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What's Up 3.27.17

It was a great day for baking and sewing. My daughter-in-law had texted me yesterday with this picture saying what it was. It's Redbud and Lemon Cornbread Loaf Cake http://www.ful-filled.com/2017/03/25/redbud-lemon-cornmeal-loaf-cake/ Now I was intrigued by it because it was using Redbud flowers.  And here on the place we have lots of Redbud trees and have been wanting to make something. Here is some info on Redbud trees and what parts are edible So I gave it a try today. Now I did not go all out prepping for my pictures like they did over at the website Ful-filled  , their photos are gorgeous.  That is where you'll find the recipe too.  It calls for 1 3/4 cups of flowers which didn't take long to pick. Mine does look pretty and it taste is good, it's a lemon cake. I enjoyed making this. Up on the wall today is another project I had started many years ago, like over 20 years.  It is do

What's Up 11/30/15

Again I have my hands in too many pots at the moment. First I'd like to share what I did take down from the design wall this morning and that was the UFO I found. the split nine patch.  It wasn't much to put together seeing how I had all the fabric and I just need to cut out that setting triangles  and the sashing,   just needed to assemble.  Did that yesterday and it stayed up on the wall until this morning, then I took it down. Then I put up another UFO.  I would like to get done before the end of the year and that is my chicken scratch blocks that I have been working on since I believe 1990.  I have had them completed for at least a couple years but just put them away and hadn't done anything with them it's about time I do something with them. I want to put them on point but the stars are not a perfect square so when I first attempt at it a while back I wasn't happy with what I was looking at. But time has passed and yo