Girls Night Out at the Attic Window

We had a great time at Girls Night Out!

Wilma made fresh strawberries dipped in chocolate with pound cake and Lenora made these wonderful Angel Food Macaroons. (Recipe below)

Sally demonstrated how to make 3-dimensional flowers using  Heat 'n Bond and an iron.  Everybody went home with a sample.  What a great way to make flowers or leaves for a quilt or even children's clothes. 

The Attic Window showed all the new fabrics that came in and some of their samples out of the new fabrics.  Some of the Girls did show 'n tell on what they been working on or talked about an experience they had.  And we talked about the Mystery Quilt that everybody is doing.  Can't wait to see all the finished tops of their Mystery Quilt!

If you want to join Girls Night Out just give us a call and we'll give you all the details.  It's a great evening just getting together, sharing and laughing.  And we all need a good laugh once in a while. 

Angel Food Macaroons

1 Package Angel Food Cake Mix
1/2 cup diet Lemon Lime Soda Pop (Water may be used)
1 tsp. Almond Extract
1 1/2 C flaked coconut

In large bowl, beat the cake mix, soda and extract on low speed for 1 minute.  Fold in the coconut.

Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls 2" apart on a parchment paper lined baking sheet.

Bake at 350 degrees for 10 - 12 minutes or until lightly browned.  Remove paper with cookies to wire racks to cool.

Yield 40 cookies

Note:  Different flavored sodas may be used.  Use Mini Choc. Chips instead of the coconut.

From Marti and Me Club

This is June's projects for the new From Marti and Me club, starting Monday, June 14th at 10:30 AM. Have you ever wanted to learn how to use Marti Michel templates to make gorgeous creations with much less effort? Here's your chance - a once a month learning opportunity with Marti Michell patterns and templates. Each month you will receive an EXCLUSIVE, limited edition From Marti and Me project pattern that uses the Tool of the Month. The patterns are in booklet format and offer many options using the featured template. The samples we'll show will be wall hangings, table runners, etc., not full-size quilts, but almost all the patterns easily convert to full size quilts. Your class fee of $7 covers the cost of the pattern (a paper template is included in the pattern); we will have the Marti Michell templates available for purchase with discounts based on the number of classes you sign up for. Join us for a demo, cookies, ideas galore, inspiration and friendship.

A Quilters Week

This has been a very productive week. I took my" Feathered Star" to the machine quilter and that is a very big deal!!! Cleaned my sewing studio ( actually just a spare room ) and got rid of all the tiny leftover feathers!! I tried hard to ignore my overflowing scrap basket but finally decided to do something with it. SO, I got out my handy dandy ACCUQUILT GO and started cutting!! I now have organized containers of cut 2", 3 1/2", 5" and 3 1/2" HS triangles and varieties of strip widths and lengths!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And now the basket is not overflowing anymore. Just a couple more UFO's before we leave for Alaska ( June 28 ) and I will be ready.................

Like Jan, I survived my demo at Girls Night Out on Wednesday! A nice group of quilters..........Thanks to Wilma for providing luscious strawberries dipped in chocolate as well as pound cake, to Jan for the use of her book and Kathryn for her experience with the curved flowers. This technique is one that is used in this years 2010 shop hop quilt which was designed and created by Diane, Martha and Kathryn here at the shop!

Green Bag Winner!

Congratulations!!!

Our April Green Bag Winner is...

Kim Evans!

Me and the Gammil

I had a very productive day on Friday using the Longarm at the shop!! This is the 3rd quilt I have done and it was fun. Carol helped me load Thurs night and Friday morning Barb came and really helped me go thru the specifics again. Although I took the machine instruction class a considerable amount of time passed between projects and it never hurts to get refresher tips from the pros!! We are certainly going to miss you Barb. The quilt I did is a scrappy pinwheel I cut with my " GO " cutter I recieved from Santa!! It is 90 x 90 and went together quick!! After long winter months working on Jinny Beyer and Feathered Star quilts it was nice to complete something!!Now to get it bound and give it a home in my RV. I will post a picture later.................