What’s shakin’, Daddyo?
June 23, 2010
So here’s the problem with parents: you stitch a card for one, and then the other one starts clamouring for one. Okay, so not really – but I couldn’t not make a homemade card for my dad for Father’s Day. I found a motif in an old issue of Cross Stitch Crazy that bore a vague resemblance to our youngest cat, Skeeter, and then changed the markings just a bit to make it look more like her.
That mocha-y colour around her face is the result of tweeding, my friends. Oh, and the ball has blending filament in it for a little added sparkle.
She seems to approve:
(And so did he, for what it’s worth.) Also under the Homemade Goodness category, I made the No-Bake Black-Bottom Peanut Butter Silk Pie from Vegan With a Vengeance. It didn’t turn out quite as it should have, I suspect – agar tends to behave unpredictably for me, and this time, although it firmed up somewhat, there was no way it would hold its shape once cut – but I calmly stuck the whole thing in the freezer and turned it into a really delicious dairy-free ice-cream-type dessert. I miss ice cream cake sometimes, but this was definitely a worthy substitute. How worthy? It got devoured, and I didn’t get a picture.
