As its my birthday tomorrow (yippee!!!) I thought I’d share the yummy strawberry birthday cheesecake I made over the weekend to celebrate – sadly there is none left now. It was just too delicious to last very long!
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And Finally For Today…..
Dyeing to Meet You – haha!
This is what I’ve been wanting to do for ages – dye my own yarn. Its part of my master plan and I finally had a go yesterday morning. I used food colourings and the undyed dk I got in my little starter kit. I divided the yarn up into 3 different skeins to be able to experiment more with the colours, soaked the yarn in vinegar over night and then got cracking in the morning. These were the results – one thing though…the smell of the wet yarn and vinegar was nearly too much for my delicate tum! I’ve now been given the advice to wash the yarn in fabric conditioner afterwards to make it smell nicer. A tip I will be carrying out! I’ve ordered some acid dyes and some sock yarn now and I can’t wait to have a go next week.
Adventures in Felting
I have been a busy girl recently! My latest knitting creation is this…my first booga bag. This was a first in quite a few ways – I’d not knitted a bag before, I had to pick up about 70 stitches and then knit in the round and it was my first attempt at icords and felting! I’m very pleased with the result. The felting was acheived by putting the bag and icord separately in the washing machine in net bags and putting 2 pairs of old jeans in to help bash them around a bit. Two washes on 60 degrees later et voila! A lovely little felted bag.