I baked a cake…. While slow stitching my Kawandi tablecloth.

 I pulled out some slow stitching while I had the oven on baking a cake. This is definitely a slow stitching project. But it is very relaxing.

Linking up with https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/ for Slow Sunday Stitching & RSC - February - Blue

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/2025/02/scraphappy-saturday-bold-and-blue.html

I was going to visit my old workplace and thought I’d bake a cake. I also have visitors coming.

I don’t need a cake for each so a shared one was perfect. I don’t need love this cake. My friend many years ago made this for when I visited. I find it very easy to bake. It can also be great as a gluten free option. This is what I made as my boss is gluten intolerant.

MOIST APPLE CAKE

Here is the recipe……

INGREDIENTS.

225g plain flour or gluten free 

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon bi carb soda

100g butter. Diced. (Room temp)

225g castor sugar

2 apples sliced or thick diced (if using gluten free flour add an extra half an apple)

50g chopped walnuts

50g sultanas (I used cranberries)

2 eggs well beaten

1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence

HOW TO MAKE.

Sift flour, salt, bi carb together.

Rub in butter

Stir in sugar, apples, walnuts and fruit.

Mix in eggs and vanilla essence.

Pour into greased or glad baked lined tin.

Cook on 170 deg c. for approx 1 hr 15 - 1 1/2 hrs. 

Check with skewer. If comes out clean.. ITS DONE

If you want to when serving sprinkle with some icing sugar for decoration.

CHOOKSHED 2025 CHALLENGE February … No.10. Project bags.

 This month’s no. 10 suits me really well. I have been enjoying making some of these over the last week and will be making a few more.

I bought this panel a few years back when driving through South Australia. I think I may have bought it in Loxton, mmmm ?????. 

The panel is from Lori Holt and it is to make a few pouches/project bags.

I even managed to buy the matching zips at another time.

She even has a video tutorial HERE

I have some large pieces of the plastic I can use too.

I found this chocolate at the supermarket a while back. Bought it for hubby, Tony, as a treat. I kept the wrappers so I can make them into a pouch too. Will have to try something new for this though…

So have a look HERE to see what everyone is planning on making this month for their challenge.

Using up more scraps

 Continuing with my clean up piles I finished off some placemats.

And a Xmas zippered placemat

I have put a napkin and cutlery in the pocket. This one is for me to use.

Then the smaller scraps 

were made into pin cushions.

They are good to put a few binding clips on and your sewing needle when stitching your bindings or other hand projects.

I want to get about 40 of these made by December. I am well on the way. I have about 14 already. I will continue to make these with the leftovers of other projects. It’s a finish up year…

Advent calendar finishes . CHOOKSHED January Challenge

 I have finished three small items from my Chandlers Cottage Advent Calendar.

My bookmark. I have stitched all the flowers.

The bookmark is completed

Here it is inside a book I’m reading.

And my Xmas decoration. The one I ran out of thread. I added in some Christmas red for the pot.

The loop has also been made.

How cute does this hanger look.

Only small but that is no.6 of the CHOOKSHED 2025 Challenge.

Linky page

I also snuck in another of the advent calendar. This was what was in the envelope. Beautiful shimmering green fabric and a lovely reel of thread.

And the pattern for a pot holder, mug rug or coaster.

I used this triple stitch as suggested by Leesa for the quilting.

Here it is on my machine

I love the finished stitch. It really shows up great. I think I will use this stitch again in a quilting project.

Included to use was Wonderfil thread. 50 weight.

Colour - Konfetti

I used a pipe clear to put the bobbin with the thread. I did have some bought blue clips to do this but I cannot find them. This will do as I want to keep them together. 

And here it is finished. I love it..

Scrap Saturday, pinks and some sewing,pouches

 Well I have been doing some sewing after I cleaned my room.

Look at my table.

What did I find?

What did I sew? 2 pouches and a placemat.

A pink placemat. This qualifies me to link up with So Scrappy. 

Scrap Happy Saturday. January. Pink

I found a quilted piece that I thought would be great as a pouch to put a little sewing project in.

How cute is this?

Then with the pink quilted piece I added abit of the plastic to create a see through pouch. I have now put my binding clips in. This way I can see what’s there.

Next to sew is another placemat for charity. I had a few scraps leftover from when I made a mug bag.

I also found a zippered placemat that was made from leftover Christmas fabrics. All it needs is a binding. This will happen soon.

A little date with Jack and my bucket has is redone

 I have been thinking about my oversized bucket hat. I think I came up with a way to fix it.

A date with Jack and it is unpicked. But not all the way.

1/2” trimmed from the brim and the side/height pieces. Then about 5-6” in width on the brim.

All sewn back together

I’m happy with this now. It sits deep and heavy enough. I shouldn’t have to put a tie on it 

This will stay in the caravan for our trips. I do love the colours.

My bindings are now a bucket hat.

 I loved the fabrics in my Bordertown B’s quilt so much I decided to make a bucket hat with them.

I’ve wanted a bucket hat for a while too.

I came across a pattern and tutorial HERE

Thought I would need the large size so it was traced out.

Collect all the bindings

Lay them out ready to choose

Start sewing onto interfacing

Pieces cut to the pattern

Stitched in to the hat

But oh no. It is too big. I added some elastic to see if that helped. Oh no! It made it worse and looked hilarious on.

So I will spend another day breaking it down and trimming some here and there. Then hopefully I can get it fitting better.

I do love the overall look of the colours though.

I did use all the bindings too.

My Sunday has been slow stitching my CHOOKSHED challenge

 

It’s a Sunday spent slow stitching with the air con on. Another 37 degrees day and no appointments.

Tony is progressing well. Doing more exercises. He actually was able to walk to the end of the court today. That is 3 house blocks away.

I have finished the stitching on day 6 of my advent calendar. I didn’t really enjoy this stitching as I wasn’t sure of the thread colour but I am warming to it.

Day 3 project was at a standstill. I ran out of thread. I finally looked through my threads and settled on this darker cranberry. 

I finished the stitching and made the loop

Now to machine sew both projects into their finished items.

This covers me for my   Chookshed challenge mid month  and Slow Stitching Sunday