Roxy's Pink Turtleneck

I finally had a chance to finish this sweater for Roxy...she is just way too cute!

fun with Fondant

This weekend I baked this cake for my friend JoAnn's husband's 50th birthday party, it took 6 hours and a lot of planning.....the lower tier is a flourless chocolate cake with a chocolate glaze and the upper tier is 4 layers alternating devil's food and red velvet with chocolate fudge icing in between the layers and covered in chocolate fondant. I would have liked to fondant to be smoother but it was only my second time ever using fondant......next time will be better :)

Wrist Warmers for Carolina

These wrist warmers are made from Alpaca and are very cozy, I made up the pattern myself using circular needles (the two needle trick which is GREAT!) I hate seams!! The top edges are K1 P1 ribbing and I created the thumb sleeve using a great trick I found online:

http://akittenknits.blogspot.com/2006/12/thumb-trick.html

I am planning on felting an old sweater and sewing a square pocket, Carolina had an idea to make a pocket on them to hold a "pocket warmer."

Beanie and Booties for Paola's baby shower!

What a fun project this was! Super fast too, I want to guess that my total time was about 1 hour for each bootie and 2-3 for the hat. The pattern is from a book called "Natural knits for babies and moms" but I added my own little touch to it. I made the sole be a different color than the rest of the bootie, i made the picot edge on the hat a different color from the rest of the hat and the little flower at the top was my thing too. I made it out of a chain of 5 bobbles. I used Debbie Bliss alpaca silk which is a blend of 80% baby alpaca and 20% silk, OMG the softest most delicious yarn...perfect for baby! I have enough left over to make one more set....this one is going to be a gift for my cousin Paola's baby shower...hope she likes it!