Melanie

Cutting + sticking + sewing + baking. My creative life.

Schiacciata with Mozarella and Bacon

I made schiacciata as it is known in Florence and is what I would call focaccia. The recipe was from Nigella's 'How to be a Domestic Goddess'. I didn't have the gorgonzola or pine nuts it required so I used mozarella and bacon. As my eldest son would say "Nom, nom, nom".Love…

Return of Cake of the Month!!

I am happy to announce the return of Cake of the Month! Wahey!! I am doing it for my facebook giveaway fun this year and January's cake was a Chocolate Malteser Cake. The recipe was from Feast by, everyone's favourite, Nigella Lawson. Answer a question of my posing and you…

Stitching with Intent

This year I am taking a different textile course, 'Stitching with Intent' which is run by Committed to Cloth. We have had our first session and we also had a pre-first session meeting both at Chequer Mead Arts Centre in East Grinstead. Chequer Mead is a great venue with a huge studio…

Committed to Cloth – Session 10

Here are the pictures from the last Wet n' Wild class which was in November 2010! I finished off some fabric I am going to use in the church banners I will be making in 2011. I printed lots of lobsters from the thermofax screen I had made from my…

Selvage Tea Cosy

We've hosted a few afternoon teas lately. Scones, jam and clotted cream, cucumber sandwiches, a big family cake on a stand all enjoyed on our Royal Grafton tea service (which my husband was asked to dispose of during a site clearance but found it's way back to our house!). Now…

More Snow!

Made snowman finger puppets with the Salvation Army homeless day centre sewing group. As only one lady turned up we made one each, they were twins!Keep warm!Love Melanie x

Committed to Cloth – Session 9

The penultimate session of Wet 'n Wild! We worked on our own pieces and I moved on my violet breakdown print, put some marks on my small discharge pieces (which I had accidentally left for too long in the Thiox vat!) and started two new pieces of fabric which will…

Committed to Cloth – Sessions 7 and 8

A bit of a catch-up with my Wet 'n Wild textile course. In July I fabric painted flowers on my tray dyed fabric.As the weather was hot I attempted another breakdown print and was very pleased with the results. We had August off and in September we learned the technique…

Attack of the Killer Almond Cakes.

I have been going through an almond phase. My Mum picked up a load of sugared almond favours which were left behind after a wedding she went to (I take after her I can't abide waste either!) and that started me off. I made my husband an almond cake for…

Send the Fire!

I made this card for my friend Caroline. We did the children's work together this summer at church and these scraps of fabric backed with HeatnBond Lite were left over from a banner we made with the kids. They really enjoyed making it and happily nobody got burned with the…

Melanie Makes Meringues