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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The other day I saw a post from Pinterest about trends for summer and it said one of them was “cultivating whimsy.”

Well, I don’t know where Pinterest has been all this time, but we’ve been cultivating whimsy here at Craft Gossip for a long time. I love sharing projects that are a little different, things that make you smile when you see them, and will make you smile when you knit them and wear them or use them.

Such it is with the Tutti Frutti tee knitting pattern from Bea Creative Knits.

This cute little baby tee is worked top down in the round with contiguous shoulder construction to shape the sleeve caps. There are short rows for the neckline and folded hems with picot edging at the hemline, neckline and edges of the sleeves.

All of this would be great on its own, but then there’s the addition of a super cute fruit icon, which is added with duplicate stitch. There are a lot of options, including strawberry, banana, orange, cherries, watermelon, lemon, blueberries, kiwi, peach, dragon fruit, apple and pear, so it’s likely you can add on your favorite fruit.

It is offered in eight sizes, to fit a bust measurement ranging from 28-30 inches (71-76 cm) to 56-58 inches (142-147 cm). The design is meant to be worn with around 6.3 inches/16 cm of negative ease, but you can choose the fit you prefer. There’s also optional bust and waist shaping included in the pattern if you want to make it even curvier.

This is considered an advanced beginner or intermediate project because of all the skills involved, but it’s sure to be a lot of fun even if some of these techniques are new to you.

Grab a copy of the pattern for yourself form Bea Creative Knits on Etsy.

[Photo: Bea Creative Knits]

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