September Has Come…

I could quote Keats again, but I think I did that another year…although I can’t find the post!
It is that time of year again. The new knitting magazines are coming out, and there are many new patterns for our perusal! Not least among these is the new Knitty. Which has the delightful benefit of being [...]

Ishbel

In June, on a complete whim, I cast on for an Ishbel. I don’t know why. It’s a pretty pattern, but I’m not really a shawl person, so it was an odd decision. However… I finished it while I was on holiday and it took me until today to get around to blocking it. Here [...]

Meeting Targets

You might remember a series of blog posts a while ago, they were lauding BubbleTimer to the skies. After three weeks where I was on holiday or in a situation where I didn’t really need to track my time, I came back to it, and streamlined it all dramatically. Although I still use it, I [...]

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cupcakes Part II

Happily I am now able to update you on the cupcakes I wrote about yesterday.
First of all, a confession. I messed up the icing. This is my own fault for using margerine instead of butter, and I have learned my lesson. For some reason I always mess up the icing. I can make a perfectly [...]

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

For my birthday I was given a copy of Harry Eastwood’s Red Velvet & Chocolate Heartache. The premise of this book is that you can cook cakes and delicious things using vegetables instead of lots of fat and other undesirable things. Like wheat, which suits me fine!
Visually, this book is stunning. Every picture makes you [...]