great free quilting pattern

over at All People Quilt lots of other great free patterns as well. take a look!

snack saturday

i haven't tried this yet but am having a BBQ next weekend that i will make this for




Raspberry Ganache Pie

Ingredients
1-1/4 cups OREO Baking Crumbs
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 cup Whipped Topping (Do not thaw.)
6 squares Semi-Sweet Chocolate, coarsely chopped
6 Tbsp.Red Raspberry Jam, divided
2 cups fresh raspberries
1 Tbsp. water

Directions
1 COMBINE baking crumbs and butter; press firmly onto bottom and up side of 9-inch pie plate. Set aside. Microwave whipped topping and chocolate in microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1-1/2 to 2 min. or until chocolate is melted and mixture is well blended, stirring after 1 min. Stir in 2 Tbsp. of the jam.

2POUR into crust; cover. Refrigerate at least 4 hours or overnight.

3ARRANGE raspberries on top of pie. Microwave remaining 1/4 cup jam and the water in microwaveable bowl on HIGH 30 sec.; stir until well blended. Brush over raspberries. Refrigerate at least 1 hour before serving. Store any leftover pie in refrigerator.

home sweet home

and its soooo good to be home! will resist not posting a million pictures-just the highlights lol!

trip was great up until Tuesday-we hit a deer with our truck :(. physically we are fine-it was pretty scary. truck is being towed from Kamloops back here for repairs-hopefully that won't take too long. deer was killed-amazing amount of damage most of which is engine related(radiator blew, engine fan warped into the engine)

did a day trip out to Wells Gray Park to see the waterfalls. amazing! will be sharing more of those pictures on Wordless Wednesdays

i continued my fishing queen reign with catching 3 fish(lost one when it snapped my line) A and M each caught one as well

did get a bit of quilting done-realized when i was sewing the rows together that i had cut(and sewn) enough blocks to make a twin sized quilt so i ended up with 4 baby quilts-2 boys, 2 girls. probably a good thing since we've had 2 more upcoming baby announcements in the past week lol!

card friday

a card from my dear friend Nancy. and yes, we are home!

card friday

all packed and ready to go

on our family vacation tomorrow. we rented a cabin at a lake up in the 100 Mile House area of BC. was a bit stressful packing for this one since we won't be near any stores(about a 2hour drive to the closest) so anything we've forgotten, we have to live without for the next week lol. also the resort called yesterday and with the snowpack melting so quickly, they are under a boil water alert so we stocked up on bottled(and jugged) water at the store tonight.

looking forward to a week of lazying on the beach, lazing in the boat(i am the reigning fishing queen and have a title to uphold lol!!)but just in case i get bored, i've packed my sewing machine. i have 2 baby quilts cut out and ready to go-a boy one and a girl one, using the same pattern.

hope you all have a wonderful week, i'm posting this weeks *card Friday* tonight in case i don't get a chance in the morning.

disappointment

remember i posted about buying an APQS quilting machine-the Lenni? well, i'm not now. i was the second person to buy one(submitted my order June 1st when it was launched). i got a letter from APQS middle of June saying my delivery date would be the third week of August-woo hoo! but than i got a letter on Tuesday saying that at the earliest my machine would be here towards the end of September-what?!?!? gave them a call today and they aren't even built yet and that's the end of it. so my options were/are either wait(and the person i spoke to figured it would be as late as October) or cancel the order. neither option works-mom and i have a stack of quilts and we NEED the second machine.

than i get a phone call from my APQS dealer and she offers me the sweetest deal so i jumped at it. a Liberty machine, hardly used and i can have it as soon as we get back from holidays(and i drive up the hill to pick it up lol!)

i'm in love

at the shop we've had these cans of 505 adhesive spray-no one buys them. i was wondering if it really worked. so i brought a can home yesterday to try out. it's quite easy to use-spray the back of your quilt top than place that on the batting. than i sprayed my backing and sandwiched it all together. it worked like a dream! was so nice to do meandering and not be worried about running into any pins while sewing away-i'm sold!



Rose, the pattern is from the March 2007 issue of McCall's Quick Quilts