AHG Badge Help – Needle Arts

Needle ArtsThis week American Heritage Girls (AHG) celebrates it 20th Birthday.  Since I love AHG, and a large part of my blog is devoted to that topic, I wanted to devote this week’s posts to them.

If you are a regular follower of my blog, you know that Mondays are devoted to knitting.  Today I opted to combine the two and assist anyone out there attempting the Needle Arts Badge, specifically the knitting portion of this badge. Continue reading “AHG Badge Help – Needle Arts”

Cupcakes anyone?

cupcakeI have been playing around lately with knit play food. I was fortunate to find a free pattern on Maiya Knits for a simple cupcake.

Armed with some scraps of yarn, a set of #5 dpns, and some fiber filling, I was able to knit this in one evening.

I did adjust the pattern slightly. I opted to leave off the face as I was looking for something a little more realistic than cartoonish.  I also did not knit the cupcake liner that was included in the pattern.  I decided that it was great without and now I can knit something else.