Hats and hats

 

Oh! but it is dark out there today! It has been like that for several days now. 

I swear it wants to rain but can't!

The sky was a strange amber colour two days ago and I thought there was going to be a massive downpour but that didn't happen. 

This is at the esplanade in front of Alicante port but I assure you the sky was like this throughout all the city and in Murcia (the next province)as well.  The weatherman announced that the high winds has brought a winter "calima" sand storm to us from the Sahara to these shores. 

It was quite eerie looking!

Fast Darning
Some of you may remember that I mentioned in a previous post how I use Fast Darning to repair Sr P's well worn jeans.

from December 2020 post

Actually it was Kate on LiveLoveCraftMe who recently posted about her creative Boro mending that she had used to repair a favourite shirt of hers. That reminded me that I had recently done some more Fast darning on another pair of Sr P's jeans.   

This time in the shape of a car.

Instructions:

Cut out shape on patch,iron on and "Voila" Fast Darning completed .

PS: I predict that car patch isn't going to last very long as those jeans are super tatty now. I think they are destined to be thrown in the bin pretty soon!

By the way I have changed the name. I called it Fast Darning in my previous posts but Lazy Darning sounds more appropriate as it is quite lazy...isn't it?

It started at one hat and then...

I am diligently trying to reduce my stash of yarn.  . It started off with a bonnet that I decided to make for my great niece Arabella in NZ for the winter.   

A very simple bonnet and I didn't use a pattern. I just kept measuring it as I went along as I wanted it to fit a big two year old. I used leftovers of worsted weight yarn and a 5.50 hook

I often post my crochet projects on FB and my sister saw that bonnet and wanted a bonnet too. Which is fine so I made a second bonnet. 

Again I used leftovers of worsted weight yarn and Aran variegated yarn to add a touch of colour. I had to again keep measuring this one as this was for an Adult size.

Then I remembered I hadn't made the slouchy hat for Cookie (GD) that she asked me for so I got cracking with that. 

The slouchy hat pattern was from a Yarnspirations free pattern which you can download from here . I used Katia Planet Aran yarn for that and a 5.00 hook and some leftovers of  a colourful variegated yarn. I also added a little heart patch.

I managed to convince Sylvester to model for that. He wouldn't model for the bonnets as he said they were for girls and that was sissy!

I finished that and then my sister saw that one as well and wanted a slouchy hat too.  I am now on my fourth hat but my stash doesn't seem to be dwindling very rapidly at all...sigh!

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Happy Blogging

Amanda 🧶

Fame

  Fame but not for little me...for the city I live in.

 

 Alicante City makes it to the Guinness book of records

but for what...

not for the biggest Spanish omelette in the world,nor for the biggest paella or for the most tricks a pig can perform in one minute...no sir... but for the biggest NATIVITY SCENE in the world!!   

IT is really big. 

I have never really taken much notice to the Guinness Book of Records feats but this one is something!

Here is the photo I took in the Town Hall square.

 

 See how they have covered the baby Jesus because rain was forecast!! 

More photos that I found of the construction of the manger.

 

Just to give you an idea Joseph is 18,18 metres high and Mary is 12 metres.

Finally everything in its place and opened to the public!

How about that for a crib??

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Fast Darning.

I was reading Clicky Needle's post yesterday where she talks about darning and how she uses a certain sewing machine to darn jeans and she also explains how to use the sewing machine for this.   I have to say Clicky Needle's machine darning is quite that bit superior to anything I could do by hand or by machine.  

Anyhow this jogged my memory that I really had to get down to fixing some of the tatty jeans Sr P constantly wears. He does have new jeans but he has two favourites which he wears constantly and are in quite a state of disrepair in fact I am thinking that they will soon be going to the rubbish bin!!   There will be grumbling then!!!   He keeps telling me it is the fashion to have rips and holes in jeans!! Yeah! right old man..... for a 16 year old!!!

Now I have to add I do not like ordinary sewing because I suppose it is that,ordinary and boring. I know the basics and I do have a sewing machine which I learnt how to use again when I bought it. I absolutely had to because my last machine sewing lesson was when I went to school and that was during another life!!   I posted about it, what was then,my new sewing machine here ....that was in 2012...so you can imagine the poor machine has gathered dust since then.

When I have to darn jeans I don't darn them...now that is a contradiction.😀  I am lazy and I just buy these iron on patches and cut out a piece and iron it over the hole.  

 

 Therefore this morning I decided to tackle Sr P's scruffy jeans. You see I also had this amazing "light bulb" moment and thought instead of cutting a blob from the iron on patch to cover the hole why don't I cut out an interesting shape.

This was the result:

 

 

 

Well....I like it...now cross fingers Sr P likes it or at least he ignores it and leaves it there. 

We will see...he may not even notice it!!

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CAROLS

 

 I thought I'd give you a little taste of some Spanish carols. I particularly like the flamenco style carols which are usually sung by the gitanos (gypsies).  These people live and breath music and dance;incredibly artistic!!🎸

 

   

 Have a wonderful weekend

 

keep well 

 

 Amanda

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