SOLD Knitted White Christmas Fairy Mice

I have made these 3 White Fairy Mice by Alan Dart. He allows you to sell them provided you give him credit for the design, duly done (thanks Alan). They are for sale individually or as a three. One in a blue dress, one in a yellow dress and one in a pink dress, all with sparkly silver wings, star and hanger. They are £18 for the set plus p&p (lowest possible at time). You are not just paying for the materials but for a lot of intricate knitting, assembly, care and time taken, to make them look just like the design, plus they are stuffed with fire retardant filling for safety.  

If you are interested in buying them please leave your e-mail address as a comment and i will get in touch via e-mail. Your e-mail address will NOT be on view because i have to verify comments first so only i will see your e-mail address. I can also post outside the uk once a postage price is agreed. 

Thank you for looking. 

Knitted Halloween Characters

Just a few Knitted Characters for Halloween as I was in the flow of knitting. They hardly took any time at all and the spider was made mostly by my 9 year old son.

Halloween Cupcakes

Red velvet cupcakes (recipe from issue 7 of Cake Decorating magazine). Decorated with glacé icing and feathered to look like a spiders web. The spooky cupcake picks came with the special  edition Halloween magazine.

Again red velvet cupcakes, but they were supposed to be scary pumpkins only i put the orange sugarpaste icing on the cakes before reading the instructions for using the stencil.  It was impossible to stencil on the cakes, it should have been done flat before putting on the cakes. They don't look very scary now but tasted lovely.

Halloween Cookies

One each of the Halloween cookies just to show the shapes. Ended up with about 50 after using the chocolate cookie recipe in the cake decorating magazine (issue 3). Very easy to roll and cut but cookies were too soft for me, i like a bite and a crunch to mine. No time for icing to decorate as a last minute decision, we don't 'do' Halloween usually!

Hessian Appliqué Potato Sacks

2 meters of Hessian for £6, made into 4 large potato sacks 30" by 20". That's only £1.50 each, you can't buy them for that! A bit plain though, so I added some appliqué letters and potatoes, all cut by hand. Useful for the potatoes from our allotment! 

Small Recovered Cushion with Zip

I made this cushion cover in a couple of hours and it has a Zip! 'Tis my husband's neck pillow for his chair and desperately needed recovering. I bought the fabric from the charity shop for abut 40p and had the zip from years ago in my stash. The fabric was a type of wrap and although it looks snagged, that's the way it's supposed to be.

Flourless Chocolate Raspberry Cake (Hubby's birthday)

For my husband's birthday last week i wanted to make this cake because he loves raspberry ripple ice cream, unfortunately I now know this does not extend to fresh raspberries; but he liked the chocolate cake part. The recipe came from 'The Home of Fabulous Cakes' currently on TV, hosted by Fiona Cairns, who made William and Kate's cake for the Royal Wedding. The cake uses toasted ground hazelnuts instead of flour and  the egg whites had to be whisked like a meringue before being incorporated into the mixture. It's topped with a chocolate ganache then the raspberries. My first go at ganache and it worked, I especially loved the taste of hazelnuts through the cake too; I love hazelnuts..