Mr knitwits birthday cake!

It's inly a brief one today! It's me knitwits birthday and although he's at work, poor sausage! 

We did celebrate yesterday though, we did presents and had a takeaway and went out and had friends over! It was a really lovely pre birthday! 

But today is for cake! 

It's a design from Disney sweets and treats and I think it's the best cake I've made from the magazines! 

And Mr knitwits loves it too! It combines his favourite thing "gaming" and lil knitwits favourite thing "toy story"! 

I just hope it tastes nice! I made two cakes one where I had to cut off the burnt bits and another where I was one egg short and had to improvise! 

Eek! 

Much love

Frankie

Xxx

Adventure Is Out There!

Its Day 13 of Pinterest Fortnight folks , this is literally the home stretch! And I am so excited about todays make!!!! First I'll show you the inspiration then I'll get to the explaining!

 

 

This was my inspiration straight off my Pinterest board! And it come from this lovely little shop on

 Etsy!  

I love the balloons which got my thinking about one of my favourite movies!

Ever since I was little, I have always been Disney obsessed I pride myself on my Disney knowledge , in fact I don't like the toot my own horn but I once won a game of Disney trivial pursuits in one turn! so TOOT TOOT! Anyway there are three Disney movies that make me cry without fail every time "Bambi", "The Fox and theHound" and "UP!"

 

UP! Is such a wonderful story of adventure and ever lasting love! But mainly I love it because of the house.

 

 

 

The house floats by balloons! How whimsical is that! Its just so magical , and I'm actually very jealous that my house doesn't float via balloons. Which leads me quite nicely to my make!

 

 

My very own UP! house!

 

 

 I decided to do the house in quite a simple style so that the buttons would the focus point!

 

 

As usual I worked using my Grandmothers embroidery hoop. Although when I was tightening it I did hear a small crack , now I cant find any damage but I'm being twice as careful as usual with it!

 

 

I worked on a really lovely linen and all of the buttons are from my stash! It was a really nice opportunity to use up all of the odd buttons I've collected over the years , I tend to use buttons in twos or more. So it was nice to have a good search through!

 

 

Lovely bright coloured buttons!

 

 

This might actually be one of my favourite makes from Pinterest Fortnight! Now I just need to find a spare five minutes so I can turn this, my tattoo style embroidery, my owl embroidery, and my Darth vader embroidery into cushions so I can put them up for sale in My Etsy Shop!

 

I cant wait to see all of them as cushions I think they are going to look awesome!

 

See you tomorrow for the Grand Finale! Lord knows what I'm going to make!

 

Much Love

 

Frankie

 

xxx

Stitch

Although the title of this post might be confusing I mean Stich as in Lilo and Stitch not as in sewing! although I did do some of that for this project as well!

Here's the little guy the toy was based on ....

Isn't he adorable!!!! And this is my version! I knitted it for a friend and I'm really pleased with it!

I made him for a friend and I couldn't find a pattern so I made my own! But don't worry I've got it safely written down in case I need to make another one .  All the details are in felt! The only part I had real trouble with was his mouth, but its hard to make pointy teeth look friendly! (unless your a Disney animator). All in all I think he's pretty cute and my friend was really pleased with him!

anyways by for now

Frankie
xxx