Posted in life on January 27, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Here is a closer look at the quilt that my mother most recently finished for me:
This was made from the green colorset from Shabby Fabrics and some white-on-whites from JoAnn’s. The pattern is similar to a Snowball quilt, except that that only two corners of each block have a white patch sewn on. This creates [...]
Posted in life on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not Yarnstorm Jane, so instead of cherry cake and ginger beer, around here we have lemon cake (to go with the tea) and cherry blossoms.
This is the Meier lemon coffee cake from the May 2008 issue of Martha Stewart Living. It is a sour cream cake batter layered with thin-sliced lemons and topped with [...]
Posted in life on January 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Oh my. Blog mojo has been at a minimum. The winter is hitting me hard this year. The snow began before Thanksgiving, and it seems that ever since, we’ve been having a roller-coaster ride with freezing rain at the peaks and severely subzero temperatures at the troughs. It’s dark by the time I leave work. [...]
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