Fibermania

The Fiesta Lunch

Our darling sister-friend Roseangela came for a visit on the train from Chicago.

And what a great reason for a party!

Frieda loves her too.

Here's how the food turned out...

Oops! I started taste-testing the roast before I remembered the camera.

Perfectly shredded carnitas, ready for many Mexican dishes.

Chiles Rellenos con carnitas y queso, y frijoles. Rose calls herself Ms. Frijoles, but we all love them and she has to share!

Looks like Christmas with the green cloth and red dishes. Rose is not a big fan of poblano peppers so I made her sopes instead.

Rose is my ONLY friend who is not a quilter (yet) so Frieda and I took her down to the studio after lunch and introduced her to fusing.

We began with very simple half-square triangles.

The added some strips along one side, for a lopsided but arty log cabin block.

Which grew into four patch blocks.

And will become joined to more to form a whole section of four patch blocks.

Now Rose knows all our secrets!

PS. I learned something wonderful from Frieda, again! I mentioned the other day that parchment paper does work (she said so!) for a fusing base, and yesterday she told me that dryer sheets will remove fusible from my iron. I disputed that hint, since in the past I had tried it and the dryer sheet melted onto my iron and I had devil of a time removing it, let alone the stuck-on fusible.

But to acceed to her wishes, I got one of my new dryer sheets and VOILA! It worked! This must be a new formula, or something, because it did not melt and it certainly worked perfectly. Thank you Frieda, you genius.