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:

A present to my mother

My mother has a name day on the 24th December and we always remember each other in the family with small presents on the name days, even if in Estonia, in general, people do not care about the name days so much. But in my family we love to celebrate different days and different events:)
This year i made a needle cushion to my mother. It is kind of "a recycled project" since all the materials needed were found at home: a tin, piece of cloth, pure wool, ribbons, confetti...

Quick and easy

Sometimes there is no sweets left at home but I still "need" something sweet to eat:) Then the only solution is to bake something. Some time ago I found one very easy recipe from one of my cook books: "Pie of oat flakes". But I changed it to "Muffins of oat flakes" ("Kaerahelbemuffinid"), the recipe is very easy, one usually has all these ingredients at home and besides it takes only max half an hour to get the muffins ready (so it is probably also good to serve them to unexpected guests). Here we go:
4 eggs
2 dl sugar
2 dl oil
8 dl 1-min (quick) oat flakes
4 tablespoons of (spelta) flour
0,5 teaspoon of baking powder
3-5 tablespoons of cacao powder
Mix the eggs with the sugar, add oil, oat flakes, cacao powder and flour mixed with baking powder. Fill in the muffin forms and put in the oven at 200C for 15 minutes (do not bake longer, be exact with the baking temperature and time! Otherwise the muffins get too dry). Ready to eat:)

Cardigan and pullover

Yesterday i finished a pullover to Märt:
Mihkel's cardigan was finished already a while ago:

I have bought some new yarn, so new things are waiting to be knitted.

More scrapbooking

In meantime I have created lots of new pages in Märt's album and I have finished a small but fat album about trips in 2008. Here are some layouts.

Patchwork quilt

I sewed a blanket to Märt in patchwork style. It was one of the first times i tried patchwork and I think not the last time.