OMG March Goal Finish!

Thank goodness I didn't forget to link up this month with everyone at Elm Street Quilts.  My goal was to resew and assemble some bunny blocks and get them made into some sort of quilt top that will get donated to charity.  I did get it all done and I think it turned out better than I anticipated. I don't plan on quilting this quilt as the charity has volunteer quilters and/or folks that tie quilts.

Here is what I finished up in February and didn't get to share as I was a day late last month in linking up.  My never ending En Provence Quiltville mystery top finally got finished and will get moved on to a quilter someday.

My backing fabric is perfect for the back of this quilt--Macarons from Paris no less.

I also finished a UFO that I bought at our guild quilt show second-time around shop last summer.  Not bad for $3.00.  I had to assemble about half of the hearts and add the borders.

My heart quilt will go into the queue to be quilted as desired--those three dreaded words that lead me to have a lot of projects waiting to be quilted.

I hope to figure out what I want to work on next month and have a goal.  One would think that it is easy to pick something but I have been less focused these days thanks to all that is going on in the world.  Our state has had a stay-at-home order for almost 2 weeks and I am staying put except for grocery day which does cause me some stress when I go and find the shelves somewhat empty.  Who in the world is using all of the bread flour, yeast, and butter?  Don't they know I have French bread recipes I want to play around with?

Until next month.

Cheers,

Debi

Scrap Happy Saturday

Today was a baking day as I finished my last cake for my Lori Holt Cake Walk quilt!  I was so happy when Angela announced Teal as the color for March because I thought that was exactly the color I needed to finish my cakes.

Last year I did finish one more cake and never got around to showing it so I will today as I am going to interpret the stand as turquoise-like, lol!

For some reason my camera/computer was acting a bit like a "smart phone" as I took this photo last year and took another one today that has a lace embellishment on it which apparently my technology recognized as an old photo--go figure.  I bought the lace in 1998 when I was in Ireland/Northern Ireland.

Most of my cakes still need an applique topper and I may end up linking up with everyone at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Stitching Sunday once I figure out what I want to do. 

I also decided to do some real baking today as well.  I have been wanting to try Pink Praline Brioche which I had tried when I was in Paris--it was delicious!  I was pleasantly surprised to find pink pralines on Amazon and they are shipped from France.  I also had some French butter in the freezer that I carried in my luggage from Paris in an insulated bag.  No problem with butter and customs so all was good.  Yesterday I mixed the dough and this morning I made the bread. 

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My efforts weren't too bad and the bread is quite tasty.  I was a little concerned about it being completely baked and I think it is pretty close, plus it is a little more brown than I wanted.  I used Paul Hollywood's recipe for Brioche and found a Pink Praline recipe from Eva Bakes.  I will definitely give this bread another try with a few tweeks.

Finally, I want to thank Sandy, Vierya and Susie H. for letting me know the pattern I was looking for in a previous post was Meadow and I was able to purchase it on Amazon/Alice in Stitches.  Stay tuned as I have to do quite a bit of pondering on how I want to do Meadow.

I am linking up with everyone at SOS Scrappy on the first Teal/Turquoise Saturday of the month.  

Cheers,

Debi

OMG March Goal

Well it looks like I leaped right past the link up for February as I started to write my post earlier this week and realized that Sunday was March 1st and not the end of February.  If I can keep my dates in check this month I should have quite a lot to share because I actually did get some things accomplished.

My goal this month is to work on some Elizabeth Hartman bunnies that I started last year.  I was going to make them as a baby gift but I was in a hurry when I started making them and ended up making all kinds of mistakes.  For example, here is the first test bunny I made and didn't see the issue with the ears until nine bunnies were made.

Obviously I don't do well when I am in a hurry and don't pay close attention to the pattern.  If I were to just go ahead and add borders it would have worked, but I am not the most accurate sewer so I doubt I would have had perfect points.

Once corrected it look much better but I see that the ear point will be an issue once the border is added.  Oh well, I feel better.

Then I decided making the mouth was too much on future bunnies because after all I was in a hurry.  In the end the bunnies never got finished and I had to redo a bunch of ears.

My goal this month is to correct all of the bun's and get them assembled into some sort of quilt top.  There are still some ear issues but I am letting it go and moving this project along--goodness that feels so good!  I will be donating the top to a charity once it is done.

Since I did get the date of the beginning of the month right, I will be linking up with everyone at Elm Street Quilts.  

Cheers,

Debi