Just to get it out of the way, in my desire to stay accountable, here’s my progress on the Aunt Grace Scrapbag quilt blocks-10 more of them, right on schedule: ![]() The next lesson involves arcs which are akin to circles, so I hope they don’t take as long. I ended up working on them over several days, but finally finished last night. ![]() These blocks were much more difficult and took me a lot longer than the previous lesson’s blocks. I also finished the next lesson in Electric Quilt’s Pieced Drawing book, which dealt with circular blocks on the PatchDraw worktable. These cookies don’t spread a lot during baking, so you can bake 16 per sheet.īake at 350 for about 10 minutes, making sure they don’t get too brown. Drain water from pan and set aside to cool while you prepare the remaining ingredients.Īdd sifted dry ingredients alternately with milk.ĭrop by heaping Tablespoons onto cookie sheets. This is another excellent recipe from my maternal grandmother, and I’m pleased to share it with you:īring water to a boil, reduce heat and cook raisins for 5 minutes. I made oatmeal raisin cookies yesterday and took a bunch of them over to our neighbor, Dave, who kindly ran his snow blower across both lengths of our sidewalk this week, saving John a good half hour or so. Things are very sparkly around here as Mother Nature has dumped a bunch of snow here over the last few days, requiring significant shoveling three days last week. I’m finally caught up from taking four days off in Houston last week-you play, you pay, but it was so worth it. I’m also surprised at myself for keeping up with my commitment to make 10 Aunt Grace snowball blocks per week 130 so far! I finally completed another Electric Quilt drawing lesson, this one on arcs:Īt the author’s recommendation, I placed a couple of the more unusual arc designs into layouts, and I have to admit, they are quite striking, although it’s a bit intimidating to think about actually piecing one of these. Pretty good for a bunch of high school kids. ![]() Ross is on the far left playing a white guitar. I apologize for the video being so dark the walls in the pit are painted black, there’s limited lighting and it’s difficult to film through a safety net. At the end of the play when the curtain had been drawn and the house lights went up, the orchestra started playing this rock out song and I recorded it. It’s a fun play, cute story, funny, and loaded with great music. We’re so proud of Ross for getting top billing in the program under the orchestra list.
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