We had a meaning sum of pelting both yesterday as well as overnight. When I got upward this morning, it was pouring rain. Surprisingly, when the Sun rose, nosotros establish ourselves inward a higher house the clouds, as well as we're expecting fairly proficient weather condition today. The birds volition appreciate it when I fill upward their feeders.
It was a generally sewing twenty-four lx minutes menstruum yesterday, as well as several projects got some attention. In grooming for quilting It's Raining Cats as well as Dogs, I firstly quilted the placemats made recently. It gave me a gamble to adjust the tension properly. These were done simply, alongside just a require occupation grid. There are exclusively 3 lines inward the middle horizontally. The vertical lines extend all the agency from correct to left.
I wanted to maintain the vertical lines evenly spaced, as well as then I stitched inward the ditch along exclusively the firstly as well as 3rd strips on the right.
Today I'll add together the bindings as well as larn the hand-sewing finished off. It shouldn't accept real long.
Smitty was real excited nearly yesterday's quilting start on It's Raining Cats as well as Dogs. He was just a kitten when the quilt was started, as well as it has a lot of cats on it.
He likes to warm upward the machine alongside his cheek when we're getting laid to start. It's his gesture of proficient luck.
The pattern includes some photographs of the finished quilt blocks, as well as it makes it possible to encounter how the designer quilted it. I'm non maxim I'll follow the quilting exactly, but it gives me a springboard from which to start.
I did the 6th block pretty much the agency it was shown inward the picture. It's difficult to tell if the applique is outlined, but I'm outlining all of mine.
The blueprint is fairly primitive as well as then my quilting is fairly primitive too. It's all done free-hand, including all lines. The pattern suggested this meandering looping star motif.
Also, some cross-hatching. I used a heart-leaf vine to a greater extent than or less the dogs at the top.
There are scalloped "shingles" inward the roof...
And pebbling for the wall at the bottom.
And hither is the whole block.
Sadie thinks this quilt makes an first-class foreground for her newest periodical shoot. She's considering posing for Catoria's Secret catalog. If you're non familiar alongside Catoria's Secret, I should explicate that it includes unmentionables for cats. She's been working on her Bette Davis eyes.
This is 1 of her to a greater extent than purrvocative poses.
My quilting twenty-four lx minutes menstruum ended mid-way through the afternoon then that I could exam out some other mini bundt cake recipe. This 1 is an Apple-Walnut Bundt Cake for Two.
It has an apple tree cider glaze that generally soaked into the cake. It added some overnice wet without making it soggy. The firstly mensuration is to caramelize some saccharide earlier adding some apples to endure cooked. When I made this the firstly time, I wasn't certain how to practise that, as well as then I watched this video, just to endure certain I was doing it right.
The original recipe was from Martha Stewart Living. This is my scaled downwards recipe for two:
Apple-Walnut Bundt Cake for Two
adapted from Martha Stewart Living
Ingredients:
FOR THE CARAMELIZED APPLES:
4 teaspoons granulated sugar
3/4 teaspoon water
1 tart light-green apple, such every bit Granny Smith, cored, peeled, as well as cutting into 1/2-inch chunks
FOR THE CAKE:
1/2 stick (4 tablespoons) unsalted butter, room temperature, plus to a greater extent than for pan
3/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus to a greater extent than for pan
3/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/8 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon solid pose down cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon solid pose down ginger
Coarse salt
1/4 loving cup plus 1 tablespoon packed low-cal brownish sugar
1 large eggs
2 tablespoons whole milk
3 tablespoons chopped toasted walnuts
FOR THE GLAZE:
1/4 loving cup plus 2 tablespoons confectioner's sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons apple tree cider
Make the caramelized apples: Cook granulated saccharide as well as H2O inward a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, without stirring, until saccharide caramelizes, nearly 2 minutes. Reduce rut to low. Stir inward apples. Cook, covered, until softened, nearly five minutes. Slightly crush apples alongside a fork (or spud masher) until broken downwards but yet chunky. Continue to cook, uncovered, stirring, until liquid evaporates, nearly five minutes. Let cool completely.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Make the cake: Butter a 6-inch Bundt pan. Dust alongside flour, tapping out excess. (Or skip this step, as well as job Baker's Joy.) Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, as well as 1/4 teaspoon tabular array salt into a medium bowl.
Beat butter as well as brownish saccharide alongside a mixer on high speed until pale as well as fluffy, nearly 2 minutes. Add egg. Reduce speed to low, as well as add together flour mixture inward 3 additions, alternating alongside milk, outset as well as ending alongside flour. Mix inward caramelized apples as well as the walnuts.
Transfer batter to pan. Bake until cake is deep golden brownish as well as a toothpick inserted into the ticker comes out clean, nearly 25-30 minutes. Let cake cool inward pan assault a wire rack for 10 minutes. Turn out cake onto rack, as well as permit cool completely.
Once cake is cool, brand the glaze: Whisk together confectioners' saccharide as well as cider. Drizzle over move yesteryear of cake, letting it drip downwards the sides.
STORAGE: Glazed cake tin dismiss endure stored at room temperature for upward to 3 days.
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This morning, I finished off Tree #9 for Twelve Trees for Christmas.
These are the trees I create got then far.
Today I'll compass off gratuitous displace quilting It's Raining Cats as well as Dogs. I holler back it volition larn fairly quickly, as well as I'm hoping to create got it to binding phase yesteryear the halt of the week.