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Knitting Neels

A craft blog about my crafty hobbies: knitting, crochet, sewing and embroidery, black and white photography and cooking!

A few things

Posted on Monday June 9th, 2008 at 14:03 in cooking, finished objects, news!, works in progress

It has been an interesting few days. Let me start by showing you this. Did you know that chives flower? I didn’t! I finished my Turtles hat (ie, plain hat with turtle buttons sewn on) on Satu...
Madness… sheer cookie madness!

Posted on Thursday January 17th, 2008 at 15:03 in cooking, news!

If you’re feeling peckish, go to here NOW! Heck, even if you’re not. What a place....
Cinnamon Twists

Posted on Monday January 14th, 2008 at 11:12 in cooking, news!

You know you’re better when you want to bake cinnamon twists! Cinnamon twists are just strips of a basic yeast dough dipped in butter, rolled in a mixture of sugar and cinnamon, twisted up and b...
It’s raining men!

Posted on Saturday December 8th, 2007 at 10:36 in cooking, news!

… Gingerbread men, that is. I made double the quantity and rolled the dough out thinner so I ended up with nearly 50 men. I’ve popped them in the freezer in little bags of 6 until they...
Cheese

Posted on Monday October 15th, 2007 at 08:37 in cooking, news!

I’ve noticed Irish gourmet foods really starting to take off here in the last few years. I think there have been a lot of factors involved - we all have more money, for instance, and are more w...