Ivory Coat

Now I know what everyone is going to say!
Just yesterday she had half a sleeve to finish, and the all around finish, for the buttons and around the neck.

And today it is done, with all that hot weather that she was complaining about!!!

And I’m going to answer: yesterday, I made my laundry, clean the house, and went out with the kids.

So today was… get up make breakfast, and just work in the coat until I saw the end of it. It didn’t take me too long to finish, only 30 rows more, so that is why it was fast! And it is also a coat for a 4 year girl, so not very big!


Now the model at the beginning was a little upset, because she wanted to do something else, and mummy wanted to show the finish project with a model.

Then I turned the camera off, put the photos in the pc, and told her, look you’re not even smiling! And she realized she was going to be famous!!!!!

That is why there are a lot of smiles later. Then it was my turn to say, ok, ok it is enough…

Hope everybody has a nice weekend.

Hot, hot, hot...

It feels so good after a day of work, just go to the sea side and relax!
That was what happens today, it was hot, no wind, and the kids just had fun.


Knitting news. Not much to show. It’s been very hot on this side of the world, almost 36 degrees everyday, so you can imagine that knitting and crochet are almost impossible to do during the day. Only the progress of N. coat.


One arm done and the other almost finish.

More Socks

These ones are hot, hot. Out of the oven just now.




Pattern: Sockapalooooza4.
I realy enjoy making these socks. I made them short because here it is summer now, and short socks are good for the weather here!
These ones are for the SAM5. In time.

Never say never

Now this is a lesson for me to take very serious and good information for everybody that wants to know, and go green this year!
I’ve join months, months ago the Monthly dishcloth in the Yahoo. BUT almost never made a dish cloth, only if I wanted to test a pattern, and them made with acrylic, became another blanket for N. barbies.
After I read the Mamagenerica post. Something in my head was tinkling, why don’t I try also, it doesn’t cost a thing, I’ve got cotton, and I’ve got needles! So I did. And let me tell you ladies out there, that use the green sponge, please give it a try…
Because it really works, you can actually wash the dishes with this cotton cloth, and at the end, you can clean all your work area, and no water, I mean really no water. That thing just absorbs every single drop of water that it founds in her way. And you can do also another one to clean the dishes and put them away!
Probably everyone that is reading this post, must be thinking, that girl went mad!
No, I think to myself that I just found the gold mine, the hole with petrol, I don’t know. I realize after I read so many posts with this subject that actually it works.

Please you can send a hammer to me, if I took to long to really believe it!
Thank you mamagenerica, for the open eyes, to these blind women. I sometimes am like St. Tomas, see to believe!
So here it is my first one, of course I had to invent one, and I couldn’t follow any free pattern that I have in my computer.

And them after I see all the miracles of nature I made another one, that you can find the pattern here, but already gone by now.

Someone came to my house this weekend, and I just spread the word, go green go dishcloth!
Never say never…

Lunch in South African with Portuguese food

Here is a typical Sunday afternoon in South Africa, with some typical Portuguese food!
We made a braii, which is also very typical here, and had some sardines. Now this kind of fish is very hard to find here. Because it is too small, and sorry to the South African readers, but here everybody as problems with fish bones!
There are a lot of sardines being picking up in the area of Durban, in fact there is more then they want, and eventually they just give baskets away in the beach to all the people that are there to watch the arrival of the boats. Now how is it possible that we in Cape Town, to eat this fish, must come from Portugal? Oh, and last week we bought some sardines also, but this ones were from India! Amazing, no?
Well let’s carry on…
The late Sunday lunch was sardines



Some salad: tomatoes, lettuce, peppers, cucumber and olive oil.

The peppers usually we cook them on the braii, and then wash them in water to take that black, and then cut them in stripes.

And also some potatoes boiled with the skin.


This is a normal Sunday lunch in Portugal, especially in the summer time, and on weekends.

Ta-ta.

Distraction

I’ve got a list of things to do this month. And I must try to stick to it, but I get so distracted from the net! Maybe I should turn of the computer and sit on the couch to do what I’m supposed to do. BUT all my patterns are in the computer G. Help me.

I’ve started to do squares for a blanket for Nicole, and more squares for a blanket for one of mine nieces. This is suppose to go until November, so no stress here I will do 3 or four a month, I think it is a good goal that can be done.

Still doing Nicole’s coat. The photo is a little bit hold, maybe 2 days hold :-0. But I’m already doing one arm.



Doing also socks for SAM5. The pattern is Sockapalooooza4, I’m using a 4 ply yarn from the family knitting, it isn’t a yarn for socks, but no budget here to go out and get wild, so got to improvise.



And here is my distraction. I wanted to do those market bags, that are starting to pop-up in almost every blog, but I want to use mine for my knitting. Now, you can think, and I also think there are too many holes in the thing. I’ve tried to do a foundation sc stitch and then in the middle start with the pattern.



Still have to study this better. But I can tell you this one works, the needles don’t run away from me!
So that is all


Ta-ta