Clipsal 500 craft

It's the Clipsal500 in Adelaide this week ('the bogan car race' as I like to call it to stir my boyfriend), and as J is a volunteer track marshall for the event I have had a few quiet evenings to amuse myself and do craft to my hearts content before he finishes up on track each night.

I put the finishing touches on the garter stitch wrap top, and have completed the first set of baby booties. One baby present down, four more to go! :-) This time I used purple organza ribbon to tie up the booties rather than knitting the i-cord laces that I usually use for this pattern.


I also had some time to do some baking....so with some figs I picked from J's mum's massive tree I baked a fig cake using a very easy but delicious recipe from tiny happy's blog. I modified it slightly by adding a teaspoon of vanilla essence and my cake took longer to cook through (nearly 1 hour). I'll definitely be using this recipe again, and it's pretty versatile - you could use almost any kind of fruit in it.