Catching up

I taught the Relief Society how to can butter last night. Having canned butter at home, is great for power outages and storm problems. It's a great way to take advantage of sales and specials. It has a grainier texture, but tastes just like butter.

I have all my square in squares finished for the Happy Birds quilt. I used the little cotton and steel scraps from fancy forest quilt.

I have 4 rows together for the Irish chain.

And all but the calyx hand stitched for Marie Webster. I had made a mistake with the trellis and needed to take it off and add a rosebud.

It may seem like I am jumping around from project to project, but there is a small bit of method to my madness. I don't like assembling rows, so I tell myself that I only have to do one. The squares in squares was tedious with 1 in strips and squaring up. So I just did a few at a time to keep from sending it to time out. The hand stitching I do when I am too tired to do anything but sit. What I would really like to do is cut a new project, because I love the mindless piecing. I have to start finishing, and my goals are for finishing, so I have to sneak my least favorite parts in when I can.

Two birthdays down and one to go. Actually, my Mother's birthday was April 29th and I like to do a little something that day to remember too. I am hoping to attend a fiber fair the middle of april otherwise we are all set to play in the upcoming Spring time. Rhubarb, asparagus, and strawberries here we come.

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Yummy donuts

I finished quilting my friend Carolyn's quilt. She had me sew the binding as well. This is a moda bakeshop pattern. It's called Flower Patch by Kathryn Ludowese.  I used an all over Paisley design. This would be great for a layer cake.

Last night our women's group ( Relief Society ) had a weeknight activity. Making Donuts was our primary goal. We had a great teacher, and she made it seem so easy. I think I could do it now. It was a great story of how she decided to learn to make them. Her son had served a two year mission in Seoul Korea. His mission President was Elder Ringwald, the son in law of Russell M. Nelson. And it was a tradition in the Nelson family, that when the men went to general conference, the women in the family would make donuts.  When the men came back they would sit and eat the donuts and talk about all they had done. So, in keeping with that tradition, all the missionaries in Korea had homemade donuts for general conference. The missionary loved it and told his Mom, and she decided to learn how to make them. And then we benefited from this tradition. I love stories that remind us how small the world really is when we are part of the family of God.

A little mixing...

A little cutting...

A little raising...

A little frying.......

A Whole lot of yummy. They were soooo yummy!

We also had a knitting class for those who are doing the Knit the sky KAL

and, we made itsy bitsy spiders for the littles. Although, in a rare moment of weakness, I might eat the sucker.

Fun fun fun

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