Crafters, Monday November 13 through Monday 19

Good morning and happy new week.

Ginny, I was just thinking yesterday about you making meals to take to people that have new babies and other reasons that a meal taken to them would be welcomed. The reason I thought of that is because I've made lasagna twice in the past couple weeks and it's something that people often make to take to others.I usually make my lasagna with pureed cottage cheese. I've heard that some people use bechamel sauce instead of that or ricotta but for the second lasagna I didn't have that cheese and didn't feel like making Bechamel so I used plain yogurt with seasonings in it. the usual egg, and surprisingly it is delicious. Tasted much better, too, on the next day.

It sounds like you do, indeed, have a very busy day. I hope you can get to cutting those squares

CJ, I bet you're busy already cutting and sewing and probably already have thoughts on your next quilt or QAL. Have a great day;

I did start my next afghan and am using two shades of green. I love the colors together but I wish I had used a smaller hook but don't want to rip out what I have. Don't you just love all my run on sentences?

Ruth, I am not a big fan of ricotta cheese (what is the big deal with cannolis anyway, stuffed with sweetened ricotta?) and have happily used small curd cottage cheese in the past. Not a fan of cottage cheese either, but it works well. And Bechamel sauce, never thought about of using that!!! Think all lasagna tastes better the next day, right? Your new afghan sounds pretty, 2 different shades of green. Hope that the pattern is easy to work with. And run on sentences?? Gee that opening statement I put together is one LONG run on sentence; my grammar is usually off here and I misspell a lot. But we are all friends here and are just here for the friendship and comraderie!!!

CJ- hats off to you for finding on Pinterest a layout that is pleasing to your eye…I hope that you love putting the quilt together and are very pleased with the finished product. It’s a great idea that you are doing what you want with your blocks, so that you can showcase your pretty blocks the way YOU like!!!

DSIL came home a tiny bit early so I got the meal cooked and delivered to the family at church. DD#2 lost her power this am (cold morning for that!) so she came over this am so she and the kids would be warm. Their power was restored by mid morning, but it was 21 degrees here this am.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-8Rxd87ygo

Think that is the youtube link for the Totally tulips pattern I am using. Just look at the picture of the quilt Jenny Doan is making the top of it is tulips and the bottom are the ditzy daisies. Last nite I found a fabric that was in neither of the other 2 charm packs, so I will be using at least a piece of it in one ditzy daisy. LOVE this fabric line.

See ya tomorrow

Good morning,
Well, woke up this morning to see a text that DD decided to stay home today because DGS#2 (the little fellow I babysit for) has a sore throat and she was staying home.
Went back to bed (or never got out of bed!!) and slept in another 2 hours.

Ruth, gee, I am surprised that you decided to rip out the piece of afghan you started with a larger hook….but am very glad that you did if you are so pleased with how its turning out!! You find the neatest projects on the internet, and it seems as though a lot are youtubes from other countries. Guess it’s naive to think that all crocheters use the same terminology for a particular stitch. Great credit to you for enduring and figuring out what information you need and finding nice patterns. Is this afghan using yarn from that amazing yarninspirations collection that you just got? I am wondering if you made it through to the end of the football game last night (which I did not watch a minute of). As the Bills lost, well you might not be very pleased with that outcome.

CJ- are you working on your circle of nine layout today? Do you have all the fabrics figured out for the Christmas version of that? It looks hard, but then I have found in quilt land, that almost anything can be made by reorienting a square…. Hope you will have fun making this!

I hope to get a walk in later on and then back to work on the baby quilt.

Ruth, a while box of pink yarns sounds lovely- especially with a lot of granddaughters and a young little one too!! A baby blanket is a wonderful idea and i am sure You will find the perfect pattern to make with that yarn. Nothing better than a good soup in winter- and DH will surely love that carrot cake. Do you put a cream cheese frosting on it? Yes, a good thing to improvise, between prices and availability of some items. When my family was young I learned to make do without a lot, between tough finances or that its tough to take kids to the store. Guess over time we all become good at that.

I got busy cutting the background fabric for the snowballing for the ditzy daisys. Then I pricked my finger, and blood does not look good on white fabric. Taking a break from that until I am sure the finger is ok to work with again, Think I will finish my vacuuming and see how it is then.

Ds has to work another double, so he is driving back and forth from work at late hours- prayers for his safety are appreciated.

CJ- how is your day going? Have you been able to locate all the pumpkin spice flavored foods you like this fall?

Ginny, I stopped and prayed for safe travel for your ds. It's not easy to travel long distances esp in the winter. Sorry about your finger. Were you able to get the blood off the fabric without it leaving a stain or hadn't it landed on the fabric? The football game was interesting. One reason is because I'm from the Buffalo area as you know but living here now we're supposed to support our "local team" which is the Broncos even though Denver if over 300 miles away. Still when it comes to Bills and Broncos, I'm a Bill's fan. Bills played another terrible game and the Broncos for once played well. The Bills actually won until the officials noticed that the Bills had too many players on the field which gave the Broncos another try for the field goal they had just missed.

CJ, were you able to get all your shopping done for Thanksgiving week. Dh and I are going out this week to avoid Thanksgiving food shopping crowds. I saw some pumpkin spice cereal when I was out shopping last but I think it may have been Cherrios. I do like Frosted mini Wheats but rarely eat cold cereal. I do like pumpkin spice flavor in foods and beverages. Now that your shopping and errands have been done you have the rest of the week to quilt. I need to look up the long stitching you mentioned. I haven't heard of it so am curious.

Good morning Ginny and CJ. I hope you  both have a great day. Ginny getting those errands done is a good idea. Unlike CJ or me I'm sure you have a lot to do to get ready for various holidays. It does sound like CJ is going to do some decorating this year for CHristmas by putting out her Christmas pillows and tablerunner.

I was wrong about the yarn. None of it's variegated. I had just looked at it quickly and then yesterday after I mentioned it I looked again (It's still in the box it came in). There are three skeins of six different colors. It's Caron simply soft and the colors are light country peach, persimmon, soft pink, Victorian rose,  white, and gold. I'm not sure that gold is going to play well with the other colors if used in the same item. I think I'd add a grey instead...if I had a grey in that brand which I don't.I did ask in their fb group if that collection was intended for a specific pattern but didn't really get an answer. All that I got was that there were several patterns on the Daisy Farm Crafts blog that use CSS which I already knew.