WIP Wednesday #15

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Sewfrench

I am so excited about my new fall tablecloth and napkins and how well they match our Benjamin Maier dishes.  It’s a Christopher Lowell Glimmer Stripe Outdoor, with saffron, that I picked up at JoAnn’s.  Along with Kona cotton in Gold, for the border and napkins, it looks like a decorator put it together!

Okay, it’s still just a pile of fabric, that I didn’t get to this week, but later this week, for sure!

I did make and finish a pair of potholders made strictly from scraps, including using up even the last 1/4″ of this age~old yellow, bias binding.  Not one speck left.  Not even enough to connect the ends using a bias seam.

Believe it or not it’s my first time putting a binding on by machine. I didn’t know that I’ll be doing it on a full size quilt, any time soon, but it’s cool to see how easy, and neatly, it can be done!  It sure makes for a quicker finish!

The potholder center scraps came from the apron I made for me!  It’s the Daily Spice Halter Apron by Heather Bailey. I made a couple of aprons similar to this without a pattern but it just seemed like it would be quicker with a pattern, since when I make things w/o a pattern there is still no pattern for the next one, LOL! I don’t believe I’ve ever owned an apron, though many have come out of my studio.  The fabric is Moda’s Rooftop Garden with their coordinating dot.  I am ready for Thanksgiving now.  The first thing I made in it was a gluten free pie crust.  It turned out great!

Things look so different around here when there is a photographer in the house….

I’m still plugging away at hand quilting two good sized quilts and need to get back to learning to embroider, for a third top that is put together but lacking the finishing touches and quilting…..  The circle quilt has not gotten any further by itself.  And there is a Jane Austen and yet another unnamed one languishing in my studio…..  For a total of 6 Works In Progress quilts.  Among these projects…. an under~wraps quilt with 14 of 36 heavily, hand quilted blocks finished.  This one I’m going to try tracking my weekly progress on.

Jane Austen quilt

My wall hanging quilt. I’ve figured out how to hand quilt it, just not how to find the time to quilt it…

Click below and pop on over to Lee’s blog and see what everyone else is doing, so many great things, more and more every week!

And since my potholders qualify as a mini quilt, I’ll link to the mini quilt challenge, this week, too.  Check it out!


Heres hoping your week is more productive than mine!

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Who needs gluten when you have a piecrust like this?!

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Sewfrench

Yes, we are practicing making pumpkin pie.

And practicing eating it.  We can always use more practice around here.  Getting all geared up for our first gluten-free, dairy free (we do use butter, don’t mean to mislead you) Thanksgiving, so we need to practice don’t you think??

For this first crust I strictly copied this one from one of my very favorite gluten-free chef/websites.

Gluten Free Pie Crust

1 cup white rice flour
1/2 cup sorghum flour
1/2 cup potato starch
3 tablespoons sweet rice flour
3 teaspoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 stick cold butter
1 large egg
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
1/4 ice-cold water, or enough to make the dough stick together

Mix together all the dry ingredients, including the sugar and cinnamon. Cut the butter into small pieces, about 1/2-inch thick, and drop the pieces into the dry ingredients. Using a pastry cutter, meld the butter into the dry ingredients until the butter has crumbled into pea-sized pieces.

Make a well in the dry ingredients. Drop the egg and apple cider vinegar in, then stir them in, gently, with a fork, stirring from the center out. Once they are incorporated into the dry ingredients, slowly drizzle the ice-cold water into the mixture, a little at a time, then stirring to see if it has become dough yet. You do not want this dough to be too wet. Add water only until it all coheres together.

At this point, drop the ball of dough on a large piece of parchment paper. Place another piece of parchment paper, the same size, on top of the dough. Gently, smoosh the dough outward, until it is a thick, round disk of dough, about the size of a pie plate.

Refrigerate the flattened dough, for as long as you can stand. Ideally, you would prepare the dough in the evening and refrigerate overnight. Take the dough out of the refrigerator at least twenty minutes before you want to work with it.  Okay, for me, this was refrigerate one hour, working it after letting it sit on the wooden cutting board for, ummm, one minute.  Tops.

Leave the dough in the parchment-paper sandwich and roll it out. By rolling it, gently, between the pieces of parchment paper, you will not need to add more flour to the mix. Roll it out as thin as you can, for me this was at least 1/4″ thick, I just couldn’t get it any thinner, *this time*.  Maybe that’s where the overnight refrigeration and the 20 minute bringing up to room temp comes in to play…..  It cracked as I went, I’d peel the parchment off the top, smoosh the dough back together, put the parchment back on, flip it and repeat, until I got it the size I thought it should be.  Now, strip the top piece of parchment paper off the dough. Using your rolling-pin, lift the dough and lay it into your pie plate.   The dough should sag into the pie plate. Remove the other piece of parchment, if you haven’t already. You can crimp the edges at this point. If some of the dough falls off the sides, don’t worry. Simply re-attach the pieces to the crust-to-be by pressing in with your fingers.  Since it has no gluten, there is no worry about over working it.

Things look so different around here when there is a photographer in the house....

Pour your pumpkin filling directly in and bake immediately.

For the filling we mixed it up just a bit and does it ever smell wonderful!

Pumpkin Pie Filling

1 (9 inch) unbaked deep dish pie crust

1/2 c brown sugar

1/4 c white sugar

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, my favorite is a Ceylon

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon ground ginger, this is the best!

1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

2 eggs

8 oz SO Delicious coconut milk, original

4 oz SO Delicious eggnog

1 15 ounce can 100% Pure Pumpkin, organic

Preheat oven to 425° F.

Combine sugars and spices in a small bowl. Beat eggs lightly in a large bowl. Stir in the pumpkin and sugar-spice mixture. Gradually stir in the milks. You could go for all coconut milk, but the eggnog is so thick it brings it more up to the texture of a can of evaporated milk, which you could also use, if you do dairy.  Pour into your pie shell.

Bake for 15 minutes. Reduce temperature to 350°.  Bake for an additional 40 to 50 minutes or until knife inserted near the center comes out clean and crust is golden. Cool on wire rack.  

A few things we noticed about this first try pie…

  • This crust tastes like a lot like shortbread.  It’s a bit denser than a traditional pie crust, some may think it was whole wheat flour.  Roll thinner, for sure.
  • The crust doesn’t get overly brown before the pie is set up, that’s a good thing!
  • If we didn’t use eggnog, I would add a TBS of vanilla, eggnog has plenty of vanilla flavor in it.
  • Everything was better after it was refrigerated, the pie, the crust the whole shabang.  And better, as in, it was great before, now it’s over the top!
  • Not sure that there is any reason to practice this pie crust again.  Except maybe to see how it will hold up to a pecan filling?  Hmmm….
  • And last, but not least, there is nothing wrong with having pumpkin pie, for lunch, on a random Tuesday.  Nothing.  At.  All.
Enjoy!
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Perfect Fall Soup ~ Perfected

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Sewfrench

High in nutrition and low in calories, this soup is sunshine in a bowl.  It will hit the spot on chilly, fall days. The taste of oranges with ginger and undertones of onion and garlic? Oh no, people, this is for real.  It is lick your bowl clean delicious!

We loosely based this version off of the vegan version from Color Me Vegan Cookbook by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau.

Butternut Squash Soup
printer friendly version

1 large butternut squash, peeled, cleaned out and rough chopped

1 piece of ginger that is at least as big as your thumb, chopped

zest and juice of 1-2 oranges

2 small/medium yellow onions, rough chop

4 garlic cloves, rough chop

2 small/medium yellow potatoes, cubed

3-4 cups vegetable or chicken stock, more for thinning, later

salt and pepper to taste

roasted, spiced, pumpkin seeds, for topping, recipe below

Heat a TBS or so of olive oil in a really big pot. Saute the garlic, onions and ginger. After 1-2 minutes add the orange juice, potatoes and squash cubes and heat for 2-3 minutes before adding in the broth and orange zest. Bring to a boil. Simmer for 20-25 minutes until your pumpkin and potatoes are tender. Use an immersion blender to purée the soup as chunky or smooth as you like.  We’ve been known to purée ours in a Vitamix for a super smooth soup.  Thin with additional broth if necessary, taste and adjust seasonings. Serve topped with toasted pumpkin seeds.

Roasted Spicy Pumpkin Seeds

1 c. green, hulled, pumpkin seeds

1 tsp ground cumin

3/4 tsp chili powder

1/4 tsp cayenne, if you are brave of heart

1/4 tsp salt

olive oil

Twirl a small amount of oil in a 10″, or larger, skillet.  When hot, toss the seeds in to coat with the oil, sprinkle in the spices and stir.  Continue stirring until they start popping, take on color, and look drier.

You could make these in a lesser quantity, but I know you’ll want plenty for snacking!

If you want to use the seeds from the squash, you can, if you plan ahead.  Rinse and clean the pulp from them and let them air dry overnight.  Then use them as in the above recipe. The shells are very tender and definitely edible.  Good fiber, too.  Note the seeds in the soup picture?  Different seeds, different days…..

Enjoy!

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Curried Chicken Salad

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Sewfrench

Youngest Daughter recently returned from a business trip bragging up the curried chicken salad she had had and insisted I read her mind and give it a whirl.

She knows what a sucker I am for curry.  Anything.  Curry. We’ve made this twice now and I would make it again tomorrow if I had the chicken…..

I give you my interpretation.

Curried Chicken Salad
(a twist off Ina’s)

2 chicken breasts, cooked and cut up into large bite sized pieces or an equal amount of leftover or rotisserie chicken

1/2 cups Hellman’s mayo

1/8 cup white wine or chicken stock

2 TBS Major Grey’s chutney, first time I subbed peach butter with a squirt of sriracha, it worked!

1 1/2 TBS curry powder

1/3 cup medium-diced celery

1 green onion white and green parts

1/4 cup dried cranberries, you could use dried cherries or raisins)

1/3 cup chopped pecans

a handful of quartered, red, seedless grapes

salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste

Stir up to mayo, wine, chutney, curry powder.  Toss in the celery, onions, cranberries, pecans and grapes.  Add as much chicken meat as it will hold.  Make more sauce for the rest of the chicken because you now have more than you thought you did.  And you don’t want this dry.

Let it sit and mingle in the refrigerator, for a couple of hours, then dig in.  For the gluten-free among us, the biggest leaves of green leaf lettuce makes for awesome fold-ups. Otherwise there are a lot of fabulous gluten-free crackers out there or just a fork will do.

And yes, Lay’s potato chips are gluten-free.  I knew you would ask….

And yes, it’s Daughter approved, too.

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Pinterest Addiction

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Sewfrench

Do you Pin?  Are you Pinterest~ing?  Are you a Pinterest~ista?

I was invited, by the team, back in the beginning, before I even knew what I was getting into.  I quickly realized I didn’t have the time to get involved then.  But I do now.  Sort of. I say sort of because once you get started there is never enough time for all the looking there is to do!

I’m sorry if you don’t know what I’m talking about….  It’s a really cool website with an easy way to keep your ideas, in scrapbook form, by pinning them on “boards” in themes that you create. If you visit a website and see something that you want to remember, just “pin it” on your board. All the proper credits and difficulties of uploading images are done by the Pinterest site. Oh my, I could brainstorm on this site for days…

I have seen a lot of these felted flower fall wreaths and seeing that I didn’t have one, I decided I needed one.  Like yesterday.

Maybe like this one?

Inspiration

Or this one??

Inspiration

Or a combination of the two?

If you do a Pinterest search and you’ll find all kinds of  really cool ones.  So off I go, with my coupons in hand, to my local craft store to pick up a grapevine wreath.  I went with the 18″.  I had a stack of wool felt, in fall colors, on hand, so then all I needed was a glue gun.  That worked….

My trusty Parker has finally decided to just eat the glue.  You put it in and it never comes out.  I know it was at least 14 years old because youngest daughter remembers burning her fingers, until she had blisters, using him when making a dimensional pyramid poster, in 4th grade.  I just learned that yesterday while mourning Parker.  Not sure where I was or where her trusty bowl of ice water was….  But I digress…  I guess Parker was hungry after all these years….  So now that he’s been retired and replaced I whipped this out just in time for the throngs of trick or treaters knocking on my door!

And my creation

Have you created anything you’ve seen on Pinterest??

Need a referral for a Pinterest account?  Leave me a message and I’ll send you an invite then I can follow you and see what you are into.

So many ideas, so little time……….  Check it out!

                        

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WIP Wednesday #14

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Sewfrench

This has been an interesting week.  Our wireless internet has been down *all* week.  We have two hard-wired locations in our house.  One being at my husband’s desk and the other at my, work from home, daughter’s desk. This leaves me with a 100′ blue extension cable working anywhere within 100′ of where the cable comes in.  So the lower level it is. Needless to say, I’ve not been on the internet a lot this week.  Mr. UPS man tells me my new Apple Airport Express Base Station will be here today.  It should help to boost our signal, within our house, to override our new neighbor’s super strong signal.  Wonder if we can knock their wireless out???  Not that I intend to try…. I’m just wondering aloud.

I’m working on hand quilting, two quilts, now.  I tend to do this while cooking, doing laundry, whenever working on something else with down time or later in the evenings while watching television.  I did actually get in 4 hours of steady hand quilting, yesterday, while watching the History Channel.  Who knew Appalachia was pronounced that way? Certainly no one in this house.  Check it out.

Back to sewing… I was in need of daytime machine/studio work.  A trip to the local fabric store was in order to start something new.  So I got what I needed to start an apron, got the fixings for a fall tablecloth and I got this stack of luscious Robert Kaufman Kona Cotton solids.  Isn’t it dreamy?  Okay it’s blurry, we can pretend it’s just dreamy though, right?

Over the weekend, Graphic Designer daughter took a picture and turned it into a pattern for me.  Then proceeded to help me choose the colors, we envisioned, using a Kona Color card. She even colored it with colored pencils so that the overlapping lines wouldn’t confuse me when I cut it apart.  Now to have her color a second one so that I have a whole one for my design wall/floor as well as one I can cut up for its parts.

And a rough layout of our color palette…
Not sure if all the fabrics are exactly what we had in mind, based off the swatch card, but we can try and try again.  We have lots of options and playing to do.

That’s about it around here, besides taking in all the lovely quilts from The Bloggers’ Quilt Festival.  That’s definitely kept me busy.  I’ve picked a few as inspiration quilts and I keep checking as new ones keep coming in.  Up to 488 as I type this.  If you haven’t checked it out, please do.  Lots of pretty quilts and even more interesting stories.

And definitely pop in over at Lee’s to see what this creative bunch is working on.  Work in Progress Wednesday’s always keeps me on my toes!

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Three quilts ~ Three colorways ~Three Precious little ones

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Sewfrench

Quilts and their history ~ An ongoing series.

Too many babies, too little time!

I hate to admit that sometimes I make the same quilt for multiple people.  It’s always different in some way.  Whether it’s using the same fabrics in a different layout or the same layout in different colors, as in this case.  Barely.

When 3 close friends are expecting 3 precious little ones within 6 weeks this is when it happens.

I usually have a nice stash of Robert Kaufman’s Kona Cotton solids so when I spotted “Balanced Connections” from Amy’s Creative Side I knew I could do them quickly, even with all the other things I had going on.

So for my great-nephew Hunter, the only boy in the group~  soft fall *boy* colors.

He is so cute!  I’ve yet to meet him in person, but I know he’s a sweetheart.  His grandma told me so!

Then came Amayah~
The fall sun can really be harsh for photographing.  The quilts are actually all the same Kona Bone background color with Sable borders and bindings. These color blocks are from Kona’s dusty palette.  The girl colors obviously!

Isn’t she precious playing “possum” with her momma?!

Then comes Olivia~
The colors look similar to those in the previous picture, but they are less dusty with more color saturation.  All finished around 42″ square, machine pieced and hand quilted and bias bound.

So big.  And cute!

I try to photograph all my quilts before I gift them and most of the time that happens.  I *love* to see the recipient enjoying their quilt and that very rarely happens. Except, of course, when they open the gift, if I’m there, which most often is not the case.  It’s a rare occasion when I get a picture, in the mail, of a little one enjoying their quilt. Imagine my surprise when I receive three pictures from 3 moms and they all happened to be the same quilt.  And NO begging was done. Nor bribing. The stars must have been aligned just perfectly for that to happen!

I believe I need to retire this style for fear of ruining my record!

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Pumpkin tastes like Fall

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Sewfrench

Remember way back when…  I made up some Madagascar Vodka Vanilla?

Well…..  After chatting with my sostinkinhappy, vanilla extraordinaire, and friend she encouraged me to try some variations.  This one is Tahitian Rum Vanilla.  Could it be any darker and richer?

Begging a little daylight to filter through,the bottle, just to be able to photograph it. Seriously.  It is dark.  And rich.  And oh so fabulous smelling!

What a difference it makes over any store-bought vanilla.

I cracked it open and used it to take these over the top!

Pumpkin Muffins

only slightly altered from  Gluten Free Goddess

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 12-muffin tin with paper cupcake liners.

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together:

1 cup sorghum flour

1/3 cup organic coconut flour

1/2 cup blanched almond flour

1/2 cup tapioca starch

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

1 teaspoon xanthan gum

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon ground ginger

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

Add in:

1 and 1/3 cups packed light brown sugar

1 cup pumpkin purée (canned organic pumpkin is fine)

1/3 cup oil I used half coconut oil and half light olive oil

2 eggs, beaten

1 TBS Tahitian Rum Vanilla

1/4 teaspoon lemon juice

Now add in:

1/2 cup coconut milk

Beat the batter to incorporate the ingredients. If it needs a little more liquid, add up to 1/4 cup coconut milk until it is a smooth consistency.

Stir in by hand:

1/2 cup roughly chopped pecans

Spoon the batter into twelve muffin cups, filling them close to the top. Smooth the tops using the back side of a wet teaspoon.  I ended up tossing out enough batter for a 13th muffin and after I baked them, I realized I could have divvied it all up, they would have been fine.

Bake in a preheated oven until domed and golden, roughly 22 to 25 minutes. The muffins should feel firm yet springy to a light touch. If a wooden pick inserted into the center emerges clean- these babies are done.

Cool on a wire rack. Remove the muffins from the pan after five minutes, and allow them to continue cooling on a wire rack. This helps keep their bottoms from getting soggy.

Wrap and freeze leftover muffins in freezer bags for easy on-the-go treats.

Cook time: 23 min

Yield: One dozen muffins

And she isn’t called a Goddess for nothing.  These are amazing, not as light as a cupcake, but definitely not as heavy as you think of a muffin.  Next, I want to try her pumpkin cupcakes and compare the two.  Or just eat them.

And yes, I realize there are a lot of different flours in these muffins, and I think that is what makes them so good.  To bake gluten-free is not easy, that’s why I go to the experts.  I’m new to all this but they aren’t.  They tell me what to do, I do it.  And with beautifully, yummy success.


Pumpkin Butter
a.k.a. Dessert Soup

only slightly altered from Spoon Fork Bacon

I, also, altered this recipe, in my head, unfortunately not on paper, to make 3/4 of a recipe. This allowed me to make both the muffins and the butter using just one large can of pumpkin.  Good Luck on the math!

Full recipe makes 3½-4 cups

Ingredients:

1 (29 ounce) can pumpkin purée

1 cup fresh apple cider, you could use juice, but cider is in season!

¾ cup granulated sugar

1/3 cup light brown sugar

¼ cup pure maple syrup

2 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon

2 teaspoons ground ginger

¼ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg

¼ teaspoon ground cloves

¼ teaspoon all-spice

A splash of vanilla, added after the cooking and removed from the heat

1. Place all ingredients into a medium pot and place over medium heat. Stir.

2. Allow the mixture to reduce on medium to medium-low heat for 30 to 40 minute or until slightly thickened (the mixture will thicken more as it cools).

3. Transfer to sterilized jars and store until ready to use.

4. Serve over toast, muffins, scones, oatmeal….

Enjoy!

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Favorite Things about Fall Sundays

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Sewfrench

Bargain basement prices on the last of the season’s produce…..
Though our closest farmer’s markets are now history, for this season, we do have a farm market, just a few miles down the road stuffed with all the fall favorites!  Brussels sprouts, broccoli, apples and apple cider, pumpkins and need I say acorn squash???  Can you agree that acorn squash filled with butter, maple syrup and a splash of coconut milk is the best dessert, first, kind of fall food?

To know what you’re going to wear before you even get out of bed….
Being Detroit Lions fans and finally having a respectable team makes pulling on a Lions tee-shirt a heck of a lot easier!

Lazing around enjoying just one more cup of coffee….
Over the Sunday paper while watching Sunday Morning on CBS.  And if that one last cup of coffee is doused with a caramel or pumpkin spice flavor, all the better!

The smell of the crock pot simmering away all day…..
Today was braised ox tails with onions and mushrooms served over mashed potatoes. Wow was that good!

And my very favorite thing about fall Sundays?
Snuggling under a quilt for a quiet afternoon of football….
Getting some over due quilting done is a bonus!

Hope you’re having a fabulous fall Sunday, too!

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Bloggers’ Quilt Festival Fall 2011

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Sewfrench

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!!!  It’s that time again!  The time of year when we can cuddle under quilts while we check out hundreds and hundreds of talented quilters and what they have to show off!  This is the most inspiring time of year.  To see how other artists interpret color and design.  And the very messiest time of year for my desktop!  You *know* you know what I’m talking about.

You’d think that since I knew this was coming I wouldn’t be quilt number 188 to be posted, LOL!

While all the designers, authors and others involved in the quilt industry get together at quilt market to introduce their new products, Amy, over at amyscreativeside.com, hosts a virtual quilt festival.  A place where anyone wanting to join in on the fun can link up to share their work! Follow the link above, over to Amy’s blog, if you’d like to seriously be inspired.

Deciding which quilt to share with literally hundreds, last year over 700, very talented people, who do the same thing you do, can be very intimidating.  It was a tough decision. So many quilts, so many stories.  I decided to go with Sam’s quilt, “Shoot for the Moon” which I made in the winter/spring of 2010.

It was made as a graduation quilt, for my niece.  I have been fascinated with creating quilts with circles for a long time.  I can’t say how many I have finished but this is one of my most recent favorites.  I drew from my vast collection of batiks, only needing to buy the yellow for the backing and the deep purple for the binding.  I have a love/hate relationship with creating with what I already own.  I love almost every new fabric I see and I hate that I don’t own them….

Then I started cutting.  I used the floor that adjoins my studio as my design *wall*.  I was constantly trying different squares in different spots then cutting new ones, until I hit on the look I was going for.  It was one of the messier quilts I have ever put together.

Finally with an agreeable layout, by all who walked past, I was ready for the best inner thigh and ab workout on the planet, *The pinning of the quilt*.  You know what I’m talking about!

And the hand quilting begins.  I *love* these colors.  They talk to me.

Finished while there is still snow on the ground tells me, I’m ahead of schedule!

And the back.  I used up all the extra pieces that didn’t work where I needed them to, on the front, and gave me the width I needed for the backing.

And when the finished quilt is all washed and comes out of the dryer all warm and crinkly I am always in awe that *it* worked!  My plan came together and worked.  My latest is always my favorite, but this one has stuck with me.  Not literally, but there are invisible strings attached…

Finished and ready for gifting.

For Sam

~Shoot for the Moon~

~HS Graduation 2010

64″x 72″ machine pieced, hand quilted, with love.

Now click on that link above and see all the other goodies out there!

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