Sweet Confections

Okay!

I'm BACK!!! :))))

Mr. Awesome Son~In~Law

knows how important my blog is to me,

therefore he trotted himself

across the street last evening

after I sent an SOS his way.

As I mentioned already,

I have various things to show and tell about

and instead of starting at the beginning

I am starting with my most recent project.

{Then I will back track ~ just have to do things willy~nilly, as usual!}

Really it's just that I am dying

{well....at least hyperventilating ~ I AM prone to exaggeration}

to show you these 

Cupcakes!

So here goes....

A CUPCAKE PARADE

This is the first one I made.

It is a gift for my sister who just turned 40 this week.

She was in the middle of a move so we are celebrating next week.

Bridget is the crowned Cupcake Queen of our family,

running a home based baking business that specializes in cupcakes.

She will flip over this one!

I gave her this part of her gift on Tuesday, her actual birthday.

It's a Cupcake Cozy

{click on the live link to go to the pattern}

I found on Ravelry.

I decided to stretch it around a vase as I had already made her several cabled cozies

for her coffee cup, which I will show in one of my next posts :)))

She LOVED it!

But back to the little confections,

because as we all know,

just one cupcake is never enough!

After making one for Bridget

I decided they would make lovely Valentine gifts 

for my Monday night Knit Night Girls.

{Shhhh.......don't tell them. I hope none of them are peeking!}

Mmmmm.....chocolate!

There's a heart shaped glass bead nestled in the center 

of the rose on this one.

Here's one with a pretty blue wrapper and a pearl on top.

They are meant to be pincushions and the wonderful thing about them is

a darning needle will fit in them as well as regular pins and needles.

The pattern can be found 

here

on Ravelry.

Inserted in the base of each one is a plastic Dole fruit cup.

I used mostly Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino yarn.

Just Yummy!

For more in depth notes on how I made them you can go to my

Ravelry projects page at

Front Porch Knits

They have pretty little bottoms, don't they?!

I am still working on whipping up more of these delightful cuppies....

just 4 isn't enough....

Gabby will need one...

I will need one....

:)))

So ....

you know what I am doing on these

  Cold Winter Days

Knitting up a Storm!

{This picture was taken in the parlor of

 the Victorian Mansion in Galena, Illinois

where Scott & I spent our anniversary.}

What are YOU doing on these cold Winter days?

XO

    XO,

Danette

p.s. It's good to be back!