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| The front of the bodice is very interesting........ I'm not too sure if that is a ruffle at the top of the bodice..... Or if the skirt part has another separate layer over it |
A Love of Vintage
Do you have a love of vintage dresses? This beautiful dress was worn by my Aunty........The 1940's styled dress was made for her by her husband.
Boiled Cake Baking
I have too many dried sultanas and I don't know what to with them......so it's cake baking time!
This is a very old recipe I'm not sure where it came from....... it's just written on a messy scrap of paper stuck in my baking book (it's not even in metric measurements). It must be fifteen years since I made this cake so I have forgotten whether I let the sultanas cool before adding the rest of the ingredients. I settled for warm sultanas and hoped the sultana cake wouldn't go heavy.......It didn't it was a success and looks rustic, messy, yummy and perhaps just little bit too too tasty!
Boiled Cake Recipe
Ingredients:
1lb of sultanas
1/2 lb butter
3 eggs
1 teacup of sugar (I use 1/2 to 3/4)
21/2 cups flour
1tsp baking powder (mine was heaped)
1 tsp vanilla (I used a cap full)
Method:
Cover sultanas with water and boil 5 minutes then strain.
Cut in the butter (put in with the sultanas, it melts)
Beat egg and sugar then add in the sultana butter mix.
Then fold in the rest of the dry ingredients.
Cook at 325 degrees for 1 1/4 hours
I cooked my cake at 180 Celsius for 1 hour
This is a very old recipe I'm not sure where it came from....... it's just written on a messy scrap of paper stuck in my baking book (it's not even in metric measurements). It must be fifteen years since I made this cake so I have forgotten whether I let the sultanas cool before adding the rest of the ingredients. I settled for warm sultanas and hoped the sultana cake wouldn't go heavy.......It didn't it was a success and looks rustic, messy, yummy and perhaps just little bit too too tasty!
Boiled Cake Recipe
Ingredients:
1lb of sultanas
1/2 lb butter
3 eggs
1 teacup of sugar (I use 1/2 to 3/4)
21/2 cups flour
1tsp baking powder (mine was heaped)
1 tsp vanilla (I used a cap full)
Method:
Cover sultanas with water and boil 5 minutes then strain.
Cut in the butter (put in with the sultanas, it melts)
Beat egg and sugar then add in the sultana butter mix.
Then fold in the rest of the dry ingredients.
Cook at 325 degrees for 1 1/4 hours
I cooked my cake at 180 Celsius for 1 hour
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| Baked in a round cake tin |
R.I.P. my Little Pinpicker
Today it rained for a great cat, this evening I buried my the pin picking cat, so sad he saw so much..........
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| At his best waiting to hunt prey...... |
Simply Simplicity
Well I've finally sewn something and yes it's another skirt.......I really like making skirts they would have to be one of my favourite items to sew........My pattern of choice today was Simplicity 2655 Simplicity easy-to-sew pattern, view E and as the pattern states it is pretty much an easy sew. A very good pattern to have as it has six different skirt styles to chose from.......
I cut the sewing pattern out on a size 16 and then scaled the skirt back a size after the initial fitting. I'm no good at measuring things so sometimes I cut my fabric out to the bigger size pattern (just to be safe!). I figure you can always make a skirt smaller but not bigger.......( that's the beauty of muslins that I don't sew......you have an idea of the sizing before you cut into your good fabric). This A frame skirt sits about and inch below the waist line ( I must say it's very slimming style). The fabric I used for the skirt is a fairly stiff printed linen with a slightly open weave. The stiffness of the linen made the skirt very easy to construct, press, and fit.
I cut the sewing pattern out on a size 16 and then scaled the skirt back a size after the initial fitting. I'm no good at measuring things so sometimes I cut my fabric out to the bigger size pattern (just to be safe!). I figure you can always make a skirt smaller but not bigger.......( that's the beauty of muslins that I don't sew......you have an idea of the sizing before you cut into your good fabric). This A frame skirt sits about and inch below the waist line ( I must say it's very slimming style). The fabric I used for the skirt is a fairly stiff printed linen with a slightly open weave. The stiffness of the linen made the skirt very easy to construct, press, and fit.
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| Easy to sew Simplicity 2655 View E |
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| The fitting of the skirt on the dummy makes the waist look very big...... |
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| This is a longer version of this style and is made in an open weaved heavy cotton which was very hard to sew, my straight stitches started to look wonky..... |
A Lovely Lull
There is not much sewing happening in my little patch of paradise. That's because I think there hasn't been a lot of time lately or has it been because I'm so full of so many ideas that I'm getting nothing done..........I'm always just thinking about What will I sew next?.........If I wrote up my list for my sewing projects it would be so daunting (that doesn't include the heap of mending) I wouldn't want to look.........Where do you start?
But I just can't help adding to the 'I'm going to make this sewing pile' so my list of things continues to grow.........I think I've become a bit addicted to acquiring sewing patterns. I just keep buying them! My latest one is for a rag doll, it's the Happy Chibi Doll by One Red Robin. You can check them out here.
But I just can't help adding to the 'I'm going to make this sewing pile' so my list of things continues to grow.........I think I've become a bit addicted to acquiring sewing patterns. I just keep buying them! My latest one is for a rag doll, it's the Happy Chibi Doll by One Red Robin. You can check them out here.
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| Rag Doll sewing pattern with a Japanese influence |
When you have no Needle Threader...
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| Anything white I kept a white card by the sewing machine until I lost it .......Now I just rip any bit of white paper to put behind the sewing machine needle....... |
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