Dinner Party Food and Knit Knit Knitting

Howdy Y'all!!

It's Wednesay, Another 3 days until the weekend! So what did you get up to on the weekend just gone by?

I hosted a dinner party for some friends! You can see the menu below! I displayed it on the TV through the PS3 media server! My guests were very impressed and said it was better than anything they have seen on Come Dine With Me! =D I will post a link at some stage for my recipes..I need to type them up..I made them up as I went along so I just have scribbles on a sheet of paper at the moment. unfortunately I didn't cook the orange and almond cake =( so I can't give you that one. When I eventually add the recipes...If anyone tries them out let me know how you get on! They are scrumptious if the chef may say so herself! And I hope you guys will enjoy them just as much

For those of you not up to date on Irish slang, Cuppa Tay refers to: a cup of tea

As well as hosting a dinner party, I took a break from my knitting sabbatical! YAY! I was exhausted on Sunday after all my weekly housework, cooking and hosting so decided to have a pyjama day! An actual pyjama day..I never ever ever do that! I actually sat around all day in my pyjamas, dressing gown and slippers! It was brilliant! I read over half the book I am reading at the moment - pieces of my heart by Sinead Moriarty - Although I mentioned in my last post that I was not really getting into it..I have since gotten very into it and find it much much better than the previous books of hers I mentioned. I can't leave it down!

After my morning of drinking copious cups of tea and reading..I took out Young Sweetie and set to work! I knitted, knitted, knitted and sewed, sewed, sewed (as much as I detest sewing).

I sewed on young sweeties hat band and neck band. And I knitted the little pink sweets for her shoes, stuffed them, sewed them up and sewed them to her shoes! See all the pictures below! They were knitted in three parts and then brought together top form the final pieces. A white horizontal stitch was sewn on each stitch to make them appear to have a shiny wrapper!

Before I sewed everything, hatband, neckband, sweets. check out Fred yawning!!

All sewn on

The sweets up close

Young Sweetie..My other half and Fred! So cute!

Next I knitted the skirt of her dress, the pockets, the bib and the straps. The picot edge of the skirt was made by knitting a row as follows: Knit 2 stitches together, wrap yarn around the needle, and repeat to the end. On the following row, purl into the yarn around the needle stitch from the previous row..so you always have the same number of stitches. It is the same as making a button hole. You end up with a row of holes and when folded along this row..it forms the picot edge. The skirt took the longest to knit as there was 160 stitches an the needle! It was very repetitive but I kept going! All the. pieces were then sewn together and placed on Young Sweetie

All the pieces before they were sewn together

Young Sweetie so far!

 When the skirt was finished I found it a little too big when placed around young sweeties body! I was a little disappointed at first but I think I am just being a perfectionist as nobody else notices or thinks that it is too big! I am thinking it may be dues to using so many different brands of double knitting wool. I am just using scraps of wool I have left over from other projects (hence why my young sweetie is not the exact same colour as Jean Greenhowe's Young Sweetie in the pattern book). I am really happy with how she is turning out so far and I am really spurred on to keep going with my knitting to finish her! I am so excited to see the overall finished product at the end and for her to fulfill her very special job!


I have decided I should change the description of this blog to: a knitting, crafting, cooking and baking blog, as I seem to do a lot of the latter two as well as knitting and crafting! =D What do ye guys think?

Until Again!

Happy Knitting and Crafting


Helena =D