Everyone, I present to you………….
Sunshine’s SUMMER TREASURE CARDIGAN!
(Yes, can you tell I love this cardi? So much so that I posted so many pics of it? LOL)
Name of project: Sunshine’s Summer Treasure Cardigan
Yarn: ONline Linie 134 Candy
Needles: Addi Turbos 3mm
Cast on date: 11 December 2007
Cast off date: 18 January 2009 (Hibernated for a year!)
Learned: When I first started it, it was my first lace project. Then it went into hibernation and I started and finished the Swallowtail Shawl.
Modifications: With Sasha‘s encouragement, I shortened the sleeves.
Mistakes: Surprisingly, this cardi is almost perfect! With only 1 or 2 mistakes here and there.
One thing about the pattern though… the buttonholes are just one Yarn Over. Which with 3mm needles and 4 ply yarn, makes them very small buttonholes indeed.
There are only 3 buttons and out of the 3, I think we will only use 2 since the 1st one is too close to the collar and would be stifling in summer. So I’m okay with stretching the ‘holes’ for those two buttons.
If I were to do this cardi again (which I won’t because the lace part takes a VERY LONG TIME TO KNIT!!!!!!!) I would enlarge the buttonholes or maybe crochet button loops instead.
Okay.. getting too carried away with similar pictures.. -___-
This was how it looked like during its blocking session and before I seamed the pieces up:
Anyway, our princess also had her first nosebleed in her life.
She was sitting on my lap doodling on a piece of paper when I looked down and saw her painting the paper with….. BLOOD!
I thought she had a cut but when I checked, I realised it was from her left nostril.
I grabbed some tissue and tried to apply pressure on her nose but she screamed and wouldn’t let me touch her. She didn’t want to sit on my lap either and kept rubbing at her nose. Which of course, made it worse.
I plonked her on the toilet (with the seat cover down) so that she would calm down and I could take a good look at her nose.
Waited out the nosebleed with her and it stopped soon enough.
Luckily, as a kid, I had nosebleeds at alarming frequencies – like once every month! Was just like having periods. *Snark*.
So I knew how to deal with it. Otherwise, not good for both baby and mummy to be panicking is it?
Have boiled barley water for our consumption to cool her body down.
Must be the heat getting into her. Poor girl. She’s okay now though. As happy as ever. In fact, the nosebleed happened before I took those pictures of her in the cardigan! 
