Jackets for the Boys

I have finished two of the four jackets I am making for the boys for Christmas.  They are all going to be the same.  I will only need to post these two because, except for the trim in Ezra's, they are exactly alike.  I did not have enough black rib knit to do all four, but I had some of the tan that I felt matched well enough to use for the one. I just had enough of it to do one, so this is the only one with tan.

Ezra's from the front is the only one with the light bands.

Ezra's back

Jackson's front view. This is the way the other two will look.

Jackson's back view.

Another Sweater and a Cake

I finished another of the sweater jackets. This one came out probably the best of all, I think.  I finally got the proportion of the top and bottom better.  Actually, there are only two that I really feel the bottom should be longer to be more in proportion to the top.

Front of Lucy's sweater.

Back view.

We just had an un-birthday party for the young women at church.  We decided to celebrate everyone's birthday at the same time, even though it wasn't actually anyone's birthday.  I made the cake for the event.  I chose to make a cake like the first cake I learned to make, an elephant cake.  Using two round cakes, the elephant is formed.  One cake is the body and the other is used to cut the head, legs, trunk, tusk, tail, and hat. I made balloons with mini cupcakes and yarn for the strings.  I put the initials of each of the girls on the balloons.  Everyone loved the cake.  I can't believe that it took me five hours to decorate the cake.  It just takes so long to design, cut, and frost it all.  It was so hard to do the strings.  I used yarn and hot glue to put them in place.

The cake looks more blue in this picture.  It actually was purple.

 I'm almost finished with the last sweater for little Annie.  I have had to make it so much smaller because she is only 13 months now, so she is much smaller than Portia's who is four. I still have to make something for the men, but I haven't decided what it is going to be for sure.