knitting for a new friend

The hardest part about moving to a new city is making new friends, especially when I now work from home! I've tried getting invoked in things that will allow me to meet new people...I volunteer for a battered women's shelter, I joined a gym right next to my house, and I go to a knitting group every week (yes, exactly what I said...it's one of my favorite things to do!

I've been fortunate to make a new great friend, Aimee, through knitting! Her birthday was last weekend so I made her cupcakes.



I used a recipe that I found on Pinterest (love Pinterest!), which can be found here. It's a strawberry lemonade cake that I modified for cupcakes. Sooooo yummy! The frosting is the best I've ever had!

I've never really decorated cupcakes before but thought it would be really cute to theme them for our knitting group! I cut strips of pink fondant and added slits to resemble knitting. Then I added toothpicks with little fondant balls to look like knitting needles. I loved how they turned out, especially considering how disastrous it could have been being my first time making them.





I wanted to make a little birthday gift for Aimee to go with her cupcakes so I made a set of gift tags she can use when she gifts her knitted projects.



I made all of the tags using Crumb Cake cardstock and stamped with the "Hand Knit" stamp set (I was so excited to finally get this set). I also used the "knit happens" stamp my favorite retired set "Fashion Statements". I stamped in black, colored each tag with pink and black gel pens and added a fluffy touch with white liquid appliqué.











I made her birthday card by knitting with toothpicks (quite challenging) to make a small knitted project to match the cupcakes.





This inside was stamped using the new happy birthday single stamp...such a great font!


Here's the finished product...






I am pleased with the results...Aimee loved it, which was the best part!

tater bags

BTW...this is an older post but, for some reason, it moved to more recently...

This weekend's project crossed over into the sewing world... tater bags! These cute little bags are for cooking potatoes (and corn and bread and...) in the microwave! They're great! I will have these available in my Etsy store soon... Once I make a slight revision to make them better! What do you think?