I bought this at my local liquor store out of morbid curiosity and I don’t know what to do with it. I usually make my gins into gimlets with a splash of St. Germane but this has some weird flavors to it. Does anyone have any suggestions about what goes with this? I’m concerned about doing tonic because this already looks pretty bitter. If I wanted bitter I would be an IPA drinker.
Thanks!
I had a bunch of 2.5 inch squares left over from a different quilt that I supplement to make this lap quilt. I hand quilted it and just finished sewing off the binding. The fabrics are Boudoir and Date Night by Basic Grey and the pattern is from Just One Charm Pack Quilts by Cheryl Brickley. The quilt matches my puppy Edith Anne!
It was finally cool enough to turn on the oven so I made a French apple cake and some pumpkin cream cheese muffins. The recipe for the cake is from America’s Test Kitchen and the muffins are from Sally’s Baking Addiction.
So this is probably kind of pathetic but I watch Portlandia constantly. I turn it on in the morning on its streaming channel and I leave it on while I do my work because I find it soothing.
Today all of a sudden they start showing an episode I have never seen! Kyle MacLachlan shows up with a sign from Fisherman’s Porch doing an introduction to the director’s cut of Brunch Village.
There was a whole extra sketch at the end where the director was trying to get the perfect pancakes for the last scene. They got Bobby Flay! They had the fucking Log Lady from Twin Peaks!!!
I am freaking out that the last bit of Portlandia that I got to see has the Log Lady and that I got this tiny extra bit of my comfort show. I don’t know why they started including the directors cut of Brunch Village but it means a lot to me that I got to see it after all this time. 😭
Reading Nook came out shortly after I started quilting and I was dumb and thought it would eventually go on clearance but it sold out quickly and I was only able to snag three charm packs and a jelly roll.
I found a pattern for three charm packs in the Charm School book by Vanessa Goertzen that I thought did a good job of showcasing the larger prints and utilizing the smaller prints. I am not super happy with how the background fabric looks, but it was difficult finding something that had enough contrast with all the various fabrics.
I did have a charm that was too close to the background fabric so I bought a fat quarter from the Hello Alice line to substitute for that fabric.
I got a quilt kit from my Fat Quarter Shop Sew Sampler box about five years ago that I started but really didn’t like as I started assembling it. I put it aside and forgot about it for a few years.
A year or two ago my local quilt shop carried a bunch of Frank Lloyd Wright fabric. I realized my UFO complimented the fabric and I tried designing a quilt around the fabric.
The quilt wound up being way too large to add the borders I wanted to add. But I did get to use one of the fabrics in the center of the Irish Chain blocks.
I have a dozen fat quarters and some leftover scraps from this quilt that I can use to make another quilt with the fabric I didn’t get to use for this one.
I was planning to make this to the letter according to the recipe but it was way too hot to run the stove for over an hour so I tried to adjust it for the slow cooker. I cooked it on low for four hours and the rice basically melted into a paste, so it could probably cook less. Otherwise it turned out great.
I have been working on a block of the month quilt for years. I had to wait for my husband to go out of town so I could set up my sewing machine on the kitchen table to get enough space to assemble the top.
My new puppy was mad that I was ignoring her all day and I was afraid she would pee on the top to retaliate.