Knitted cakes?  This must surely be the most unusual knitting book I have seen to date, but if you are weary with baby items, woolly hats and fluffy scarves, then get ready to deck your house out with some conversation pieces.

The cakes and buns in this book really do look good enough to eat, and would make striking ornaments, especially in any room where people also gather to eat the real thing.  Choose from muffins, cupcakes, layer cakes, Christmas favourites, cherry pie and angel food.  My own favorite has to be the iced donut, because it surely also serves another more practical purpose, and is just the right size to be used as a bun ring.  As this is a Twenty To Make series book there are indeed twenty projects, as well as twenty other suggestions as variations on the main patterns, complete with photographs.  This is not a book aimed at the beginner and there are no instructions on how to knit if you don’t know how.  But as there are plenty of books that teach this on the market (including many from Search Press) more experienced knitters can enjoy a book just filled with patterns.  These are given in the usual UK form of instructions row by row, and are not difficult to follow.  Yarns are named by type and shade rather than by trade name so rest assured that nothing will have been discontinued by the time the ink is dry!  If you are an intermediate+ knitter looking for something different, then you have just found it.

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