Saturday, December 27, 2025
A busy two days
I spent Christmas day getting ready for family on the 26th and playing with scraps. Remember these leftovers from the blue flannel quilts?
I had both longer and shorter 2 1/2" wide strips. I took the longer ones and cut them down to about 7", pieced them together, and made a nice pile of blocks. I still need to press and trim them. I also added in some strips of red and light blue to add some pizzaz.
Then there was a pile of wider pieces that I turned into 4 patch blocks.
When I trimmed the four patch blocks I ended up with some pieces that will make smaller four patch blocks. Scraps generating more scraps! LOL!
I still have the pile of short pieces that I will probably make into the smaller 4 patch blocks.
I had a whole row of zig zag I had cut off the zig zag quilt. The zig zag quilt was too long.
I took this row apart and now I have some more pieces to make the large four patch blocks and then a pile of triangles that I have to figure out what to do with. A long with the yardage I still have, I should be able to get two to three more quilts out of this.
I found some time to work with my plants that needed some TLC. I had a philodendron that need to be cut back. I have lots of new starts in water.
Put my succulent starts in a new pot. They were just in a plastic dish you put under a pot.
And finally stuck these pieces of snake plant in a pot. I don't know if they will grow since they have been laying around for probably two months.
I got the table set with the new placemats for the day after Christmas dinner.
I made two pumpkin pies, a pecan pie, chocolate cover Nutter Butter cookies, chocolate covered Golden Oreos, and Buckeyes. We had a fun day and I was exhausted! We had ravioli, garlic bread, and roasted broccoli and cauliflower for dinner.
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4 comments:
merry christmas!!!
lovely plantwork - they'll love you for it
the eXMan's mother used to make ravioli for Christmas dinner - and one year she taught me how and gave me ravioli forms - the eXMan used to say her ravioli with my sauce was the best (you wouldn't eat it - ONIONS) ... we ate sloppy joes and smashed potatoes - it was gooood!!! you wouldn't eat that, either - onions there, too - ha ha ha...
I see the African violet is photo bombing you plant picture ;-) Dinner sounds delicious and your table looks nice with your new placemats. I’ve never had a chocolate covered nutter butter but it sounds yummy 😋. I was doing a little rearranging in the studio and when I came across a pile of flannel scraps, I channeled my inner aunt Patty and cut them into 2 1/2” strips. A few (or ten) flannel 9-patch quilt(s) are in my future!
Well, first up...waste not, want not! Only you would use those strips! Good for you...love the pies...look so good! Always fun to read your blog and what all you do!!!
That's what I need to do too, go through all of the leftover pieces and scraps of flannel and do some cutting for another quilt. I think that sounds like a good project for New Year's Day.
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