Knitted Lemon Iced Biscuits

Knitted iced biscuits, although made in three parts and are time consuming to make, do look very good.

The biscuit base are made by casting on 9 stitches of double knit wool and stocking stitch 41 rows.

The iced part of the biscuit is made by casting on 8 stitches of double knit lemon coloured wool and stocking stitch 27 rows.

The cast on and off seams were sewn together for the biscuit.  This make it into a cylinder.  Stitches were picked up from the top edge of the cylinder using a needle and wool.  It was pulled tightly and tied off.  It was turned inside out, so that the seams are on the inside and the edges folded in and flattened to make a biscuit.

The iced lemon part was put together exactly the same as above and also flattened.

The lemon part was stuck to the biscuit area using multi-purpose glue and allowed to dry.

Using 4mm needles 14 stitches were cast on using orange double knit wool. One row was knitted and then the wool was thread through the stitches, pulled tightly and cast off.  The cast on/off edges were sewn together to make an orange circle.  Six of these were made to stick on top of the lemon icing using multi-purpose glue.

The biscuits were left to dry thoroughly.

It was lovely knitting these and seeing the biscuits coming together.  Time consuming, but so worthwhile and I think they turned out quite well.