Pattern: Wedding Cake by Alan Dart (published in supplement to Simply Knitting issue 52 "Presents Alan Dart's Wedding Cake"
Started: September 9, 2009
Finished: October 12, 2009
Made for: David
Yarns: Red Heart Designer Sport (100% acrylic; 279yds = 85g)
- 1 skein of "4314 Cream" = 279 yds
- .1 skein of "3815 Dutch Blue" = 27.9 yds
Red Heart Super Saver (100% acrylic; 364yds = 198g)
- .25 skein of "Light Gray" = 91 yds
total yardage = 397 yds
Needle size: 3.75mm/ US 5
Notes: I’m changing this up a bit as am making it for a birthday gift. I plan to use the blue for embroidering the name & age on the top of the cake and hope to find some musical themed scrapbooking bits to put around the cake in place of the roses. I think it’ll be a good surprise for him. David is my dance teacher as well as a really dear friend & he’s hitting the milestone age of 30 (!) in October.
9/13: Nearly finished the cake board last night :)9/15: Did finish the cake board last night! Not working on it today; have dance & don’t want David to see it ;)
9/23: The cake top is my project for my Wascana Park KIP Adventure! Check out my blog for more details.
9/24: The cake top is done!!! Also the icing triangles!!! Just need to knit up the shell piping & the knitting portion of this is done!!!
9/25: I have all the pieces knit!!!! Just need to sew it up! And take/ post pics :)
9/26: Added pic of bits.
10/12: After being knocked flat by sinus troubles last week, I’ve finally gotten the thing sewn together!!! I like how it turned out but am not sure I want to make others; I really dislike all the sewing up :(
Additional photos:
9/26: Everything awaiting the swing together
9/13: The unstuffed cake board. I like how the two colors made it easy to sew the cake body to the board; I only had to follow around and not guess where the cake should sit, keeping the cake from being lopsided on the tray
(originally added to R@velry onn September 10, 2009)