I am so pleased with the results of last night’s Friday Night Sew In. I was able to complete both Christmas stockings and on Monday they’ll be mailed off to Lyanna over at Purple Panda Quilts for her Stocking Drive to provide a handmade stocking to each of the foster children served by the agency she works for. After finishing…
Back in August when I took our son up to Canada to get him settled into his second year of college, my rest stops along the way were quilt shops. When I’m traveling, I have a tendency to succumb to a little impulse shopping and one of my impulse buys on that trip was a package of Moda Candy Bars. …
I’ve mentioned before how brilliant my husband is. I’ve also mentioned how handy he is. What I haven’t told you is that he also has a quirky sense of humour that makes life fun. This afternoon, I was getting ingredients ready to make a half recipe of Greek Pastitsio and I needed four yolks for the béchamel sauce and 2…
I wasn’t going to do Halloween this year. I didn’t last year. Well, except for giving out candy. It’s always fun to see the little ones and not so little ones dressed up carrying their trick or treat bags. But this year, like last, I didn’t feel like decorating the house. It’s not as much fun with our son off…
With just two months to go until Christmas Day, not only must we continue to carefully budget our dollars but if we are planning to complete handmade gifts for those on our list, we will also need to budget our time wisely. Inspired by the one hour table runners I made during October’s Friday Night Sew In, I thought I’d…
I call this my one hour version of the 10 minute table runner. First, because I defy anyone to cut panels from two different fabrics, pin and sew those panels together, press the seams either open or to one side, turn right side out and press again; centering the narrower fabric over the wider fabric, pin and sew the ends,…
Tonight is Friday Night Sew In; the monthly virtual sewing bee co-hosted by Heidi from Handmade by Heidi and Bobbi over at Crafty Vegas Mom. For last month’s sew in I had planned to work on my version of the 10 minute table runner but by the time I got done figuring out how to sew this little purse onto…
Did your pear or apple trees produce an over abundance of fruit this year? In this post, I’ll show you how dehydrating pears or apples is such an easy way to preserve them to have them to use all winter long. When our neighbors across the street gave us a plastic grocery bag full of pears from a friend’s pear…
There has been a lot of secret sewing and embroidery happening here. But those will all have to remain a secret until after my parent’s 50th Wedding Anniversary, a certain December birthday and Christmas. What I can show you are the fabrics I’ve picked out to make a stocking for the Stocking Drive being held by Lyanna from Purple Panda…
Earlier this week, Dawn over at Sweet as Cinnamon invited her readers who have blogs to write a post explaining how they came up with the name for their blog. I explained how the name of my blog came about in my very first post back on March 12th, 2008. However, since it’s likely that only my family has been…