Over the past few months, I have occasionally alluded to being a little more stressed out than usual… The proportion of crafting, and in particular cross stitch, has increased to compensate as I do love a bit of therapeutic stitching! One of the crafty things I’ve been up to is this little guy from CrossStitcher Magazine […]
Week 2, and it’s bread week! Surprisingly, yet again the technical challenge is something I would actually want to make! You can find the recipe on the BBC website here. I decided to do it all by hand and didn’t cheat by using my stand mixer to knead the dough, the dough progressed through phases of […]
Last weekend when my Mum was here, I took the opportunity to try out a couple of recipes from a fairly new book that I hadn’t quite got around to trying yet. The book is Prashad by Kaushy Patel, and it was another book that The Book People had brought into work. I wasn’t planning […]
Today has been a day of craftiness! (or should that be craftyness?) Two of my pregnant lady friends came round and we had a bit of a baby bib making session, using the same template as I have made before. We kept going with supplies of tea and juice….. oh and I whipped up some […]
So, you may remember that almost 2 months back I was in London for my birthday, and I got some fancy fabric from Liberty to make a nice Lonsdale dress with. It is Liberty Tana Lawn fabric, Marco C variation. Marco was originally a scarf design from 1970 that was recreated using a pattern of tiny […]
It’s the return of the Great British Bake Off! Hurrah! This means it’s time to get inspired to bake some things, bake some new things, and generally eat even more baked goods than usual! I bought the book the other week, and had a flick through the technical challenges to see if there were any […]
There’s a group on Facebook, Food Feed, where people who like to take pictures of their food and share ideas and things with others, can do so without irritating everyone else. I’m a member, and another member Miss South, of the North/South food blog, was looking for some recipe testers. I volunteered, and the first […]
More secretive work, although when it’s not a secret from Andrew it’s much easier! It’s a special little lady’s 2nd birthday today, so I decided to make her a little dress for a present. The pattern is from a great book called 101 fabric by fabric ways to sew a metre, which is full of […]
This morning, I woke up, did a bit more of my sewing, went and fed my friend’s cats… then on the way home starting feeling a bit peckish. I could have had some boring cereal, but this morning, I felt the urge for pancakes. Not regular english pancakes, something a little more Scottish. A quick […]
Man! What a week! I’m glad it’s over. Or…. pretty much over, once I go to work tomorrow morning. But…. this week hasn’t been all doom and gloom and stress! I made some really super tasty cake, then have also been working on a little secret something….. (my nice new pattern weights coming in handy there!) […]
Baking, Making, and Crafting 