Applique Affair

I finished my third block, by needle-turning with the "Piece O Cake" method.
I tried glue over freezer paper and starch ironed over freezer paper to prepare the pieces but the glue is too much mess and the ironing too tedious. I like my pieces prepared but don't like to do the preparing! So I'll continue with needle turn and am getting faster and more accurate with practice.

Happy Mother's Day

Here is Jason with Tim, Nick and Alyssa on the deck. They came over this evening with a card and lilac candle. I got home from UUWC Council meeting that was in St. Joseph, Michigan about 4 o'clock. Met the women from Springfield in Bloomington to carpool up there early Sat. morning. It was a nice time, a good meeting and our hostess took us to a Kurdish restaurant Cafe Gulistan for supper last night. Was it good!: humus, babaganoush, falafel, etc. Yum. I didn't know about the owner's immigration story until I got home and googled the website. I brought home a pound of fresh asparagus, just picked this morning from a roadside vegetable stand. The redbud and lilac blooms were thick and lush up there. But it is very nice to be home again. I found my little lilac bushes blooming when I pulled into the driveway!

Happy May Day and (Belated) Earth Day

May Day is cool and rainy, my Bleeding Hearts and Bluebells are blooming. Earth Day was warm and sunny; a nice breeze showed off my flag. To celebrate May Day, I put out the hummingbird feeder and am looking out for my first little guest!

Spring Flowers

 

 

 

Here are my spring bulb flowers in my front flower bed: the grape hyacinths, daffodils, and you will have to imagine the pink tulips. The deer think the tulips are their candy and have left only chewed up leaves. Next year I will have to get them covered with netting as soon as they peek out of the ground!

Calico Salad

 

Here is the dish that I made for the potluck meeting at the library tonight. People like it and ask for the recipe.
Calico Salad

1 16 oz. pkg. frozen mixed vegetables
1 small chopped onion
1 cup chopped celery
1 can red or black beans
Sauce:
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon prepared mustard

Mix flour with sugar, add vinegar and cook while stirring until thickened. Add mustard. Pour over vegetables and refrigerate for at least two hours.

Dear Jane Sewing Day April 14

 

Here are my 32nd and 33rd blocks finished!

Raffle Quilt and Show!

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It's been a long time since my last blog post, and this is the reason why - the raffle quilt for the guild that I was in charge of this year! The past month or so I have been focused on getting it done, hand quilted. I've had guild members at my house to work on it 2 or 3 times a week and I've worked on it most evenings. The show was March 27 and 28; the raffle ticket sales brought in over $2900!! I'll be posting more regularly now, I've a lot to catch up on.