Cross stitch knitting

Cat Kelly's knitting cake! Inspired by this design: This was the finished cake: I baked two sponge cakes and sandwiched them together with butter cream icing and strawberry jam. Then I carefully carved a little off each side to make the cake oval shaped. I was going to invest in an oval shaped cake tin but the chopping method worked just as well! I covered the cake in blue sugarpaste to start. I then mixed up a big batch of butter cream icing, divided it into two and coloured one green and…

Fair isle flower

Hello, hello! And how are all of my stitching friends on this mid-March morn? March has certainly lived up to its "in like a lion" reputation for many of us here in the U.S, hasn't it? Wild winds, power outages (we had a seven-hour loss of power last week. Oh, dear--I'm afraid there was nothing to do but stitch!!), and the most beautiful snowfalls have been the norm for the past two weeks. It looks like a cold week ahead and I fear my oldest son, who is visiting from sunny, warm southern…

Alpha friendship bracelet pattern #156102 added by Nati007. strawberries fruit market sign poster plant flower strawberryfields fields leaves whiteflowers fruitmarket.