After the super fun Wonky Log Cabin block from last month, the June blocks just weren’t quite as exciting. However, they were easy and pretty cute. This month’s “theme” was to learn 9-patch blocks…which are basically just 9 squares sewn together to make the quilt block. We really didn’t learn anything new, though, we just […]
May block of the month
Another month, another two quilt blocks. I am LOVING this block of the month class! The only problem is that each month when we learn a new technique, I want to make a whole quilt just out of that type of block…and now I have several quilts floating around in my mind that I want […]
book themed party {Works for Me Wednesday}
Way back when I started working on my master’s, I knew I was going to have a graduation party once I was finished. And I knew it was going to be book themed…to go along with my master’s in library media education. So after I graduated Friday night, we had my graduation party the next […]
cake decorating course 2 week 3
This week we learned how to make some more flowers out of royal icing. (please pardon the pictures – I have no idea why they all turned out so bad!!) Rose – this is the second rose we learned (you can see the first one here) and I think like this one better. It’s much […]
cake decorating course 2 week 2
This week we learned flowers, flowers, and more flowers. While last week we used fondant to make our flowers, this week we used royal icing. Royal icing is basically just water, sugar, and meringue powder (at least, the Wilton version is). It’s edible, although I don’t think it tastes very good, and it dries super […]