{What's Cooking?} Sour Cream Blueberry Pie

This week, Judy told us to use berries -- strawberries or blackberries or raspberries or blueberries or whatever we had... Does that include cranberries? Cranberry cheddar bread sounds really good right about now and I'm sure that I could find a recipe online since the one I used when I made it more than a decade ago is long gone.

The more I thought about it, the more cranberries seemed like cheating, or at least severely twisting the rules.

Then I remembered the the Sour Cream Blueberry Pie recipe from Jo's Country Junction.  I've been wanting to make it for the past year and a half. I've bought the ingredients more than once and the berries have gone into waffles and pancakes and everything except for Sour Cream Blueberry Pie.

I planned on using store bought crust until Teenage Daughter found out what I was up to. So she made the  crust and I made the filling and I think this might be one of my favorite pie recipes ever!

{yarn along} Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

 

The book is Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. I can't remember exactly how I wound up reading this one -- if I saw it at the library, or Teenage Daughter recommended it, or if I saw it somewhere online. However I got my hands on it, I spent last week toting this book around with me, hoping for snatches of time to read just a few more pages. I loved the writing, and the vintage photographs -- which are real. The girl in the giant glass jar and the girl standing alone by a cemetery pool with a second girl reflected in the water beside her were wonderfully creepy. But not the boy with the bees. (I liked the character in the book, but the picture didn't impress me. He's got a queen on him somewhere, and the bees are swarming, and it's no big deal....do I spend too much time worrying about bees?)

The plot is dark and intriguing. Jacob grew up hearing his grandfather's stories about childhood on a mysterious island with Miss Peregrine and the children she sheltered, keeping them hidden from the monsters who would destroy them because they were peculiar. As Jacob grew older and learned about the horrors of the second world war, he thought he had finally figured out the truth -- it was all a fairytale his grandfather had dreamed up and the the old photographs his grandfather had used as evidence of his stories were poorly executed fakes. Then his grandfather was killed -- by a pack of dogs, according to the authorities -- and he learned that the stories were true....

 

The Ribbons and Roses shawl is still slowly growing. I had to knit half of the stitches onto a second needle to spead it all out for a picture. There should only be about twenty rows lef to knit, but I just finished my first skein of yarn and I'm sure I've got enough in the other two skeins for a few extra repeats.  I don't usually make things bigger, but I want this shawl as big as I can make it with the yarn I've got.

For more fun projects to drool over, check out On the Needles at Patchwork Times and Work in Progress Wednesdays at Tami's Amis. 

a glimpse of this week's baby quilt

The phrase "running around like a chicken with her head comes off" comes to mind... I didn't get quite as much done yesterday as I'd hoped to. But I did get the first block of this week's baby quilt done --

 

{Whatcha Reading?} Heaven Preserve Us

About a month ago, Heaven Preserve Us was being offered as a free Kindle download.  I'm on a huge cozy mystery kick lately, and the idea of murder by botulism was just too intriguing to pass up.

Botulism scares me, probably more than any of the other lurking household dangers. (Carbon Monoxide might be a close second. At least they make detectors for Carbon Monoxide.)

When I took a food preservation class about a decade ago, they had us listen to a taped interview with a woman who had survived a series case of botulism that she got from a baked potato at a buffet in Winnemucca. She didn't even eat the whole thing, just poked at it with her fork and took a little bit to determine that it was cold and nasty. Listening to her talk about her experience spooked me like nothing else.

The victim in Heaven Preserve Us isn't that lucky -- he dies shortly after being rushed to the hospital, but not before telling Sophie Mae Reynolds about the threats against him. Unfortunately there were a lot of people who had good reasons to wish the man dead.  After the recent preserves exchange at Heaven House, there's no shortage of sources for the deadly canned beets.

Barr Ambrose, Sophie's boyfriend shared the deadly salad. He was lucky and only contracted a mild case of botulism, but he's not able to help Sophie -- or to keep her out of trouble.  And Sophie has a stalker, a caller from the Heaven House help line.

Poor Sophie Mae! In the first book, she found her handyman in her workroom, dead after drinking lye. The victims in this series don't die peaceful deaths.

 

I can't wait to start the next book in the series, partly to see how the author deals with strangulation, and partly because I want to see what develops next in the romance growing between Sophie and Barr.

 

This post is linked to Whatcha Reading? at Patchwork Times.

my turtles are growing

I thought I'd get the top for the turtle quilt together Sunday afternoon, but I underestimated those pieced borders and how much extra pinning and pressing and making sure everything fit together just right would be involved.


Taking my time and doing it right is a good thing. That's what I keep telling myself, but I'm so impatient to see how this all fits together! And I'm wondering how I'm going to quilt it because it's now a lot larger than I'd originally planned for it to be.

I'm thinking of renaming it Gamera, in honor of its new size. And because Hubby and the boys might appreciate it.

To see more design walls, head over to Patchwork Times.

that gorgeous sinking quilt

I love, love, love this image of a quilt sinking beneath the wheels of a covered wagon. It captured my imagination like you wouldn't believe the first time I saw it on display at the Sisters Quilt Show, and every year since then, it's had the same effect on me.

I really should buy myself a poster!


This morning, I read over on !Sew WE Quilt! that the artist has written a children's book and is considering this for the cover. Go over there and vote for it -- I just know I'm going to wind up buying the book so I can read the story, and I really want it to have this cover.

The artist is giving away two of his gorgeous quilt show prints -- head over to !Sew WE Quilt! to see how to vote and enter.  And over on his blog, there's a post that shows how he actually dunked a quilt in a lake to create the image for the poster.

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The winners of the Kiki Lowenstein Short Story Anthology I wrote about last week are Kelly Grace who wrote:

I'd love a chance to win a book for my kindle, always willing to try a new author.

And Vicki who wrote:

I would love to win a copy, always willing to try a new book! Thanks for the chance.

Look what I found!

Look what I stumbled across while playing around online last week --

   

It's my 30s Barn Raising pattern, done in 30s reproduction prints by Kathleen, who blogs at Quilting CPA.  She blogged about the quilt here.  I really like this version!

Weekly Stash Report

My fabric totals are moving in the right direction! I finished two baby quilts last week and stayed out of the fabric stores.

Fabric Used this Week: 4 yards
Fabric Used year to Date: 18.5 yards
Added this Week: 0 yards
Added Year to Date: 14.5 yards
Net Used for 2012: 4 yards

Yarn Used this Week: 0 yards
Yarn Used year to Date: 200 yards
Yarn Added this Week: 0 yards
Yarn Added Year to Date: 0 yards
Net Added for 2013: 3200 yards

To see more weekly stash reports, click over to Patchwork Times.

I thought I was going to have to use some bad words

When I cut the borders for the turtle quilt, my focus was on whether or not I had enough light blue sheet for the inner border and for the 240 squares that I needed for the snowball blocks. I decided to go with the narrowest strips I thought would work -- 2" wide.

I wasn't thinking about how I was going to mange the corners....not until I was lying awake at 2am and realized that if I'd cut those stupid inner borders 2 1/2" wide I could have snowball blocks around the entire outer edge and not worry about putting plain blue blocks in the corners.

It's the same exact math I used for the borders of Madder Snowballs -- so why couldn't I remember it until after I'd cut the strips?

The turtles distracted me. They finish at 14" and I was trying to figure out how to make snowballs that would go evenly into that....and the whole thing was starting to sound like that math problem where the two trains leave different cities at different times and meet at some point you're supposed to determine. I never did learn how to do that problem.....

And I didn't need to do all of those mental contortions. There are four turtles in each row.  If I make 4" snowballs, fourteen of them will fit alongside the four 14" turtles. Easy-peasy -- as long as you remember how to make the borders fit!

Luckily, there was enough sheet to recut the inner borders and it all should go together now. 

Let's Make Baby Quilts! {week 7}

I'm playing with pink quilts this week -- maybe it's the holiday that got me feeling girly!

The tutorial for Priscilla is all ready to go. This one looks good in blue scraps, too -- and now I'm playing with a green varation. Because every time I make a baby quilt, I seem to start wondering what would happen if I tweaked the idea just a little bit differently.

Do you make varations of the same quilt?


Let's Make Baby Quilts Linky Party Rules:

I don't want to overwhelm everyone with a huge list of rules, but I do want this linky party to stay on the topic of baby quilts. They can be for donation, or for your own baby, or just because you think they're cute and want them in your sewing room, but they've got to be baby quilts. Link directly to your post or specific Flickr photo. Your post can be about a quilt that's finished, or in progress, or you can be writing about what you have planned, but it's got to be about baby quilts. While we're still gathering steam, you're welcome to link to baby quilt related posts that aren't brand new, but please don't submit the same post more than once. I'd love it if you linked back to my site, either with a text link or the Let's Make Baby Quilts! button.

Priscilla {a baby quilt tutorial}

A handful of half square triangle units give this easy baby quilt a lot of pop!

For a 36" square quilt, you'll need:



36 - print half square triangles (4 per block) (cut them from 2 1/2" strips with an Easy Angle ruler, or use your own favorite method)

36 - white half square triangles (4 per block)

180 - 2 1/2" print squares (20 per block)

18 - 2 1/2 x 4 1/2" white strips (2 per block)

18 - 2 1/2 x 8 1/2" white strips (2 per block)

Sew a white half square triangle to each print half square triangle. Press.

Sew the print squares into eighteen strips of four squares each and  eighteen strips of six squares each.

Assemble half square triangles into nine pinwheels, one for each block.

Sew 2 1/2 x 4 1/2" strips to opposite edges of each pinwheel. Press, then sew 2 1/2 x 8 1/2" strips to the other edges. Press.

Sew four square long strips to opposite edges of the block. Press. Sew six square long strips to the other two edges. Press.

Make nine blocks and assemble into three rows of three. Quilt and bind. As always, if you make this quilt I'd love for you to send me a picture or link up to my weekly Let's Make Baby Quilts! linky party. There's a list of my free baby quilt tutorials over in the sidebar and you  can find out when new ones are added by either following my blog or liking the Let's Make Baby Quilts Facebook page.

Meet Collena

I made the blocks for this little baby quilt last year, but didn't get around to assembling and quilting them until this week. It's the same nine patch and snowball block layout that I've used for quite a few other baby quilts.  

 

 

Collena is my second baby quilt this week -- Priscilla is the other one. That tutorial will be up later today.  I'm also giving away two copies of Joanna Campbell Slan's new Kiki Lowenstein Anthology. If you want a chance to win, leave a comment on this post.

This post is linked to to Finish it Up Friday, Can I get a Whoop Whoop?, Link a Finish Friday, and Freedom Fridays.

{What's Cooking?} Quick Fixin', Taste Ticklin' Peanut Butter Cookies

Lately, I've been seeing old magazine ads online. I don't know what it is about them that fascinates me so much, but when I saw some craft magazines from the 80s on the freebie table at the library this week, I scooped them up.

Then I saw the recipie for Quick Fixin', Taste Ticklin' Peanut Butter Cookies in the October 1984 issue of Creative Ideas for Living and knew how I was going to meet Judy's challenge to use sweetened condensed milk this week. Because how could I not try making cookies with biscuit mix?

This is a seriously strange recipie. And it's still around, on the Eagle Brand website. Except they've changed the name, added an egg, and increased the peanut butter.

 

I didn't  care for them, but I'm not a big fan of peanut butter cookies. Hubby thought they were okay.  The boys scarfed down the entire batch, but I'm not sure that's a compliment.  

This post is linked to What's Cooking? at Patchwork Times.

The yarn for my Rose Ribbons Shawl was on sale. I can't remember the exact details, but it was a great deal and I bought three different colors, planning to make myself some cute summer tops. And then it sat in my stash until I was ready to cast on this shawl.

 

I'm definitely a sale shopper, but I wasn't so sure I was going to enjoy reading about the Good Buy Girls, the characters in Josie Bell's mystery series. Maggie and her friends are very serious about their shopping and some of the references to their bargain hunting adventures struck me as a bit too aggressive.

Despite that, I really found myself enjoying 50% Off Murder. When librarian Claire Freemont is arrested after a body is found in the library basement with her cake knife in its chest, her friends pull together to find the real killer and clear her name. Unfortunately Claire has an unpleasant history with the victim -- and so does just about everyone else in town.

I'll be looking for the next book in the series to read more about this quirky group of characters, even if I can't understand their shopping habits.  (If a pair of designer shoes will last for fifteen years, why do they need to go shopping for new ones at every annual sale? Or is it like fabric and yarn where too much is never enough?)

I didn't get much done on the shawl this week, probably because I was making time to read straight through this book, and the new Kiki Lowenstein anthology. (Want to win a copy? You can enter by leaving a comment on yesterday's post.)

For more fun projects to drool over, check out On the Needles at Patchwork Times and Work in Progress Wednesdays at Tami's Amis. 

Kiki Lowenstein and the Soldier's Gift

I've been waiting on pins and needles for Picture Perfect Corpse, the next Kiki Lowenstein mystery.  When I pre-ordered it from Amazon, I didn't even bother to read the description. I finally read the description yesterday and if I thought I was on pins and needles before, I don't know how to describe the way I'm feeling about it now!

 

As soon as I saw that there was a new anthology of short stories available, I downloaded it for my Kindle and happily started reading. 

 

In Kiki Lowenstein and the soldier's gift, Kiki organizes the customers at the scrapbooking store where she works to make cards for the Wounded Warrior  Project. They set an ambitious goal, which is quickly overshadowed by an even more ambitious mystery for her to solve.  I was in happy tears by  the story's end.  (A portion of the profits from the anthology will go to the Wounded Warrior  Project.)

 

Kiki Lowenstein and the Shark Bait provides a fun glimpse into Kiki's life before she met her husband (who was murdered in the first book of the series), and Kiki Lowenstein and the TP Caper is a "super short" story.

 

I was halfway through the book and already planning to write about it today when Joanna Campbell Slan emailed and asked if I'd like to give away two copies to my blog readers for Valentine's Day.  If you'd like a chance to win a copy for your Kindle, just leave a comment on this post. I'll choose the two winners and announce them Sunday morning.

Joanna is doing an online chat on Valentine's Day at 7 p.m. EST in the chat room on her Lila Dare website with four other authors and they'll all be giving away copies of their books. Her guests include Shelly Arkon, author of Secondhand Shoes; Mollie Cox Bryan, author of Scrapped; Nancy J. Cohen, author of Permed to Death; and Chrystle Fiedler, author of Scent to Kill

I'm linking up to Whatcha Reading? over at Patchwork Times.

Meet Priscilla

This is the quilt I'd planned to have finished last week. It's such a great "girly girl" quilt that it needed the perfect name.

So she's Priscilla, named after a gal who was always going out after she finished swing shift at the answering service where we both worked. She'd spend the last hour or so getting ready between calls, touching up her makeup and hair and perfume. (By that time of night, there wasn't much actual work to do.) I hadn't thought of her in years, until I was trying to name this little baby quilt.

I've already made a blue version of this quilt, which came about because I had mistakenly cut some blue triangles and wanted to find a way to use them up. Now I'm working with a green variation. And the tutorial -- on Friday if all goes well!

This post is linked to Little Quilt Monday.

a border for the turtles

Back in October, I was playing around with my AccuQuilt Go! cutter and figured out how to use the large Drunkard's Path die and the Dresden Plate die to make pieced turtles. They went together lickety split and within a couple of days, I had enough to make a lap quilt.

Everyone thought it needed a border. Even me. That's how I found out what everyone else thought -- I had a feeling I'd be making a mistake if I didn't, and I asked my readers what they thought. I was going to have to make a border and it was going to have to be a pieced border because I don't like plain ones.

 

 

 

One of my readers suggested scrappy green snowball blocks that would look like rocks. It was the perfect solution. I could see it in my head. But I didn't know if I had enough background fabric left for the borders and corners.  (That's one of the pitfalls of working with old sheets -- matching the pale pale blue I used for the background of my turtles would be next to impossible.) And I didn't want to dig all of my green scraps back out.  Not to mention adding 300 pieces to a quilt that only had 160 pieces to start with.

 

So I did what I usually do when I'm worried about running out of fabric and not working on something for someone else. I put the whole project in time out while I worked up my courage.

 

Turns out there was enough pale blue sheet left to do what I wanted, and enough green to make the snowball blocks. I did buy a few fat quarters, but that was just to ensure that I have enough for the green baby quilt that I've got planned next.

 

To see more design walls, head over to Patchwork Times.  

Hocuspocusville Update

My original Hocuspocusville post, which I wrote last summer, has seen quite a bit of traffic lately.  I can't figure out where it's coming from, but it did  remind me how long it's been since I picked up this project.

 

It's all my daughter's cat's fault.

 

The last time I worked on this house, I left it lying on my treadle sewing machine. It wasn't there for long at all, but that's not the point. The point is that the cat should not be sleeping on my embroidery. Or my knitting, my laptop, my sewing machine, the foot pedal of my sewing machine, or my feet....

I may be starting to understand why this cat wound up abandoned by the side of the highway. Did I mention that letting her live in our house wasn't my idea? But apparently she was a house cat in her former life and she insists on keeping that role.

The cat got my clothesline dirty. After all of that tracing, and sewing the socks and bloomers and little boots with their laces and heels,  seeing it covered with cat hair and dirt (and what I'm trying to tell myself isn't blood from a flea bite) was a bit more than I could take. You can still see the worst of it just over the spiderweb.

It's a good thing my husband likes the cat more than I do, or it would never be in this house again.

This morning, I pulled it back out and stitched the cauldron and the outlines of the sign. It's not quite as bad as I thought it was. After the embroidery is all done, I think the spots will be less noticeable. And I really do love working on  this project.

I'm linking up to Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts.

I could hoard this stuff

Quilters talk about hoarding certain lines of fabric, of being afraid to use it up, of prowling ebay to complete their collections.......I didn't get it until now.

 

I seriously  covet Get a Clue With Nancy Drew, even if I have already made two quilts from it. I've got a charm pack left for my blog hop project, and some leftover bits from the quilt backing and binding. But I wanted just a bit more.  Greenbaum's called two days ago to let me know that it had finally come in and by the time I made it in there today, most of it was gone.    

 

I did get the two prints I was hoping for, a half yard of each. I've got plans for both.  And I will be keeping track of every last scrap. Because it's that special.

 

I also stopped at Craft Warehouse and Joann's to pick up some more green for the border of the turtle quilt. And a bunch of Wool-Ease which was on sale for the best price I've seen in ages. I need to cast on something that I can knit with other people in the room and I'm envisioning these cute little striped pink stocking caps for the NICU.

Weekly Stash Report

Fabric Used this Week: 0 yards
Fabric Used year to Date: 14.5 yards
Added this Week: 3.25 yards
Added Year to Date: 14.5 yards
Net Used for 2012: 0 yards


Yarn Used this Week: 0 yards
Yarn Used year to Date: 200 yards
Yarn Added this Week: 3400 yards
Yarn Added Year to Date: 0 yards
Net Added for 2013: 3200 yards

To see more weekly stash reports, click over to Patchwork Times.

Let's Make Baby Quilts! {week 6}

Do you use triangles in your baby quilts? Just a few of them can add a lot of zing without too much extra effort.

If you make snowball blocks, you don't even have to deal with actual triangles -- you stitch and flip and get the look of triangles without the fuss.



Or you can go all out and throw caution to the wind -- this baby quilt has lot of little triangles and lots of big triangles made up of little triangles. I've made two almost identical quilts. Extra Scrappy Pinwheels is a free pattern here on my blog.

Let's Make Baby Quilts Linky Party Rules:

I don't want to overwhelm everyone with a huge list of rules, but I do want this linky party to stay on the topic of baby quilts. They can be for donation, or for your own baby, or just because you think they're cute and want them in your sewing room, but they've got to be baby quilts. Link directly to your post or specific Flickr photo. Your post can be about a quilt that's finished, or in progress, or you can be writing about what you have planned, but it's got to be about baby quilts. While we're still gathering steam, you're welcome to link to baby quilt related posts that aren't brand new, but please don't submit the same post more than once. I'd love it if you linked back to my site, either with a text link or the Let's Make Baby Quilts! button.

just a top this time

Sometimes there are just other things to do.  Like taking six kids to pizza and then to the aquatic center and then to frozen yogurt because they got tired and gave up swimming earlier than they expected.... 

We did get home early enough for me to get this week's baby quilt quilted, but keeping my youngest two from drowning themselves (or each other or me) completely wore me out. I'm not as young as I used to be, or the two little guys  have more energy than the older two did.  Or it could be that I always used to have another mommy or two with me for backup -- at least on days when I wasn't taking my son and daughter and their best friends, the twins, for a walk to the park. These days, I'm more likely to be on my own.

So all I've got to show you this week is a top. This is going to be Priscilla, and I like her too much to rush through the quilting.

 

The pinks were given to me in this combination, so I don't get to take any of the credit for fabric choices. But the quilt pattern is my idea.

{yarn along} not taking the easy way out

I'm still knitting away on the  Rose Ribbons Shawl from Knitting Lace Triangles and absolutely loving it.

The alternating bands of flower lace and leaf lace intimidated me at first because it's hard to see what's going on with that flower lace. Until you've got enough rows of it done, it just looks like a bunch of random yarn overs and decreases.

I was tempted to just keep the set up section of flower lace and do the rest of my shawl in leaf lace. It's easier to see where the stitches should fall in that one. But that flower lace is so pretty... and once I got enough of it done to get a good look., it started to make more sense.

The leaf lace is what I messed up on. There's a certain point, which varies from night to night, where it's just too late to knit lace. And that point is never obvious until it's just a bit too late and things have already gone wrong. I've got it fixed now, but it may be a few more rows before I stop holding my breath.

This week's books are The Mysterious Half Cat and The Riddle of the Double Ring, both from the Judy Bolton mystery series.

For more fun projects to drool over, check out On the Needles at Patchwork Times and Work in Progress Wednesdays at Tami's Amis. 

{What's Cooking?} Thai Peanut Chicken

I like having Judy tell me what to cook! It's really helping me to break out of the "spaghetti or tacos or meatloaf" rut I've fallen into.

 

This week's challenge ingredient was peanut butter.  So of course my first though was "peanut butter cookies!"  But that wouldn't have filled in one of my dinner slots for the week. My next idea was that peanut crusted chicken that the boys like so much at the Chinese buffet -- except I don't know what it's called.

 

I Googled and searched and finally decided on this recipe for Thai Peanut Chicken, which I found on allrecipes.com.

 

Two hours before I needed to start cooking dinner the real challenge hit, in the form of a migraine that left my tongue and both arms numb. Thank God for teenage daughters, especially teenage daughters who are really good at charades and can understand what Mom is saying when she's tripping over her own words!  She did all of the measuring and cooking for me while I waited for my werewolf pills (known as Caffergot to people without monster obsessed kids) to kick in.

 

We made a couple of substitutions because I was in no condition to dig out the white wine vinegar myself or explain what cupboard it should be in. According to hubby, Shaoxing wine (which he uses in his Chinese cooking) is completely different stuff. But it tasted good. And we'll definitely be making this again.

pretty pink pinwheels

This week's baby quilt has pinwheels. They're not my favorite thing to piece, but  I love the way they look. And the more of them I make, the more likely they are to all be spinning in the right direction.

 

It looks like I'll have more pinwheels next week, because I thought of a different way I could set these and can't wait to see how that idea looks in green.

 

To see more design walls, head over to Patchwork Times.

just a little more...

I added a bit more fabric to my stash this week, some reds for the Keep Calm quilt and two low volume prints for the big girl version of Annabelle. No guilt, because I've got almost immediate plans for these. And I'm being good this year!

 

Weekly Stash Report

Fabric Used this Week: 0 yards
Fabric Used year to Date: 14.5 yards
Added this Week: 1.25 yards
Added Year to Date: 11.25 yards
Net Used for 2012: 3.25 yards


Yarn Used this Week: 0 yards
Yarn Used year to Date: 200 yards
Yarn Added this Week: 0 yards
Yarn Added Year to Date: 0 yards
Net Used for 2013: 200 yards

To see more weekly stash reports, click over to Patchwork Times.

where is it this time?

 I hear that there are lots of quilters who always know where to find every last ruler and seam ripper.

 

I'm not one of them. Which explains why I can't find the Easy Angle ruler that I need to cut the half square triangles for this week's baby quilt. It's not where it should be, or in any of the other places where it usually comes to rest.

 

Yesterday, I solved the problem by cutting and piecing all of the squares. Today, I'm going to need a real solution. I'm working from 2 1/2" strips, so I can't use my AccuQuilt die.  If I can't find the Easy Angle, I'm going to wind up doing stitch and flip triangles. Not my favorite method. But it'll get the quilt done.

 

Did you see what's  on the cover of the new American Patchwork and Quilting? I'm not sure if I want to admit to buying a magazine because it had a pretty picture of a quilt I already know how to make. But there are some things in here I like, and some neat ideas for quilting the postage stamp quilts.

 

 

And have you watched Paperman? Teenage Daughter found it yesterday on Pinterest and wanted me to watch it. It's the neatest little animated love story, a new animated short from Disney. (On their own You Tube channel, so don't worry that I'm sending you off to watch something illegal!)

Let's Make Baby Quilts! {week 5}

How are your baby quilts coming?

Last week, I played with some low volume scraps and made Annabelle. She's just a little postage stamp quilt made up from 2 1/2" squares, but she was a lot of fun to put together.  I want to do more baby quilts with these colors, but I should probably cut the pieces for my daughter's quilt first.

 

This week, I'm pulling out a bunch of pink 2 1/2" strips and hoping to make another quilt like the Scrappy Blue Pinwheels I made back in November. I'll take pictures so I can write up the tutorial.

The winners from last week's Purex Baby giveaway are Mareenchen from Aquamareen Crafting, Deb from asimplelifequilts, and Lori. I'll be writing to each of you for your mailing address.



Let's Make Baby Quilts Linky Party Rules:

I don't want to overwhelm everyone with a huge list of rules, but I do want this linky party to stay on the topic of baby quilts. They can be for donation, or for your own baby, or just because you think they're cute and want them in your sewing room, but they've got to be baby quilts. Link directly to your post or specific Flickr photo. Your post can be about a quilt that's finished, or in progress, or you can be writing about what you have planned, but it's got to be about baby quilts. While we're still gathering steam, you're welcome to link to baby quilt related posts that aren't brand new, but please don't submit the same post more than once. I'd love it if you linked back to my site, either with a text link or the Let's Make Baby Quilts! button.