cookie time

so apparently Hungry thinks we are breaking up.



No, Hungry, not true! I just broke my stand mixer and had to order a new one.

Dulce de leche sandwich cookies? Thanks, Hungry!




I pickled some mushrooms as well, which was so worth my ten minutes of time to do. Not the most appetizing picture, but quite tasty. I made them from this recipe, which I doctored a little.

ha! another fabric post

The more time I spend at work, the more I seem to window shop for fabric - to try to fill in for the crafting I don't have time to really do, I suppose.

Here's my latest faves - designs from Hoodie from Blank Quilting.

Great colors...


A great retro feel...


Another vintage sort of style...


A more subtle but quite interesting print...

another fabric post

More rad fabric...Shelburne Circus by Windham.







The kind of fabric you would need the right kind of project for, but a neat illustration style.

a fabric post

Some fabric love...

Alexander Henry has the rad 2D Zoo print in two new colorways + a smaller scale version.

a sad-colored baby quilt

I have been working on a baby quilt for a couple months now (I know), and I finally finished it.

The starting point inspiration was this circus fabric I picked up from Etsy, which I used as the back:


For the design, I wanted to make a string quilt, but in a less orderly style - more like the Any Way You Slice It from the Denyse Schmidt book.

Because I am into sad colors lately, I used the mustard from the circus fabric plus a putty color. It was a little too dark, so I ended up adding in a tan color too. It turns out to still be kind of bummer colors for a baby quilt, but in the end I think the circus back and movement in the front design keep it from being too dour.



I foundation pieced the blocks on paper.


I don't recommend five inch blocks for a string quilt. they take forever to make. I cursed that choice the whole time I was sewing it, until I realized just at the end that I had done that intentionally to have an even block layout to just fit the (narrowish) width of the circus fabric back.



I quilted it as a diagonal cross-hatch.

rainbow things

My job has a way of really cutting into my leisure time. So just a little update.

My first rainbow thing:

A roll of Kona cottons I received for Christmas...love the colors.

My second rainbow thing:

Another Christmas gift - a Kona color card. Love.

My third rainbow thing:




Rainbow Jello! I need a better Jell-o mold now I think. I used a silicone Bundt cake mold, and it came out in pieces that I (mostly) reassembled. (Silicone cake pans have absolutely no virtues as far I can tell).

vintage wrapping papers

When I was back in Michigan, I did a little shopping with my mom at the thrift store and the antique mall.

I did resist the adorable Playskool sewing machine.



But I couldn't resist a stack of vintage wrapping papers:









More of the new additions here - the last three or four rows.