Sewing Rows Together On The Red & White Top

 In-between sewing the rows together & thinking of how many more blocks to cut sew etc.,I thought I'd best be sewing  the rows together as I go if I wanted it quilted by Christmas , so early this morning the first 5 rows  got sewn together 

Here's a close up of the prints

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Now to go to town & to the store,I am down to making things up 😄 last night I cooked spaghetti noodles,pulled some Birdseye mixed veggies outta the freezer the freezer,heated them up on the stove with seasonings & added Italian dressing& cooked noodles & called it supper 🤣

I had some heavy cream that needed using up so I made mason jar ice cream 

MASON JAR ICE CREAM 

* 1 c heavy cream

* 2 TBSP. sugar

*pinch of salt 

add ingredients to mason jar & shake 5-10 min & freeze 2-3 hrs

Sunday Inspiration

 

Let The Shop Hoping Begin!

 This morning my my niece picked me up & we were off to the 1st shop hop  Scattered Threads in Northport Ala."15 min away"😄 I got the most gorgeous Fall fabric,the plans for it is to make a quilted mat for the stove stop but I got 2 yards just in case I want to add an apron 😄

Fayette Ala. is only a little less than an hours dive so we headed that way to Scrap Iron Quilting where I picked up some gorgeous red prints for a pillow top I want to do for Christmas that spells out JOY 

Fayette is also the home of the Golden Eagle Syrup they are sometimes open for tours

Each shop that you visit gives out a complimentary quilt square, I wonder how many we'll end up with 

No matter where you go if there's a Walmart, you've 

 got to go😄 Fayette is also known for their Frog festival so why not snag a selfie in front of the mural inside the walmart front door 😄

Christmas In July Week 4 Recap

 

After a few attempts making a bowl cozy, I've just about got it ,. meanwhile I've been helping my friend Ree finish up some sewing but I did manage to pickup some batting for the Christmas quilt  have you ever made a bowl cozy?

Lunch was simple ,a cheese chaffel burger with sweetpotato fries ,the chaffel is also good alone when you want that cheese toast taste 

Chaffel

1 egg

1/2 c shredded cheese

Makes 2

I cook mine in a mini waffle!  maker 

Christmas In July Recap 

*Stovetop cover 

*Enlarged red/white quilt too to full size

* Enlarged christmas quilt top with borders

Bowl cozy

Tomorrow  starts the Southeastern Shoo Hop, our local shop is participating & the next closest is just an hour away so I wont venture out to far till later in the upcoming weeks lol 

Batting Disasters,Playtime & Cookies

 Another day that went nowhere fast, it was hot enough not to want to be outside for very long,I watered the flowers & the veggies & filled the bird feeders, I got the Christmas quilt laid out to baste & ready for quilting only to discover that the batting was not liking the basting spray, plus discovering it was shy of being wide enough, then it dawned on me why I didn't like that batting🤣 its ok for crafts,potholders etc.but not quilts , I will get better batting this weekend 

Anybody joining in All Southeast Shop Hop? There's one shop in my area  "Scattered Threads" & one an hour from me "Scrap Iron Quilting"  that I absolutely luv! That's where I get my batting when I can

Meanwhile Grace & Sadie did get a little playtime in, 5 min or so & they were back in taking a nap,it wasn't long I was joining in on a nap,we blame it on the heat 

Sometimes cookies make it better , especially when they're easy peasy

1 c peanut butter

1 egg

1 c sugar

Scroop onto parchment paper,criss cross marks with fork,bake @ 350 8-10 min

They will look like they're not done ,check the bottoms,they will firm up slightly but still be nice & soft

I made these with Splenda baking sugar,when using spender use 1/2 c ,I started keeping  them in the fridge they taste good cold,but that could just be me😄 

Red & White Layout 5 Rows In!

  Math! Math! Math! You either hate it or  luv it😄the layout for a full is 24x28 but I want the 1st row to start & end with red so it will be a 25x29 layout ,it wont take as long putting this too together for I just have to cut the strips & cut the previous blocks apart & downsize,if you're just stumbling across the red & white journey I've went from bad fabric to 5" squares to 3 1/2" 

I'm  5 rows in!

gathered up & pinned 🤔I could probably just lay out row 5 & go from there the next time I work on it

they will stay nicely pinned together in this tin

Final Layout For The Red & White Checkered

 Here we are overthinking the red & white checkerboard again , the 1st layout I cut 5" squares ,the white stuck out like a sore thumb so they went from 5" to 4 1/2" to 4"  then I pulled in the floral print so now we have red,white ,floral cut down to 3 1/2" 😄 one way or another this is going to be the final straw but which one?🤷 😄

this layout the red's are going towards the left which spaces out the floral print

with this layout the reds are going towards the right which pulls in more of the  floral

this layout was my original plan ,cutting the squares down to 3 1/2" seems to have calmed down the white,its hard to see in the pic's but the red & the white are print on print

Now to decide on a final layout,#1 🤷 #2 🤷 #3 🤷now backing I was thinking white with the floral added or the floral if I go with the checker board🤷