Ham & Beans

 

 

 

Soaked the Beans Yesterday

Ready to eat!

I soaked about 1 pound of  beans yesterday and kept them soaking overnight.  Then before I went to work, I drained and rinsed them and put them into the crockpot and covered with water.  Put the Ham bone in and turned it on low and went to work.  Oh my gosh.  The house smelled soooo good when I came home from work!  I made some cornbread.  Served the ham and beans in the bowls.  Yummy!!

Stash Sunday - Week 8

Week 8 Stash Report
Used this Week:  0 yards
Used Year to Date - 2 yards
Added This Week - 4 yards
Added Year to Date - 17 yards
Total  Fabric Busted in 2011: -15 yards

Obviously I need to SEW MORE!  ok and complete more, since I decided not to count fabric as USED until I finished the project.  (hopefully this will also encourage me to finish these projects!!
Please check out Judy's Blog to see what others have been doing!!
http://www.patchworktimes.com/2011/02/20/stash-report-week-8-2011/

Wow, I guess writing it down IS a good idea!!  I've gotten in gear and have a lot done on the Violet Quilt.  And I have even planned tonight's dinner AND tomorrow's dinner AND the night after that!.   Tonight, we are having chicken, carrots, Baked Sweet Potato and even Baked a Cherry Pie (Tom will be impressed... or at least he should!!)  Well, Wed. Dinner may have to be rethought.  Unless I cook more chicken!!  lol

Chicken and Carrots

Dinner and Desert, Yummm

Beans soaking for tomorrow

Violet Blocks laid out

Some Strip sets cut and ready to be sewn

My plan for tomorrow is to Start the beans & Ham in the crockpot before going to work, come home & make the cornbread.  There, dinner is done  :)    Then spend more time sewing on the Violet Quilt!!  

What's For Dinner and Violet Quilt

What's For Dinner?  I'm glad you asked.  I actually have something planned!  And it is healthy!  Not something I'm very good at.  We have Turkey Polish Sausage, Shrimp, Blend of Wild Rice & Rice, Salad and Green Pepper and Baby Carrots.  I slice the sausage and cook it in a skillet and when it is just about done I throw in the shrimp.  These are salad shrimp.  These are smaller than I usually use but were all that they had.  Well, I didn't want the JUMBO shrimp, the idea is to keep everything small.  I bought this rice but haven't tried it yet.  The directions seem simple enough  :) 

Dinner Ingredients

Yummm   

Purple selection

Pattern Choice

 According to Judy at http://www.patchworktimes.com/   February's color is VIOLET.  Wow, really challenging us at the beginning of the year!!   I have a pattern, I have fabric, what I am not sure of is:

• 1.  Doing the whole quilt Monochromatic.
• 2.  Do I have definite Light, Med and Dark Violets
• 3.  Can I add Green instead of White or black????    lol 

Those 4 fabrics in the Medium pile look dark.  But, when put with the Darks, look medium.  What is a girl supposed to do???   I'm thinking I will have to be very aware of where I place them.  :)   Here is the pattern I want to do.  The problem.  It will be a large quilt.  Probably king size.  I wonder.  Maybe I should do a strip quilt.  Keep the Dark Purples for the center Stripe, Then I can play around with the blocks and create an interesting pattern with them.  Decisions, decisions, decisions.  Maybe I should invest in EQ7.

The storm is still blowing.  Tom said lots of drifts and even places where the road is just blown clean.  Of course the ice on the road is still there.  Darn wind, why doesn't it just blow the ice away!?!   I'll have to get pictures either later or wait until tomorrow. 

The other Item at hand is Judy's Pick for our UFO Challenge.  I failed miserably at January's.  In fact, all I did was to get it out, put it on the couch and then NOT EVEN TOUCH IT.  For the whole month!   *sigh*   The new UFO is #10.  Happy Smile.  It is my Bright Quilt.  And all it needs is the binding sewn on.  :)   Keep asking me about it.  Keep me on track!