Hand me that thread friend!

Oh let me tell you about an old friend of mine! 

 It is my threaded needle caddy.

  It holds 10 needles threaded 

with about a 1 meter length of thread.

 One is kept well stocked with assorted colored threads 

and one just for the basic 3 colors

( black , white , beige) for quick jobs.

               

It is a real life saver  for

 some older sewers I know. 

Chores!

  

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                                                Since I have rebooted and 

rededicated myself to blogging as a good diary,

 I am adding my "Chores " to the record.

First chore of the year completed!

"Organize cards and stationary"

This came about when a nurse called for 

volunteers to sign cards for care home 

residents. My DH ( Dedicated Homeperson?) and 

I managed to personalize 87 Christmas and holiday 

cards for distribution.  It was a blast! We hauled out the

glue guns and notions and decorated with buttons and

bobs while rocking out to Christmas tunes!

I may even personalize my own card mailing

 next year and start a new tradition. 

But, I found the card box was a mix of every thing stationary.

While I was making weekly " How ya doing? "

 calls  lately, I sorted, filed and categorized

 all the cards. One chore done!

I just need to find a closed container for storage. 

One down , multitudes to go!!

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Sewing with Friends!

Success!  

First online sew day was great! 

At the end of the day, I had completed 2 of the four 

items planned and made progress on one more!

The Blue and Cream Square quilt really came 

together!.  It was inspired by

 "Naturally Blue " created by Cheryl Filby for APQ. 

I, of course, made almost everything possible 

 out of scraps and added some rows and left out others. 

It turned out great .  There are 15 extra blocks that 

can be used for a matching child's quilt!

A great find of cutoff strings, was turned into 

the 2nd official UFO of the year.

These beautiful blue ends were trimmed up

 to make 1 1/2" units for a "Cobblestone Alley"

It is even labeled and in a project box!  

I will add more colored 1 1 /2" units and

 solid colored lattice to make 

something like this!

This is a pin from 

gladiquilts.wordpress.com

The third item was the row to be sewn

 back to the top. 

It was an easy item and now the

 top is ready for pinning. 

This is one of my favorite patterns. 

 

Happy New Year!

Tomorrow I will attend my first organized 

Zoom sew day!!

Organization and prep is the key I think , so 

tonight I am putting together supplies for

my projects so I can sew all day!!!

So far I have:

1) a row to resew onto a top

2)" Many strips " parts to sew together

 

3) "Cream and Blue Sqaure"  Needs a  pieced  border 

4) "Cobblestone Alley" to cut and piece  

Should be a great day!!!

Look at all those cookies!

 Of course this time of year there will be cookies!

We usually do a big holiday bake but things

 are different this year so I flew semi solo.

My DH ( Delightfully Handsome?) 

assisted by MANning the oven , ( see what I did there?)

We did two rounds of cookies 3 weeks

 apart with a small final  bake off to do some

 cookies for the neighbors right before the big day!

The first round included our holiday classic,

 Chocolate Crinkles. These always get great reviews. 

Get the recipe  Chocolate Crinkle.

They are very fudgy with a crispy outside. Yum.

We always make a few big batches of Imogene's gingersnap cookies. Get the Imogene's Chewy Gingersnaps recipe.

These are also chewy and soft in the middle and 

made extra tasty by a roll in 

cinnamon sugar before they are baked.

Last but definitely not least are the family favorite 

sugar cookies. This recipe was found

 in " Sesame Street 

Library Vol 1" 

Kid friendly and oh so tasty , these cookies 

not only get rave reviews but always turn out perfectly!

You can decorate and embellish them so many ways! 

These get used for a year round treat for holidays and special occasions.

They are very easy to make 

Get the recipe  sugar cookie .

Chocolate Crinkles

 Chocolate Crinkles

                1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour                1/4 tsp. salt

                1 cup sugar                                           1/4 cup butter, softened 

                1/3 cup packed brown sugar                2 large eggs, lightly beaten

                1/2 cup cocoa                                        2 tsp. vanilla

                1 tsp. baking powder                            icing sugar, for rolling

                                           Preheat oven to 350 F

Makes 2 doz cookies

Combine  flour, sugar, brown sugar, cocoa, baking powder and salt In a large bowl,  I quadruple this recipe so I always use my stand mixer. Add the butter, mix until combined, mixture will be crumby.   . Add vanilla and eggs and mix until just combined. 

Place 2-3 tablespoons of icing sugar in a shallow dish.  Form 1-1/2" balls of dough and roll in icing sugar. bake for 12 minutes on a greased or cooking sprayed pan until edges are just set. Transfer to rack or cool surface to cool .

Here are the quadrupled quantities

               5 1/3 cups all-purpose flour                  1 tsp. salt

                4 cup sugar                                           1 cup butter, softened 

                1  1/3 cup packed brown sugar            8 large eggs, lightly beaten

                2 cup cocoa                                           2 tablespoons vanilla

                4 tsp. baking powder                            icing sugar, for rolling

Sugar cookies

 Sugar cookies

2 eggs                                        3/4 cup butter

1tsp vanilla                             1 tsp baking powder

1cup sugar                                2 1/2 cup flour

1 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 400 F

Cream butter and sugar in mixing bowl . Add eggs and vanilla, blend.

Mix dry ingredients and mix into bowl until combined. Chill dough 

20 minutes.  Roll , and cut into shapes. 

Bake at 400 for 5-6 minutes until just light brown on edges. Doubles 

easily.