Zombies ate my Cupcakes

Me and my knitting group are going to have our own cake and craft stall at the Islington Mill this Halloween so I am going to be posting loads of picture of 'practice' cakes that I have to bake. These ones are to see how the purple coloring turns out in the icing. I also tried out filling a few of them with jam, unfortunately all the jam sank to the bottom so I will have to keep practicing (ho hum). These have some plastic bat picks for cake toppers. I've got loads of ideas for different cakes and loads of people will be helping out so I'm sure it's going to be loads of fun. I bought this book called a Zombie ate My Cupcake which also have loads of great ideas.

Knitmare on Elm Street

Sorry about the terrible pun in the title of this post (I actually stole the name from this amazing fabric that I'm after with the same name) I have been very busy recently moving house, which is amazing but more on that later.
However it is now Autumn, which is my favourite season and I have decided to knit Stu a scarf. This scarf was inspired by one of our favourite baddies Freddy Kruger from the film Nightmare on Elm Street. Which is apt as it will soon be Halloween (loads of Halloween blog posts coming soon) It is an ode to Freddy as this stripy scarf is the same colours as his famous stripy jumper. I kinda wanted this scarf for myself but Stu is a much bigger Freddy fan than I am, he used to have posters from the film on his wall when he was a kid, plus he doesn't have a scarf and it's starting to get cold. I am using very cheap red and dark green acrylic yarn that I picked up on Bolton market (which is one of my favourite places near work) but Stu swears he doesn't mind. It is DK and I am using size 4 needles, because I have knitted tons of scarves for people and I usually use super chunky this seems to be taking forever. I promise that my next knitting projects will be far more interesting than more scarves.