Crochet day

I saw my trainer this morning and we did HIIT body weight training. For the first time in months I was beaten and could not complete one of the exercises she gave me to do :( but it was a really good, hard session :)

After a quick shower I went to pick up my niece for a crochet day. The aim today was for her to learn some more stitches and how to read patterns. No problems, we went over a granny square written pattern together and then she made a start, when she got to the round with new stitches I showed her and she picked it up very easily.

After lunch she showed me how to do Pinterest on the computer and then I gave her a slightly more complex square to do from the book and the sample square that I had done. She's very good, she could even work out where she went wrong and pull it back to correct it, brilliant.

While she did that, I did a border from a crochet symbols pattern, I've never done that before and it turned out fine.  Finally I gave her a verbal pattern for a flower, which she made and then she wrote the pattern down for herself.

A really enjoyable day.

The products of our efforts, the squares have not yet had their ends sewn in.

Another hot day so salad for tea, I'm keeping up with this green smoothie or raw salad every day.