Knitting and baking

I seem to gravitate towards Knitting and Baking when the snow and ice makes venturing out less attractive. On Wednesday morning, I was wondering what to make for our Gardening Evening Club Party. I just did not feel like going out shopping, so I went through my stash of ingredients, and came up with a tasty seasonal mix.

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I made cake mix and added cranberries, chopped fresh apple, and slowly roasted pecans. As I used the whole 250g butter block, I had sufficient mixture to make 12 cup cakes and another small slab of cake. I sifted some icing sugar over the cup cakes. * Several gardening friends came up to ask for the recipe for these. *

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In the afternoon, some of the slab was eaten up, when a few of my knitting friends came round for the first session of our lap rug project. We have worked on the pattern for the crocheted squares and under Jackie's guidance, we all managed to crochet similar sized squares, adjusting our tension by changing technique or hook size. I must say how much I admire Jackie, Nicki and Janice for braving the weather.

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These little snow flakes have fluttered into my blog, and allowing the space between the paragraphs which I have trying unsuccessfully to achieve.

Privacy or what, learning curves

Just realised that all and sundry would be able to read my blog just by searching on Google with my blog name. I'm just not ready to expose myself and the ones I love to the whole world. This is a learning curve, and the next thing I need to learn is how to tell the select band of friends and family how to find my blog. I'll need to think of ways of keeping it interesting so that they will look in from time to time. So if any of you do look in, let me know if anything is interesting and if you would like more on the various subjects which interest you.

Its really knitting which got me into all of this: wanting to look for fabulous yarns, then taking digital pictures of my efforts and sending them to other knitting friends.

Then of course bread making and gardening.....so for friends from the various areas, maybe you will get to know more about my other sides!