and after finding it….

“It” being the design I was search for in previous post, I promptly screwed it up! 😦  The first fabric I cut I cut all the pieces the size I had drawn them so no seam allowances on them. Drat and of course I only had the 1/2 yard of that fabric.  So redrew the size of the blocks to fit what I had cut, took a dinner break for a while, and printed out all the new block info and will see if I can get it to work now.

Also in the meantime, since I needed the design wall to put the new blocks up on as I make them, I quickly stitched the blocks that were up there into a top and added the borders to it. 

The top and bottom borders are different sections of a border stripe fabric because I hadn’t realized I had already used some of those stripe sections for something else so didn’t have enough of the same repeat to do all four sides.  But it all worked and it’s in the charity quilt top pile to quilt.  Found a great backing for it in the stash too.  Here’s the completed top.

And here’s this morning’s breakfast – orange craisin scones.  They are delicious.

For those who asked for the recipe – see below.  Omit craisins and add chocolate chips for a yummy treat or a friend mentioned pecans and I think orange pecan would also be really good.  Going to have to pick up some nuts next time I’m at the store to try them.

2-2/3 c flour, 1/3 c sugar, 2 tsp. baking power, 1/2 tsp salt.  Mix all those together in a bowl.

Cut in 1/2 cup chilled butter with pastry blender until crumbly.

Take one orange and zest it – I took the zest off the whole thing just be sure not to go to deep with the grater so you don’t get the white bit just the very outer layer.  Dump that into the flour mixture and mix around so it’s not all in a clump.  Add about a cup (if you want them nice and fruity or chocolatey) of choc. chips or dried cranberries, nuts — whatever.  (I just remembered I’ve got dried apricots in the cupboard so may have to try those next time).

Then squeeze the juice out of the orange into a separate bowl.

 

Now take two large eggs and dump them in a 1 cup measure cup and mix them up a bit.  Then put 2 tablespoons milk in with them.  Then add your orange juice into it.  I didn’t use real exacting measurements – one time I used medium eggs, this time large, one time 3 TBL milk because I didn’t have enough orange juice  —  but what you want to end up with is the eggs in the 1 cup measure and then enough liquid (between the orange juice and the milk) to fill the rest of the 1 cup measure to the top.  

 

Mix it in until just blended – it will be a rather sticky dough.  Then I dump it out onto a sheet of wax paper (so I don’t have to clean up the counter).  You may need to add a bit more flour if too sticky.  You just sort of fold it over on itself a couple times (don’t knead too vigorously or they will get tough).  Pat out into a large circle about an 1″ thick.  I found a pizza cutter or a metal spatula works better than a knife to cut it into pieces by just sort of chopping down on it rather that trying to run a knife through from end to end.  I cut it into squares – they are easier to separate and put on the pan than wedges.  I used my baking stone so I didn’t have to grease it but if you are using a regular baking sheet – grease it first.  Place pieces slightly apart on pan.  Take one egg white and a tsp of water and mix together and brush on top of scones. 

 

Bake at 425 degrees for about 20-23 minutes.  Then try to wait for them to cool so you don’t burn your mouth or fingers before eating!

 

Now to see if I can get back to sewing and do it correctly this time!

Denise

Eureka! I found it.

After much more searching than I planned to do – but it was really bugging me that I couldn’t find it so I persisted – I found the design I was looking for.  Ignore the fabrics – I just randomly colored it in but they look nothing like what I’m using.  I’ve got a bunch of coordinates to the Hoffman Challenge fabric for this year, and I think actually do have a piece of the actual challenge fabric but didn’t realize that was what it was until after I bought it.  Anyway, there are some really large prints so I wanted something where I didn’t have to cut them up much and remembered this file.  I putzed with it a bit and added the borders but don’t know that I’ll do the borders – they aren’t working out the way I want.  So I’m going to work on the center and then decide what to do from there since I don’t know that I want a project as big as the added borders make it.  It reminds me of those folding screens.

The cutting instructions are printing so I can get to some cutting and sewing before the whole day escapes me!

Denise

PJ Weekend sewing

Today is one of our PJ weekend sewing weekends on The Quilting Post – a weekend set aside to hopefully have many of us sewing and sharing what we are working on —  I’m being lazy and haven’t gotten dressed yet so PJs it is.  Not too lazy tho since a batch of scones just came out of the oven.  I’ll get the recipe posted later today or tomorrow — I’ve got some sewing to get to.

Acutally in the midst of writing this I got lost for a while searching for an EQ file.  It was one I thought I might start sewing today – one of the patterns choices I did for Hoffman Fabrics but we chose a different design instead. But drat, I may have deleted it so am now searching through cds (which of course aren’t labeled), thumb drive and backup disks.  Someone really needs to label all that stuff!  So I’ll search a little longer and just work on something else if I can’t find it.   In the meantime tho, I found the block back that I had planned to use for the May Year of Wallhanging design so added a few final adjustments to that so I can start writing up the directions.

Here’s the sneak peak of Bloomin’ Butterflies.

Now back to my search for that elusive file.  I’ve got a stack of oriental fabics I think it would be great for if I could just find the darn thing rather than having to redraw it.

Denise