Fibermania

Treehouse III

Treehouse III
Hand dyed and commercial cottons, fused, hand and machine quilted. $250 Email me.



This quilt top was made on Sunday and then I did some of the stitching, finishing up this morning. I am loving making this series. Here the first three so far:

It's a wonderful place to be at this stage in my career, where I can play with color and stitchery, at a nice daily pace, and still have room for reading, parties, keeping up with my housework, and not feeling overwhelmed.

For Labor Day my sister Brooke and family came for a day of eating and chatting. We both love to cook and everyone has special foods either they LOVE or won't eat at all. It was a bit of a juggling act getting it all done at the same time, three veggies, two meats and all the accompanying condiments. Brooke wanted to see how I grind my beef for hamburgers, and she loves bacon cheeseburgers so that was on the menu. We got it all cooked and sat down to eat when she noticed no bacon, no cheese!! Horrors. Those items were quickly added to the feast (I cooked the bacon earlier in the day on my new skillet) and wham we ate everything in seconds. It was like a food race.

The super nice thing about having Brooke here (and not in Singapore, for heaven's sake) is that we are getting to know each other in depth. Cooking together is so fun and we are using this as an excuse to go overboard on treats. Homemade cookies, hot fudge sundaes with Cool Whip and nuts, (o my!) following a tremendous rain storm which threatened to flatten my garden, and then guitar and banjo playing, youtube watching and lots of giggling. Dave and Terry got in some ball throwing after the rain subsided and the sun returned.

The hit gastronomic discovery of the day was Corn with Basil Butter. I have so much basil and it needs to be eaten so in place of pasta with pesto we made this, sure to be added to our summer memories.

Corn with Basil Butter

One stick of real butter

Hand fulls of fresh picked basil

Lots of ears of corn ( or like we did, two bags of frozen corn, white shoepeg and golden super sweet)

Place butter and basil in the food processor with a bit of salt and pepper, whirl and add to the steaming hot bowl of corn.

Words cannot express the wonderfulness of this dish.