Lovely button flowers. Put onto florists wire and twisted. Possibilities are endless...so cute!
Happy St. Pat's Day! May your pockets be heavy and you heart be light!
Still at the canning and want to do some chilli and I will be done for awhile. My shelves are full and this will tide us over for quite a bit....blackeyed peas with jalapenos, kidney beans, garbanzo beans, pinto beans and stew. Love my new pressure canner and it is so much more sophisticated than the ones of old. This sweet little quilt block my Grandmother made many years ago and I am playing around with making a quilt from this pattern, Colonial girl. Lots of appliqué and embroidery and will do it in vintage fabrics.
This is such a lovely quilt from Tokyo quilt show. The trees are embroidered in feather stitch.....ombre thread. How's that for some inspiration? This could be a very small quilt or a large one, one for every season. Spring, summer, fall and like this one winter...oh the possibilities! Magical Monday!
Canning stew today...... roast, carrots, potatoes, celery and onions. Half the jars I put beef broth in and the rest just water. We will see which we prefer the most, always room for changing here. Gravies don't can well so the thickening part will come when being heated to serve. Canned @ 10 lbs. pressure for 90 minutes. Figured the cost per quart ......right at $2.72 . Sunny Saturday!
It has been well over 50 years since I helped my Grandmother pressure can. I have been wanting one of my own since I can't remember when. Mr. Outdoors and I found just what we wanted on our Colorado journey at a price we couldn't resist. My first trial was pinto beans and they turned out just as I hoped...yea! A great money saver too...34 cents a pint! My next canning will be beef stew.....rump roast cut into 1" chunks, along with potatoes, carrots, onions and celery. I am impressed with all the pressure canning recipes available on the internet and I so appreciate people taking the time to post their recipes and pictures detailing their process. Our whopper snow is about all melted and we have sunny skies and warmer weather in store for us in the next week....we are so ready for springtime and warmer weather.
