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December 5th, 2011

This photo was sent to me by Carrie D’Andrea. She used the 7″ Crazy Curves template.

Here is a photo of the quilt I made for the American Association of University Women, Minneapolis Branch, for their fund raiser and auction two weeks ago. I received a lot of compliments from our members and also from the people who attended the benefit. The quilt sold in the silent auction to a wonderful woman who was so excited to get it and can’t decided just where to hang it or to use it on a bed or sofa. It gave me great pleasure to contribute in this way and I thank you again for permission to use the pattern….

Sincerely,

Carrie D’Andrea

How cool is that? Thanks for sharing Carrie. I love it! Thanks for donating your time to make the quilt.

Elisa

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I have to tell you that while I was growing up, my brother and I absolutely hated sweet potatoes. We would run in horror at the mere mention of the word. I must confess that it was the way they were prepared (sorry mom). I prefer them to be prepared without so much stuff on them. Years later, I had a freshly baked sweet potato, which is really a yam and learned that it wasn’t so bad. My brother came to visit one time and I tried to convince him to try it. He had that disgusted look on his face at the mere thought of putting them into his mouth. I finally convinced him to try and he timidly took a bite. Then another. Not so bad. Now he is also a sweet potato convert.

I think there are those who like to do up their sweet potatoes with the sugar and marshmallows and those who like them roasted or baked. I am the latter. I also don’t care for marshmallows that that could be part of the problem.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading about all of the ways to eat sweet potatoes. I never knew it would be such an interesting topic. I am reading through all of the comments again and again and I am getting hungry. I have a list of them to try; the roasted sweet potato salad. Oh my, please send me the recipe for that one.
The sweet potato souffle and the oil and balsamic vinegar, and roasted with beets and other vegetables. Yum.
I usually eat mine baked with some olive oil and cinnamon or sliced or as baked fries. I use a mandolin slicer to make the chips. Be VERY careful if you get one of those. I sliced my hand once with it. Ouch! But it does make thin, even slices.

And now to the winners.
Elizabeth Engman is the first winner.
Gwen Windham is the 2nd winner
MarciaW is the third winner.

Congratulations to all. Please email me your mailing address.

Thanksgiving is coming up. We are planning our menu and getting excited for family to arrive. Thanksgiving is a great holiday it involves food – a good thing, and being thankful – a great thing.

Don’t worry, this guys is a pet and has survived many Thanksgivings

I am curios about what you will be eating. Our meal will be gluten free and mostly dairy free. Some of the kids can’t have nuts. It is a challenge but worth it. There are so many great substitutions like hemp milk, which I love or coconut milk and grape-seed oil for butter.

Let me know.

Elisa

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The Patient

November 16th, 2011

Because of the foot of snow we had received it was quite an eventful trip to the vet. They had plowed our road that morning and then it snowed again. The new snow on top of the smoothly plowed surface was slightly melted so it was slick as, well, slick as melting ice. We had to chain up the truck and the horse trailer. A tow truck was on the steepest part of the road pulling people out because people were sliding off. The driver of the tow truck said that if I started to slide, go into the ditch and he would get me out. Um, sure, gulp. Another truck pulling a trailer had jack knifed across the road. Some people had parked their cars at the bottom of the hill and were walking up. It took us two hours to get up to my house, and back down the two mile stretch of road.

This was Dillon after we arrived at the vet. He was given a shot and was very sleepy.

He has some pieces of flesh cut off (gross) and then his foot was wrapped and wrapped and wrapped again with different types of bandages.

And then they made a shoe out of duct tape and put that over the bandages. And then another tape at the top to keep the duct tape boot on.

And while he was there we checked his teeth and gave him a teeth floating. I am not sure why they call it “floating”. It is kind of like a sander that they use to smooth the rough edges of his teeth so that they don’t hurt his tongue and cheeks as he chews. He had quite a few sharp points in there.

Then he got a tetanus shot. He was a good patient and didn’t really seem to mind much. Of course he was a bit sleepy.

Then I called another friend and we trailered Dillon to her house. She has a stable in her barn that I will need to keep him in. He has to keep his foot dry for two weeks. Yea right. We have a foot of snow.

So it was time to go home and I called my husband with dire warnings about the road and to not drive up it without chains. He gets to our road and drove up it with no problems, scratching his head, wondering what the big problem was. When I came home later I saw that the road had been plowed again and sand dumped on it. No more treacherous road.

The other funny thing was that there was almost NO snow in town. We were trying to explain why we had so much trouble getting into the vet and they didn’t understand because all of the roads were dry. We had our own little snow cloud west of town that dumped its load on us.

This and This

November 14th, 2011

I really wanted to draw a name and post the winners to the drawing today.

But I woke up to this

and this

I left the image small, don’t look at it if you get grossed out easily.

And since my trailer look like this right now

and I don’t have the truck here. (Not that I would dare pull the trailer down the hill in this weather on our slippery road)

I have arranged for transportation. Yes, there are people who will haul your livestock for you. And so it is off to the vet we go.

See you tomorrow, hopefully.

Elisa

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100 Blocks Blog Hop

November 11th, 2011

This is my block that is in Volume 4, Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks. It is called Corner Paths and uses my 3 1/2″ Small Paths template. Be sure to check out my videos on piecing these curves. The video shows how you can sew curves without fear.

My block is #399 on page 67. That is a lot of blocks!

The fabrics I used is Timeless Treasures Batiks.

I had a lot of fun playing around with this block. Below you can see a quilt that I made up using the block and some fun fabric. I designed this in EQ so there is no actual pattern for it. (yet)

Today I am on the blog tour and that means fun prizes for you. Be sure to check out the other blogs on the tour. First from Quiltmaker’s you will receive a copy of the magazine, Volume 4. Go to Quiltmaker’s Blog post to find out how to enter.

Second I will be having a drawing for my 3 1/2″ Small Paths acrylic template along with a copy of the magazine.

Third, in honor of Veterans day I will have a second drawing for all of the above (magazine and 3 1/2″ template) plus some sweet batik fabric strips from Anthology fabrics.

And, I am behind in getting my post up for the day, we had the grand babies spend the night last night, need I say more? “Busy” but fun.

So help me catch up to the other early birds by leaving your comment below. Tell me your favorite way to eat sweet potatoes, or if you even like them at all. Right now I have some baking in the oven. I slice them thin and spray a little olive oil on them and bake them until crisp like chips. Zachary and addison LOVE them! and eat a ton. I am barely able to sneak a few for myself.