The Holiday Ten

You may be familiar with "The Freshman 10." You know, the ten pounds you gain at the dining hall freshman year of college.Well, we here at The Little Red Hen have discovered "The Holiday Ten." That is the ten pounds gained from the time school is out for winter break until the new year. This is a list of what we have baked and consumed here since winter break started.peach blueberry piestrawberry rhubarb pieshortbread cookiescarrot cakechocolate pound caketruffle micebanana bread (twice)cranberry breadraisin/currant filled cookiesdouble chocolate muffinsAdd to that the bag of Hershey's truffle kisses purchased for making chocolate kiss cookies but eaten before the cookies were made... and a couple of bags of holiday m and m's for the Santa candy bowl - well it can't just sit there EMPTY can it?Today, I have made a batch of chocolate chip pumpkin muffins.  B is making apricot filled cookies.M has requested brownies.And B told me that I need to make ginger bread cookies with P.I think it's time to go for our afternoon stroll.

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Narrow hand appliquéd bias strips. 1/16” quilting lines not going over the appliqué. I’m about a month in on the quilting and ALMOST finished. Whoop! Quilted with Invisalign on top and Decobob in the bobbin. Threads by @wo
This summer we watched my two oldest grand kids one day a week. Towards the end of the summer they started making projects on their own in the sewing room. They made lots of little projects from my scrap basket including pillow cases and tiny quilts
Here’s the layout with all but one block done. I’ll finish that last block when I get more of the baby poop green/mustard fabric. I put out the call and the internet provided! This top will be finished soon! This is a remake of an 1870s
I’m finally getting around to putting these stars together. I made the stars a few years ago and have been on the hunt for the perfect setting fabrics. These @carolynfriedlander prints are the perfect match for the 1800s reproduction prints in