English paper pricing part 1

So recently my eldest and I have has taken up English Paper Piecing.  I should say circled back to as she started this 3 years ago, but she didn't get very far back then.  She is the one hand sewing and how it is being laid out and I am the one that selects the fabric and fits them on the paper.  This is truly a fun scrap project. 

Anyway, we found some 2 inch hexagons online for free. (Thank you Kelli form The Willow Market!) Now my eldest didn't like only hexagons, so I am in the process of making some more shapes with them.

The hexagons are the 2 inch ones and I am extending the lines.  This allows me to get more fun shapes on this quilt.  I printed 75 pages of hexagons on card stock, so we should be able to get pretty far on this.

Coin Quilt part 1

So I have been very busy with life. And it tis the season to go shopping...

So I found something scrappy to do with all those receipts.  

As you can see it is a version of a coin quilt. A very scrappy coin quilt.

There are no rules to it other than I am using receipts as the foundation of the quilt.  

This is about a week of sewing, but that is because I had all my scrappy strips of fabric in one place and had collected a ton of receipts.  I let the kids choose the next fabric so I didn't have to plan for the next fabric.  I really love how it is coming together.

Gluten free pear cake

So the original recipe I made up used apples.  These apples are supposed to be a bit old, and past the best by appeal date.  This recipe was supposed to use them up.

The pear recipe is just a swap of apples with pears.  Originally I had a full cup of sugar as well but my kids actually thought it was too sweet so feel free to tweek this if your family has a sweet tooth.  As you can likely tell by the photo,these pears are a bit brused.  The kids didn't want to eat them so I decided to make a cake for dessert tonight.  

Ingredients:

3 pears 

3 eggs

1 cup gluten free all purpose flour

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 tablespoon of baking powder

1/2 tablespoon of cinnamon (not pictured)

Butter to rub on baking pan

Preheat to 350°F.

Start by cutting the pears into about 1/2 inch chunks.  Anything between 1/4 to 3/4 an inch will be just fine.  

Put in a medium mixing bowl.  Put in flour, cinnamon, baking powder and sugar.  Next put in 3 eggs.  Mix with a spatula (it will be chunky looking).

This is what mine looks like.

Spead into a 8 by 8 baking pan smeared with butter.

Bake for 50 to 55 minutes.  

Let fully cool.  Cut and enjoy!

Now you can click through this link to read the blog party of other recipes!

Scrappy Quilt As You Go Part 2

 So after talking to other quilters, I found out that they type of quilt I am doing is called a "crumb quilt".  I guess because the fabric pieces are so small.  Anyway, it appears that I am making multiple quilts.  Mostly because my kids are calling dibs of different squares as I sew them.  They are also getting into it and sewing as well.  My 13 year old son has 4 squares so far.

He even quilted the bottom one all by himself.

Each square is 10 inches.  Son wants it to be 4 by 5 squares so we need 16 more.

(I also linked to a link party so click here to check it out.)

Scrappy Quilt As You Go part 1

So I have a long history is sewing.  I learned to sew at 9 or so years old and then did tailoring of my own clothing in highschool.  But other than knowing how a machine works, sewing was not really my passion, more like another fiber related thing to just kinda know.

Recently I have gotten into quilting.  Meaning, I have no idea what I am doing and, after watching about what feels like 800 YouTube videos on it, am trying my hand at it.  

I pulled out a bunch of reds, oranges and yellows.  I count many browns in the orange or yellow category and started sewing, kinda in a haphazard way til I got a square.

My squares are 10 inches.