What? Is it Monday already?
This weekend was a whirlwind for me… Saturday I got together with my friends and we made lots of strawberry jam. I bought a flat of strawberries, and 20 pounds of sugar… it produced 36 jars of jam! You can’t beat that :) It should last me two years, if I don’t give most of it away. I am tempted to make a bit more just for gifts… we’ll see. I am kind of sick of strawberries at the moment. In case you are wondering what I use, I use the Certo liquid brand of pectin, it’s a very easy recipe and goes quickly.
Saturday night we met our friends to go to a hot air balloon festival. We went for the evening, there was a carnival, band, and booths. The hot air balloons were raised so we could walk around by them and check them out. They are so neat! I just sat and stared at the most of the time. The kids thought it was great. 
Sunday was a great day. We had fun hanging out with dad :) I also started stitching on Cindy’s NRR on Sunday. I found a freebie chart by Barbara Ana called Small House. It will be so cute! After this NRR is done, I only have Von’s to stitch on and then… the NRR is completed. Wow!
I didn’t get a chance to bind my Christmas quilt. Maybe this week I can get to it. I told myself I can’t start basting any other quilts until I finish this one. Just one at a time, I have to keep telling myself this :) JoAnn’s is having a big sale this week, I have coupons for more batting… so I wanted to get enough for the quilt tops I have done. I really want to get these done this summer. I hope I can keep up my momentum.
Still to finish are: Blue/Yellow Log Cabin, Cowboy Carpenter Star, Pink/Green Carpenter Star, Star Lights, Block of the Month Quilt. I think I’ll do my log cabin next.
This weekend was a whirlwind for me… Saturday I got together with my friends and we made lots of strawberry jam. I bought a flat of strawberries, and 20 pounds of sugar… it produced 36 jars of jam! You can’t beat that :) It should last me two years, if I don’t give most of it away. I am tempted to make a bit more just for gifts… we’ll see. I am kind of sick of strawberries at the moment. In case you are wondering what I use, I use the Certo liquid brand of pectin, it’s a very easy recipe and goes quickly.
Saturday night we met our friends to go to a hot air balloon festival. We went for the evening, there was a carnival, band, and booths. The hot air balloons were raised so we could walk around by them and check them out. They are so neat! I just sat and stared at the most of the time. The kids thought it was great. Sunday was a great day. We had fun hanging out with dad :) I also started stitching on Cindy’s NRR on Sunday. I found a freebie chart by Barbara Ana called Small House. It will be so cute! After this NRR is done, I only have Von’s to stitch on and then… the NRR is completed. Wow!I didn’t get a chance to bind my Christmas quilt. Maybe this week I can get to it. I told myself I can’t start basting any other quilts until I finish this one. Just one at a time, I have to keep telling myself this :) JoAnn’s is having a big sale this week, I have coupons for more batting… so I wanted to get enough for the quilt tops I have done. I really want to get these done this summer. I hope I can keep up my momentum.Still to finish are: Blue/Yellow Log Cabin, Cowboy Carpenter Star, Pink/Green Carpenter Star, Star Lights, Block of the Month Quilt. I think I’ll do my log cabin next.
11 comments:
OH YUM...that jam looks delicious! And the carnival sounds like it was a grand time too ;0)
Your kiddos are so cute!
That Jam does look tasty. I saw this while browsing Country living thought you would be interested :)
http://www.countryliving.com/crafts/projects/quilt-festival-submissions
Natasha
Oh those jars look so yummy! Thanks for sharing the photos of the festival too, a really cute photo of your kids :) The start for Cindy's NRR looks pretty, lovely sheep :)
Your strawberry jam looks delicious! There is nothing like homemade yummies. My Mum used to always make raspberry jam with berries from her garden. I miss it!
Yummmm! Strawberry jam is one of our faves around here!
Love your pics, they're terrific!
Where do you store it all? That would be my big problem, I think. I bet it tastes amazingly good! :D
Yummy, I love strawberry jam. My grandmother canned a lot, I miss her jams and jellys.
The balloon festival looks fun too :-).
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Mmmmm, strawberry jam, we used to make that with my gram every summer - what a wonderful memory :) Good luck with all the quilting, it's a long list!! I'm still working away at my first one :)
So very multi talented, you even make jam! It looks deliciously sweet!
Thanks for the link to the house chart. I may use that for one of the RR blocks as well.
The jam looks delicious and the carnival looks like great fun!
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