Snowman Quilt

A post a day? And it's only day 6? Oh boy, that's quite a bite that's rolling around in my mouth.

Okay, here's something I wasn't going to share til it's done but what the heck. I did the embroidery for this quilt once for a shop sample. They were so cute I just HAD to make the quilt myself. I mean how can you resist this face?


I've been using it for two winters now as a coverup for a white brocade chair in the livingroom. I originally had quilts on there cause we had cats. No cats now but quilts still look nice on it. So after clearing up my quilting room and finding all these UFO's I decided it's probably time to quilt it. I know part of the problem was I had no backing. But I did have enough of this fabric line that I could make a patched backing. Some of the pieces are from other projects so it's different colours than blue.. but that's okay Shirley.. stop being so picky!

This one I'm actually going to try to hand quilt. I figure it won't be that hard, quilt around the squares and then put a snowflake in the between spots. Haven't decided about the borders yet. Something simple.... maybe smaller snowflakes. It's going to be so snuggly. It's a very soft flannel.

What else is new since 24 hours ago? Geesh! Oh, I know. My husband LOVES pumpkin pie. But not just any pumpkin pie. It has to be made from my mom's recipe- which my older sister claims is hers but I don't think so. For one thing mine had Mace in it and hers doesn't, although she claims she just deleted it from the recipe. Plus the recipe calls for a "dessertspoon full of flour" That's definately a 1930's, maybe '40s kitchen measure. Since my sister wasn't born until 1940 I deduce it is my mothers, or grandmothers, recipie. Anyway, horrors of horrors I lost my recipe! So I had to write to my sister and ask if she had "the recipe" not "her" recipe or "moms" recipe just "the" recipe. At first she couldn't find her copy either. Isn't it funny how something like losing a recipe for pie can throw you into a panic? Well, seemed serious to me anyway cause I agree it tastes better than others. But she finally found it and emailed it to me so a pie was in the oven yesterday afternoon... and I did add Mace to her recipie.

Now I think I'm going to write the recipe out and put it in our safety deposit box *LOL* I bet other people have strange things in their's too.