Sponge cake

Yum!

Sponge cake recipe

Ingredients:

• a yoghurt (the yoghurt pot will be guide to measure all the other ingredients)
• 1 pot of sunflower oil
• 2 pots of flour
• 2 pots of sugar
• 3 eggs
• 16 gr of baking powder 
• lemon zest

Preparation:

• Preheat oven to 180º C 
• Mix all the ingredients 
• Put into a lined or non-stick sponge tin
• Put into the oven and bake for 35-40 minutes (it is important that the oven is well heated)

Summer birds

Look at these cute summer birds!!!! I crocheted them following a pattern by Attic 24 again!

They are made from a round flat circle (smaller than the ones I crocheted to do the bottom of the baskets) decorated with a small triangle for the beak and two wings. 
If you crochet the stitches tighter it gets a shape like the purple bird. The green one is made from a normal round flat circle.

Bunny

As it is too hot to knit or crochet, I decided to do something else. I found the pattern to do this bunny in a magazine and I made up my mind!

I used two old gloves, all I had to do was cut and sew its fingers so that they looked like its arms and tail. Then, I filled it to make it fluffy, I stitched some buttons to make its eyes and nose and added a nice bow to cover the union between the two gloves.

Summer

Lemons!!!!!!!!

Another blanket

As I did so well with my first blanket, I fancied trying to crochet another design... this time so COLORFUL!!!!!!

This time I used merino yarn, SUPER smooth and gentle to work with!

My first attempt... with such a good result!!!!

I've been working in an attempt of blanket that resulted in a nice craft... It's the first time I did something like this, but with some motherly advice I ended up doing better than I expected! There's another project in progress that helped me keep motivated (it will show up shortly, hopefully...).

This is the result, I did it in two colors, white and grey and used cotton yarn:

I'm looking forward to starting something else now!!!!!

More baskets

After my first experience with the white basket I made as a gift I kept on working...

I made another one in two colos, two shades of grey, and used it to keep the yarn:

But then I kind of improved the technique, always with the help from Attic 24. She has some patterns to crochet flowers and, although I don't think mines are as nice as hers at least they looked like flowers, so I decided to decorate my new green basket with them.

These are some pictures of the crochet flowers. They are not as nice as the ones in Attic24 (she's a master of crochet and I'm just starting...). But the truth is that her tutorials are so easy to follow, even if you don't know the different names of the stitches! 

So here's the result, in different color combinations: