LaSt PoSt of the 2011 Year!

I would just like to say thanks to any and everyone who follows my blog. I have really enjoyed this journey, learned a lot from this blogging experience and plan to make 2012 hopefully even better.

I would like to share a few last projects of the year with you.

The first one is the completed quilt from a previous blog. It was completed and was enjoyed by the owner who received it. This quilt can be found in American Patchwork and Quilting, June 2009.


Our local guild had a Xmas party, the board gave gifts of appreciation to our members and I made pin cushions. We had a great turn out and everyone loved thier pin cushions as well, not to mention they desperately needed new ones or just needed one period!


I love to play around with scraps so this last quilt I enjoyed making from recycled blue jeans and with a girl in mind, cut up some floral fabrics to give that feminine flare, created a border with a white binding and there you go! It turned out looking more like a quilts of valor but hey! It still turned out cute.




Now if I don't post again before the new year comes in on Sunday....have a wonderful, wonderful...safe one you hear?

Signing off for the year, T....PS: Thank you again for a wonderful year!

Project of the Day....

X-mas, OMG I feel like is already here. Let's think about this..today is the 6th, 18 more days, Lord where does the time go? I feel like if I blink it's gone. Geez!

Well, my project of the day is a quilt for my brother. This pattern comes from a Better Homes and Garden Book, not sure what year. But I choose brown, cream and black to make it a masculine look. I think the pattern has it made from plaids, however I could not find the nice plaids shown in the picture, so what do you do, you improvise! It's one half quilted and should be done here in the next day or so. I will post once I have completed it. It is a nice size for the lap and I am pleased with how it is turning out so far.

Time to go finish it. ... Have a great night T

Project of the day is.......

Hopefully everyone had a wonderful thanksgiving and spent time with family with those and those who we did not want to partake with! Just look at it this way...who would be around to have those lasting stories to pass down through generations if we didn't have those "special" members of the family? LOL

Now to the project of the evening. I made two quilted pillows for two chairs that needed sprucing up. As the studio evolves I slowly add new items and take away other stuff that is no longer needed or no longer makes any sense to have. Seems like I am always undecided on how I would like this space decorated because I love sooo many things. But most of all I am in my happy space when I am creating and that's all that really matters to me!

Enjoy T

HAPPY TURKEY DAY!

I just wanted to wish everyone the very best holiday and safe one!

Eat, Sleep, and Eat some more! Then Sew....or shop til you drop!


Take Care and see ya after Turkey day. T

Yes Success!

I would like to report that my bird completed it's cooking process around noon today and when I tell you this bird came out scrump-dilly-umptous, it did. I'd never cooked a bird this long, a turkey, where it was so tender the meat was about to fall off. I think the key here to making it juicy was the seasoning injections along with the long slow cooking time. I periodically would check on it throughout the night just making sure everything was coming along nicely and my house didn't burn down! LOL

I Loved this process! I have now adopted this to be a family tradition when cooking turkey for the holidays from here on out. You should try it as well, just to see if you like it.

Project updates: I have now completed three projects on my list for x-mas and seems like tons more to go.

If your like me you find that the end of the year brings more demands then any other time of the year. Around my house, we have car tags do, house taxes due, end of year birthdays, holidays, unexpected family members, hoa fees and any other stuff added to the list, then it takes you that long to recover!! Wow I am exhausted from just writing all that.

I am off to try and make another dent in my project list.

Happy quilting, stitching, sewing, crafting, and anything else that keeps you creatively inclined. Love ya! T

Pre Turkey Craziness!

It's now 8:30pm, the baking has started!


Take a peek under, this is where I placed the hickory chips.


Made holes in the foil and sprayed with oil.


Seasonings with chopped onions for flavor.


A clearer view of the hickory chips.


My Recipe


Ok check this out, while watching Drive ins, Diners, & Dives (I think that is the order)I was watching this diner where this lady makes sandwiches and one was a turkey sandwich. So it wasn't what she had on the sandwich it was the way she cooked the turkey. It was smoked in one of those industrial HUGE ovens. Well I got this brilliant Ideal that I could do that with my oven....or try anyway! So I went off to try my adventure.

I preheated the oven to 225 degrees, injected the turkey with an injection of what ever I had on hand, chopped some onions and stuffed them into the cavity. Soaked some hickey chips and placed those in the bottom of the pan with a screen on top for the turkey placement. Then, after injections everywhere, I rubbed my delicate turkey with some more seasonings and set it on top of the foil placed on top of my hickey chips. I poked small holes in the foil so that the hickory chips can smoke my turkey with flavor...at least that is what I am hoping happens anyways! LOL This is the catcher...this thing needs to cook/smoke on 225 degrees for 16 long hours. If this bird isn't done in 16 hours and falling off the bones, consider this a failure and back to square one! LOL

I will update you when this turkey is finally done...in 16 hours! See ya then. T

Finished Project of the Day

I just finished my sister's socks for x-mas. The story behind these are she came over one year....notice I said one year! Ok it was two (LOL) and we had a yarn dyeing day. I gave her a crash course in dyeing and this was the results. I was afraid there would be some pooling with the colors but she did wonderful and I clearly see a pattern within the sock. I would have to say this was a success. When I talked with her the other day, the first thing out of her mouth was were are my socks at? Geez! No pressure, please. Ok they are done and ready for x-mas.

Now I am off to make the next project. Due dates are in the mist and x-mas is how far away? I better get on it.

Now go finish a project and make someone in your life happy! T