This applesauce cake is studded with walnuts and raisins and topped with an easy caramel icing. It’s a perfect autumn dessert, but Toronto is still cold and snowy and grey, so it still feels like November! The applesauce cake also perfectly showcases my favourite caramel icing. Most caramel icing recipes I’ve seen call for a […]
Author: Meinhilde
DIY: Knit Oliver Sweater by EweKnit Toronto
Claudia Q, the owner of EweKnit, designed the Oliver Sweater. EweKnit is one of our favourite Toronto yarn stores, and thankfully it’s just a short walk from where we live! North 40: Baby Sweaters and Accessories Vol. 1 is EweKnit’s first book, with all patterns designed by Claudia. I bought this book not just to […]
Buttery Scones
We only grew up eating scones because I had read about them and wanted to make them! Our mom is German and didn’t grow up eating these either. I was confused as to why some recipes referred to these as ‘scones,’ and others as ‘biscuits,’ when they seemed to be the same. We also didn’t […]
DIY: Knit Doe Cap by Jenny Gordy from Making Magazine
I knit the Doe Cap, a pattern by Jenny Gordy in Making magazine, for a friend’s baby. The pattern is a bonnet style with adorable ears that you knit and then sew on. I suppose you could change the shape and length of ears if you wanted. A piglet, rabbit, or cat bonnet would be […]
Free Cable Knitting Patterns
I’ve created a roundup of some beautiful free cable knitting patterns. Lots of these are in my own Ravelry queue! Of course, you can always browse the massive archive of free patterns on Ravelry to find more free patterns. Many of these patterns are by established designers, so they shouldn’t have errors and should be […]