Mother's Fruitcake

I remember my Mom baking the best fruitcake. She took a box of spice cake mix and used coffee in place of the water. She then floured all of the nuts and fruits and mixed them in the prepared batter. I just took it out of the oven and it smells just like Mom's, now to see what it taste like. Yummmm!

Yesterday I spent the day with my friend Liz. We sewed from 10 am to 6 pm. I finished 16 Ohio Star blocks and she finished quilting a quilt on her long arm (she has an HQ16 with a Side Saddle Computer System) . It was a very productive day and we had so much fun. Our own little mini-retreat for the day.

I got an urge to clean out a small walk in closet. My bedroom looks like something off of Hoarders. Geez, why do I need so many bags? (I think I must have bought a Laural Burch bag at every Houston Quilt Show I went to (not the small ones either)). Lots of shoes and purses for Goodwill. Two bags of trash and one bag for shredding. I found all of my sons' report cards from High school and some of his grades from Clemson (I am going to save these for him). This does not include the walk in closet full of luggage (I have a container fetish, what can I say). It is next.

I am working on a commission quilt (times 2) for Carolyn to give to her two daughters for Christmas. She chose Ohio Star as the pattern. She wants them to be full bed size and made from her mother's clothes. I need to make 84 blocks, put them together and then quilt them. I am trying to figure out if I want to use sashing or not.........

I have to figure out how to do mobile pics. I have two from the Lexington Veteran's Parade. I drove my trike and my WWII veteran had a ball. He wants to know when we are doing it again. He gave up his trike at 84 and says he really misses it. I am so glad he enjoyed the day. We left suddenly because it was threatening rain and he did not have any rain gear.

We had homecoming at church yesterday and I had to leave to get to the meeting place for our group to line up for the parade. I know I missed a lot of great food. Oh well, next year.......I also missed a good friends birthday party for the parade. I will have to make up for that one. Hope you all had a great weekend.

I live adjacent to the Lexington High School football field. While grilling out on the back deck last night I got to listen to the Homecoming candidates being introduced, but I missed who won. I did see where they lost the ball game ;o(. I love listening to the band but I do have issues with whomever is playing hard rock and rap over the PA system every day starting around 3 PM. Geeez, get an IPOD.

Sunday afternoon Lexington is having their Veteran's Day Parade at 2:30 and I am riding an 80+ WWII veteran on the back of my trike. Come out and join us if you are close to honor these wonderful vets. Now I need to find time to wash the bugs off of my trike. I will post photos on Sunday afternoon.

I have a new quilt made by my s-i-l on the machine today, but doubt if I will get started on the quilting this weekend. She did large squares and I am still trying to decide how I want to quilt it.

Have you ever got carried away and just starting sewing pieces together because you were so anxious to get started? I have 150 half square triangle blocks that should have been sewn into triangles not squares. I almost cried (these are for a clients quilt), but then I decided they are a design opportunity, they will now go in the border. I am making 2 bedsize quilts from Carolyn's mother's house dresses. They are going to look like old quilts when I am finished due to the timing of the fabrics. We decided on doing Ohio Star blocks using a white background. I think they are going to turn out very nice and very delicate looking. I have decided to put a whole piece of muslin between the tops and the batting just in case some of the fabrics don't hold up. So back to sewing triangles and not squares. I will post some photos when I get several blocks completed.