I walked in to quilting today and was quickly stopped by another quilter who told me how fabulous the fabric donation was. She took one of the bags home and came in having put together blocks for this:


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What a wonderful thing to wake up to --

A cupcake from irishredlass and flowers from dickgloucester.  What a wonderful way to start my birthday.

geminiscorp requested I post this:

Marbled Chocolate-Banana Bread from Cooking Light

2 cups flour
3/4 t. baking soda
1/2 t. salt
1 c. sugar
1/4 c. butter, softened
1 1/2 c. mashed ripe bananas (about 3 bananas)
1/2 c. egg substitute
1/3 c. plain low-fat yogurt
1/2 c. semisweet chocolate chips
cooking spray

1. Preheat oven to 350
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irishredlass and sabrebabe are only about 1/2 hour from droxy 's.  I told them that they soon can stretch their legs and have vitamin water.  (wonders if droxy has vitamin water today? Maybe they brought it with them.)

irishredlass and sabrebabe left for droxy's house at 8:00 this morning. They esitmate they have less than 500 miles left for the trip.

irishredlass and sabrebabe have now passed over the south skunk river in Iowa.

ETA:  And, at around 3:00 or so, they passed over yet another river named for an animal.

While irishredlass corrected me that it was more of a southwestern journey, she and sabrebabe hit the road about 9:00 am Central time. Feel free to pass this on as I know that I'm not friends with all of Irish's friends.

This would be my mid-semester t-shirt!


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The family is happy -- S1's quilt won a blue ribbon. S2's wooden reindeer won a blue ribbon, Mr. Step's moose won a blue ribbon -- and they all beat me and my quilt one a second place ribbon ( Read more... )

I entered my quilt (pictures in a different journal entry), Mr. Step entered a ceramic moose he made (pictures later), S2 entered some wooden reindeer she made and S1 entered this quilt. She made the top, I quilted it, she sewed on the binding (a better picture will be added later).

Judging was at noon - results will be reported later.


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