BA (hons) Textile Crafts Degree Show

I graduated from university last year but a number of my friends were still studying so when it came to visiting their degree show I made my friend Claire a cake to say well done for working so hard.I wanted to make something that reflected her degree work and as she specialises in knit I created a simple sponge cake covered in mint green sugarpaste and topped with a ball of yarn and knitting needles. The needles were the labelled with the size of the needles she had been using and the ball of yarn was as near to the same colour as her final pieces.
I covered the cake as usual and then created the additional decorations for the top. The needles have flower wires running through to keep them upright, they were then covered with grey sugarpaste and topped with yellow. On the yellow part I used food colouring gel to paint the needle size.
The ball of yarn was created using a ball of scrunched up foil and then extruding sugarpaste mixed with Trex through a device much like a Playdough barber shop toy to form the spaghetti like strands.
I also used the spaghetti strands to spell "Sample 11" on the cake which is the name of the 2011 Textile Crafts Catalogue.