Category Archives: and Other Stuff

Poor Neglected Jane

After many moths of neglecting my Jane quilt I finally got some blocks put together for the July meeting.

Here are each of my blocks. The Star block was a bit of a challenge, but the method we used for the center was to fold a little square in half which worked out wonderfully.

I did have a bit of a hard time getting one of the background pieces lined up correctly when paper piecing the star. After ripping out three times I grabbed a 6″ width of fabric strip, placed the paper on top off that and ran it through the machine. Plenty of room and no wasted fabric after I trimmed it … how’s that for a new paper piecing method!

A different kind of Muffin

Spelt Blueberry Muffins

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F, grease and flour 12 muffin tins.

Dry Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups spelt flour
1/2 cup coconut flour
1 Tbsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup brown sugar or organic sugar

Blend above together in mixing bowl

Wet Ingredients:
3 eggs
1 3/4 cups milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 Tbsp olive oil

Mix above together in separate bowl

Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients

Stir in 1 1/2 cups blueberries

Spoon into the muffin tins and Bake at 425 degrees for 17 minutes, or 400 degrees for 15 minutes in a convection oven.

Extra milk is needed to add moisture for the coconut flour. If not using coconut flour use
2 1/4 cups spelt and only 1 1/4 cup milk.

These muffins have perfect texture and a rich flavor. The coconut flour adds fiber and the spelt flour adds the richer flavor. I love these muffins

the Patrice Cross Body Bag

I do believe that I promised to write a pattern for my cross body bag. If you make the Kerryn Bag with two 1 yard pieces of quilted fabric you will have enough fabric left over to make this bag. But, if not you will need 3/4 of a yard of quilted fabric, and a yard of non-quilted fabric as indicated in the pattern. The pattern is for sale in my Craftsy Store. Make the bag as indicated or add a strip of ribbon to jazz it up a bit!

Merry Christmas

I had the most wonderful Christmas this year with my family and friends. I spent some time making bottle covers. This is a photo of one of the Santas that I made next to the Snow Man that my Mom made some time in the late 50’s. I recently reBlinged it … I was pleased to find the same type of sequins available at a local craft store! Some things don’t need to change!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Autumn Splendor

Well, the splendor of autumn has past, and now we are faced with bare trees until Spring. I really did enjoy the change of the season this year and was inspired by all of the bright autumn colors in the trees. Also, one of my Block of the Month projects fit right in, because I chose the Harvest Road color scheme for my BOM that I am doing at Quilter’s Common.

So, for one last bit of autumn inspiration in my quilting I put this table runner together for my friends who were kind enough to invite my husband, his Mom and I for Thanksgiving Dinner. I picked three of the block patterns from the BOM and stayed close to the colors that Antoinette chose for two of them, but decided to go with green instead of yellow for the center block.

Now I am going to have to be inspired by the colors of the Holiday and also the ice blue skies of winter.