Making Monday : Caking and Castle-ing
I’ve been full steam ahead with my Dover Castle this week. It is a nice pattern, easy to do, and it would be easy to remember normally but I’m quite forgetful at the moment so it is easy to follow. The only wrinkle I can forsee is that it will be quite little even when blocked so more of a neckerchief than a shawl.
I am toying with using a slightly different colour and completely different yarn to make the edging with or going completely wild and using a different colour for the edging all together as I do have a skein of the same yarn in grey. The beauty of the pattern is that the edging can be as deep as you like so that is a very tempting prospect.
My friend Jan came for lunch today and I quickly made some little cakes for us. I used the Bakewell Cake recipe that I cooked for Tamyra’s birthday but made little cupcakes instead of a full cake in some silicone moulds I had in the cupboard – quick, easy, and no faffing. They were very popular.
Jan brought me a little flower display she’d made for me. It was really gorgeous. Lucky me 
March 4th, 2013 at 3:04 pm
Those cakes were omnomnom.
March 4th, 2013 at 4:02 pm
Tamyra seems to be taking an awful lot of interest in those beautiful flowers. She may been an intervention.
March 5th, 2013 at 6:24 am
Mrs. Pao- I’m happy there is no faffing.
March 5th, 2013 at 10:16 am
I think gray edging would look nice. And those cakes look scrumptious!
March 5th, 2013 at 1:16 pm
See, that is a lovely shawl. I knew I’d need to make one.
Also: little cakes! Yummy!
March 5th, 2013 at 7:40 pm
Beautiful flowers!! And what a clever idea to make little cup cakes instead of one big cake. I like that idea.
March 7th, 2013 at 7:16 pm
Pretty! Tasty! Pretty.