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Post by gramma15 on Nov 11, 2017 3:10:31 GMT
Ginny, I'm glad you were able to find that you had all the materials needed to finish the tree skirt except the Sulky. As I said, I know it's going to be wonderful
CJ, Ginny puts things so well and she's right.
I really didn't get much at all done today. I looked thru the coats in the entrance closet and that's about it. Haven't even got to any crafting yet although I did start to look up my copy of the scrunchy pattern Ginny told us about. Got interrupted and didn't go back yet. Guess the rest of the evening I'll work on my cowl and read some before bed.
Meg and Phyl hope you are both doing ok.
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Post by choney2 on Nov 11, 2017 11:20:20 GMT
Good morning!!
Ruth, hope that your evening was peaceful and that you got a chance to crochet and read a bit. Some days are just less productive for any number of reasons. Today is another day which is I hope a pleasant day for you!
That’s my wish for everyone- a peaceful and pleasant day.
CJ and Meg, I can imagine that today will be a bit special to you, it being Veterans Day- CJ you live in an area with a large military presence, and Meg I remember your DH served our country for many many years. Ruth and Phyl- sorry I do not remember if your families have or had any veterans in them...forgive me if I forgot to mention any special people in your lives who served our nation.
My four legged alarm clocks woke me up. Going to make a cup of coffee and get back to work on that tree skirt.
Ginny
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Post by gramma15 on Nov 11, 2017 19:25:51 GMT
Yes I do thank all the veterans and familiies of veterans. The families also gave up a lot to have their family members serve. Yes my son was in the military, and my brothers, father, many uncles,etc and my aunt who was a nurse in the Air Force during WW2
I have no four legged alarm clocks so I slept late today. I'm hoping to get more accomplished today in a few areas and I second Ginny's wish that all have a nice peaceful weekend filled with doing things you enjoy.
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Post by cj59 on Nov 11, 2017 20:15:03 GMT
Hello Crafters - Hope you are all doing well today and sending special thoughts to those of you who are veteran's or had them in your family.
Ruth and Ginny - thanks so much for your thoughts and advice on clearing out the house and moving. I think that you're both correct that I'm not really there emotionally yet, but I do hope that over this Winter I can start to get some things out of the house.
Meg and Phyl - Hope you are well and getting in some crafting this weekend.
I made some Pumpkin Custard today from an old recipe that I have. It's fairly low sugar, low fat so it's nice to be able to eat it and fit it into my food plan. I love pumpkin desserts this time of year, so I want to make as many as I can.
I've also had a weird craving for pound cake. It's weird because I really don't like pound cake, it's more dense that what I like. But I did see some interesting recipes on the King Arthur Flour website.
Take care everyone!
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Post by choney2 on Nov 11, 2017 23:57:21 GMT
CJ- have you ever made the WW recipe for WW pumpkin mousse? THink its a cup of pumpkin, mixed in what sugar free vanilla pudding (made according to the box using the instant pudding)- perhaps a little pumpkin spice added....its low in points, easy to make and tastes great!! As far as cleaning out your house...start small and make it achievable. Try not to take on something that you know will be tough to handle either. Its not fun, but does become a bit of a game after awhile- and it is nice to see stuff leave- leaving less clutter.
Ruth, how did your day go today? Were you able to get much accomplished today?
Ran some errands today- then got to clean my house a bit. (It needed it!). Now hope to work on the tree skirt a bit. Hi to Meg and Phyl
Ginny
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Post by gramma15 on Nov 12, 2017 0:34:25 GMT
CJ, pumpkin custard sounds good. I made sort of one one day in a pan...didn't bake it or anything. It was good but I just made it up as I went. I didn't use a recipe or anything. Pound cake is my kind of cake. I like dense cakes best
Ginny, it's good to hear that you've had a good day and were able to get some housecleaning done. We always feel better after those things are done. I hope you can do some sewing
I have homemade chicken soup simmering, country style ribs simmering to get tender than will put under the broiler and put on bbq sauce. I don't like them a lot so they're for dh mostly and I'll have a bite of his. then I have chicken thighs defrosting for chicken curry and I'll make two plain thighs for me to eat while dh is eating his ribs...pan fried without breading. and I have a cherry crisps in progress. I'm just waiting for the frozen cherries to thaw to add to the can of cherry pie filling. Have the crisp part all made ready to put on top and I have the can of filling flavored ready to add the frozen cherries and put in the baking dish.
I just played a couple computer games and will crochet some this evening and probably read some.
Have a great evening all.
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Post by choney2 on Nov 12, 2017 1:11:18 GMT
Ruth, I can smell the chicken soup......great for cold weather! Like you, I do not eat country ribs, but do make them for my family who do enjoy them. Hope you have a relaxing evening.....
Of to iron a little bit and get the quilt top and bottom attached.
Ginny
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Post by megk31 on Nov 12, 2017 6:28:42 GMT
It's getting late but just thought I would check in and see what everyone is up to. DGD & her DH are home and I also had DD home today so I have been busy. I did manage to do a little crocheting last evening but not today. DD keeps me busy when she is here and when she left I was too tired so I just did some reading. Now it is time for bed. I will try and check back tomorrow. Good night and sleep well.
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Post by gramma15 on Nov 12, 2017 6:59:07 GMT
Meg, good to see you. I hope you have a great time with your dgd and her dh visiting.
I did get a bit of crocheting done but still have about 10 inches to go on this cowl. Luckily the rows are very short so it wouldn't take long if I keep at it for about an hour or so.
Ginny, I'm glad to hear that you will be able to put on the backing tonight.What's next on it. I've forgotten. Do you put on the batting next, the actual quilting of it all then the binding?
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Post by choney2 on Nov 12, 2017 16:00:28 GMT
Good morning!
Meg- are DGD and her DH staying with you? Indeed having them even just visiting and Dd with you makes for a busy day. So nice for you to get a chance to see everyone....and you surely have earned yourself a peaceful day to recover. Hope you slept well last night.
Ruth- were you able to get any crocheting done last night? Thats the great thing about cowls and smaller projects like that- they are easy to finish in a shorter amount of time. Also a good way to learn new stitches and see if you like that stitch or stitch pattern or not without having to spend hours on a long project.
Got the top and bottom attached last night and the batting cut for the tree skirt....its all ironed now too. This am I began to get the batting in the “pillow case” (made by the quilt top and bottom) and then will close it all up.....and begin stippling.
So, Ruth, you ask about quilt construction. I am no expert...but see that there are two methods. For a better quality quilt, and something that is considered technically more correct,you would assemble the quilt top, make a “quilt sandwich”- quilt top -batting- backing. Then stipple- tie or whatever method to secure the sandwich. The Quilt is finished by attaching the binding. This tree skirt- well the instructions are sorely lacking. Its a MSQ YouTube, and she spends a lot of time in the 25 minute video describing how to assemble the quilt top. SHe then attaches the border (which she calls a border....) and puddle jumps without any description of how to do so, to the finished quilted tree skirt. I have watched this video many times, and cannot figure out how its assembled. So I used (for my own tree skirt also) the quick turn method- this is how the table runner I made was assembled. Now I just have to get the batting well adjusted in the tree skirt, close up the opening....and practice stippling- before I begin stippling for real.
Have a great day!
Ginny
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Post by phyl on Nov 12, 2017 16:21:14 GMT
good morning,
I have not died lol. was doing a lot of cutting for the retreat. 2 days and nights of sewing and only got one small project done.
the first day my head was turned around on kyle's stocking. don't know way. made 4 of them before. I thought I had left a piece of batting at home for it. it was already sewed in. duh duh . I remembered that this am.
mary jo cut one piece wrong on a big square. that kinda took the winds out of her sails. she did have another project with she worked on that for awhile.
Friday at breakfast they had a drawing. I won. it is three fat quarters shaped as a chirstmas tree.
we went to the quilt shop 7 miles away. I thanked the owner for donating it. bough one in fall colors for Theresa 's christmas present .figured she could use fall more then Christmas.
Friday night we went out to eat. a very nice place. mary jo and I had packed up our stuff before going. some of the girls sewed after they came back.
mary jo and I just chilled out. we had the girls laughing so hard.
when we left In the am told time we would be back next year . said to them you didn't know you could have so much fun with us did you. I asked did we over do. elie said no it was so quite without us. ahh everybody was to serious about quilting before we got there. yep.
you girls would have laughed at us thursday night. 4 of us had to plan the meal. we had all agreed on ordering the pizza from pizza hut. online has special deals. well Julie's kindle would not work there for her. so shelly let her use her ipad. julie still had problems. I told her things are different on ipads. she finally had to put in her mn address and then different location.she had problems doing that. would not accept the zip. so joyce called the owner of the place. that worked.
well that only took us an hour.
the pizza was not coming. Julie dh called and said they had called there to find the place.so he told them where we were.(don't think the delivery person would want to drive 40 miles)_
finally she found us. she got a good tip.
yesterday we should have left an hour earlier. we hit sleet on the way home. had to drive 14 miles an
hour. got to our city limits and we were ok. there is a road
that has an small bridge going over the marsh. the police were there with flashing lights a guy was telling all the cars to go so that it was glared ice.
we were glad to get home.
it was great to see all the different fabrics and styles of quilts the girl were working on.
Julie (2. 2 julies) is making Christmas quilt for her bed rooms .she has 5 bedrooms. don't know how many she has done.
hope you got a laugh out of our adventures. phyl
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Post by phyl on Nov 12, 2017 16:36:49 GMT
weight watchers pumpkin fluff:
1. 15 ounces of canned pumpkin
2. 1 (3 1/2 ounces of instant vanilla pudding mix. fat free, sugar free.
3. 1/2 cup of skim milk.
4. 8 ozs of cool whip thawed.
5. 2 teaspoons pumpkin spice
ww. 2 points for points plus.
3 smart points.
this is off the internet. will check Friday at the meeting. becki always has it posted this ti me of years. phyl
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Post by gramma15 on Nov 12, 2017 20:57:56 GMT
Hello dear Friends. I hope you're all having a wonderful Sunday.
Phyl, it does sound as though you and your friend did have a great time and that you brought happiness to the others there too.
I did work more on the cowl last night and am almost done. I'll finish it today I''m pretty sure.
I was online looking to see if I was going to become rich....No I knew I wasn't. I never was in to collecting things for value. I bought things that I bought because I enjoyed them not with the idea that they were going to make me rich. About three years ago dd gave me a Ty beanie baby owl for Christmas. I looked it up online just out of curiosity because I know she paid about $5 for it and I see they are now selling for $30. I have no interest in selling it of course. I actually never was interested in beanie babies but I do have a lot of them just because they were cute. I looked up a few and most are worth just what I paid and I haven't bought any in years.I think the owl one is more because it's associated with Harry Potter. I remember some of the nursing staff at the hospital back when I was working didn't seem to be able to get any work done for standing around discussing their beanie babies that they were convinced were going to make them a fortune. I know my sister bought a lot of them and bought the tag protectors to put on them. Mine had no protectors and were just sitting around the house and most just in plastic grocery bags but the tags are still perfect and I guess that's a necessity, not that it did anyone any good unless you had a particularly rare one which most people don't of course since they're...yes...rare
My chicken thighs have defrosted so I'm going to get busy and make my curry. See you all later.
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Post by cj59 on Nov 12, 2017 21:07:00 GMT
Hello Crafters - Hope you are all doing well today  Ginny - I have made the WW Pumpkin Mousse recipe and I'm actually planning to make a 1/2 recipe with the leftover canned pumpkin from the custard. I hope you are making progress on your Christmas tree skirt. Things always take longer than those videos show don't they? Ruth - All the foods you were cooking sound good, hope you and your DH enjoyed them. Meg - I hope you are enjoying the visit with your DGD and her DH, how nice to have a lot of family to be with. Phyl - Thanks for the recipe and sharing your adventures at the quilt retreat and your drive home. Sounds like it was a fun time, I'm glad you were able to go and made it home safely. I'm just relaxing and watching some favorite TV shows today, since I have a busy week ahead. It's warmer here today (in the 40s), so that's nice. I ordered a few quilting tools today, so that's the extent of my crafting. I'll share the pumpkin custard recipe in a post below in case anyone is interested in it. Take care everyone! |
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Post by cj59 on Nov 12, 2017 21:07:31 GMT
Pumpkin Pudding Bake
Ingredients:
2 beaten eggs
1 cup canned pumpkin
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1/2 teaspoon finely shredded orange peel - I've never put this in my custard, so I don't know how it will affect the taste
1 - 13 ounce can (1 2/3 cups) evaporated skimmed milk - NOTE: The cans in the store now are 12 ounces and I just use that and it works fine
3 walnuts (chopped) - I don't put this in my custard either, since I don't care for nuts
Directions:
In a bowl beat together the eggs, pumpkin, brown sugar, pumpkin pie spice, and orange peel. Stir in evaporated skimmed milk.
Place six 6-ounce custard cups in a 13x9x2 inch baking pan on oven rack. Pour pumpkin mixture into cups. Pour boiling water into pan around cups to a depth of 1 inch.
Bake in a 325 degree oven for 50 minutes. Garnish with walnuts. Serve warm or cool.
Makes 6 servings.
I tested mine for doneness by sliding a knife in the cup about halfway between the center and the edge and when it came out clean they were done. I also made mine this time using a larger cup and it made 3 large custards. I did have to cook them longer.
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