Home sweet home

Home Sweet Home

Block 3

Block 4

filler blocks

Home Sweet Home is now a TOP!! I finished the borders now on to finding a backing and deciding on the binding! I am thinking I might do a curved border.

I also worked on my moda U baskets I did some fussy piecing on the woven basket. I may change my mind on my border fabric have to wait till I see how I arrange the blocks.

watermelon pin cushion

Gee I haven't been around in a while and now 2 posts in one day!!

I saw these cute pincushions at the AQS show in Knoxville I have a pattern by Need'l love from Summer spirit and made one today, I stuffed it with walnut shells. I think I need to make a few more watermelon things before summer is over.

busy sewing

and lots of other things, I finished block 8 of home sweet home and almost done with block 9 just a few more leaves to stitch so top will be done soon, I have sewn 3 of the 4 borders I think this will be really pretty.

I started Moda U with friends and have several blocks done, my colors with this are chocolate brown reds and pinks.

Had such a mess to clean up after nasty storms last week took out our patio furniture and several trees, so much glass to pick up safety glass is so tiny we used spatulas to try and get it out of the mulch.

I also have the Aug, block done for Bunny Hill's BOM I did change it a bit who hasn't had a picnic disturbed my bees and ants? and I had to have a slice of watermelon to go with my cupcakes

Home sweet home

I cut all the swags for the borders yesterday, I have 1 1/2 blocks left to finish, so it was time to start the borders. I cleaned my sewing room and decided to get that done, I was also organizing fabrics to start Moda U's peace and plenty, which I was lucky enough to find at creative patches.

I will be going to Knoxville this week and hope to find lots of fabrics for this fun quilt.

Blueberry peach crumb pie

OH YUM!! who wouldn't love a slice of warm blueberry peach crumb pie with vanilla ice cream???

My mom made this pie every summer, started with not enough of either fruit for a pie so she tossed them together added her famous crumb topping and a tradition was born, she made this pie for my husband's birthday, she' has been gone for 8 years I finally got the courage to make one, I must say it turned our great, my sweet hubby says it's just as good as Mom's (or he was just being kind) but I think I agree!

so I'm sharing the recipe.

Blueberry peach crumb pie
1 prebaked pie shell I buy the Pillsbury and bake it 9 minutes at 425 using pie weights
1/4 C plus 2 Tbsp flour
1/2 C white sugar
1/4 C lt brown sugar
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
3 cups peeled and sliced peaches about 4 to 5 peaches
1 pt blueberries cleaned
mix all dry ingredients and toss in the peaches and blueberries put into the pie shell and make crumb topping
streusel topping
3/4 c flour
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 c white sugar
1/4 c light brown sugar
5 Tbsp butter cut up
use 2 knives to mix crumb topping
sprinkle evenly on the top of the pie and bake 1 hour at 375
serve warm with vanilla ice cream

quilters Back pack and July Bunny Hill

Finished my July Bunny Hill block, these are like eating candy I just can't get enough!

I started this bag several years ago and had everything cut out and then for some reason I put it away, well I'm going to the AQS show in Knoxville next week and thought it would be great to have it done!

I used decorator weight fabric for the outside and reg quilters cotton for the lining

Sooooooo 5 heavy duty machine needles later (I think at sometimes I was sewing thru 16 layers of fabric) LOL it's finally done! It has 3 outside pockets and 5 inside pockets, lot of room to store all the goodies I will buy!

last quilt

My last quilt is Simply Romantic by Hop Scotch Quilt Co, Peggy Waltman, I must say my favorite method is applique, which I learned when we moved to Ky. this quilt did combined both piecing and applique which was so was such fun to do, started Jan 2009 finished May 2009 so that was very speedy.

Maybe we need to share quilts that are finished but took a really really long time to complete?