knitting

I CAN KNIT I CAN KNIT WOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!



wow rocked up for my knitting class yesterday and what do you know i was the only person in it, lucky me i scored over 2 hours of one on one teaching. I can knit plane, purl cast on and cast off.



Thanks girls at Kaalund yarns.

Wordless Wednesday

knitting

Today i plucked up the courage and wandered down to the new yarn shop, that has opened at our local shop, Steve and I noticed that they do knitting classes so today i booked myself in and am doing a beginners knitting class on Saturday. :-)

KAALUND YARNS WATCH OUT IM COMING TO PLAY!!

the sponge cake is complete

mmmmmmm yummy passion fruit sponge cake!!

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sponge cake

Yesterday Steve requested a sponge cake, my reply was omg iv never made one before. so today was the day that i attempted a sponge cake with cream and passion fruit icing. pictures to follow as the other half of the cake is in the oven still.

Classic Victoria sponge cake

ingredients for sponge
175g unsalted butter
175g caster sugar
3 eggs beaten
175g self raising flour.
x2 (i made 2 separate batches one for the top half and one for the bottom half of the cake).

method.
1. cream together butter and sugar untill light and fluffy,
2. then slowly add the beaten egg,
3. fold in the sifted flour,
4. gently fold the mixture,
5. spoon into cake tins,
6. bake for 20 mins @ 180 deg,
7. once baked let cool in the tins untill totally cool,
8. whip cream and make icing and your done.

oops

well this morning i did say today was a sewing kind of day, well i thought it was. didn't get a thing done except was able to cut out 2 fronts of some pinnies in a fab retro fabric i found at funky fabric's in their sale bin. maybe tomorrow will be the sewing kind of day.

who could resist such a nice day!

sunshine and lollypops

i think today feels like a sewing day, not to sure what to make but something will jump at me when i walk into my spare room for sure.

sewing.

Some paid sewing work came my way yesterday. The lovely lady next door has gotten me to her hemming and has asked me to transform a dress that is to big for her daughter into a long peasant style skirt. Pants have been hemmed just need to transfor the dress into a skirt. Happy sewing. :-)

utensils

Steve as complaining about not having a utensil holder in the kitchen so i found a old Milo tin and used double sided sticky tape and come retro red and white fat quarter i had and wola a awesome utensil holder.

surprise.

what a great surprise to find a large post bag from my mum on our front porch when i got back from doing a op shop stalk yesterday. when i opened it i found inside a set of silicone kitchen utensils and two very retro aprons that were my grandmothers how cool to have a bit of her with me in Queensland.

When my uncle was doing some cleaning at my grandpas place he came across a letter that's over 10 years old because it was written by me when i was in primary school. written on old yellow lined paper in grey led, man it was very funny as i was asking about all the pet cows and sheep we kept as kids.

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but wait there's more, i appliqued a singlet and added some ruffles to the sleeves.

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my next creation was a crown for a special little someone who made me a promise which was tp clean up the play room before some very special visitors arrived from overseas. fingers crossed she kept her promise other wise Auntie Stepfie has a way cool crown to wear while she is doning her house works.

new stuff

To put a stop to the requests by Lady bug Cat, i have finally gotten off my bum and have taken pictures of some of the other projects i have completed over the last couple of weeks.

Here goes, first was some draft stoppers for my bedroom as we just purchases a air conditioner , yippee or what finally i have some relief from the heat.

yes he is modeling a draft stopper weird i know the heat must have gotten to him .

tomorrow

THAT'S RIGHT TOMORROW I WILL ATTEMPT A PEG BAG!

fabric

Went on an adventure to spotlight the other day. Went for over locker thread and came home with a little collection. found some beautiful fabric but what to do with it.

p.s i love spotlight very muchly!

place mats

Last night i said that i thought my place mat project would be a work in progress i was wrong.

Today I sat down and got started and with in approx 2 hours I had finished 4 red and white striped place mats with charcoal backing.

This is my first ever post!!

Wow iv never written a blog before so here goes, I finally finished a beautiful batch of simple bibs from the bend the rules sewing by Amy Karol OMG i love that book! will post some picks when i learn how to.

Over the next couple of days i plan to attempt to create some place mats and if there's enough fabric left maybe come matching coasters. This will be a work inprogress i can tell.