Cake pops

This is a bit of a change from what I usually blog about, but I don't have any textile craft projects that I can write about at the moment and these came out looking so good that I wanted to share them! I made cake pops this weekend for a friend's birthday. They're basically lollipops made out of cake. I followed this video tutorial, but there are plenty of other sites with instructions for making them.

Entrelac

It's been hard to find some downtime to devote to craft projects this last month, but this weekend I started learning entrelac. I used this video from KnittingDaily and this post from KnittyOtter to show me the basics. The piece above is knitted with two separate colours and the diamonds are five stitches wide.

I've been meaning to learn this knitting technique for years. I love the effect, but progress is definitely slow and using separate colours means lots of ends to weave in, (I've been doing them as I go, which is why you can't see any in the photo).