Showing posts with label booties. Show all posts
Showing posts with label booties. Show all posts

Saturday, March 19, 2011

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.