Jalpaneo Jelly

Either the week before Christmas and New Year's or the first week of Jan I wanted to make a jelly to go with a great phyllo recipe I saw in a mgazine- it called for a hot pepper jelly...so I scoped out the canning books- who knew I'd have almost as many canning/preserving books as bread books within a year of starting....any how, I came across a jalapeno jelly and decided to make it....it came out so yummy.







Almost too pretty to eat........






But never fear- I have a baby shower on Sunday for a family member that I need a quilt for - so I'm breaking out the machine and see if it still likes me after being turned off since before Christmas.....

Jelly Rolls and Pineapple Blossoms

Ok so I don't have a blossom yet but I did 4 blocks today to see how they would work in Bonnie's pattern. Oh my goodness I'm in love and just added a bunch of jelly rolls to my Christmas list. Hope Santa doesn't mind *VBG*

I managed to get 20 more cathedral windows prepped for this weekend. All that ironing
sigh....

So now I get to clean up all my sewing mess before I leave in the morning so hubby doesn't put something away ( read that where he "thinks" it goes). I kinda like to know where my stuff is. I got the rulers in the mail to make the string 8 pointed stars on Quiltville. For some reason I thought I had the easy eight ruler but either hubby put it away ( see above-lol) or I never did have it.

Oh and my frame is finally coming tonight- isn't that the way it always works? When I'm not able to play and have been waiting for 3 weeks ...sigh. But I'm looking for something I have a bunch of besides muslin ( I need that for the cathedral windows) to start getting ready for weaving. I'm so excited :) kinda like when Mary Ellen gave me Liberated Quilting when she was moving and didn't want alot of her books anymore. Oh and yesterday I was telling Leah about the discout for yardage orders on kona cottens from Hancocks of P and I saw the Gwen Martson designed a liberated log cabin pattern for Kauffman fabrics that is on Hancock's site.....

I've had quite a few visitors in the last week....thanks for stopping by I promise to look around more of the newer blogs next week when I get back. But some like sewbaby I can't comment on their blogs :(

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Ok I worked some more and made another 4 blocks and added sashing and cornerstones :) and we now have a blossom. But alas now when I'm a roll of strip piecing them I really must clean up and pack. Dad wants to leave at 7am *gasp* good luck waking ds up at that time on the weekend *snicker -snicker*

Just before the no buy deadline :P

I went and ordered some jelly roll type strips from Connecting Threads.
Yep I was talking to someone from guild and they raved that the fabric was nice for the price ( way better than Joann's and Hancocks) So what's a girl to do???
I've been looking at Bonnie's Weedwacker quilt and thought how lovely it would be in fall colors. Yes I know fall is upon us now and I'll never get it done this fall but next year my sister in law turns 40 ( yep a baby ) and she wants a fall colored quilt. So of course I'll need to "test" the pattern to see if it's something I want to do in a large quilts so I figured what the heck ....I also got a thing to smooth out the cutting mats...mine have been taking a beating lately even though the blades are changed regularly.....and as I cut more and more fabric for different quilts in progress now, I have been cutting both 2 1/2 and 2" strips for a truly scrappy quilt of many colors....

Off to take ds for his regular yearly check up- of course his stomach is still bruised and sore from the accident- poor kid. Have my cathedral windows parts to take with me for the wait....