I always have two or three dishcloths on the needles at the same time. I finished both of these this week so now I can choose two new colors to cast on.
I also finished basting the gray dotty quilt. We had severe thunderstorm warnings and a tornado watch so I decided the basement was the best place to be. It turned out to be quite a bit of rain. I bought a rain gauge so I will go out and check it later this morning. We got .35" yesterday morning.
I finished the binding and hanging sleeve yesterday morning. It should be a nice cheery addition to someone's wall. It is 46.5" x 35". I got more quilting done on the Fractured quilt and a little more basting done. Nothing photo-worthy there.
I set my post for 5 a.m. yesterday and when I first checked it at 7 a.m. it still hadn't posted. I'm taking a chance that it was just an off day for Blogger's timer and set this one for 5 a.m. again.
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Gray dotty zig zag is on the basting table. I pieced the back and got it layered before lunch and in the afternoon I got 4 full length rows basted on it. I'm linking to the HSTeria quilt along (Link button on right side bar) because it is triangles, but it's not new. I finished the top a year ago and am just now getting ready to quilt it. Full shot of it here.
In the morning yesterday I worked on the binding on the star quilt and thought I would finish it but instead I spent a few hours quilting in the ditch on this Fractured quilt. I'm somewhere between 1/2 and 1/3 done with that part of the quilting.
Every time I went down to the basement yesterday I put in a few lines of basting and by early evening it was done. I plan to start quilting it today.
Last night I sewed the binding onto the star quilt and started the hand stitching. I got one and a half sides done.
The weather was heavenly yesterday, in the 70s with a nice breeze through the house. Today will be a little warmer but still low humidity.
I had ditch quilted around the border, both sides of sashing and around stars and then did meandering in the border. I was trying to decide how to quilt the sashing because I didn't want white thread running through black dots. I finally looked at it and saw that the dots were in diagonal rows so I quilted 2 lines in one direction and one the other direction and it looks great. I have trimmed it, cut the binding and the hanging sleeve so it will be finished very soon. Last night I appliqued 3 more circles on the other project, 5 down, 13 to go.
I am finally appliqueing the centers on the Spin blocks. I was going to do them by machine with monofilament thread and the pick stitch but I decided if it got off center by even a tiny bit, that wouldn't be fun to rip out. I started hand appliqueing and don't like the thread color on the first one so I'll pull that out. I did 2 more with a better match of thread color. Two down and 16 to go.
I was a winner on Vicki Welsh's week of giveaways and I won the art glass soap dish and a bar of her handmade soap.
I just love them!!
Here is the pan that I baked this dessert in. I have 2 of them so I was able to make 16 little cakes. The friend who gave me the recipe called it holiday squares. I bake it year round, I don't need a holiday!
Here is the recipe:
Cream together 1 1/2 cups sugar and 1 cup softened butter.
Add 4 eggs, one at a time, beating after each one.
Beat in 1 T. lemon juice
Blend in 2 c. flour.
Batter will be thick. Recipe says spread in greased and floured 13" x 9" pan. I used the pans pictured above and used the baking spray that has flour in it.
1 can cherry pie filling, about 4-5 cherries on top of each small pan or evenly spaced on 13" x 9" pan. I then spoon all of the leftover liquid on top of each little cake.
Bake at 350 degrees, 45-50 min for 13" x 9" or 35 min. for little individual pans.
While still warm sprinkle with powdered sugar.
I didn't end up sewing at all because our rain held off until after midnight. I was out cutting and pulling more huge weeds. In one of my flower beds the birds planted a black raspberry bush. I noticed it a few days ago and decided to inspect it a little closer. That is a 5 oz. paper cup a little over half full. I usually dig out all of the volunteer raspberry shoots in the fall but I missed this one. Now I have to decide whether to leave it there and get scratched every time I work in that flower bed or just pull it out in the fall. My neighbors behind me have the original bushes.
