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July 25, 2010 

Is it Sunday already!!

Hey everyone! Hope you are having a great weekend! Gee the weeks are flying by. Next Sunday will be the monthly updates. Summer will be over before we know it, and with the heat wave we have been having......I'm afraid I am all for it to be over. Next week will be cooler and so we will be finally getting a break from all the heat and I can actually open the house up again and let in the natural air. My plants on the sun porch will be so happy! They have been hanging out there with there little plant tongues hanging out...heeheee!!

Getting ready to put a cake in the oven. Sunday always means special dessert day around here. Always has and always will! Today I am making a lemon layer cake with lemon buttercream frosting. Oh Yummo! Just typing the words makes my mouth water! I have decided to share the recipe this week with y'all cause.... nothing says summer like a fresh lemon layer cake that Grandma used to make!! Treat yourself to this cake! We are also having barbeque ribs, baked potato, corn on the cob and salad today. Typical summer meal topped off with the lemon cake for later! Life is good....

Well I got a customer order for a quilt. I think I told y'all about it last week?? We shopped for the fabric on Friday. Bill had a vacation day so we went to Columbus to the Super Joann fabrics. I haven't been there for a long long time! I was really looking forward to it and to shopping for the fabric and using my coupons to boot. I was so disappointed in the store and how it has changed! Their fabric selection was horrible!! And they have half of the fabrics that they used to have. Quilting fabrics that is. I ended up only buying a fat quarter of dark red and 2 Australian quilting magazines, now you know I couldn't pass those up!!! You know how addicted I am to those and I haven't bought any since well.....forever! Seems like forever anyway...heeheee! Decided to do the shop hop and stopped at a really great quilt shop called the Red Rooster, there in Dublin Ohio. What a nice shop and nice people that work there! I highly recommend this quilt shop. Found all my fabrics that I needed and got a free pattern from them to boot! What a nice place! I will definitely be going back there again!! Bill is washing the fabrics as we speak. Ya.....he does the laundry around here. He really likes doing it and I am not going to fight him on it! Since we bought the new washer and dryer....I don't even know how it works, it's all digital. I guess I could figure it out....but why should I when he takes great joy in doing the laundry! Weird huh!!

Went up to the sewing room to sew the block of the week and it was so hot up there.....well needless to say...I haven't been spending a lot of time up there since it's been so hot. We live in an old 126 year old Victorian with limited vents upstairs for heating and cooling and my sewing room and the guest bedroom do not have vents. So whatever air conditioning makes it's way upstairs is all it gets. Our bedroom shares the only vent upstairs with the full bath, and so we have a window air conditioner in our bedroom that we use at night only when it's really hot outside! Got the block sewn and got outta there. Looks like I am going to have to put a major big fan up there this week since I plan to get that customer quilt all cut out this week. Glad there is a cold front on the way to cool things down. I plan to take full advantage of the cooler system coming through and get as much done on that quilt as I can while it lasts!

Wow just noticed the time and got my ribs in the boil. I like to cook them almost done by boiling them in water that is seasoned with garlic powder, salt and pepper. Then  cover them up in a 9 by 13 inch dish with tons of Sweet Baby Rays barbecue sauce....the hickory and brown sugar kind......and then cover them up tightly with foil and bake at 325 degrees F for 1 1/2 hours or till they fall apart...yum! Time is speeding away!

The block of the week this week is one that I didn't design. It's an old pattern from 1931 called Rebecca's Fan. I would love to take credit for it....but it's not my design. Hope you all enjoy having it in your collection. Since it has a curved seam, I don't recommend this block for the beginner, but if you want to try it, go for it!! It's not that hard but can be a little challenging for a beginner. Just use lots of pins when you try to put it together. There are no instructions given as it has a diagram and is pretty self explanatory. Makes a 10" block. Please don't email me to draft this pattern as a 12" block. The main template will not fit on the copy paper as it would be too big. This one you will have to be happy with as a 10" Sorry!

Just wanted to mention that I have added 3 more Blocks of the Month to the list below. I hope that you are checking this list every week! If you don't...then you may miss a block and not all of the blocks of the months that I have listed....archive the current blocks as they come out. So make sure that you check the list for new ones you may be interested in doing!

Well guess I better close this for now. Ribs will be coming off the stove soon and be ready for their bbq sauce bath! Looks like I will be baking that cake this afternoon after dinner now! Bill is looking forward to it!  Take care and stay cool. Next Sunday will be the monthly updates and there will be quilting and crafting links updates done this time! Today is Threading the Needle Day ....so go and sew something wonderful and I will talk to you next Sunday!!

                                                                              From my sewing room to yours,

                      Becky

 

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Blocks of the Month I am Following

Val Laird's

Gifts of Grace BOM

Red Brolly's

The Great Catalicious Quilt Stitch In

Jenny of Elefantz

Bouquet BOM

Willowberry Designs

Under the Sea BOM

Bunny Hill Designs

Snowbound BOM

Paula Stoddard's

Love Is  BOM

Tozz's Corner

Flirting With Flowers BOM

Lyn Brown

Baltimore BOM 2010

Capricorn's Quilts

Kids Of Seasons BOM

The Raspberry Rabbits

A Sentimental Journey BOM

Beth Ferrier's

Be Still My Heart BOM

 

The Rabbit Factory

Once Apon a Garden BOM

Dear Jane

2010 BOM Series

One Piece At a Time

Floribunda BOM 2010

Angies Bit's and Pieces

Simple Tymes BOM

Block Central's

Sentimental Journey BOM

Burning the Midnight Oil

Fall Fancy BOM

Claudia's Quilt Shoppe

Calendar Row by Row Mystery BOM

Just quiltin with Denise Russart

Crop Circles BOM

Florida Cabin Fevers

Scrap Happy BOM

Helen Pinkster

Fruit and Vegetables BOM

Harmony Quilts

Perfectly Purple BOM

Elsie M Campbell

Love Knows No Season BOM

M&L Designs

Old Favorites BOM

Morning Glory Designs

Tulip Tiles BOM

Jelly Roll Sampler

Quilt a Long

starts March 1st runs till August

Gourmet Quilter

Star Burst BOM

starts in March and runs till August

JJ's Gifts & Crafts

Fruit of the Spirit

BOM

Pat Sloan's

Meadow Breeze

BOM

Started in February

Homspun Magazines

Give Thanks

Stitchery posted every Wednesday till August 10, 2010

Pacific Patchwork

 Seasons Sew Along

Runs till June 2010

All installments still available!

(Redwork)

Quiltbugs

Love of Chocolate Mystery

Starts April 3rd at 9:00 AM

A Day long project!

Ester Aliu

In the Pink

BOM

 

Starts April 1st

The Painted Quilt

First Friday Freebie

Prior blocks are archived located on the right side menu

 

Mollys Place

Tree Time BOM

Blocks are archived

 

Among the Gum Tree Designers

Free projects monthly

Quiltecke

Flowers BOM

 

Creativitity Amongst Chaos

Baby Braclet Blessings

Starts April 1

new block posted every other Thursday!

Two Sisters and a Quilt

Teddy Bear BOM

First 5 Blocks online now!

Piecemeal Quilts

Basket Quilt Along

All 12 blocks are posted now!

Go and download them all while you still can!!

The Happy Wren Studio BOM

Life on the Farm

1st  block is posted

 

Persimmons Quilts

New Block posted the 1st of every month

1st Block posted now!

 

Ellie's Quiltplace Cat Quilt

Free Block of the Season

Starts June 21, 2010

 

 

Kelly Rachel

Bag Sew Along

8 week installments beginning 5-29-2010

 

Homestead Station Designs

Whimsical Flowers BOM

Beginning June 12, 2010 through Feb 2011

 

A Quilty Kind of Girl Designs

Summer Star Quilt a Long

Begins July 6th through August 31st.

 

Jenny of Elefantz

Daisy Dew

Summer BOM

Begins July 1st through October

 

Angie's Bits and Pieces

Folk Art Christmas BOM

Begins July 1st through December 1st

First Block posted now!

 

Life on the Bayou

All Points North and South

6 month BOM

First block posted now!!

New!

The Painted Quilt

Raggedy and Friends BOM

Runs July-April 2011

First Block posted now!

New!

Puddle Jumping Mystery

Summer BOM

First 2 blocks and yardage info posted now!

New!

Bear Country

Project 360 BOM

7 month  Series

Starts August 1, 2010

New!

     


 

 

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Recipe of The Week

Lemon Layer Cake with Lemon Buttercream Frosting

 

·         1/2 cup Crisco shortening

·         1-3/4 cups sugar

·         6 egg yolks

·         2-1/2 cups sifted cake flour

·         2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder

·         1/2 teaspoon salt

·         1 cup plus 3 tablespoons milk

·         1 tablespoon grated lemon rind

 

Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour two 9-inch round cake pans.

Cream the shortening, then add the sugar, beating well. Reduce speed to medium and add the egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Add to the creamed mixture alternately with the milk, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Stir in the lemon rind.

Pour batter into prepared cake pans, and bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until cake tests done with toothpick or cake tester. Cool layers in pans for 10 minutes. Remove from pans, and cool completely before frosting.


Lemon Buttercream Frosting:

 

·         1/2 cup butter, softened

·         1 egg yolk

·         1-pound box (3-3/4 cups) powdered sugar

·         1 teaspoon grated lemon rind

·         5 to 6 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

Cream the butter until light and fluffy. Add the egg yolk, beating well, and gradually beat in the sugar with the lemon juice until desired spreading consistency is reached.

Spread frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake layers.

 

 

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Rosie sez.......

July is:

National Ice Cream Month!!

 

Dates to Remember 

July 2010

3rd      Stay out of the Sun Day

4th      Independence Day (U.S.)

4th      National Country Music Day

5th      Work-a-holics Day

6th      National Fried Chicken Day

7th      Chocolate Day

9th      National Sugar Cookie Day

10th    Teddy Bear Picnic Day

11th    World Population Day

13th    Barbershop Music Appreciation Day

13th     Embrace Your Geekness Day

18th     National Ice Cream Day (third Sunday of the month)

23rd     National Hot Dog Day

25th     Threading the Needle Day

28th     National Milk Chocolate Day

30th     Father-in-Law Day

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"Churn Dash"

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"Crosses and Losses"

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"North Star"

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"The Rambler"

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"Pineapple"

July

"Grandmothers Flower Garden"

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