Yarn bombing gone wild!!!!!

Check out this website for some crochet inspiration.
http://yarnbomatraintoallwood.webs.com/

 

 

Flower Power!!

I saw this beautiful crochet blanket on hopscotch lane and the pattern was on Annie's Place
where their was another beautiful blanket and very easy to follow instructions. Due to my lack to crochet proficiency I joined the new colour at the corner in round 7, starting in the middle of the square I seemed to end up with a bump??

Learning to Crochet

Crochet has been one of those crafts that I just could not get the hang of, I bought two books, got a couple of instructional leaflets from the wool shop and a very patient lady tried to teach me...but NO!!!
But during the Summer holidays I decided I was on a mission....I now didn't just have to learn, I needed to learn!!!
All Free Crochet to the rescue...well mikeyssmail. I watched this video clip on 'How to Crochet Granny Square' m.youtube.com/watch?feature=plpp&v=Xa7WjJKJjmg
I watched it over and over and over again - success!!!

Quite a few granny squares later I am all joined up....
First Project completed.

Ready to start the next project...Think I am HOOKED!!!

Different Flavours of Cupcakes

A wee baking session on Saturday, the Red Velvet Cupcakes from this book are lovely.
'The Hummingbird Bakery - cupcakes and muffins'
I also used the Chocolate Cupcake recipe and added the rind of one orange to the mix, then topped them with the vanilla butter icing, but I put in the rind from another orange and 20mls of orange juice instead of the milk.
The pink ones are the vanilla recipe with 25grams of coconut and 50grams of frozen raspberries - fold the raspberries in gently at the end to avoid having blue coloured cupcakes! They were then topped off with the vanilla butter icing, but 25grams of defrosted raspberries were beaten in instead of the milk.
The addition of 1tsp of cinnamon and a peeled and grated apple to the recipe also works well, with 1/2 a tsp of cinnamon in the butter icing instead of vanilla.
As this is a very light cake mix I found that when I added chocolare chips they tended to stink to the bottom and stick to the cupcake cases.

Cupcakes

My favourite recipe for cupcakes is from 'The Hummingbird Bakery'.
The Vanilla cupcake recipe can be found in the book of the same name or from www.goodtoknow.co.uk.

My copy is very well used and loved!!
This recipe is one that when I read it initially I thought it would not work as well as my trusted creaming method recipe - the 'rub-in' method is usually used for pastry, crumbles and scones, but it works beautifully.
I usually use buttermilk instead of full fat milk, this recipe works really well if you want to add something else to change the flavour of your cupcakes.

Greetings

Hi
I love reading different crafty blogs online - so I decided to start my own - it's a wee bit scary since technology is not my strong suit - anyway I am just going to jump in, learn and probably make loads of mistakes - so here goes!!!!!!