Finished Friday ~ Winter Fields quilt

I found a tutorial on Quilts by Rosemary via Molly Flanders pinterest, using Press n Seal, tracing the pattern, then placing it on your quilt and stitching away. The plastic gave me more control of the quilt and the curves and loops flowed smoothly through the machine. I also left the feed dog up and the stitches are more uniform and only a couple of skips. Always learning something new with each quilt.  

 

 

 

 

it does require tweezers 

The only draw back to this method is picking all the plastic wrap our of the stitches. It did not disturb the threads, it was just time consuming.

For a break I stitched the binding on.

Here is the top sans plastic wrap

and the bottom with darling daughter that pieced all the squares together using her Hello Kitty sewing machine. A belated quilt for my husband for Christmas. I am so glad he came into the quilt shop and spied this pattern. The flannels, wools and free-hand motion quilting were all enjoyable and came together nicely.

Finished it Friday ~ Modern Workshop Scraps

 

 

Finished!

All the scrap strips minus 2 where used for this quilt top. I chose 'Mumsy' by Dear Stella which is a combination of blues and teals. The quilt will measure 30 by 44, a cozy throw and the perfect size for practicing free-motion quilting.

Have a great weekend!

transparency ~

Not everything thing I attempt turns out well. For instance ~ my attempt at making a genoise sponge cake turned out to be a dense, eggy, dry, squat...I could go on. It took all morning and after reading and re-reading the directions and careful following times and temperatures I got that!

Everyday my kids ask me how my day was. It was on this day I exclaimed that I had made the worlds worst chocolate cake. They looked at me in disbelief and told me, in the sweetest of voices, that I could never make a bad cake. Just you wait. The genoise was hiding on a cake pedestal. I sliced a sliver for each of them. They did laugh at how flat it was.There is a lot of protein packed into each crumb. Sweet as they are, they said 'yum'. I cut it up into cubes with the hopes that I can transform it into bread pudding

So back to the books ~

For my second attempt I chose a cake batter for the German Chocolate cake that I have made many times.

 

The sour cream, eggs, butter and chocolate waiting to come to room temperature

The batter ~

The cakes ~

The stabilized whipped cream ~

and cherries ~

All assembled and ready for tasting. It still needed the shaved chocolate and cherries for the top. I cut a slice for those kids who were so kind. They all liked it. Mostly the cake and whipped cream. I do not think we are big fans of jarred cherries. Now for the big test because this was only a small test. Our friend is having a birthday and his wife asked if I would make his birthday cake. Surprise!

I am so glad that it turned out. 

Off to a walk with my darling husband in the cool of the morning then to the San Diego Quilting Guild.

Have a lovely weekend