Last Sunday, I posted that I was closing in on finishing the 4th of July picnic quilt that I started last summer. A large part of Sunday afternoon was spent sitting out in the screened in porch enjoying the beautiful weather and hand stitching the binding to the back of the quilt. Once I lost the light, I moved inside…
Today I took the second of the hexie flowers I made from the kits I bought last summer and made Lexie a BFF. For this one, I changed the curve of the neck slightly so that the head would stay upright without having to sew the back of the turtle’s neck to the shell like I ended up having to…
Last summer, I bought a couple of little hexie kits from Sew Sisters shop in Toronto. And while I discovered that I enjoyed the process of making hexie flowers, I did not like the finished flowers themselves. Here’s one of them: Oh how I wished those pink hexies with the bold prints had been fussie cut. Now I realize that…
Week #6 of our Stitch-a-long and our Chore Girl is Baking. A close-up view: The pattern is available as a pdf to download here. Have fun stitching! And if you are stitching along and have blogged about it, let me know in the comments so I can come visit.
In the above photo, I’m sewing the last few inches of binding onto my 4th of July Picnic quilt. I completed the top in the middle of July 2012. It’s going to feel so good to have this finished! And then I’ll only have a couple more projects that were started in 2012 and have been traveling from place to…
I took the leftover fabrics from my 4th of July Picnic Quilt, cut them into squares and rectangles and started sewing them together. Once I had the four strips sewed together and took a picture of the finished top, my first thought was that it looked a little like someone has taken the American flag, cut it up and sewed…
For Week #5 of our Chore Girl Stitch-a-Long she’s busy Sweeping the Floor. Here’s a closer view: The pattern is available as a pdf to download here. Have fun stitching! And if you are stitching along and have blogged about it, let me know in the comments so I can come visit.
Last spring, I had the idea that I would make each of our children a quilt for Christmas. I made this Jelly Roll 1600 quilt top with our middle daughter in mind. Then the six month contract Dave had been hired for was cancelled after little more than two months. The quilt top got folded and placed in the bottom…
For Week #4 of the Stitch-a-Long our Chore Girl Goes Grocery Shopping. A closer view: The pattern is available as a pdf to download here. Have fun stitching! And if you are stitching along and have blogged about it, let me know in the comments so I can come visit.
A lot of the ready made granola that you find in the cereal isle at grocery stores are either very high in sugar or are mixed with raisins which have a very high glycemic load (GL). Last summer, I went in search of a recipe to make a low GL granola and after experimenting and combining various recipes, I’ve come…