These are the knitted cakes that are still being finished off. They're waiting for embroidered sprinkles to be added on top, as well as juicy red (knitted) cherries. The paper cakes cases are represented by cream or very pale pink wool, then there's brown for the cake itself and pale lemon or egg yolk yellow wool for the icing.
I'll add a label on each, and disguise the sewing to attach the labels with a button. These are really easy and quick to make, and I'm going to try different types of yarn such as mohair to jazz 'em up.
By the way, the cakes are sitting on top of a recent edition of Selvedge. I love the magazine but it was always a luxury to buy it. Now it's gone up to £10 and I'm not sure I can justify spending that on a magazine. Well, that's it for now. I'm going to read a bit more of 'The Elegance of the Hedgehog' by Muriel Barbery. Not that I'm recommending it. Oooh, no! It's going to be discussed at my next bookgroup, otherwise I'd have ditched it by now. Have read about a quarter of it so far, and I'm finding it tedious. The characters don't come across as real people, just vehicles for putting across ideas and theories. One of them is a concierge in a French apartment block, the other supposedly a 12 year old girl, but neither seems real. They don't leap off the page. Oh well, maybe it'll get better if I persevere ... and I've got a real bumper book to look forward to. I've bought Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall'. Can't wait to get started on it.
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