fancy becoming a domestic goddess...

vintage style?

Then you need a book like this one:

 

you can learn some basic rules

 

and some extraordinary recipes great for the summer weather... like this one for a banana and pineapple salad

 

or this one with onion, cress and horseradish cream...

 

After all these culinary delights, if you're still with me and haven't rushed for the brown paper bag, you can refine your knitting skills with this delightful book

  

because let's face it, we all need a little number for the beach...

 

I think sometimes there are perfectly good reasons why fashions move on...

Comments

[dottycookie]

You just know that wool bikini is going to either stretch or shrink the minute it hits the water ... Eeeek!

[Ali]

Are you not casting on for the bikini straight away then?

[kristina]

Very scary! K x

[anina]

Would you knit me that little bikini?

[Live a Colorful Life]

And while you're knitting the bikini for anina, could you stir up some onion, cress and horseradish cream for me, please? Definitely moving on....

[CC]

Yay for the close fitting trunks - you know its only a matter of time till that fashion rolls round again--- get knitting i say! ;-)

[joanna]

My mum has often offered(threatened) to knit me a bikini! Imagine.. in the water....

[Megan]

Mmm, yeah, knitted bra maybe not so much. But a lot of fun ... and banana and pineaple 'salad', I could actually go for.

[wendy]

Yike! I think you'd have to be an expert knitter or you'd have a show going on at the beach.

[wendy]

Hey, forgot to say I'm having a giveaway/contest on my blog today, come check it out!

[pamela]

I love to go to the local thrift store and stock up on vintage books ~ children's and craft. Soemthing about those books are so inspiring...and I love the paper.

[Cat]

Now, the question is - have you found the knitted trunks? I have several of those books and there some wonderful 'double gusseted' trunks for the younger man. Brilliant!