Month: September 2021
Apple Cake
Today I decided to use up some more apples freshly picked from my apple tree. Creamy butter, sugar and cinnamon, gram flour (because I had some to use up), chopped up apples complete with skin, bake, cool slightly, sprinkle with icing sugar – it didn’t take long before the family devoured some! A friend asked ‘with custard or ice cream?’ – no time to make accompaniments before the plates and forks were held aloft !
This is hilarious – I just realised why it didn’t rise – I forgot to put eggs in the mixture! I was thinking the cake was really flat because the flour was gram flour and old! I really am out of practice of baking. I am just getting over an operation – slightly wondering if they took out the thinking part of me rather than just gynae!
Repurposing Something or Correcting Mistakes
A few weeks ago I started crocheting a colourful cardigan. It was fun to select the changing colours and to learn a new way of construction. I blogged a couple of photos as I progressed. It was supposed to be a simple project to occupy my time whilst putting my health first and also using up a huge pile of cottons in my craft stash. Look at it now! You may be confused as this isn’t a cardigan …..
I admit it – it beat me! The main body of the cardigan turned out too wide. I had my suspicions as I was about two thirds along but carried on regardless. The one sleeve I started looked like a flower pot – confirmed when another blogger thought the same. Instead of giving up totally, throwing it all in a bag to hide it from myself (as another UFO) I decided to jiggle around the pieces and repurpose it as a cushion cover. The ‘flower pot’ sleeve remains a tubular ‘thing’ but you never know it may turn into something else one day! Yes there were a few choice words beforehand but I am rather pleased with the outcome and have moved on to another project.
Next year, a new cardigan in lime green for the summer we are overdue as it didn’t exactly arrive this year! Next year too, a couple of those other UFOs will also be finished or repurposed/ripped back – a promise to myself!
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