Buttermilk Basin BOM for March

Here is the BOM for March from Buttermilk Basin.

And here is the spring row all finished. it kind of bugs me that the bunny has a green grass strip on the bottom and the other 2 are plain. the pot of flowers could have been sitting on a table...or the grass. and the bird in nest could have been on a larger tree branch.  i might have to change those. haha  maybe when they are all finished, it will be better.

i am assuming next month will start the summer row. got to figure out a background for summer .... something yellow i am thinking.

Red Selvage March UFO Challenge

For March, Judy pulled the number 5....mine was a whole stack of red selvage blocks. This is what I did with them. It is queen size...98x108"

There is a pattern but it isn't immediately noticeable. Look for rectangles at a slant to the right.

I used a dark brown thread but it isn't all that noticeable except in the border

I quilted 8" circles all across, doing first the top half, then coming back and stitching in the ditch in the middle of the circle, then going back again to do the bottom half. I thought that was all i would do, but it didn't look like enough quilting, so, once i got to the end, i turned the quilt and did lines across the other way that dissected the circles into quarters and put SID in the edges. I use the term SID very loosely...they are in the ditch, out of the ditch and across the ditch....like a drunken sailor.  i am OK with that. Back is an unbleached muslin.

Threads used were Glide Chocolate for the top and Bottom Line oatmeal for the bobbin. have you ever noticed how many thread names are food? no wonder so many quilters are chunky.

Binding was some red and white fabrics from the stash

Embroidered Vintage Sewing blocks

I embroidered these vintage sewing blocks for my sister. she will piece them together and then i'll probably get it back for quilting. it is going to hang in 'my' room at the beast. it will be decorated in vintage sewing and quilting things. we are on the hunt for old sewing baskets. she wants to find some vintage scissors and thimbles, too.

Each block took about an hour and had about 30-35 thread changes. I only did one a day.

I used their color chart and used the same colors in each block, but by the time I reached the last block, I had used 45 different colors. actually, it was 47, but i had to substitute the last 2...i didn't have any other shades to use.

Now to embroider something for me.

Cabin Cats ... last one

This is the last quilt created with the Cabin Cats fabrics. I made 7 quilts from 35 yards of fabric. i finished piecing this on February 22, 2015. It is the last selvages and scraps from that line of fabrics.

It is 65" square

It is really hard to see the quilting. I quilted diamonds across the rows. I saw it on Vicki Welsh's blog...she used it on a veterans quilt.

You can see the quilting a bit better on the back. this is hanging with the rows going vertically, but i actually quilted it horizontally. 

Threads used...in the body, Color Changing yellow to orange; border Glide bright yellow. in the bobbin, Bottom Line statue.

Milk Street Magazine .... for cooking

Are you familiar with Christopher Kimball....he had Cook's Magazine back in the day. his new venture is Milk Street Magazine. I saw an advertisement on facebook and decided to send for the premier issue and try it out. if you like it, you get 6 more issues for $20.  money well spent...i love it.

I am trying to eat healthier and give up the junk food. i want to make most everything in this first issue. I have made...

1.  Hot Smoked Salmon Salad with Avocado (i substituted tuna...can't eat salmon).  This was awesome....even dh liked it.  i have made it twice now.

2.  Tonight I made Peruvian Pesto (green noodles). it is very good. dh doesn't normally do spaghetti type dishes, but he did eat a bowl of it. i liked it better than he did.  so, the leftovers are mine. 

3.  Georgia Chicken Soup   (the  country Georgia that is between Turkey and Russia). This was absolutely amazing. we gobbled it up for several days. on the last day, i added some dumplings....made it even better. haha

4. The Real Guacamole.....from Mexico City....none of that city garlic and lime juice.  very good. we gobbled that up, too.

This magazine is going to be worm out. I read every article. He tells where he went in the world to find the recipes. it is very interesting reading.

I still want to make...

1. Tahini  Swirl Brownies .... these are next...after we eat the cupcakes that i made the other day.

2.  Smashed Cucumber Salad....with English cucumbers

3.  Cracked Potatoes with Vermouth, Coriander and Fennel  (what exactly is Vermouth...a wine?....a whiskey?  i am alcohol stupid. need to find this).

4.  Pistachio Cardamom Loaf Cake.  Had to drive for 50 miles to a large grocery store to find Cardamom. once i found it, i now know why they don't carry it out here in the sticks.  that little spice jar was $12.  i better make a lot of loafs.  

I tried the cardamom in my smoothie this morning.....good.

There are 2 or 3 things in this issue that i am not interested in trying, but overall that is a very informative and interesting magazine. plus....he does not take advertisements...refreshing.  looking forward to the next issue (every 2 months).

Happy Snowmen

These blocks were appliqued by me with my embroidery machine. the snowmen parts are 2 layers of old feed sacks.

My sister pieced the top.

She wanted a Christmas panto, so I used Holiday Lights by Willow Leaf Studio

You can see the panto better here.

The cute little snowmen

I quilted it for her and she will put on the binding

This will hang in her Christmas bedroom at the Beast.

I like the slanted pieces in the borders

She got a Christmas fabric on sale for the back

Threads used were Glide light olive for the top; Bottom Line statue for the bobbin

This panto quilted up pretty quickly...less than 2 hours.

February.....done!

I got all of February's to-do list done.....i like when that happens!

1.   Quilt  Search and Find....Judy's #3 challenge quilt.

2. Quilt a Leather one....Square in a square

3.  Finish Hummingbirds

4.  Do Buttermilk Basin block for the month

5.  Piece Canada's 150 Women blocks.....

Also snuck in a few extras...

6. Quilted Cats

7.  And quilted up some table runners

8.  And started a new BOM from Ricky Tims and got January and February blocks finished.

Now to move on to the March to-do list.