Another project finished

I had a lady bring me a quilt top and she has dearly loved it and used it. The fabric in several of the areas in the blocks was worn so bad that it was not longer there. I ended up scanning the fabric and printing it and then replacing these diamond shapes. I then stitched the seams that had given and tighten up the whole area. I had been redoing some of the quilted areas though to be honest the whole thing could have been quilted again and I was not going to put that kind of time into it. I stabled squares in areas and today gave the quilt back to the owner.

I am happy to see my to do list going down even further nice to send things home to their owner in better shape then they were in is about all I can do for this project.  I did not get a picture snapped of the quilt it makes me think of a block that I remember called Carpenter square with lots of diamonds going to a center with other squares around it. Then it had an alternate block that was quilted.

We lost a large tree

 

Well on Wed. of this week one of the guys over at the lumberyard started to park under one of our big shade trees that we have out side. Then he got out and as he was walking across the street stop and looked back at the tree. There was a gentle breeze blowing and he noticed that the hollow cracked area of the tree was separating as the wind moved the branches above. 

We assume that the storm that came thru on Monday added to the weakness in this tree. We had a lot of high wind on Monday and I guess we were luck the tree did not blow down then. I know the neighbors are happy the power line for there home goes thru that tree and the tree itself was big enough that if it had blown to the west I might of taken down the power lines on that side of the street.

This is the area that was damaged in the storm. The squirrel's that lived in the tree are not going to be happy but it is better that the tree is down in a controlled manor

It is all coming down sad but it needed to happen

A yard full of tree (looking from the street towards our house

This picture is from the back of the house from where the two windows      ( bay windows) jut out on the south side towards the front of the house now that the tree is gone. Sure have a lot of light on this side now.

The funniest part of all this is I have a flower bed there just to the left of the humming bird feeder out towards the sidewalk. It was well mulched and had some cone flowers blooming in it and my red calla lilies were starting to come up there. Well with all the work that had to be done I understand the flowers being cut off/down but when they cleaned up the area they even took the mulch that was on the flower bed.  I just thought that was funny it is not a big area and not really a big deal just funny.

I am happier they cleaned up them I am worrying about a little mulch. 

Coconut Macaroon Cookies

Well today I am testing a recipe for something I need to make at work tomorrow.

I was going to make Coconut Macaroon cookies with a package of coconut, 1 14 oz can of Sweetened Condensed Milk and 2 t of vanilla.

The Sweetened condensed milk I had in the house has been on the shelf for a while and when I opened it the color looked off and since it has gone well past the used by date I decided that was a waste of my time and a bag of coconut that is not exactly cheap. 

So I looked at the side of the bag of coconut and there was a recipe.

Bakers Coconut Macaroon Cookies

1 pkg of (14 oz) Bakers Angel Flake Coconut
2/3 cup of sugar
6 T of flour
1/4 t salt
4 egg Whites
1 tsp almond extract

Blend the coconut, sugar, flour and salt together in a large bowl. Stir in egg whites and almond extract untili well blended, Drop by Tablespoonful onto greased and floured cookies sheet.

Bake at 325 for 20 min or until edges of cookies are golden brown, immediately remove from cookie sheets to wire rack. Cool completelely makdes 3 dozen or 18 servings 2 cookies each

My NOTES:

Ok I did as instructed and  then used an 18/8 cookies scoop to put them on the pan.  I used parchment paper instead of greasing and flouring the pan.  I only got 2 dozen cookies and not 3 dozen. Probably bigger then they are suppose to be we will see.

Cookies in the Oven sorry it is low light after 10 min.

I set the timer for 10 more min and will see how they come out.



cookies after 20 min in the oven

 So now I have to wait until they cool down to give them a try but they do look pretty, nice shape and good color and they seem to be holding together well the almond adds a nice scent to the coconut.  They look like they are not sticking to the parchment paper and that sure saves on the clean up.

I am thinking this is the recipe I will make tomorrow I have an order for a dozen Macaroon cookies and a dozen Monster cookies. The recipe with the sweetened condensed milk might of been easier but this recipe came out looking good and that is half the battle. Things that look good and smell good usually follow thru with flavor.

where has the week gone

Well I sure don't know where the week has gone it is Wed all ready and I don't feel like I have gotten any were on things. I did get Annie up to the Vet this afternoon for her shots she likes to go for rides and then we did a couple other errons but it is hard to go to far when you have a doggy shut up in a vehicle. Even though I leave the vehicle running I worry about it stopping and even though it is not super hot out if some how the car should stop she would be in the heat of the day.

Just not a good thing so my trip was short and then we came back home again.

Had a sisters weekend with my sister's in law and that went well I forgot my camera but have  pictures shared by Sherrie  Pictures from the weekend Hope this works 

I have been working on the binding for the Sun Bonnet Sue quilt and that seems to be slow going too.

It’s done

I have had this quilt for a while now. It is a quilt that my mother started quite a while ago and then I just could not seem to get motivated to finish it.  The back and front have to be folded under and then sewn together. In a couple areas mother pulled the back to the front and I did not change any of those areas.

My mother had Alzheimer's and this quilt has some issues but I decided this was a quilt that she made and I was not going to try and fix it just finish it.  I completed it last night and then put it in the washer and dryer.

I have not checked the quilting to closely  how the quilting is behaving after it was washed I just spread it out over a twin bed and it would probably fit a full size bed but it looks good on the twin too.

Quilting by Hand

I seem to be into hand work right now. I put this quilt in the frame and have been working on it for the last couple days.  I made this top as part of a class a while ago using some feed sack fabrics and other prints that I felt like they fit in with the group.

I am quilting around the V shape or partial boxes. The units are like card tricks only on it's side or in a row instead of in a square block.  I marked the border with a chalk pencil and not sure that is working out well with my moving around on the swivel of the frame. I have a grace hoop frame on a stand and it is working out to quilt this perfectly other then I am rubbing off the lines I drew on the border. Oh well cannot have it all I guess.