Rain beautiful rain - finally.

We are finally getting some rain and it is heavy. They have been promising this for the last two weeks and it is here. The grass was beginning to brown up and I had to water the flowers and tomatoes every day.
I have been working on a doll quilt for a swap at the Board. It is a primitive design I made up myself. I hope it turns out well.
Next week is the quilt show downtown and I am looking forward to it. I will be meeting a lot of gals from HGTV forum and that will be such fun for me.
I lost my quilt blog sponsored by Kim Noblin at Block Central. The service provider was attacked a week ago and lost all of the information on all of the blogs. I feel bad for Kim because it is not her fault. I had a lot of stuff on there and it is all down the drain.
We went to a store here in town and I got two books about quilting and one of them is from Lynette Jensen and it has some nice patterns in it the other one I don't especially like and may take it back. The instructions are hard to make out.
Thanks for reading

Recipes!!!

I thought I would include some recipes I have used for years. I enjoy reading recipes and sometimes I just sit down with one of my many cookbooks and read away.

Easy Fudge

2 cups sugar and 2/3 cup evaporated milk. Stir these together in a medium pan bring to a full boil and boil fpr 5 minutes.

Remove from heat and add 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips, 1/2 stick margarine or butter, 1 tsp vanilla and 1 cup chopped nuts.

Mix well until chips are melted. Pour into a 7" x 11" glass dish or a 9" square pan. Refrigerate until set. Cut and put into covered contained on counter. The flavor is better if room temperature.

I got this recipe from a Marhshall Fields cookbook.

Potato Soup

In a large pan cook 1 cup chopped onion and 1 cup chopped celery in a tablespoon of oil I use Canola. Cook until soft and then add 1/4 cup flour and whisk until well blended. Then add 1 cup hot tap water whisking well and then another 1/2 cup hot water.

Add 2 large potatoes chopped the way you like them and cook until potatoes are fork tender. Be sure to turn down the heat a little, and cover the pan.

When potatoes are done add 1 cup milk I use skim. Heat until warmed and enjoy. You can add salt and pepper to taste.

Sugar Cream Pie

4 tablespoons flour, 1 cup sugar, 1- 1/4 cups milk, butter or margarine, cinnamon, 9" unbaked pie shell Place 10 pea sized chunks of butter in bottom of crust. Add layers of sugar and flour. Pour in milk slowly. Do not stir. Sprinkle with cinnamon (I don't use this). Bake in a 350° oven for 1 hour. Filling will look thin but will thicken up.

This is an old Indiana recipe.

I hope you enjoy these they are tried and true recipes . The photo is my old Hoosier style cupboard my husband gave me in 1989 a friend refinished it and he bought it for me. I can't believe someone would have painted that wood. LOL

It was built in Chillicothe, Ohio.

I have been busy finishing the doll quilt for the swap at the board. I am trying to make a label and will mail it soon.

I haven't started the mini quilt for Holee yet but I do have the fabric and the basic pattern. It seems like those ladies are way ahead of me in that dept. even though they are not due until July 10th.

I am going to the big quilt show in June with Britgal from HGTV forums that way I don't have to worry about DH hurrying me along. We are going to meet a lot of other ladies at Pat's for lunch and that will be fun too. Have a great day and thanks for reading. That is Pancho and Maggie looking at the birds on the birdbath, LOL.

A great Tuesday

I have begun the doll quilt for the swap and it is in the basket pattern. Those blocks are easy to put together. I have the border on and tomorrow I will start quilting it.

Our next door neighbors are trying to sell their house and move to the back of the neighborhood. Any way they brought their cats in their carriers over because the realtor is afraid not everybody likes cats. They have the cutest 3 month old baby girl Abigail and I held her for the first time. What a doll.

I mailed off the boxes for the friendship and kitchen swaps. I also pulled out of a birthday block swap at Connecting Threads. I am on 4 groups there. The people are really nice. But the blogging part is screwed up and I can't post a blog all of the time. I hope they get that part of it fixed.

Anyway now I can concentrate on the mini quilt swap.

I may not join the next ones though but I am thinking about it.

The doily is the last one I made in a CAL I am working on another in pineapples.

These are the Dotee dolls I received in the swap at the Board. The orange one is from Dorothy of Kansas and the cow is from ButtercreamCakeArtist. I really appreciate all of the work that went into making these. I also received some thread, 2 FQ's and a book thong. Very clever.

I had to rip out my block for the BOM and resew it and now it looks much better.

I recently downloaded the next block but haven't worked on it yet.

I am finishing up a thread potholder for the kitchen swap too and the monkey is finished.

It is cooler around here now but I like it better. The sun is shining. I worked out in a flower bed yesterday. I had volunteer snapdragons for years and they didn't look good last year so I dug them up and plan to plant something nicer.

Happy May Day - glad it is finally here. We have had a mixture of weather - sun and rain and then more sun. It is 70° but feels more like 75°. A lot of humidity.
I have been making more dolls. This one has a great pattern I found thru another blogging site.
Also playing bingo on another crochet site and am in two mini quilt swaps and a Friendship swap. A kitchen swap too. I can hardly keep up.
The big quilt show here in Columbus is coming up in June but I haven't made up my mind to go or not. I have never been to the Convention Center but it is downtown so it wouldn't
be hard to find. I am going to try to get a ride with a gal who lives north of me. I have never met her but those gals feel like friends they are so nice.
Fixing spaghetti tonight for supper and garlic bread. I bought some fresh green beans to fix for the weekend too.
I remember when I was a kid May Day was special we made little baskets in school and gave them to our mothers. I still have one my mom gave back to me with some other stuff I had made. She kept a lot of stuff. My babybook is full to the gills she wrote down everything. She waited 7 years to have me after my brother so I was really wanted.

These are the Dotee dolls I made for a swap and mailed yesterday. They were fun to make and easy too. Easier than the other dolls we made. A lady in Australia invented them.

I have been trying to decide what mini quilt I will make for the other swap. I have it narrowed down a little. At least I have the fabric.

I haven't decided if I am going the NQS here in Columbus in June. I want to see the other women from HGTV too if I do go. They are planning a great time for us all.

I have never been to a quilt show but I know it will be great since it is sort of an old show.

I hope my friend Holee is doing well.