Michael and Cookie left for a walk first thing Sunday morning
(9/29), and ran into some friends who sent this pic:
When he got home, he made me breakfast so that I could have enough energy to tackle my day:
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| can you tell we're out of spinach?? |
I headed to the studio to see what I was
going to start. I only have one more
customer quilt to complete before loading up some of my own, so I jumped on
that:
After I got it basted, I spent way
too long on the internet. I think I’ve become
obsessed with cookie cups :~). I’ve been collecting/pinning many recipes
over the past couple of months, but since making them with Inez (for the small
lemon cups), I really want to make more.
I spent a lot of time looking for chocolate shells as I didn’t like the
recipe we used for the caramel mini-tarts we made and I think I found a good
recipe….I hope to try it out on Wednesday to use up the leftover caramel sauce
from the week with Inez.
I also spent
time looking for a caramel (rather than caramel sauce) recipe. For the Fiber Floozies retreat, I made
cookies that were a shortbread base, caramel layer and then chocolate top. Even though I kept them in the fridge…the
caramel sauce remained way too soft and continued to ooze out until the container
was a complete mess and it was difficult to get even a portion of a cookie out.
Well, after goofing around for far too long
on PINTEREST, I finally got my butt in gear and started to set up the program
for the newest quilt and that’s where I got stopped. I know my customer does not want very dense
quilting, but the pattern that was picked will be very dense. I spent a bit of time on the internet trying
to find something with less stitches, and sent off an email to see what she
wanted. She got back to me right away
and I purchased a new pattern, got the bobbins wound and kicked everything
off:
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| can you tell? It's oak leaves and acorns...perfect for this fall colored quilt |
While that was stitching out, once
again I made a bit of progress on the leading quilt:
I really wanted to finish the quilting on
the fall quilt, but by 6 PM I was getting tired and I don’t like to work on
things then as it is all too easy to make a mistake. So, I joined my honey for the last of the
Chinese leftovers for dinner, before continuing to load up a new necklace while
watching TV.
I have to tell you a funny
story about our dinners. The place where
we order food is very definitely an ‘English as a second language’ kind of
place. I had asked my honey to get me
extra sauce……well, my dinner never came with extra sauce….but it was EXTRA
HOT!!!! OMgoodness….so very different
from the last time I got it, but so very good!!! We may have to order it like that always :~).
I have been a bit busy lately and have not been keeping
up-to-date with things going on in the country.
I finally got caught up and spent a some time looking into what is going
on with the White House vis-a-vis the phone call to the Ukraine. How anyone can doubt that Trump continues to abuse
his power and act like a dictator rather than a president of the
United States is beyond me. Do you want
to be informed? Here you go:
