Someone just shook up the Snow Globe!!

I’ll bet the ground hog starts digging when he see this!

hole in the barn blocks

My next quilt, the blocks are done….

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Coffee Cookies!

The original recipe was found at Chickens in the Road here.  You can find LOTS of good thing on this site.  Most of my new recipes come from the forum – Check it out!!  Here is my version of these cookies, I made a few modifications mostly because we don’t keep a large pantry and I like coffee flavor a lot.  Boy are they good,  YUM!!

2 1/2 T  instant coffee crystals 1 1/2 T  hazel nut creamer * 1 c  butter 2/3 c  sugar 2/3 c  brown sugar 1 t  baking soda 1/4 t  salt 1  egg 1 1/2 t  vanilla

2 1/4 c  flour 3 T  coco powder 2 1/2 T hazel nut creamer * 1/4 c  chocolate chips  (optional) * The original recipe called for cream or half and half – but I never have any.  The coffee creamer worked great as an alternative!

• dissolve coffee in 1 1/2 T of creamer
• in mixer, cream butter with sugar and brown sugar
• add coffee mixture, soda, salt, egg and vanilla
• mix in flour slowly
• divide dough in half
• add coco powder and creamer to one half
• add chocolate chips to other half
• place a small drop of each dough together on cookie sheet
• bake 8-10 minutes at 375 degrees

NOTE:   There are only 2 of us here now, and instead of baking all of this recipe, I baked 2 small sheets then wrapped the rest into 2 rolls and refrigerate for later in the week. 

I need to stop starting New Quilts

 

But I have a reason this time.  Tony’s Birthday is in April. 

Think I can get it done???  

 

 

 

 

Update – 5:30pm: 
  One of these things is not like the other, ugh!

MORE:  Jan 17, 2011 A day off and I got to SEW!!  Three or four more, now to decide if how to lay them out.  Square or On-point??

Quilting …

When I am working on a project I always end up with pile and scraps of fabric everywhere! I have tried to sew “neater” but its just not me. So I spend a lot of time before and after just picking up.


Since I bought my featherweight – I never get out my other machine. This one fits me perfectly.

2011 UFO List

 

I decided to create a list of the items I need/want to finish this year.

First Need To:

1. A quilt for Tony for his birthday.  I started this one today – it is #9 in the list below
2. A quilt for Tim for Christmas.  I will NOT be quilting presents in November this year so as soon as Tony’s is done this is the next on my list.

Without further nonsense…  Here they are, or at least the ones I have identified as doable before the end of the year.

#1 Scrappy Jacobs Ladder

A quilt for ME.  I have this sandwiched and I am hand quilting it with free hand Bishop Fans.

 

 

 

#2 Scrappy JacobsLadder2

Mom wanted my quilt above but I said no, so Jacki thought we should make her one for Christmas.  May this year. 

She wants it with very little or no batting, something about it being used as a table cloth.

 

#3 Blue Blocks

I have a bunch of blocks using 30’s replica fabric and solids.  I thought about piecing a few more and making a top with them.  

We’ll see if this happens.

 

#4 Baby Bricks

This started out as a gift for a co-workers baby, and I just do not like it.

Looks like it will be practice quilting on the machine then its off to charity.

 

#5 & 6 Carolina Christmas

This is the first Mystery Quilt I  worked on in 2010.  I really like the blocks, but I’m not thrilled with Bonnie Hunters layout. 

So, I was thinking 2 quilts – one with each block type.  If not this is a HUGH quilt that will probably never get done.

#7 Roll, Roll Cotton Boll

Bonnie Hunter’s 2010 Mystery, I’m getting use to the colors but I just don’t have enough neutral shirting to make the 60 string blocks needed.

A good reason to visit the Salvation Army again.  :)

 

#8 Christmas Lights

This is Bonnie’s Christmas Lights, and it is growing on me. 

I used some of the 4patch blocks that I swapped last year with Bonnie Minor on the HGTV boards.

I put all the blocks together in a weekend – until I found out I was short the red check fabric.  I need 3 more.  I decided to use the solid red in the corners. 

Can you see the frog stitching I need to do here before I make borders and quilt.  1 block twisted, ugh…..

#9  2011 Block of the Month

And here is one I started this weekend.  I plan to put this together for Tony’s birthday – I have to find some 6” blocks for the centers, because I will only have 1 or 2 more before then, but I will keep up with the girls, I think I may want one of these for me too. 

Watch out here comes another UFO – oh what else would I do anyway…..

I think that is a little much for me, but lets see – it’s less than one a month.  hummmmm

Holiday Sewing

During the holidays, Jacki and I did some sewing, I had to finish some presents and she made a friend a baby quilt.

The baby is not due until July. But Jacki did not want to give the baby a quilt without having something for her sisters.

So, Quillows! They were not perfect, but I really like how they turned out.

Here they are with a little more detail.

Baby Quilt is a panel with pieced border and hand quilted.

The baby’s sisters, 3 year old Audrey’s and 6 year old Riley;s Quillows.

Quiltville and Stash Manicure

If you have not visited these sites, do it now! I am sooooo inspired by Bonnie's Quilts that my UFO list grows regularly. Ok, I cant blame her for it all, but it seems that whenever she post a new quilt pattern or publishes a new book, I just have to make something.

Bonnie has been busy lately.

1. Many of her Quiltville followers have been doing a Mystery quilt over the holidays. It is listed on her blog as Roll, Roll, Cotton Boll!
2. Today there is a new pattern listed for Kiss in the Corner!
3. and she is blogging on Stash Manicure today. There is a trunk show highlighting her new book Scraps & Shirttails II.

Tony is off to school in Florida

This is why I have not been posting. Well, this & Christmas.

Two weeks ago my livingroom looked like this. We had Christmas here, then four days later Tony, Tim and Jesse went on a road trip.

Tim is alway glad to see me with the camera, but I could not help it. At 5am the house was jumping.

Jacki helped Tim wrap some of the cardboard boxes that might get ruined if it rains during the 24 hour trip.

And where is Jesse - he did help load the truck, but I think by then I was helping.

And they were off. Tony does not have more than a 3 day weekend off till Thanksgiving 2011. And I doubt he will be able to come home then.

I guess we will all have to take turns going south to visit.

They "Updated" Hilton ??

In November Tony and I went to Florida to get things organized before he started school after the New Year.

We stayed at our family's favorite vacation spot. But now they have gone and made "improvements"! Ugh!!!! Modern bluck.


They even changed the fountain in the lobby. Stars in a Florida Resort - really!


Here are more pictures for my daughter to see what they did to the room where she had her wedding. That wall was where they setup the bar when it started to rain after dinner on the patio.


But the patio has not been changed. Just some new umbrellas.

Dreaming of Summer

And its not just me!