tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76163282073810315462024-02-20T01:27:35.604-08:00Karen's Design StudioLinda @ Life and Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00210490476537882296noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616328207381031546.post-90960967021264601382017-07-02T09:22:00.002-07:002017-07-06T17:14:18.186-07:00New Favorite Summer Dessert<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Lately, the weather has been so warm in the evenings that we've been invited to several pop-up barbeques where I've been asked to bring dessert. If I've ever made ice cream sandwiches before I don't remember, and I don't know why I decided to make them this time, but man, were they ever good. Really good. Big-smiles-all-around good.</div>
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I keep <a href="http://knitionaryrecipes.blogspot.com/2014/10/cowboy-cookies.html">Cowboy Cookie dough</a> frozen in logs in the freezer. For 24 sandwiches I baked 48 cookies and filled them with a half gallon plus another quart of chocolate chip ice cream--my favorite flavor from Baskin Robbins. I wrapped them quickly in freezer paper and popped them in a plastic freezer bag. They were best when frozen for a few hours before eating.</div>
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As for last week's giveaway, thank you to all who entered. It certainly got a lot of attention and I was so happy to offer it because I love both the <a href="https://www.gleener.com/">Gleener</a> and <a href="http://eucalan.com/">Eucalan</a> so much. It's really an honor for me to share things I love with you on this blog and I want to thank you again for reading and for taking the time to comment. </div>
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One winner was chosen from the Facebook comments: Teresa Wright from the UK--and one reader from the blog comments: gabyj from Canada. I've contacted you both and as soon as you send me your mailing addresses I'll ship them out. Congratulations!</div>
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Linda @ Life and Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00210490476537882296noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7616328207381031546.post-1552372890978621802017-07-01T11:22:00.004-07:002017-07-01T16:21:44.623-07:00Take It All<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have a rare post today: an actual modeled-by-me garment. I'm determined to get my numerous FOs photographed, Raveled and blogged and until I've gone through all those steps with each one, they really don't seem like they are officially finished! </div>
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The Take It All Shawl was a total blast to make with all the color changes and textured stitches; I was almost sad when it was finished. The pattern was originally planned as a mystery knitalong and fellow knitters have made some gorgeous wraps. Mine was made with leftovers of Dale Garn Baby Ull, a super lovely fingering weight yarn that is easy to knit and soft to wear. I often use it for baby garments and had these leftovers in my stash. So does that mean it was FREE? The pattern is now available as an instant download and includes written and charted instructions. My husband, who admittedly is almost always complimentary, thought this was so pretty. He even had a fashion tip for me: "With all the colors, I think it will go with everything!" ;)</div>
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Summer knitting is approaching and I've begun to pack away my unfinished winter knitting projects to be replaced by my summer knitting projects. I juggle a lot of knitting projects at once and you may wonder how I manage to keep track of them all. I'm composing a post to share my organization method. It's easy and allows for the caprice of your inner fickle knitter to be fulfilled. Plus, I'll show you all the knitting I'm planning for this summer. It's a lot.</div>
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<a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/take-it-all">Take It All by Lisa Hannes</a></div>
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<a href="http://ravel.me/Kristenlynnea/tia">My Ravelry project page</a><br />
<a href="https://www.uncommonthreadsyarn.com/baby-ull.html">Dale Garn Baby Ull</a></div>
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My neighbor is having a party today and I offered to make the flower arrangements for the tables. I told her I had something simple in mind using <a href="http://www.freshpreserving.com/all-jars/?prefn1=jarColor&prefv1=blue">Ball turquoise blue canning jars</a> and pink roses. She loved the idea and the result is a dozen gorgeous arrangements with oregano and tarragon for greenery and roses from my magnificent <a href="http://www.davidaustinroses.com/us/eden-climbing-rose">Climbing Eden from David Austin.</a> Eden is by far by favorite garden rose. It's beautiful of course, but resists disease, repeat blooms and each spray has several sweet-smelling blossoms. I think it loves where it lives, towering over the entrance of our vegetable garden, because every year it puts on a grand show. It's so full of flowers that after I picked these, it hardly made a dent. Best rose ever.</div>
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The baby quilt is finished! It is adorable and the kids were thrilled! My girlfriends gave them a baby shower a few weeks ago and when it was opened, I confess to getting teary eyed. I was so happy to see my son and his darling wife be so thrilled with the gift, knowing they were part of a 16 year old tradition. My book club friends (of over 40 years) started making group baby quilts for our first grandchild of each of our children. So far we have made 16 baby quilts and it's possible we may make one or two more! Over the years my son has seen me be part of this quilt making process and it was fantastic to see a 34 year old man get excited about the idea that his baby was going to be part of this tradition. Sigh. I simply love this time in my life. The quilt is now hanging on the side of the crib, waiting for the little guy to be born!</div>
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A group baby quilt is not that difficult and can be made by women with all skill levels. You may need one expert in the group to guide you, but not everyone needs to be good at sewing, just enthusiastic! We like to give ourselves about 3 months to make a quilt. Below are the general directions:</div>
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To start, the new grandma-to-be and the new mom-to-be pick out a simple embroidery pattern from <a href="https://colonialpatterns.com/shop/category/aunt-marthas-embroidery-patterns/" target="_blank">Aunt Martha's Transfers</a>. Usually the fabric store carries them, but if not, online shopping is easy. Tessa chose baby animals in cross-stitch. Just for ease of making, we make all our baby quilts exactly the same: 12 embroidered squares connected with lattice strips and connecting blocks. However, they all look completely different because of their color choices and embroidery design choices. We've never made one that hasn't been adorable.</div>
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<b>Go shopping: </b>Next, with pattern in hand, head to the fabric store and pick out 3-4 fabrics: white for the blocks, a color for the lattice strips and another for the small connecting blocks, then finally the backing fabric. Use only highest quality 100% cotton suitable for quilting. The lady at the shop can help you figure out how much yardage you need. Also, get a dozen or so <a href="http://www.michaels.com/accessories/floss/853466674" target="_blank">DMC Six-Strand Embroidery Floss </a>in at least 6 favorite colors. Make sure you get black and red for the eyes and mouth if you are making animals. You'll also need 3 packages of <a href="http://www.joann.com/wrights-single-fold-bias-tape-7-8inw-x-3yds/prd50040.html" target="_blank">Wrights Bias Tape Wide Single Fold</a> (do not get anything else, not even the quilt binding, trust me, the Wide Single Fold is best), thin baby quilt sized poly batting, and a spool of matching thread for piecing and one spool of white or off-white hand quilting thread. Also, everyone needs an embroidery hoop, several embroidery needles, several quilting needles, a threader, and a thimble.</div>
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The mother-to-be won't see the baby quilt again until it's finished!</div>
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<b>Cut the Fabric: </b>Machine wash and tumble dry all fabric. Iron if necessary. Cut out the white squares large enough to fit the design, making sure to add plenty of extra room around each design--you'll trim them later. Using the package directions, carefully iron on the transfer designs. </div>
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<b>Embroidery:</b> We are 6 women and always make a 12 block quilt, giving each of us 2 designs to embroider, than later, to quilt. Invite your friends over, hand them each 2 squares and enough embroidery floss for each design, plus needles and other supplies. Give a little embroidery lesson if necessary. Give them a finish date, usually two weeks is sufficient. </div>
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<b>Assemble the Quilt: </b>Gather the finished squares from your friends and cut them to their final size, adding a 1/4" seam all around. Cut corresponding lattice strips and connecting blocks, also adding a 1/4" seam all around. Machine or hand stitch your pieces together, see photo below. When your quilt-top is pieced together it is time to make your "quilt sandwich". Lay your backing fabric on the ground, wrong-side up. Lay the poly batting on top and smooth it out. Lay quilt top over and smooth again. Baste your quilt sandwich together with large basting stitches or basting pins. Trim the backing and batting to within 1 inch of the top. </div>
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<b>Quilting:</b> Set up a quilting schedule. Each friend will choose a week in which she will hand-quilt two blocks and the surrounding squares and lattice strips. Give a little hand-quilting lesson if necessary or send them to you-tube. You may want to trace a quilting design lightly in pencil. For this quilt, we quilted along 1/4" of every seam, and "free-handed" around each animal (see the close up of the ducky above.) The quilt is now gone for 5 weeks! When one girl is finished, she takes it to the next girl and she works on it for a week, then passes it on, and so forth.</div>
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<b>Binding: </b>After all the quilting is finished the binding goes on. Follow the directions on the package, and machine sew the binding to the edge. Trim off extra fabric and hand sew the binding edge to the back. Machine wash and tumble dry quilt. It's done! Can you imagine we've done this 16 times! I like to think we are old pros! It's fun and very sweet, and hope you'll consider making this one of your new traditions! Note: quilts are very sturdy and meant to be used daily and washed often! </div>
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My, this was quick! Less than 24 hours from idea to blog post! I saw this pattern on Ravelry yesterday morning, printed it out, gathered my yarn, cast on that evening at the start of the baseball game, and before the ninth inning I had woven in the ends and sewn on the buttons! As my needles were clicking and the sweater was unfolding before me, my thought bubble was, "Oh, where have you been all my life, darling little watermelon sweater?" I love it so much and decided that I'll make this for every little summer-born baby girl in my circle. The pattern is sized for newborn only and is free from <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/watermelon-baby-cardigan" target="_blank">Stichylinda Designs</a>, takes just a smidgen of yarn and knits up in a few short hours. And it's completely adorable. On Monday it's being mailed off to Washington, DC.</div>
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I used two popular summer yarns, Tahki's Cotton Classic in Bright Spearmint and Rowan's Summerlite DK in Fuchsia and compared them side by side. I consider them both excellent yarns from luxury brands, but there were some differences. My conclusion is Rowan's Summerlite DK has the edge due to it's softer fabric, zero splitting issues, and better value for the dollar.</div>
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I finished Lila Top Down and I couldn't be more happy with it--so much so that I've cast on for another the minute this one was finished. It's a very well written pattern from Carrie Bostwick Hoge's beautiful book, Madder Anthology 2. I highly recommend this book--I've made a few patterns from it and plan to make a few more. I did knit Lila once before in pink but ended up gifting it to my 16 year old granddaughter because she loved it and it looked darling on her. This time I made the smallest size as I wanted no positive ease and I love the way it turned out. As it's a summer sweater, I shortened the sleeves a bit. It's a very flattering sweater to wear and the shaped hem is so cute. I should warn you this is a super quick knit. I took this as my travel knit and finished it in 3 days! That did include an airplane ride and an at-sea day, but still, I was surprised how quickly it was finished. Luckily I had two more projects with me!</div>
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The yarn is the great Rowan Creative Linen, a 50/50 blend of linen/cotton. If you are willing to experiment just a little, you'll be delighted to add linen fiber into your knitting experience. Knitted linen fabric will have drape and more of an open weave (wool stitches tend to hug each other while linen stitches tend to keep a respectable distance) with the texture of an oatmeal cookie. For these reasons, linen is best used for a relaxed summer top. Unlike many linen yarns, Creative Linen is very easy on the hands when knitting and a very easy care yarn. It's goes in and out of the washing machine with ease. I rarely put this yarn in the dryer and prefer to pat into shape and dry flat in the shade. However, I have put my Creative Linen sweaters in the dryer and they handled it well with no noticeable shrinkage. It's important to give your Creative Linen garment a good soak before wearing. Once you wash or soak it, the fibers will soften significantly.</div>
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My summer sweaters look a little shabby this year and I'm determined to make three summer sweaters in the next two months. One down. Next will be another Lila, this time in Rowan Handknit Cotton in pale blue. I also have a sweaters worth of Handknit Cotton in white I'm planning on making a Brooklyn Tweed pattern. I love white for summer!</div>
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The pants are the <a href="https://www.jcrew.com/p/womens_category/pants2/skinny/martie-pant-in-bistretch-cotton/B8521">Martie Pants from J. Crew</a>. I positively love these pants and started collecting them last year. They are super comfy with a great fit and are easy care. I have them in white, black, orange, pale gray and these navy check, which are my favorites. I bought these checkered pants last year and they don't have them on their website this summer, but they have a beautiful emerald green and a red that sure look tempting.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have a trellis on the side and top. The side trellis, I wanted to use these artificial topiary hedge plant. <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Realistic looking greenery hedge that is uv-proof to look fresh, weatherproof to withstand the elements, low-maintenance so no hassle, and requires no water unless you use that as a source for cleaning. </span></span></span></center>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Perfect for converting walls, fences, and anything you can apply it to creating a natural lush look soft to the touch yet durable made of super-strong-sturdy high density polyethylene. Perfect for privacy or just to beautify your area interior or exterior. </span></span></span></center>
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Well, I finally have some Mackenzie-Child's dishware.</div>
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The cute bunny was given to my by my sweet friend, Karen.</center>
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Turquoise chargers from Zgallerie years ago. The blue compotes are from Walmart. The napkin rings were gifted to me by my good friend, Liz from <a href="http://www.infusewithliz.com/" target="_blank">Infuse With Liz.</a></center>
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A closer look at my birthday gift from my husband....Mackenzie-Childs flatware. A pretty plate stack with the Butterfly Garden charger plates, Courtly check dinner plate and MKC Butterfly salad plate.</center>
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*An update on my Dad, I drove him and my Mom to emergency yesterday, because he was having a difficult time breathing. They admitted him again. They found out he was retaining fluid again. They put in a tube for draining and left it in. His bladder was also backed up, so they put in a catheter. We need to know why his lungs are filling up. Thank you for your prayers and healing thoughts.</center>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am so pleased you have come for visit. This tablescape hop is all about Spring tablescapes. Many talented bloggers will be showing you their fabulous Spring tablescapes. Sit back and enjoy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The weather has been quite nice, so I thought I would set up a table on our deck off our study. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Spring is definitely here. The flowers are blooming and the birds are singing. We hear the frogs every night singing to attract mates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pink flower chargers are used in conjunction with my pretty pink plates from Horchow. </span><span style="font-size: large;">It is topped with a pink floral plate and another small plate for tiny bites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love using this tea set. It is so cute and whimsical with the flowers and frogs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A pretty table all decked out in pink and orange for this lovely spring day.</span>
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Cabbage plates are in full swing, along with the pretty pink rabbit plates.</center>
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Spring has sprung. The plum trees are blooming. The Lady Bank Roses are coming on.</center>
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My husband and took my parents to Sacramento the other day. My mom had an appointment . My dad was picking out a phone for people who cannot see well. He has Macular degeneration.<a href="http://www.californiaphones.org/" target="_blank"> California Phones</a> provides free specialized phones for people who cannot see well or hear. We selected this model below.</center>
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The <a class="slidelink" data-title="Educational Slideshow" href="http://www.medicinenet.com/eye_diseases_pictures_slideshow/article.htm" rel="slide" target="_blank">macula</a> is in the center of the <a class="slidelink" data-title="Educational Slideshow" href="http://www.medicinenet.com/eye_diseases_pictures_slideshow/article.htm" rel="slide" target="_blank">retina</a>, the light-sensitive layer of tissue at the back of the eye. The macula is responsible for <a class="slidelink" href="http://www.medicinenet.com/eye_diseases_pictures_slideshow/article.htm" rel="slide" target="_blank" title="Educational Slideshow">central vision</a> (straight-ahead vision). Degeneration of the macula occurs most often after the age of 60 years and is termed age-related <a href="http://www.medicinenet.com/macular_degeneration/article.htm" target="_blank">macular generation</a> (AMD).</center>
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Happy Spring! I am going back out to do some more gardening.</center>
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