Most caramel icing recipes I’ve seen call for a candy thermometer and closely watching a pot of melting sugar so that it doesn’t burn. Time consuming and tedious. So here I’m sharing a quick and easy caramel icing recipe that I discovered. I’ve used it to frost plain vanilla or white cakes, so that the […]
Author: Meinhilde
McCall’s M7920 Linen Rayon Button-Front Dress
McCall’s M7920 helped me get my sewing mojo (my sewjo) back! I always seem to not feel like sewing all winter. Then, once Toronto warms up enough for bare legs, I want to sew ALL THE DRESSES! The simple silhouette and button front of this dress caught my eye. However, I didn’t want to sew […]
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies
Try baking these chocolate chip peanut butter cookies during your isolation! If you’ve looked at our cookie archive, you can see that I love cookies with chocolate. I also love peanut butter (like most North Americans), but I’m not a fan of those plain peanut butter cookies. You know, the ones with the fork tine […]
Knit Leiden Tee by Natalie Selles
I started knitting myself the Leiden Tee last summer but just got around to finishing it last week! Obviously I love knitting, and warm weather is no excuse for me to put down my needles. According to my notes in Ravelry, I cast on last summer on 21 August 2019. However, I only finished half […]
DIY: Knit Etobicoke Hat and Free Pattern by Kiku Corner
Etobicoke is an inner suburb of Toronto. Southern Etobicoke, which borders Lake Ontario, has numbered streets, from First Street all the way to Forty Second Street. Those ordered streets inspired this hat with its regular bands of stockinette and reverse stockinette stitch. To make the Etobicoke Hat larger into a slouchy beanie, simply add repeats […]