the iconic KTM training school and administration office in Sentul cum train station which was operational since 1905. It was reported that it once contained the finest integrated engineering workshop in the world. The new central workshop and training facilities is now located to a quiet town of Batu Gajah, the Silver State Perak, a state in the north. The old train station building was retained however and given a new image and retrofitted to support the modernize electric train to service Sentul Komuter lines.

Reminiscing the yesteryear's.

Hope you enjoyed the walk with me and  wishing you a Happy Weekend !