Five-pointed star

I knitted a hat to Märt with a nice orange five-pointed star in front. It made my parents and Andres to giggle, refering to our country's history...

Cards

Here are two cards I have recently made, one of them have probably arrived to the new owner already a while ago;)

Freshly baked

In my opinion one of the easiest doughs to make is the yeast dough and my favorites are probably cinnamon rolls, at least those I have made the oftest. I have experiences making the yeast dough since my teenage years already (yes, I have always liked to bake) but back then it always did not turn out the best (rolls getting kind of hard quickly afterwards) until I found the secret: you have to use half water -half milk or water mixed with milk/cream powder for the fluid. There are many recipes for the yeast dough with small variations, my favorite one is this one (and it is fine for both sweet and salty pies):
1/2 dl milk powder
1/2 l water
50 g yeast
2 dl sugar
2 teaspoons salt
1 egg
1 tablespoon cardamom
1 kg (15 dl) wheat flour
200g butter

As said I oftest make the cinnamon rolls ("Kaneelirullid"). Today I made them with farin sugar (plus cinnamon, of course) that gives them caramel taste. Märt added some pearl sugar on them as well for decoration;)
For the first time I also tried to bake "Moscow Pies" ("Moskva saiad") (this is how we call them here but they are also called "Cream Pies" or "Vienna Pies") that include vanilla cream. They turned out alright for the first time, I just have to give more taste to the cream next time.

On the photo below there are also some meat pies that taste the best when they are still warm and with bouillon.

In spring feeling

Green is one of my favorite colors, i.e. I have got several green clothes, green bags and green necklaces. Though, I can never have too many green necklaces, can i? ;) Here is the one I made some days ago together with a matching bracelet. (Next, I should sew some nice green dress as well:))

In spiral

I seem to be in knitting mood these days. So, have a look what I have knitted - guess what it might be?

Yes, socks for Märt!

Those socks are knitted in spiral that is a perfect knitting project for beginners (like me:)) because one does not need to knit a heel but same time they fit perfect.

Something warm

As we have got real winter here this year with lots of snow and low degrees (today even -20C and less) it is useful to have one warm vest in the wardrobe:D This is also the very first "bigger" thing I have ever knitted. Who knows, maybe next time I even try to knit a jumper but only if I can use quite big knitting needles like this time, otherwise I would get bored of knitting something that would need ages to get ready.

Designed by Märt 2

This is a very belated post that I should have written in November already! When it was Fathers Day. Just like last (2008) year Märt painted a T-shirt for Andres. In 2008 the T-shirt looked like this , in 2009 like that: