quilt monday

I have a new obsession

I adore pineapples. No, I love them. Just can not get enough.

I love them so much I may have made a pineapple permanent too ;)

Anyways, these went together so quickly; I may have to make another quilt of them.

I wanted to keep the quilting simple so diagonal straight lines were perfect.

I wasn't sure what to use for binding. White was too bland and this green matched the pineapple leaves...perfect.

Love

Happy Monday

snack saturday

Chocolate Chocolate Cake

2 cups sugar

1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 cup cocoa

1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

2 eggs

1 cup milk

1/2 cup vegetable oil

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 1/2 teaspoon instant coffee

1 cup boiling water

For chocolate frosting:

1 pound finally chopped semisweet chocolate

6 tablespoons cocoa powder

6 tablespoons boiling water

3 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature

1 cup cream cheese

1/2 cup powdered sugar

pinch of salt

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
2. Grease and flour three 8 inch round baking pans.
3. In a large bowl stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
4. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla and mix on medium speed 2 minutes.
5. Dissolve coffee in boiling water and stir in the batter (the batter will be thin).
6. Divide batter into 3 prepared pans and bake 30 to 35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
7. Cool 10 minutes in the pans, than remove from pans to wire racks and cool completely.
To make the frosting:
8. Add cocoa in boiling water and stir to combine and remove any lumps, set aside to cool.
9. Melt the chocolate and set aside to cool to room temperature ( it take about 30 minutes)
10. Beat the butter and powdered sugar until it’s light and fluffy
11. Combine cream cheese with the cocoa.
12. In the light and fluffy beaten butter and sugar mixture add cooled melted chocolate and continue beating until it’s evenly combine.
13. Then add the cream cheese and cocoa mixture and beat well.
14. Frost the cake.
15. Garnish with chocolate shavings (optional) and set in a fridge for a few hours before serving.

card friday

behind the scenes

I haven't been sewing. I started a quilt back in March(why does that seem so long ago? lol) and I'm just not feeling it. So I stopped sewing. And told myself that I couldn't start anything new until I finished this quilt.

Last week I wanted to get back at it. I have some deadlines coming up that I need to meet and because I am not a fan of this quilt, I knew if I didn't finish it now, it wasn't getting finished.

So, nose to the grindstone and I got the blocks finished up and the sashings made yesterday.

The fabric is not the greatest; a very paperlike feeling batik. And the blue colour runs; so not awesome. And I have no idea what I am going to do with this once it's done. Might turn into a camping quilt lol.

But as a reward for powering through, I got this mini quilt done.

I am debating the quilting; either a spiral circle or I might even try hand quilting it. I'll keep you posted.

wordless wednesday

quilt monday

I had this fabric bundle and was waiting for something to inspire me when I fell in love with all the plus quilts showing up online and I knew I had to make one.

I adore these fabrics; the prints and colours are just fabulous!

I used one of my favorite patterns, PaisleyMax for the quilting.

I have some leftovers of these fabric that I have plans for later on this week. Hopefully I'll have time to finish it up soon.

Happy Monday!

card friday

helloooo!

Suitcases are unpacked, laundry is finished and I've almost beaten the jetlag. As fun as it is to go away, it's always funner to come home isn't it? It was fabulous though, got to cross a few more places off our bucket list on this trip.

I haven't had a lot of time lately to spend quilting and I've missed it. So I picked up a little something that I hope will jump start my mojo.

I'll keep you posted!