Baking and Sewing
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How does that old poem go? Cleaning and scrubbing can wait til tomorrow...it's about rocking one's baby. We're short on babies around here, but the sewing machine is a good stand-in. I had very good intentions when it came to housework, but somehow the sewing machine kept me busy all day. I blame my furry friend here:
He kept coming in all day long looking for catnip, as evidenced by all the greenery around him on his bed there. I couldn't disappoint my little cat, now could I? So, I soldiered on.
This is where I left off with my little Christmas table topper yesterday.
I worried about running out of that white snowflake tone-on-tone because I wanted to use it throughout. Then I dug around in my scraps and found yet another nice long strip. It was used as a quilt back on another quilt, and I still had the cut-off edges from its previous incarnation.
If I were making the bed quilt, I would be making three more of these 36-inch blocks. My goal has always been to make a table topper, and so I'm just adding a plain green border from here. Also, I have a cute candy-cane stripe for the binding. I had the border half way finished before I needed to stop for the day.
But that's not all I did today. Before I started sewing, I baked this Apple and Sour Cream Coffee Cake.
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It's a recipe from Martha Stewart, and this picture from Martha Stewart's website had me going. It has a pound of diced apples and a cup of pecans in the batter, not to mention a streusel topping made from oatmeal and more pecans. And, heck, it has eggs, and so with apples, nuts, oatmeal, and eggs, I figure it just has to be good for you, right? It's practically health food! And it's tasty. I had a piece nearly straight from the oven. All those apples make it so moist and yummy. Here's the link to the recipe.
So almost no housework got done today, but I do have a cake to show for it. Tomorrow I'll do better...or not. Take your pick.
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It's a recipe from Martha Stewart, and this picture from Martha Stewart's website had me going. It has a pound of diced apples and a cup of pecans in the batter, not to mention a streusel topping made from oatmeal and more pecans. And, heck, it has eggs, and so with apples, nuts, oatmeal, and eggs, I figure it just has to be good for you, right? It's practically health food! And it's tasty. I had a piece nearly straight from the oven. All those apples make it so moist and yummy. Here's the link to the recipe.
So almost no housework got done today, but I do have a cake to show for it. Tomorrow I'll do better...or not. Take your pick.
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