Chillin In The Backyard

Do you ever have a post ready but fall asleep?🤣 yesterday was spent most of the day waiting on the lawn service to arrive so it was a laid back day for Grace & Sadie playing in the back yard ,chillin on the layneigh & watching the birds as the day came to an end

I sewed a little ,"very little"😄Sadie says this is the smallest quilt she's ever seen🤣

My Day In A Nutshell

 Sooner or later you have to stop & do those domestics 😄 so lunch was easy& simple,grilled chicken on a bed of romaine,mayo,homemade lemonade,just squeeze a lemon or two into a glass with a little sugar ,add water & you've got lemonade for one! fruit drizzled with lemon juice to round it off

coffee break & bird watching out on the layneigh,the purple finches were out this morning

There was a strange new creature in the backyard,I searched him in the lens finder on my phone Google says he's a sawfly a member of the wasp family but has no stinger & is harmless,old as I am I've never seen one before today lol

The sky was exceptionally beautiful tonight as I was coming home from the store

Still keeping it simple I tried a new cereal for supper, it has a good taste but gets soggy too quickly for my liking 

How was your day? 

Tomorrow I go pick up Sadie 🐕she will be with us for the rest of the week Sat.   a  nephew graduates high school, Tues. twin nieces graduates 6th grade , planning on getting in some "just for me" sewing & take Grace ,& Sadie to the park before the business starts lol

The Bramble.Blooms Journey

 The quilt top for Brambles Blooms Quilt top #1 is finished 🤔I think lol this quilt made me overthink more than any quilt I've made lol I undid & redid so many times till I finally decides whatever it turns out will be what it will be 😄

The over thinking came early with trying to freehand a design lol

the beginnings of borders 

I first added a 9 patch border before  noticing   the cornerstone blocks were in the wrong place so the seam ripper got a workou

When I started adding the patch blocks to the sides it just didn't look right it was way longer that it was wide so I took all 4 borders off & then took a row off  each block "Overthinking "again"🤣

As of now it measures 43L x 36W,this is my first time to free hand &   applicade a quilt, it has been quite the adventure & looking forward to to the journey that quilt #2 will take me 

Radish :The New Potatoe

Radish: The New Potato 🤣

Can the radish replace the potato? I'm not a big fan of radishes but have been revisiting them in new recipes on this new keto journey with my niece 

I tried a new recipe ,now granted you probably could just throw everything in the crockpot like we normally do but this one suggest to sire the meat & veggies till browned & cook on slow ,so here we go..

KETO POT ROAST 

4lb  chuck roast

(I had about a hand size of cubed roast)

4 tbsp. sea salt 

(I have yet to ever buy sea salt lol)

1tsp. pepper

2 tbsp olive oil

1 1/2c. cut radishes 

( I had lg.ones cut in 1/2 & estimated what I thought I'd eat)

1 1/2 c. carrots cut on diangle 

(I eyeballed sm.baby wholes)

1/2 onion cut in petals

3 sprigs rosemary 

4-5 sprigs thyme

(I did 2 to 3 ratio)

2c.beef broth

sere veggies till roasted not tender

sere meat till brown

Add meat to middle of crockpot with veggies around the edges,place herbs on top & add broth

Cook on low 10--12 hrs

High 5--6 hrs

Since I already had my meat separated in a single serving ,I just eyeballed everything to make a good plate for one, surprisingly the radishes did not taste like a radish,they absorbed all the flavors & had a potatoes texture 

I have seen the radish in a whole new light 🤣🤣

THE OUTCOME

this will be a keeper for the recipe files ,have you stepped out of your comfort zone & tried something outside of your norm?

Happy Mother's Day Sunday Insperation

 

More Blocks & New Recipes

For the scrappy quilt I've got going I've squeezed out 11 more blocks, the count is up to 80

77 to go if I go with a full without borders,only 1 if I go with a large lap size🤔but I'm thinking of a keyboard border  so that may make the lap size a full 😄 it will be similar to the one I made last year

For dinner I made a new recipe which is actually called creamed chicken & basil & cherry tomatoes, I had spinach & fire roasted tomatoes so that's what I used & I think I liked it better ,it's low carb & keto friendly 

Tried a new mug cake ,lemon poppy seed only I didn't put it in a mug that always makes me add ice cream 🤣I made it in a single serving corningware dish& added fruit with a squeeze of lemon

Fruit Covers A multitude Of Ugly & Quilt Plans

 I'm trying a new thing "cooking with almond flour" there's definitely some tweaking needed to be done ,I'm use to just puring out the regular flour & proceed with a recipe so not thinking I just used my go to homemade pancake recipe & exchanged the flours , the batter was thick but spread out thin once it hit the hot skillet making it hard to turn without tearing them,not company worthy but still eatable 😄

fruit to the rescue! LoL

I did a little research " should had done that first"😄 some recipes call for baking soda 🤔well duh  guess if almond flour doesn't say "self rising"🤣 another thing I noticed was that they absorbed the syrup ,I may have to have that on the side & dip the bites🤣 has anybody out there used almond flour in their baking?

Throughout the day I'll be working on getting the scrappy blocks into a flimsy,I have learned that's the lingo for quilt top🤣 

Almost Finished BB Quilt #1

 First we make sure not to run out of bobbins 😄

working on the 9 patch border for the Bramble Blooms quilt

Just a few more for the sides then get them all trimmed & attach them

How about a tea break?, I have pretty tea cups & use them often but sometimes I want a double dose lol,I luv how the Yogi teas have little quotes on the strings

not sure if the quilt top needs another border,I'll decide once I get the patchwork all as round it & see where that puckers coming from😄 looking to finish it this evening 😁

 

Rainy Morning Visitors & Quilt Update

 Early morning coffee & bird watching, the brown trasher came this morning,Mr Jay has a friend 😁 I need to get Woodey a suet box 

The evening was spent working on the Bramble Blooms quilt, the cornerstones wound up in the wrong place so I walked away & went to bed🤣but today I took all 4 sides off & recut the top &. bottom border,the next borders is a patchwork ,still debating how big to make it

April Was Slow But Productive

 April started out with good intentions 😄 lots of family events ,we had Sadie for a long weekend,all was going to plan,sewing,taking Grace & Sadie on Park adventures

That last adventure upon walking past a tiny little terrior Sadie " choc lab" decides to investigate whether it's a toy all 80lbs of her pulled me down& pulled me with her ,about 5 came to my rescue & helped me back to my car, banged up & bruised elbows, my poor knee looked like grated cheese , bruised ankle & those inside bruise are the worse especially the top of a rib 

You may have heard ina few of  my April post about taking it slow & easy ,I was beat up that's why🤣but even in slow motion I manage to get caught up on a few quilt blocks for a few challenges I've joined in on

I'm not going to speak about May out loud 🤣but it has gotten off to a good start by making a bag out if leftover scrap fabric from the lemon dress & today I am working on quilt tops

Sunday Insperation

 

Tweaking & Updating The Lemon Bag

 The tutorial for this bag  calls for  2 sets  of 6 strips,cut in half & flip so the seams are not side by side I had the idea to use 2 prints which made it look sloppy like it was out of line so the first thing I did was take the strap off ,turn the bag "the back looked better" lol repositioned the straps & embellished it with ribbon & beads

I luv it a whole lot better now even if it wasn't supposed to been this small 😄 it will hand in the sewing room & be home for my slow stitch journal 

I'm getting ready to start working on page layouts so I'll be adding things to the little bag as I figure it out it'll be nice to have it prepped where I can grab it & sit in the living room or out on the laneigh

Sometimes when a project doesn't go the way it was supposed to,you just have to walk away,rethink & regroup😄 I will definitely be doing a take 2 of this bag with more than 2 prints🤣

Friday Night With Friends

 It's been awhile since I've joined in on the Friday night sew in's ,I made a little bag ,I think I cut it too short as it looks smaller than the one from the you tube video lol

here's the link if you'd like to make one

https://youtu.be/uMnq3mFAg5A?si=43LQWUmUTxGUOpYE