When life give you lemons.............

Make Limoncello!

On my recent visit to San Diego I plucked about

20 lemons or so off of my parents abundantly producing

lemon tree.

The lemons in the picture look kinda scraggly, but that

is because I have painstakingly peeled and/0r grated

the lemon's waxy skin off of it trying really really hard

not to get any of the white pith which could make the

limoncello bitter.

I place all of my lemon peelings in a glass jar
and add a bottle of Everclear and a bottle of vodka.

This mixture will "brew" in a dark room for 3-4 weeks

and then be ready for the next step in the process.

It has been a really busy week so far.

I was able to quilt two customer quilts.

This lovely basket quilt is Maryanne's

and this pastel beauty belongs to Liz.

My daughter Jenny is attending a baby shower

for one of her high school friends this weekend

and wanted to make a gift. So she came over

a couple of days this week and make this really

cute "Hanky Blanky Pet".

(By Black Cat Creations

http://www.black-cat-creations.com/

designed by Judy Reynolds)

Jenny did the hand embroidery on the cat's face and

made the blankie out of super soft minkee.

I bought this pattern several years in Olympia Washington

while I was visiting Bayside Quilting!

I was thrilled to see the pattern used

and it sewed up into a really cute little gift!


We had one kinda bad thing happen to us this week.

I arrived home on Sunday from my Quilting Road trip

and my dear daughter and son-in-law invited us over for dinner.

(Very sweet of them to think of that!)

(oh, that's not the bad thing!)lol

We took my car and left Mike's truck at home.

So when Mike went out to jump in his truck to
go to work on Monday the sound was horrendous!

On Saturday or Sunday night someone had cut the

catalytic converter off of his vehicle!

The mechanic who fixed this said that we had a very

nice thief...........I guess he cut off the converter

without damaging any of the other parts.

Now there's a bright spot for ya!

Silver lining in a dark cloud!

I still have not completely unpacked my "goodies" from

my trip to the Long Beach quilt show.

I got some new stencils that I used this

past week while working on some trapunto.

I'll be posting that sometime next week.

I've designed, marked, stitched and

now have to work on cutting away all that

thick batting.

It's a labor of love I'll tell ya!

So until next time.........try to stay cool!