Audrey awoke from her deep sleep with a level of activity never before witnessed. Later tonight or early tomorrow morning the fermentation process for sweet dough begins. I’m making a double batch to share.
As I started this the delightful memories of checking a book on how to make a loaf of bread out of the library while in second grade. The love of baking has a long history.
Fast forward a few hours. When I fed the sour starter this morning it was at the horizontal black line you see on the jar. Right before I stirred it down to start the fermentation process the starter had risen another inch or so from where it is in this photo. I’m going to riff on a couple of well-loved recipes. Instead of cows milk I used coconut milk and coconut cream as part of the liquid. Tomorrow evening I’ll add butter, sugar, salt, cardamom, eggs, and lemon rind. Oh let’s not forget the vanilla. I can’t forget the vanilla.
I spent the rest of the afternoon working on Split Complementerity Redo
First was finishing piecing the main body of the quilt. This is pieced on the diagonal and it is essential to keep things in order. It didn’t help that I had to move the last two rows so I could do some major paperwork.
Next was borders. What to do, what to do. Commence pondering and doing the only right thing to do, phone a friend. Friend gave me a couple of thoughts on borders. She suggested the red border followed by a bigger border in the background color. Game on! I found the red with just a little bit there so with some careful cutting I got six 1” strips. I came [] close to cutting it at 3/4”. That would be a fun thing to do and very much like me.
I cut the strips of the background color, still needing to make them longer. Insert color to the rescue! Random cuts and insertions give the border a bit of whimsy. The insertions are random. Now I get to batt & back this, get out the thread and quilt this beauty.
Yes, friends I do need to press the quilt top. Which is why the border on the right seems a bit shy.
Now to modify the written directions and get the pattern together as a pdf. I’m kind of excited about this. It’s been a while since I’ve pieced a quilt top.
This quilt, and another I’m working on are Cherrywood Fabrics. I’m delighted to have a page on their website with colors that I love.
My Sweetie is home until Tuesday so it’ll be a little quiet on the quilting front.
Happy Quilting,
Teri
