YES! It was Saturday…I had no plans except to sleep in (check!) make some more blocks (check!) and make some kind of treat. I made some parsnip soup a couple of days ago – I can hear my sister gagging from here – but it was delicious! I made a little rice and soup for dinner and then vegan gingerbread cookies for dessert.
I followed his video recipe, and I must admit, I was a little leery. There’s hardly any ingredients in the recipe and 1/2 a cup of maple syrup? How is this going to work? Also, you only bake them for 5 minutes. I wasn’t expecting it to work, but I was very, very wrong.
Instead of using cookie cutters, I rolled them in sugar. I tried some fancy, big sugar, but it didn’t really stick to the dough, so went with regular, old sugar. I did cook them longer than 5 minutes because the rolled cookies are much thicker than the rolled out type. But they were still soft on the inside and so, so, SO tasty. The flavours were bright and cheerful. That was a lot of allspice in there – 1 tsp, plus other spices. So great. I will use this recipe again.
I did get a couple more blocks sewn up today. And in a stroke of luck, I received a piece of flannel today in a box of “craft supplies and fabric” from my buddy, Tracy. I only put those words into quotes because it was more than that. There were curtains in there! Some shear purple curtains. So, I removed the ugly old green ones I had in the bedroom and replaced them with the purple ones. Much better! I’ll take a photo of them later. Donner’s already tried to climb them, so everything is on schedule there.
Anyway, back to the flannel, I needed a piece for my quilting project. For some reason, cotton will stick to the flannel, so people use it to lay out the squares before sewing. It works perfectly! Look!
I just need to fill up the flannel panel…and then I’ll need to get another one. My quilt is going to be 90 X 100 inches – queen size – so I’ll need a lot more blocks. I hope to fill the whole wall with them.
The past few weeks, while I’ve been working on my stuff, I’ve been listening to Jay Mohr’s podcasts. I can’t get enough of that guy. Hilarious. He interviews comedians mostly, so they just get right out of hand and really, really funny.
There’s nothing wrong with being at home, completely alone, laughing out loud in front of your sewing machine. That’s normal.
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nope, nope, absolutely nothing wrong with that at all.
Your block are so very colourful – nice!
I love your baking audience