December Seasonal Quilt attachment/ Christmas tree

The Christmas tree is so simple to make.....Cut a 7 1/2" X 6 1/2" rectangle. Fold it in half lengthwise as shown in the picture. Start at the top and cut out V shapes to get the branches, ending with the trunk of the tree as shown in the second picture. Decorate with tinsel, ric-rac or anything you might have that is miniature and shiny. There are even tiny Christmas lights out there in the stores! I happen to have these cute little Christmas packages that were on a string that I could use for my tree. You can be as elaborate as you wish. I plan to embellish all of my attachments next year before I start putting them on the quilt again.
I have found that I can pin the little attachments on with tiny safety pins easier than using the velcro. Works for me!

December Seasonal Quilt attachments/Santa

Directions for making Santa are in the newspapers Dec. 15 and 16th 2010
Batting makes the Santa very lightweight, but pretty. Be sure to make him large enough to fill up the entire block on your Seasonal Simple Irish Chain Quilt started in October. Directions and pictures are on the blog for making this seasonal quilt. Every month there will be new attachments for the quilt. Don't fall too far behind. It is such a pretty little quilt and children love it!

Recipe for fantastic dessert! EASY

I, who have African violets in my oven to keep from cooking, am going to share a fantastic recipe with you! It is to die for! I love pumpkin pie, but hate to make one as I can't make good pie crusts.........mine look like the map of Africa when I try to "roll it out into a circle!" Anyway, a friend of mine in my Stitchery group brought this recipe for something called "Pumpkin Something or Other" and Mr. Whoozy says for me to make this from now on into eternity, as he likes it better than Pumpkin pie!!!!!!!!Now, that is really something!
It takes a 9 X 13 pan sprayed with that oily stuff. Put 2 sticks of butter in a measuring cup and into the microwave for 1 min on high to melt it.
Empty 15oz can of pumpkin into a bowl. Add 1 cup evaporated milk (not the whole can) 3/4 c.sugar. 1 tsp. vanilla. 1/2 tsp cinnamon. Stir until nice and smooth.
Pour into long pan. Sprinkle the entire box of a "Moist Yellow Cake Mix" over the mixture. Sprinkle top with 1 cup of chopped pecans. Drizzle melted butter over the top of all of this. Bake 1 hour and about 5 min. Serve warm with whipped cream or other creamy stuff.
I have to be careful to not mention products' names on this but you will get the gist of it, I'm sure. The cake mix has pictured a yellow cake with choc. icing. :)
ENJOY! Tell others about it and they can pull up my blog and print it off. Direcions for printing from the blog are given in my blog: Quilters University May 10, 2010

Christmas Wreath Construction Supplies

This is such a pretty Christmas wreath made out of "prairie points" that you learned how to do with my Christmas ornaments or "spheres." Directions are on another one of my blog entries.

Christmas Wreath Construction Step 2

Christmas Wreath Construction

Voila, here it is finished! So cute!

Black Friday and Saturday MERCY!

Had a friend who woke up Friday morning at 3:00A.M.......got up at 4:00 and went shopping the sales....wow, that is really getting a head start on Christmas shopping. I have never been out shopping at 4 A.M. EVER, and hopefully I shall never be!
We had a lovely Thanksgiving, even though I thought I'd expire before the day was over. Lifting a 15lb. turkey out of the oven nearly did me in. First of all, I had to move the African violets out of my oven, dust the cobwebs out, and think, "How in the world do you turn this oven on?" It was at that point that I thought to myself, "Why in the world did I say I would do dinner for 10 people on Thanksgiving, when I should have been sitting on the sofa sipping my diet Coke, and watching the Cowboys get beat, again.
I guess I shall never learn my limitations. I would do it all over again, though. It was fun sitting down at the table with family and neighborhood friends. Thank goodness I remembered how to make my momma's "dressing and turkey gravy." She was a gourmet cook, and wrote down her directions for me the first year I was married. Of course, her directions started off with, "First, you pluck the turkey." She had a great sense of humor!
Hope you have taken all of the November attachments off your Seasonal Quilt. I am bagging up the attachments and labeling the plastic bags as to the month so that next year I'll have all of them ready.
December's attachments are pretty, so get busy making the poinsettias, and the next attachment is really fun to make.
Happy Days.............:)B