Do you remember the angel food cake mentioned in Ruined: The Angel Food Cake Saga? While much like its maker the aforementioned cake was tasty and somewhat dense. No, no the maker isn't dense so much as sometimes in a hurry and takes shortcuts that lead to ruinous results. Ah well. Meanwhile I made the… Continue reading Of Planners, Cakes, and Conversations
Category: quilting
Ruined: The Angel Food Cake Saga
Baking is my first creative love beginning with the staff of life, bread. Oh how I enjoy kneading the dough until it's just the right consistency then there's that yeasty build up from the moment it goes into the oven when dough and heat combine preparing the bread for consumption. Waiting until the bread has… Continue reading Ruined: The Angel Food Cake Saga
Pardon me While I get a bit Sentimental
It all starts about mid-May every year. Sweet, sweet memories of the beginnings of the preparation for our wedding. Figuring out what we could do. Finding a wedding dress in the City for under my budget. Finding wedding rings. And those oh so comfortable moments when one gets super frustrated because this is a big… Continue reading Pardon me While I get a bit Sentimental
Something shifted; somethings shifting
Before diving into the shifting of it all I am linking over to the Quilt & Tell Podcast. First congratulations to Debby Brown for her cover quilt and article in the upcoming issue of Quiltmaker. It's a stunner. I don't want to get the details wrong so I'm going to share Jay Duckworths Proptologist website… Continue reading Something shifted; somethings shifting
Learn to Stitch with Reckless Abandon
sometimes when memories pop through it's important to share them as in someway they led to where you are now. One summer a friends parents invited me along to northern Maine for a week away. One evening the local television station aired a documentary on Terry Fox who attempted to run across Canada in an… Continue reading Learn to Stitch with Reckless Abandon
Let’s Get Funky
Gratuitous Image to evoke HOT HOT HOT A number of friends local to Central Texas have mentioned that this is unusual weather. First the rain complete with lightning and thunder. Boom! Clap! Queue dripping sinuses from the mold. I did feel like I had moss growing around my feet. Right on the heels of the… Continue reading Let’s Get Funky
Cascade
That crack at the back of the drawer, splitting the back brace piece explained part of why opening/closing it is difficult. That and the bowing drawer bottoms. Sigh. When I bought this drawer unit it seemed perfect. The drawers are wide, and deep able to accommodate a lot of thread. I did not, however, give… Continue reading Cascade
When Monday Throws you off
Three day weekends are still the thing to look forward to, in part to celebrate, remember, and rest. However the rest of the week feels a day off because Tuesday is the new Monday and by mid-afternoon and pot of coffee number three you're wondering where the week went hoping, just hoping to get this… Continue reading When Monday Throws you off
Upcoming, Instagram Share and Reminders
Upcoming Poppy Quilt N Sew ClassesApril 12: Demo Day - I'll be at the shop in the classroom to demo free-motion machine quilting and a bit of ruler work. There are plans afoot to show some of this live. Classes: all are 10:30 to 2:30April 24 & May 1 - Beginner Free-Motion Quilting April 27… Continue reading Upcoming, Instagram Share and Reminders
When I was growing up
We all have troubles in life some that we speak of, some that we don't. Our life experiences help form and shape us unto the people we are today. Some memories are wildly hard, some are delightful, some are neutral, some stay with us, some don't. At some point in my growing up I took… Continue reading When I was growing up
