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| Teatime treats! |
Help
yourself to a cake or biscuit people! And you needn’t worry about the calorie
count as these little morsels are certainly not fattening – because they’re
made from wool. I was so delighted with the Blooms
and Bunnies I produced for Easter I thought I would try and make something
each month so, since the Man of the House and I both celebrated birthdays at
the start of May, I got my crochet hooks out, and rummaged around in my stash
of wool oddments, and this is what I’ve come up with for today’s Saturday
Snapshot.
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| Creative cupcakes. |
I
had great fun decorating them with beads and ribbons, and although my efforts
to produce a crochet fruit for the top of one cake were not at all successful,
I left it on, as a record of my work.
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| Fondant fancies and an iced party ring biscuit . The butterfly candles look pretty, but I don't think it would be sensible to light them. |
There
are fondant fancies (round rather than square like the real thing) with roses
on the top, and cup cakes with lots of swirly ‘icing’, and some cream sponges
topped with fruit, some jam tarts and bakewell tarts, and lots of biscuits.
There are chocolate digestives, and jammie dodgers, and scrummy party rings with
icing on the top, and pink wafers sandwiched together with vanilla cream, and
those lovely, curranty biscuits with crunchy sugar on the top. I’m not sure
what they are called – I’ve seen them referred to as currant biscuits, Easter
biscuits, and Shrewsbury biscuits. Whatever their name, the edible ones are
delicious and really easy to bake, but having lost weight on my walking/not
eating between meals campaign, I’m reluctant to start cooking teatime treats in
case I put weight on again!
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| Biscuit bonanza: pink wafers, jammie dodgers and sugary currant biscuits. |
I
used scraps of double knitting wool, with a 3mm (British sizing hook), and the
patterns mostly came from http://www.normalynn.info/
which has some really ambitious culinary crochet, much more intricate than
mine. I changed some of the patterns, and altered the sizes, and even though
self-praise is no recommendation I think they are quite effective.
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| Tasty 'pstry' tarts - jam, lemon curd, and bakewell (with a cerry on the top). |
Now
I have to think about a project for June! Any ideas anyone?
Alyce at At Home With Books is taking a break, so Saturday
Snapshot is now being hosted by Melinda of West Metro
Mommy.
These are wonderful! They look very tasty too! Culinary crochet... this is the first time I come across them. Thanks for sharing your creative endeavours. ;)
ReplyDeletehank you! They are totally useless, but they look pretty, and I had such fun making them.
DeleteSo lovely....and I wish I could crochet or knit. I used to crochet....perhaps I haven't forgotten it all.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing...and for visiting my blog.
I learned to crochet when I was a child, but have only really started doing it again over the last couple of years. It seems to be something that is quite easy to remember after a gap.
DeleteThose are adorable! They turned out so cute, and the photos with the lace tablecloth background really show them off well.
ReplyDeleteThat's kind of you to say so Ali. I must admit I've fallen in love in love with them, and now have them on top of a case because it's a shame to hie hem away!
DeleteOMG these are soooo cute!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for dropping by and visiting.
They are just fiddle faddles really, but I like fiddling around with stuff!
DeleteTotally cute! And your staging of them is brilliant! Such a great post!
ReplyDeleteThank you Susan. They look so delicious I may have to take up baking again!
DeleteHow adorable is that! I once crocheted a huge hamburger to use as hotpads, but I never thought of little treats like this.
ReplyDeleteA crochet hamburger sounds interesting - maybe I could do a woolly barbecue, with something for veggies as well!
DeleteImpressive. What talent you have. Here's Mine
ReplyDeletePaulita, that is a kind comment. I'm not really very clever, because I don't design things - I just adapt and interpret patterns.
DeleteAt first glance I thought they were real. So cute! I have no talent for creating these kinds of goodies but my sister-in-law would love this.
ReplyDeleteThe first few I made the Man of the House thought were real - he even picked one to eat it!
DeleteCreative! You have more patience than me. Dang though, now I want to eat cookies. :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm not known for my patience Allison, but I find crochet, knitting and embroidery is very therapeutic and calms me down.
DeleteWow! That's amazing!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteSo cute! I only have the patience for granny squares. I could never crochet something like that!
ReplyDeleteActually stuff like this is easier than something like a granny square market, because it's all small-scale and you have something to show for your efforts quite quickly. I'm still stitching in ends on the granny square blanket I did... it takes for ever!
DeleteThose are wonderful! I've been between projects for ages, but I don't think i'll aim as high as your beauties.
ReplyDeleteWhat are you doing? I love to see other people's craf, needlework etc. Other people always seem to have more sticking power thsn I have, and they tackle much larger projects.
DeleteWhen I first clicked open your page I thought "yum!" then I looked closer and thought "clever lady".
ReplyDeleteThey're not difficult - basically all the round things are variations on the same pattern! The idea is I can look at these instead of wanting real cakes... not sure that theory works though!
DeleteThese are just wonderful Christine! It's early morning and my first view of the first photo, I thought they were Real! What a lot of work that must have taken. Now I want cupcakes! Have a great day!
ReplyDeleteThank you Frances. I did some of these when I was with my Mother, and the cupcakes were her favourites, and made her want to eat something similar, but she forced herself to eat chocolates instead!
DeleteThose are adorable! I should try to make some of these for my daughter to play with!
ReplyDeleteThanks for taking part in Saturday Snapshot!
They would be great for her - she could play shops, or tea parties, or all sorts of things.
DeleteCalorie free too:)
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be good if real cakes were non-fattening!
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