Perfect Wedding Favours {Book Review & Giveaway!}

Offering your wedding guests edible treats as a remembrance of the day is a time-honored tradition. If you want to go beyond the usual {though always welcome!} bag of pastel-colored candy almonds be sure to get your hands on a copy of Perfect Wedding Favours by Susannah Blake! With 28 ideas for edible favours and creative ways to present them, you’ll send your guests home with delicious little bites guaranteed to provide a sweet memory of your special day.

Want a chance to win a copy of your own? Simply leave a comment on this post before midnight CST on Sunday, April 7th, 2013. Enter as often as you like, and be sure to check back on Monday, April 8th to see if you are the winner.

Here’s a little sneak peek inside the first chapter of the book, Candies & Confectionary. Creamy vanilla blueberry fudge looks so sweet in old-fashioned glass jars topped with fabric and a few leaf sprigs.

In chapter 2, Cakes & Bakes, you’ll find the recipe and instructions for Cupcake Place Names. A clever idea for an edible favour that doubles as a place card!

Chapter 3, Celebration Cookies, shares a recipe for mini cookies in shapes like hearts, flowers, and clover decorated with pastel icing. These would be so sweet scattered around the tables or wrapped up in pretty paper!

Paper containers brimming over with golden caramel popcorn steal the show in chapter 4, Other Treats. Very elegant in the right packaging!

These are just a few of the creative and delicious ideas found in Perfect Wedding Favours by Susannah Blake! Many thanks to Ryland Peters & Small for sponsoring this review and giveaway.

Perfect Wedding Favours is available for $16.95 from Ryland Peters & Small.

Be sure to leave your comment on this post to enter the giveaway! Best wishes to all the entrants!

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That’s the way it is with the Tin Ceiling Blanket from Purl Soho. Not just because the inspiration is in the name, but if you’ve ever seen one of these old ceilings you can see that the design of the blanket is quite similar to the pattern of the tin tiles.

This is also a good example of the idea that you don’t have to use fancy stitch patterns or lots of color to make a big impact with your knits. This single-color blanket (designed by Gianna Mueller and inspired by a washcloth and towel set designed by Sandi Rosner) is made completely with knits and purls, other than slipped stitches at the beginning of rows to make neater edges.

The pattern is written out row by row, but there’s also a chart, which means this project is a great opportunity to practice reading a chart where you can check your work against the written pattern if you need to.

It comes in two sizes, a crib blanket and a throw. The yarn used in the sample is an organic cotton sold by the cone, which is a great way to get a large quantity of yarn and have fewer ends to weave in. In fact, you can knit either size of the blanket with just one cone of yarn, which isn’t inexpensive but makes you a great, sturdy, heirloom quality but still washable blanket you’ll use for years to come. (Of course you can use any sport weight yarn you like to make this blanket.)

Check out all the details and grab the free pattern from Purl Soho.

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