Needlework Tuesday - Well it doesn't really look like a cupcake

Does my title have you wondering why I am talking about cupcakes in a needlework post. Actually, it does make sense. In April I started crocheting a tea cosy that is supposed to look like a cupcake.Daughter and I chose the pale blue for the cupcake paper.  It is a very thick stitch, double crochets alternating around the front post and then back post.  Single crochet for the chocolate cake and then a long white spiral for the frosting.  It is cute but both of us think it looks more like a 'magic mushroom'.  The most fun part was adding the sprinkles/beads at the top.  I did notice that I sewed on the cake part to look big and fluffy while the pattern shows it tucked within the liner paper.  The Pattern is from Patons and is free from their website.

I do hope that you had a chance to view the three parts of the quilt show that I posted last week.  The quilts are by members of my local guild and by the members of the St. Jacobs Mennonite Church.  Part 1 - Black and White Quilts.  Part 2 - Embroidered Quilts.  Part 3 - Assorted Styles of Quilts.

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I used really large beads for this project, size 3/0, as I felt that regular seed beads would have been lost in the stitching.  I sewed them on with regular white cotton thread and knotted after every couple of beads.  I don't expect this cosy will get washed often, so they should be quite secure.

After finishing the salmon afghan, I was ready to start a new project.  Daughter has been asking that I knit an eternity scarf for one of her friends. I happened to have a 200 gram ball of Softie by Jessan in Holland.  It's been sitting in my closet for years waiting.  A pure white like this just doesn't look good on me, but her friend really rocks white.  I cast  on 60 stitches on 4.5 mm needles and am k6p6 maintaining the pattern for 6 rows and then reversing.  The resulting checker board pattern is very pretty yet still incredibly soft. I'm not sure how long this needs to be, though when it reaches that magic length, I'll stitch the two ends together and call it finished.

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