tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65882473897810539182024-02-07T00:20:54.867-08:00Life in the (907)I married the phone guy.
He got a job in Alaska.
Here's what it's like...Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821046394964856791noreply@blogger.comBlogger168125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247389781053918.post-60216235514165069582017-09-19T12:29:00.001-07:002017-09-19T12:29:08.011-07:002017 Garden Wrap-UpWell, 2017 was not a good garden year in my area, even for those of us with greenhouses/high tunnels. I'm sure I didn't help my chances at all; we had a month between returning home from the States and getting the roof on the high tunnel, and I didn't start any seeds or work the soil in that time period.<br />
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What I planted:<br />
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<li>Carrots (4 varieties)</li>
<li>Peppers (2 plants that I purchased, and seeds that decided they didn't want to come up)</li>
<li>Lettuce</li>
<li>Broccoli (only one seed sprouted...)</li>
<li>Zucchini</li>
<li>Yellow squash</li>
<li>Peas</li>
<li>Purple beans</li>
<li>Yardlong beans</li>
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What I harvested:<br />
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<li>So farm most of the carrots I've pulled have been too small to amount to anything. Most of the carrot bed is still left untouched.</li>
<li>5 peppers, which means each pepper cost about $2.</li>
<li>Some lettuce for us (we weren't proactive in going out and grabbing it for us) and enough to sell a few bags of it at the farmers' market.</li>
<li>Just one bite of broccoli.</li>
<li>Quite a few zucchini for ourselves and to sell at the market.</li>
<li>A few peas - most that got sold at the market.</li>
<li>A handful of purple beans for us and a sandwich bag of them to sell at the market.</li>
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The pepper seeds never sprouted, the yellow squash plants were quite small and only produced male flowers, and the yardlong beans never made it to harvest. As I was pulling out the yardlong bean plants, I could see that there were 3 total flowers that had started.</div>
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What I learned:<br />
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<li>I didn't care for this variety of peas - seemed like the pods were never soft/sweet enough for me.</li>
<li>I should NOT have broadcast my carrot seeds, no matter what I read on the internet.</li>
<li>I should have started fertilizing way sooner.</li>
<li>I should have started seeds indoors.</li>
<li>Even if the pea envelope says that they will be bush plants, 24" - 36" tall, don't believe them. Those plants got so tall!</li>
<li>Don't wait too long to address your grasshopper problem. Sevn does work.</li>
<li>Our high tunnel is way too huge and needs a lot of maintenance.</li>
<li>I would be happy with a small greenhouse.</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">pepper is hiding in there.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">zucchini plants about to die...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">so much growing time, so little broccoli...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">pea plants, near the end...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">carrot tops, the tops of very little carrots.</td></tr>
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Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821046394964856791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247389781053918.post-88745075331918847302017-09-08T16:06:00.000-07:002017-09-08T16:06:18.055-07:00My new custom sewing tableWhen I first got my sewing machine, I was sewing at the coffee table or a folding table. When we got our dining room table, I took it over as my sewing table. But that table, and the chairs, were way too big, and we sold it over the summer. In looking at Pinterest, I knew what I wanted for a sewing table, but I needed some help.<br />
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You see, there are a lot of products that don't get shipped to Alaska, not even to the stores. And I couldn't find the table tops necessary for a sewing table up here, or at least not for my price range. So I asked my parents if they would get the necessary parts and bring them up when they drove up for a visit. Man, table tops and table legs are nice and such a good price at Menards!<br />
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I decided I wanted a double table top, with casters, for my table. I needed a place to store my QuiltCut 2 Fabric Cutting System*, hence the lower table top. *It lived under the spare bed, but that wasn't very convenient and often stopped me from using it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There's the QuiltCut!</td></tr>
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I wanted the bed of the sewing machine to be the height of the table top, so the top needed to be cut to the shape of my machine.<br />
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So, to begin, Dad cut the legs down to make room for the casters. The cut off ends became the short legs that hold the butcher block off of the black top. Those little legs are all the way out at the corners so that there would be room for the QuiltCut.<br />
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Once they arrived at my house, we got out the sewing machine and drew the lines for the cutout from the butcher block. After we bought a jigsaw (how does a man in his 40s not have a jigsaw? come on Jeff!), Dad cut it out. <br />
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The butcher block piece that got cut out would become the rise for the sewing machine once it had a couple pieces of luan glued to the bottom. Neither the rise for the machine are "hooked in" or anything, so it will be really easy to pull of or move if I need to sew a cuff on a Christmas stocking, or something.<br />
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The table top that Mom & Dad picked up is a nice butcher block, which I considered doing a color wash on. I'm super happy that in the end I decided to put poly on it instead (4 coats, my Dad did the work).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the short leg to the left of the machine just slides in (it's not in place in this picture) <br />to ensure easy access to anything stored there</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love how the Poly brought out the grain of the wood - it just glows!</td></tr>
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So now, I have a table specific to my machine and my storage needs! Yeay!!! I still want to get a storage cube or something on wheels to put under the table when not in use that can then be pulled out and my tools can set on top of when I'm sewing. Oh, and you like my teal chair? Bed, Bath, & Beyond. I love it! It comes in a ton of colors; I ordered one in peach for Rhyanne's desk.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I can't get over how nicely the machine fits into the butcher block!</td></tr>
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<br />Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821046394964856791noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247389781053918.post-91656715417167768422017-08-22T11:08:00.000-07:002017-08-22T11:08:11.552-07:00July 2017 (the non-gardening post)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On a drive home from Anchorage, we saw this double rainbow...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and this sneak peak of Mt. Drum.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Copper River with the Wrangell Mountains in the background</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flat Stanley learned all about fishwheels.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He liked this cache that was near the fishwheel too.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside the Visitor's Center is this relief map of the park. Stan is pointing out Glennallen, our nearerst town.<br />As you can see, we are very close to the mountains!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He also learned about our volcanoes!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plus, Flat Stanley was hungry! At least there was a sign warning not to eat the berries!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Next stop was the Klutina River. A much better color than the Copper River.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Later in the month we stopped at the Matanuska Glacier.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Again, Stan learned a little something there...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the view in the opposite direction from the glacier. Do you see the rainbow?</td></tr>
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It was the day we photographed the <a href="https://ouralaskalife.blogspot.com/2017/08/little-kitty-quilt-finished.html" target="_blank">Little Kitty Quilt,</a> the <a href="https://ouralaskalife.blogspot.com/2017/08/farm-fun-barn-quilt-finished.html" target="_blank">Farm Fun Barn Quilt</a>, and the <a href="https://ouralaskalife.blogspot.com/2017/08/big-bear-little-bear-quilt-finished.html" target="_blank">Big Bear + Little Bear Quilt.</a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Horsetail Falls</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a view from the Valdez Civic Center</td></tr>
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<br />Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821046394964856791noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247389781053918.post-28141073466022947262017-08-14T10:51:00.000-07:002017-08-23T22:20:34.869-07:00Big Bear + Little Bear Quilt - Finished!Honestly I've had so many family members adding babies to their families this year! Three cousins this summer alone!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Big Bear + Little Bear Quilt<br />
Thompson Pass, Alaska<br />
the wind was blowing the quilt against Jeff, but he was happy to have his feet/legs hidden...</td></tr>
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After my cousin Erin announced her pregnancy, her mom started pinning ideas for baby quilts incorporating some Native American designs (part of baby's heritage). When I saw that, I knew that I had the perfect fabric for a baby quilt for her! <a href="https://365daysotherramblings.blogspot.com/2017/07/and-here-it-is-july.html#comment-form" target="_blank"> And click here to see the quilt that my aunt Loretta made for her new granddaughter!</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I dd not use the totem pole fabric in this quilt.</td></tr>
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I had purchased this Big Bear Little Bear fabric through Massdrop about a year and a half ago because my director at the time was expecting (<a href="https://ouralaskalife.blogspot.com/2016/08/finished-big-bear-little-bear-baby-quilt.html" target="_blank">you can see that finished quilt here</a>). I had plenty of fabric left over, plus some other pieces I had ordered, so I just had to find a good layout.<br />
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I looked on Pinterest for a Plus Quilt, and found this FREE pattern from For the Love of George (<a href="http://fortheloveofgeorge.com.au/archive/plus-quilt-in-progress/" target="_blank">link here to show her some love</a>). I downloaded the pattern which was very easy to use and following it produced this lovely little quilt! I didn't have enough of each color to follow the pattern exactly, but I was able to fill in (mainly around the edges) with other fabrics. Honestly, there might be 15 or 16 different fabrics there...<br />
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Some things I really liked about this pattern: She tells you where to place your fabrics, depending on how many different ones you have, and is very specific on how much fabric you need what sizes to cut, etc. Also, she has a coloring page if you want to create your own design. AND she has this pattern for queen size. I just might end up using that...<br />
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I did add a brown border on the outside, the same color as my binding, because I knew I would be long-arm quilting it on my friend's machine. From the first time I used her machine I learned that it is helpful to have a border on the quilt for long-arm quilting; if nothing else, it allows a bit that you can cut off when you trim it. Plus, I do like the look of a wide binding, and this border gives that allusion.<br />
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For the back I purchased more of the Kona solid brown (I think it's Chocolate) but I didn't buy enough! As I was making the backing (the day before going to my friend's to quilt it), I realized that I didn't have enough fabric to make the backing as big as one should for long-arm quilting. Luckily, I did have a piece in my stash that worked well. It's a fabric that looks like old world maps. The color was perfect and you can even find the US on it (including Alaska).<br />
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the all-over quilting pattern is hearts, and about 1/4 of the hearts have a swirl coming off of them<br />
I think that swirl looks like the heart is flexing; be strong baby Ellie!</td></tr>
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The quilt got to my cousin's house prior to baby's arrival, so we had time to chat a bit about it (I love that texting exists!). I was so happy to hear that they liked the quilt! I've been able to see pics of my newest cousin, who has now arrived, and has the adorable name Ellie! Oh, I love it! Enjoy your quilt, Ellie! Make sure your momma introduces us before you're super big!<br />
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I called this the Big Bear + Little Bear Quilt, to incorporate both the name of the fabric and the name of the pattern.<br />
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Big Bear + Little Bear is my seventh quilty finish of 2017. Whew! :-)<br />
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Linking up to:<br />
<a href="http://emsscrapbag.blogspot.com/2017/08/moving-it-forward_14.html" target="_blank">Moving it Forward</a><br />
<a href="http://www.cookingupquilts.com/mcm-84-teaching-the-star-bright-class/" target="_blank">Main Crush Monday</a><br />
<a href="http://lovelaughquilt.blogspot.com/2017/08/monday-making_13.html" target="_blank">Love Laugh Quilt</a><br />
<a href="http://www.funkypolkadotgiraffe.net/2017/08/too-cute-tuesday-linky-par-tay-350.html" target="_blank">Funky Polkadot Giraffe</a><br />
<a href="http://www.conniekresin.com/2017/08/linky-tuesday-august-15th.html" target="_blank">Freemotion by the River</a><br />
<a href="http://www.sewcanshe.com/blog/2017/8/17/show-off-saturday-some-cute-quilted-pixie-cups" target="_blank">Sew Can She</a><br />
<a href="http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/2017/08/eclipse-trip.html" target="_blank">Needle & Thread</a>Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821046394964856791noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247389781053918.post-25982628751490470752017-08-13T15:12:00.001-07:002017-08-15T20:33:58.453-07:00Farm Fun Barn Quilt - Finished!I wish I had the space for a big huge fabric stash like I've seen on Instagram (and the funds necessary!), but I don't. Which is totally fine! That means that I know what fabric I do have! Which means when I found out that my cousin Daniel, and his wife, Bethany, were expecting again, I knew that I had the perfect fabric for a quilt for the new baby!<br />
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After making the <a href="https://ouralaskalife.blogspot.com/2017/03/farm-fun-quilt-finished.html" target="_blank">Farm Fun Quilt</a> for my cousin Sarah's baby, I had plenty of fabric left over. Farm Fun for another farm family? Yes Please! Plus, since Sarah and Daniel are siblings, their children are cousins, and the cousins would have coordinating quilts! Yeay!<br />
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I wanted to try a new quilt pattern for this quilt, and since the fabric was already 10x10" square, I decided to try my hand at (what looks to me like) a barn quilt! I cut the squares in half and arranged the triangles so that the darker colors were inside with the lighter outside, and a great green blender to fill in and show off the design.<br />
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With that completed, I knew that I wanted to make a rectangle, not a square quilt, so I used pieces from the jelly roll (2 1/2 inch strips) on the top and bottom. It reminds me of the quasi-athletic look that was big in the late 90's and I love it!<br />
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Hopefully Baby (and big brother Luke) will enjoy the quilt, especially finding all the fun farm things in the fabric, like the eggs, tractors, chicken wire, milk, etc...<br />
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Farm Fun Barn Quilt is my sixth quilty finish of 2017.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">mile 61(ish) of the Richardson Highway</td></tr>
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Linking Up:<br />
<a href="https://kathysquilts.blogspot.ca/2017/08/slow-stitching-medicine.html" target="_blank">Kathy's Quilts</a><br />
<a href="http://lovelaughquilt.blogspot.com/2017/08/monday-making_13.html" target="_blank">Love Laugh Quilt</a><br />
<a href="http://emsscrapbag.blogspot.com/2017/08/moving-it-forward_14.html" target="_blank">Moving It Forward</a><br />
<a href="http://www.cookingupquilts.com/mcm-84-teaching-the-star-bright-class/" target="_blank">Main Crush Mon</a>day<br />
<a href="http://www.funkypolkadotgiraffe.net/2017/08/too-cute-tuesday-linky-par-tay-350.html" target="_blank">Funky Polkadot Giraffe</a><br />
<a href="http://www.conniekresin.com/2017/08/linky-tuesday-august-15th.html" target="_blank">Freemotion by the River</a>Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821046394964856791noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247389781053918.post-73923339165817339472017-08-07T12:19:00.003-07:002017-08-14T11:11:04.777-07:00Little Prairie Rose Quilt - Finished!Generally when I make a quilt, I have a recipient in mind. That was not the case for this Little Prairie Rose Quilt. <br />
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<b>Fabric:</b><br />
Way back in 2013 I had purchased fabric for a Pinterest project that I started and didn't finish. The quilt shop cut it into 2 1/2 inch strips, as per the instructions. I got as far as ironing them folded in half and sewing some of them. Then, nothing... <br />
The fabric came with us to Alaska, and I decided that the best way to use it was to take out the stitching and iron the strips flat make a Jelly Roll Race quilt top. <br />
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Once the quilt top was finished and I was looking for fabric to use as a backing, I pulled fabric that I had purchased at Joann's. Usually I don't just buy fabric, I usually have a plan if I'm buying fabric. But I liked the vintage look and I really like sheet music, so purchased 2 yards. Lucky I did, so that I would have it for a backing.<br />
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<b>Process:</b><br />
As I was making <a href="https://ouralaskalife.blogspot.com/2017/06/meow-or-never-quilt-finished.html" target="_blank">my sister's Meow or Never Quilt</a>, I was implementing the Leader/Ender process, which I had learned about on <a href="https://365daysotherramblings.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">my aunt Loretta's blog</a>, and you can read about <a href="http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2005/06/leaders-enders-whys-and-hows.html" target="_blank">here</a>. By sewing pieces of fabric together as I was in between Meow or Never sewing, I was able to quickly and easily sew up this one! In fact, I had the quilt top pieced by the beginning of April!<br />
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After our trip to the states, and in amongst other sewing, I was able to sandwich and quilt the Little Prairie Rose Quilt. I decided to stitch in the ditch, and I used the blind stitch foot to do it because that little piece of vertical metal went right in the ditch and (mostly) kept me on the right path!<br />
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After the top was made, I thought it would be super cute with some doilies added. There's a quilt on Pinterest, all gray with white doilies, that I LOVE. I'm so glad I had the opportunity to add doilies (decor from our wedding) to the Little Prairie Rose Quilt.<br />
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<b>Name:</b><br />
Well, the fabric reminds me of Little House on the Prairie, it has roses in it, and one of the song titles on the backing fabric is "The Meaning of a Rose." Hence the quilt name, Little Prairie Rose. :-)<br />
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The Little Prairie Rose Quilt is my fifth quilty finish of 2017.<br />
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And here's something I've never done before... I'm going to try to sell this quilt... I got some pricing advice from a local quilting friend who sells her quilts. Now I just have to be gutsy enough to try...<br />
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Linking Up:<br />
<a href="http://www.funkypolkadotgiraffe.net/2017/08/too-cute-tuesday-linky-par-tay-349.html" target="_blank">Funky Polkadot Giraffe</a><br />
<a href="http://www.conniekresin.com/2017/08/linky-tuesday-august-8th.html" target="_blank">Freemotion by the River</a><br />
<a href="https://sewfreshquilts.blogspot.com/2017/08/lets-bee-social-189.html" target="_blank">Sew Fresh Quilts</a><br />
<a href="https://kathysquilts.blogspot.ca/2017/08/slow-stitching-medicine.html" target="_blank">Kathy's Quilts</a><br />
<a href="http://lovelaughquilt.blogspot.com/2017/08/monday-making_13.html" target="_blank">Love Laugh Quilt</a><br />
<a href="http://emsscrapbag.blogspot.com/2017/08/moving-it-forward_14.html" target="_blank">Moving It Forward</a><br />
<a href="http://www.cookingupquilts.com/mcm-84-teaching-the-star-bright-class/" target="_blank">Main Crush Monday</a>Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821046394964856791noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247389781053918.post-47795822746833071652017-08-06T20:52:00.001-07:002017-08-14T11:09:28.684-07:00Little Kitty Quilt - Finished!You know how sometimes you have various fabrics that you acquired at different times throughout the years, from different places in different ways? Isn't it great when those fabrics come together to make something super cute like this Little Kitty Quilt!<br />
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The solids were part of a bundle that I won back in December 2014. The kitty fabric and one of the binding fabrics were from two different Mystery Bundles that I bought over Instagram, and the backing fabric (which also made part of the binding) was fabric that I bought way back in time when we were living in Wisconsin (before I even owned a sewing machine).<br />
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This quilt started coming together, conceptually anyway, last fall. I'd loved the kitty fabric ever since I received it in August 2015. I cut the solids soon after I received my QuiltCut2 in August 2016. But the plan for the quilt wasn't complete until I found out about my cousin Marcos Alan's upcoming bundle of joy! When my mom told me that he was expecting a daughter, I knew that I wanted to make a baby quilt for him using this kitty fabric.<br />
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Oh, yeah, the kitty fabric is from Dear Little World by Quilt Gate.<br />
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I was happy to use my design wall to help with layout decisions. Since I'd already cut up all the solid fabrics, and didn't want them touching (they didn't quite "go"), I was limited on my layout options. I quickly became apparent that this was gonna be a very small quilt and that the layout decision would be quite important.<br />
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With the layout decision made, the quilt came together quickly, quilted on my itty bitty beginner's machine, using 4 different thread colors since there were 4 different solids in the quilt. <br />
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Only the center is quilted in both directions. The corners are quilted only in one direction. Not sure if that makes sense, but I went with it and liked it.<br />
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One beautifully sunny evening Jeff helped with photos. I love how the quilt looks with the fireweed! I do wish I had taken some photos when it wasn't in full sun, but it's a lesson for another time.<br />
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Another lesson - it would have looked better, and I had enough solid fabrics, if I had left out the lightest pink. But oh it was my favorite of the pinks! So even though that lightest pink solid washes out in photos, I just love it in person. And isn't "in person" the most important!<br />
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Good luck & Congratulations, Marcos Alan, on your expanding family!<br />
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The Little Kitty Quilt is my fourth quilty finish of 2017.<br />
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Linking Up:<br />
<a href="http://www.funkypolkadotgiraffe.net/2017/08/too-cute-tuesday-linky-par-tay-349.html" target="_blank">Funky Polkadot Giraffe</a><br />
<a href="http://www.conniekresin.com/2017/08/linky-tuesday-august-8th.html" target="_blank">Freemotion by the River</a><br />
<a href="https://sewfreshquilts.blogspot.com/2017/08/lets-bee-social-189.html" target="_blank">Sew Fresh Quilts</a><br />
<a href="https://kathysquilts.blogspot.ca/2017/08/slow-stitching-medicine.html" target="_blank">Kathy's Quilts</a><br />
<a href="http://emsscrapbag.blogspot.com/2017/08/moving-it-forward_14.html" target="_blank">Moving It Forward</a><br />
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It sure makes me feel better about my garden. It's definitely not as successful as last year's garden, but I'm not sure if that's because we had more planted last year, or if it's because of the cold start to the summer, or because we don't have the high tunnel buttoned up tight like we did last year.<br />
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So far this year we've had lettuce, zucchini, and sugar peas. While I had visions of bumper crops in my head, the royal burgundy beans (basically green beans, but purple), are very slowly growing their beans (4 days and still only an inch long!), while the yardlong beans, a runner, are less than a foot tall.<br />
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The carrots are looking good on top, but who's to say what's going on under the soil? According to the packages, they should be ready mid-August, but the last one I pulled "just to check" was still just a fat root. I planted 4 envelopes of carrot seeds; I really want them to grow! Last year I had people tell me that if I had extra carrots, they would take them. If even half of the carrot tops have good carrots attached, I will definitely have enough to sell.<br />
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I still have just the one pepper on the 2 pepper plants that I bought, and none of the pepper seeds that I planted had the courtesy to sprout. If that one pepper grows to full size, it will be the most expensive one I've ever eaten = a $9 pepper!<br />
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The squash plants are stunted and I feel like they haven't made any progress in a couple weeks, no matter the fact that they look like they have new growth in their centers at all times. What I've figured out, based on the squash and last year's results, is that I need to NOT plant at the outside edges of the high tunnel. Three of the big beds use the high tunnel as one of their sides. Next year I need to pull the soil in, have the high tunnel side of the beds be a walking path, and maybe something will grow?<br />
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After impatiently waiting for more than a week, the zucchini plants finally started putting out male flowers. This after I twice harvested baby zucchinis to saute up. I've heard from so many other people that their plants started with female flowers only, so I was very happy when the male flowers opened! Now it seems I have more male flowers than female, and just this morning I asked Jeff to ask a coworker if they could use some zucchini. While we don't have enough zucchini to sell at the farmer's market, if we don't eat some every day, we will have too much. AND I still haven't used all the zucchini that I froze last summer. I'm seriously contemplating putting last year's zucchini in the compost, and being methodical about freezing this year, counting out how many loaves of zucchini bread I might make over the winter...<br />
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The variety of peas that I bought this year were supposed to be bush plants; the envelope says that they would grown 24" - 36" tall. They're taller than me now. Luckily they look to be doing well. I put some in my turkey & cheese wrap the other day, for some crunch, and I put some in the fried rice I made the other night. The variety is Dwarf Gray Sugar, so they're supposed to be picked before the peas develop, which means I'll need to harvest some today, as yesterday there were about a dozen that were getting fat.<br />
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Decisions so far: I will not plant peppers nor broccoli again....<br />
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What will come of the garden in August?Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821046394964856791noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247389781053918.post-68422919786013615292017-07-19T11:46:00.001-07:002017-07-19T11:46:25.252-07:00June 2017 - gardening in AlaskaJune 2017 was mostly about secret sewing (no pics!) and gardening.<br />
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May had been a very windy month, so it was June 3rd before we got the roof put on the high tunnel. I started planting on the 5th (carrots) and finished on the 13th. Here's what I planted this year:<br />
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<li>Carrots (4 varieties)</li>
<li>Peppers (2 plants that I purchased, and seeds that decided they didn't want to come up)</li>
<li>Lettuce</li>
<li>Broccoli (only one seed sprouted...)</li>
<li>Zucchini</li>
<li>Yellow squash</li>
<li>Peas</li>
<li>Purple beans</li>
<li>Yardlong beans</li>
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Here's how stuff was looking at the end of the month (actually, June 28):</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">from the back porch</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">one of the 2 pepper plants</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">row of zucchini</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">lettuce was planted in all 3; only grew in the center one</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">peas!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">chives</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">purple beans</td></tr>
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Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821046394964856791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247389781053918.post-1820209766406245052017-06-17T14:46:00.000-07:002017-06-17T14:46:00.874-07:00Rhubarb RecipesOur rhubarb plant (well, the big one - we have 4 total) is getting pretty big! <br />
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Of course I still have rhubarb in the freezer from last summer...<br />
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Here's my go-to rhubarb recipes:<br />
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<a href="http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/rhubarb-dump-cake-123040.aspx?cm_mmc=eml-_-rbe-_-20110315-_-1040" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Rhubarb Dump Cake</span></a></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "source sans pro" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">1 lb. fresh rhubarb, chopped (about 4 cups)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "source sans pro" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: blue;">1/2 cup sugar</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "source sans pro" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: blue;">1 pkg. (3 oz.) JELL-O Strawberry Flavor Gelatin</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "source sans pro" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: blue;">1 pkg. (2-layer size) white cake mix</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "source sans pro" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: blue;">1 cup water</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "source sans pro" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: blue;">1/3 cup butter, melted</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "source sans pro" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: blue;">3/4 cup thawed COOL WHIP Whipped Topping</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "source sans pro" , sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><span style="color: blue;">Heat oven to 350ºF.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "source sans pro" , sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><span style="color: blue;">Place rhubarb in 13x9-inch baking dish sprayed with cooking spray; sprinkle with sugar, then dry gelatin mix.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "source sans pro" , sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><span style="color: blue;">Beat cake mix, water and butter with whisk until blended; pour over rhubarb. Spread to completely cover rhubarb.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "source sans pro" , sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><span style="color: blue;">Bake 45 min. or until golden brown. Serve warm topped with COOL WHIP.</span></span><br />
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Complete honesty? I don't really follow these instructions. I put the rhubarb (and once, strawberries) in the bottom of the pan, put the sugar and Jell-o over it, mix up the cake according to the box, and bake according to the box. It's been delicious!<br />
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<a href="http://www.vintagerecipeproject.com/rhubarb-crunch/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Rhubarb Crunch</span></a></h2>
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<li class="ingredient" itemprop="ingredients" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">1 cup sifted flour</span></li>
<li class="ingredient" itemprop="ingredients" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">¾ cup oatmeal (uncooked)</span></li>
<li class="ingredient" itemprop="ingredients" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">1 cup brown sugar</span></li>
<li class="ingredient" itemprop="ingredients" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">½ cup butter, melted</span></li>
<li class="ingredient" itemprop="ingredients" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">1 teaspoon cinnamon or ½ teaspoon nutmeg</span></li>
<li class="ingredient" itemprop="ingredients" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">4 cups rhubarb, diced</span></li>
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<li class="ingredient" itemprop="ingredients" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">1 cup sugar</span></li>
<li class="ingredient" itemprop="ingredients" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">2 tablespoons cornstarch</span></li>
<li class="ingredient" itemprop="ingredients" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">1 cup water</span></li>
<li class="ingredient" itemprop="ingredients" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">1 teaspoon vanilla</span></li>
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<li class="instruction" itemprop="recipeInstructions" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">Mix the flour, oatmeal, brown sugar, butter, and spice</span></li>
<li class="instruction" itemprop="recipeInstructions" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">Press half of the mixture into a pan</span></li>
<li class="instruction" itemprop="recipeInstructions" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">Add the rhubarb</span></li>
<li class="instruction" itemprop="recipeInstructions" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">In a saucepan add the sugar, cornstarch, water, and vanilla</span></li>
<li class="instruction" itemprop="recipeInstructions" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">Cook until thick and pour over the rhubarb</span></li>
<li class="instruction" itemprop="recipeInstructions" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">Top with the remaining oatmeal crumbs</span></li>
<li class="instruction" itemprop="recipeInstructions" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">Bake at 1 hour at 350 degrees</span></li>
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I usually do step #4 in the microwave... Again, delicious recipe, tastes like my Mom's, best served warm with ice cream, delicious the next morning as breakfast.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Rhubarb Butter</span></h2>
The most recent rhubarb item I made was Rhubarb Butter. I took a bunch of recipes, <a href="https://www.meghantelpner.com/blog/quick-and-sweet-like-rhubarb-butter/" target="_blank">like this one</a>, and basically made my own taking ideas from each recipe.<br />
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Here's how I made it:<br />
6-7 ribs of rhubarb<br />
2 cups (or so) of frozen strawberries (left over from making slushies)<br />
an apple, cut up (one recipe said you can use applesauce instead - this is for the pectin)<br />
3/4 cup maple syrup (or honey, or sugar, however you want to sweeten it)<br />
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I cooked all the fruit, plus a bit of water, down a bit, then used the immersion blender to turn it into a "slurry". I put the "slurry" through my food mill, as I didn't want all the rhubarb strings and apple peel in it. I do love my food mill, which I purchased in order to make tomato paste. I put the "solid" from the food mill step into the compost.<br />
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Take your liquid from the food mill process, and reduce it on the cooktop, making sure you stir frequently. I don't know if you should add your sweetener now or later, but don't add too much sweetener before it's at the desired consistency. I made that decision and used way too much (the amount I wrong up above is how much I'll use in the future), next time I'll wait until the end to decide on sweetness.<br />
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One of the recipes I read said that it's at the desired consistency when it "sits up" on a spoon. You may not even have to get it that far as it really gets thicker when it cools. I put my rhubarb butter in a canning jar and into the fridge. I did NOT can it as I knew it would be eaten quickly, but this is a product that can be canned. I loved it and will make it again! It reminds me of the Strawberry Rhubarb Sauce from Tastefully Simple. I had it on ice cream (or, more accurately, ice cream sandwich), corn bread, brownie, and a spoon. Delicious in every way!<br />
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Enjoy!<br />
<br />Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821046394964856791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247389781053918.post-12687514208214590912017-06-13T06:49:00.003-07:002017-06-13T06:49:43.834-07:00May 2017Before flying home, we stopped by Hurts Donut Company in Des Moines. I have to say, I've always been happy that I didn't have to put up with a brother - I had heard that they do mean things like ask if you want a Hurts Donut, and when you say yes, punch you in the arm and say, "Hurts, don' it?". Well, someone finally cashed in on that phrase.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You should click these two pics and read the names of the donuts...</td></tr>
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There aren't fresh donuts out here by us, so this was a nice treat before we flew out...<br />
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After all the excitement and travel of our trip, May ended up being a very low-key month. We kept watching the wind, wanting to put the roof on the high tunnel. The weather didn't cooperate in May...<br />
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Rhubarb is a good 2-3 weeks behind <a href="http://ouralaskalife.blogspot.com/2017/01/rhubarb.html" target="_blank">last year</a>. It was a colder winter, and snowier winter. I wonder how things will go come fall?<br />
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It was definitely an around-home month. I also assembled the composter, made tomato paste from last year's tomatoes, and did some secret sewing.<br />
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<br />Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821046394964856791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247389781053918.post-23252039910883412352017-06-12T00:15:00.000-07:002017-06-12T00:15:36.847-07:00April 2017April brought something I had been waiting on for nearly two years - I trip home to see family! Yeay! There was so much travel in this 2.5 week trip. Fly from Anchorage to Des Moines, drive to Illinois, drive around Illinois doin' stuff, drive to Pennsylvania, drive to Niagara Falls, back to Pennsylvania, back to Illinois, back to Des Moines, and fly back to Anchorage in time to drive home. Gah! At least we got to see our peoples!<br />
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This trip, unlike the one a couple years ago for <a href="http://ouralaskalife.blogspot.com/2015/10/5-23-2015-nates-high-school-graduation.html" target="_blank">Nate's graduation</a>, I didn't take many photos. I spent time being in the moment and just being with family.<br />
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Other than <a href="http://ouralaskalife.blogspot.com/2017/06/meow-or-never-quilt-finished.html" target="_blank">giving Tina her quilt</a>, we also went to a couple of softball games while in Illinois. The first game we went to was twice as long as a normal game. Luckily, eventually one of the Lady Trojans got a run, and Rylee's team won! At the second game I was less paparazzi, more just hanging out with Tina and Mom.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">this freaking game went 14 innings....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She bats like my Dad farts - one leg up...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rylee plays on her high school team as well as for a travelling team. <br />
She's friends with the girl who was catching the game.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The second game I went to - Rylee played short stop for this game. <br />
I'm not sure about you, but I think she enjoys the game...</td></tr>
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When we went to see Rhyanne in Pennsylvania, we took an overnight trip up to New York to see Niagara Falls. Neither Jeff nor I had ever been there, and Jeff had never been to New York before, so we went! Rhyanne had been before, so she served as our tour guide. It turned out to be the best day of the whole trip. We got to Niagara Falls early, got good parking (thanks to Rhyanne's knowledge of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat_Island_(New_York)" target="_blank">Goat Island</a>), didn't have to fight crowds, and were done in plenty of time to be at the home of the original Buffalo Wings when it opened at noon! The drive back was beautiful too and we all hung out until late in the evening. It was too bad Rhyanne had to be back at campus for class the next day.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We drove to the Canada side the night we got there.<br />
Darkness, tons of people walking around, and not knowing where we were or where to go....<br />
Jeff just sorta pulled over at one point and Rhyanne and I jumped out for a minute and I took out of focus pics like this.</td></tr>
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I had pizza...</td></tr>
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With Rhyanne being an Education major, she had an impending need for a vehicle. We were able to make sure that happened before we left. And I know how much Jeff wishes he could be with his girls, available to help, at all times, so it was nice to get to watch him show Rhyanne around her car. She had questions and he was so eager to answer them. I loved it. It reminded me of why I fell in love with him.<br />
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Kiaj is now officially a college graduate! She gave us other exciting news while we were there - we are going to be grandparents! They are expecting Baby K in December! You have no idea how excited I was! Oh man, this baby is going to have so many quilts! And I am just itching for it to be the end of tourist season - I'm gonna hit the sale at the gift shop and get this baby some Alaska gear!<br />
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April was a good month. :-)Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821046394964856791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247389781053918.post-56133405713677806602017-06-10T07:47:00.000-07:002017-06-20T23:23:50.543-07:00Meow or Never Quilt - finished!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Since Tina has the best sister in the world, I thought that I should make her a quilt. Of course, I started thinking this a while ago, in plenty of time for her *milestone* birthday. But I missed that, as one does, which means I was able to give her a quilt when we visited in April!<br />
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For the top, I used Meow or Never by Erin Michael for Moda. I decided on a chain link fence pattern, and determined the size of the squares and strips based on the large dot cat print. I used most of the cat prints that came in the fat-quarter bundle that I bought - that is a cat-centric quilt! There are 4 cats that live in her house (I think three of them actually belong to my niece), and we've both always loved kitties, so I knew I wanted to make her a kitty quilt. I cut out the center squares and used my design wall to determine how to arrange them. Gosh, I love that design wall! And based on picture, it looks like the quilt was started and finished/given within a 2-month time period! That must be a record!<br />
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The first night down there (Easter! I got to spend a holiday with my family!) I asked if everyone wanted to see the newest quilt that I made. When I brought it out, Tina's response was "Kitties!" I had Trekker read the "tag" of the quilt...<br />
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I would just like to tell you the name of that pink fabric - Cat Tongue. Seriously. Cat Tongue. <br />
I think she was happy with it. I hope so! At least it will get used. Trekker was under the quilt before they left for the evening!<br />
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I love to see photos of "quilts in the wild" - so I got Tina and Mom to go out with me and take some. This is the first quilt that I've made to be photographed off-property - all other quilts photos were taken at home! It was fun to run around with Mom & Tina taking pictures, even if it was cold and windy...<br />
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This is the biggest quilt I've every made (so far)! I am so lucky that I have a friend with a long-arm - I would never have attempted this size of a quilt without her generosity!<br />
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The Meow or Never Quilt was my third quilty finish of 2017.<br />
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Linking up:<br />
<a href="http://www.cookingupquilts.com/mcm-76-whats-your-quilty-crush/" target="_blank">Cooking Up Quilts</a><br />
<a href="http://lovelaughquilt.blogspot.com/2017/06/monday-making_11.html" target="_blank">Laugh Love Quilt</a><br />
<a href="http://www.conniekresin.com/2017/06/linky-tuesday-june-13th.html" target="_blank">Freemotion by the River</a><br />
<a href="http://www.funkypolkadotgiraffe.net/2017/06/too-cute-tuesday-linky-par-tay-341.html" target="_blank">Funky Polkadot Giraffe</a><br />
<a href="http://www.sewcanshe.com/blog/2017/6/16/show-off-saturday-cadies-sew-surprised-box" target="_blank">Show Off Saturday</a><br />
<a href="https://sewfreshquilts.blogspot.com/2017/06/lets-bee-social-182.html" target="_blank">Let's Bee Social</a>Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821046394964856791noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247389781053918.post-45094714670482719972017-06-10T07:08:00.000-07:002017-06-10T07:08:55.892-07:00March 2017*whew - cobwebs on this blog*<br />
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Hi everybody! Yes, I'm still alive. And, well, unable to sleep. Seems like a good idea to make good on my promise to myself of writing a blog post for each month...<br />
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March was a month of change. I stopped working completely (only 4.5 months after my last full-time day - Jeff had gotten to the point of telling me that most people stop going to work after they quit) and a friend of mine moved away. I spent the last half of the month finishing up a quilt top that I wanted to get quilted at my friend's house, as I wanted to take it with us on our trip! So, sewing happened in March.<br />
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Also, Jeff worked out of the Valdez office a couple of days, and I went down to visit him while he was there. In between here and Valdez (almost all the way to Valdez) is <a href="http://valdezalaska.org/discover-valdez-history/valdez-history-keystone-canyon" target="_blank">Keystone Canyon</a>. And while it's a rock-slide area, and you're not supposed to stop in rock-slide areas, there are big old pull-offs making it easy to stop and take photos of the frozen waterfalls.<br />
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For Jeff's birthday, we headed into Anchorage for a couple of nights. I'm not sure why, but it seems like when we're in Anchorage we are simultaneously bored trying to figure out what to do and too busy to get done what we need to get done in Anchorage. I really think it's because there's just so much available that we get overwhelmed. On his birthday, we had lunch at Burger King (imagine that I shared with you the photo of him wearing the BK crown - I really don't think he would approve) and dinner at Q'doba. At first, I questioned if he really wanted fast food for his birthday dinner, and then it hit me. Saturday night - he didn't want to wait in lines or fight a crowd. Q'doba was a perfect birthday dinner for him. Afterwards, we went out to <a href="http://www.alaska.org/detail/beluga-point" target="_blank">Beluga Point</a> to see the sunset. We were lucky - we were also there for the incoming tide, and man did that tide move fast!<br />
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A while ago, Mom had asked for a picture of a full moon over Mt. Drum. Well, that's something that you can't get every day. But in March, the stars aligned (uh, wait, no, the moon and the mountain and the time of day aligned), and we were able to get some nice shots...<br />
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March ended up being a moosey month. Lots of moose sightings, which I love. Jeff called one day to say that a mama and her babies were right outside of his work! In fact, I got a lot of "I saw a moose" calls and texts that month. I was lucky enough to see some moose myself!<br />
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When I saw the Farm Fun fabric line by Stacy Iest Hsu for Moda, I thought of my cousin Sarah, and I thought, "I should order that when it comes out, just to have for if Sarah has a baby!" Sarah is a farmer's daughter, and a full-fledged farmer herself, so I knew it would be perfect.<br />
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Well, lo and behold, we found out that Sarah's would be a mama! Yeay! So I pre-ordered a layer cake and a jelly roll of Farm Fun. I find most of my quilting inspiration from <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/kristinh2011/quilting/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>, which is where I got the idea for this pattern. Just slice the layer cake from one corner to the other, slap some jelly roll strip in the middle and arrange. It was such a quick cut and a quick sew - my fastest quilt finish ever (as long as you don't count <a href="https://ouralaskalife.blogspot.com/2015/11/mixologie-baby-quilt.html" target="_blank">the jelly roll race quilt I made for Sarah's nephew, Luke...</a>)! I started on the Farm Fun Quilt on January 2nd and had it finished around mid-February! Woo hoo! I might not be the world's slowest quilter!!!<br />
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I usually lay out my fabric plan on grid paper (because I'm a nerd), but this one was really giving me trouble. I had to just cut and arrange on my design wall. Ended up for the center squares putting the matching piece directly across from it (like a pinwheel) worked the best. The strips were placed where they would work and not touch like-fabric. <br />
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I love the results!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taken on the road right outside our house. Those are the trees on our second lot.<br />
Behind the quilt is my hunny in his bunny boots!</td></tr>
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According to the USPS, this quilt should have arrived at Sarah's house in Friday. I so hope that baby Timothy and his mommy and daddy enjoy it!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I used a low volume green for the binding the the back. <br />
The quilt is just narrow enough that I didn't have to piece the back.<br />
Unfortunately, I forgot to measure it...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I used the wide-angle lens feature of my LG V20 to take this shot.<br />
It shows how deep the snow is. <br />
The boards sticking up out of the snow are the sawbuck for cutting logs. <br />
That snow would be above my knees.<br />
See the black "dot" in the highest snow? <br />
That's a tire that was placed there to help keep the tarp in place on top of the logs.<br />
The snow on it is at least as "tall" as the tire is!<br />
All the snow this year has hindered where I can go take photos.<br />
I need snow shoes next year...</td></tr>
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The Farm Fun Quilt is my second finished quilt of 2017.<br />
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Linking up to:<br />
<a href="http://www.cookingupquilts.com/mcm-63-empty-handed/" target="_blank">Main Crush Monday</a><br />
<a href="https://sewfreshquilts.blogspot.com/2017/03/lets-bee-social-167.html" target="_blank">Sew Fresh Quilts</a><br />
<a href="http://www.conniekresin.com/2017/03/linky-tuesday-march-7th.html" target="_blank">Freemotion by the River</a><br />
<a href="http://myquiltinfatuation.blogspot.com/2017/03/solid-scrap-frenzy-and-ntt.html" target="_blank">My Quilt Infatuation</a><br />
<a href="http://lovelaughquilt.blogspot.com/2017/03/monday-making_12.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:" target="_blank">Love Laugh Quilt</a><br />
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February 2017 in a nutshell:</div>
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Crock potted some moose, then used the leftovers to make soup. The noodles were reindeer shaped, so I called it Moose & Reindeer soup:<br />
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Took a drive south for a view and then some dinner:<br />
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02/04/2017<br />
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February was the month of the moose! Jeff kept seeing moose - a mama and her twins were eating right out in front of the phone company - and finally he called me to say that there was a mama and her baby eating in the open field near the house! I grabbed the camera and made my way there, less than 1 mile away!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And here she is, knelt down where she's cleared out the snow, having lunch.</td></tr>
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And then, on Valentine's Day, Jeff was getting ready for work and he said, "Honey! Don't move! Come over here." To which I asked "Which is it? Don't move or come over there?" :-)<br />
He had noticed a couple of dark lumps in our backyard! It was a mama moose and her baby! Whoa my gosh, I was so excited! The kind of excited where Homer jumps from one foot to the other saying "oh my god oh my god oh my god!"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look at the moose in my backyard!!!</td></tr>
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And I proceeded to take many pictures of moose from our back door...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is when they started to move their ears around - they had heard something....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mama in front, baby in back...</td></tr>
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They must have decided the noise they heard wasn't too alarming, and they went on to having breakfast...<br />
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Do you see how close she is to the back porch?!?!?!?!?!? I was freaking out it was so cool!!!<br />
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I so badly wished to open the door and go out on the back porch but I knew better. She would be to me in one second flat, and even though she's a vegetarian, she would have gotten me!<br />
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When they were done with our "salad bar", they walked along the side of the house to the road out front. I raced to the bathroom window and then out the front door to watch them. Man, it was so exciting!!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Baby moose looking back at me to make sure I wasn't up to something fishy....</td></tr>
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That was the most exciting thing to happen around here, and I just wish they would come back. I am worried that they'll come back once I have the garden planted and they think it's open for business....<br />
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We had some warm weather on Valentine's Day too.....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">pay no attention to the outside humidity...</td></tr>
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On the 25th we headed to Chistochina (Chisto for short) to watch Jeff's co-worker (Dennis) run his dogs in the sled races at Chistochina Fun Days. He was running his puppies, just born this past summer.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dennis's lead dogs - I met the one on the left the day prior when we dropped off a bunch of caribou meat (yuck, I won't eat it and I won't cook it. I prefer moose). She's very low-key, kinda timid, and smelled like dog.</td></tr>
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If you think there's too many people at the Iditarod, go and watch the Copper Basin 300. If you think there are too many people at the Copper Basin 300, go to Chistochina Fun Days. :-)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dennis having a final word with his lead dogs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Go Dennis!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This team had fancy harnesses.</td></tr>
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These were sprints. We watched the 6-dog team races, and they only went 6 miles. The quickest finish was less than 20 minutes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here comes Dennis and his team! Whoa, they're not going very fast...<br />
In fact, he had to encourage the team to cross the finish line! They stopped before his sled crossed the line!<br />
Those puppies were tired...</td></tr>
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It was a beautiful day and beautiful scenery for the event...<br />
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<br />Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821046394964856791noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247389781053918.post-39583546411025839082017-02-28T09:22:00.000-08:002017-02-28T09:22:50.446-08:00January 2017So, um, I was trying to decide if I was going to continue blogging, and I thought, maybe if I just commit to one post a month, then if I want to look back on what I did when, it'll all be right here. Not sure if anyone follows or checks in, so I'm just worried about doing this for me at this point. Most pics go on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ksbh1009/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> at this time anyway. Feel free to follow me there if you want to see more pictures of Alaska, quilting, gardening, and general everyday life...<br />
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Kiaj sent this new Packer sweatshirt for Christmas - I love it! I'm sure this sweatshirt is why the Pack went as far as they did in the playoffs...<br />
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January 1 view looking out one of the bedroom windows... What a beautiful day!<br />
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Mandatory Mt. Drum shot:<br />
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It's always cold out when I go for my winter dental appointment...<br />
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Jeff said "The Death Star is over Mt. Drum" one day...</div>
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The biggest excitement of the month was the Copper Basin 300. This year the start was at the traditional location - downtown Glennallen - which means the teams raced right in front of the phone company. I'm definitely going to enter a picture into the contest for the front page of the phone book!</div>
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One one of the twins raced this year.</td></tr>
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Whew! Finally finished this one! This lovely quilt is for my cousin Leah, and her husband Franklin, as a wedding gift. According to the Post Office, they should receive this today. When we found out about her upcoming wedding (last summer), I decided to make a quilt that they could snuggle under as their wedding present. Since their wedding was in October (what a nice month to get married!), I decided to make a Christmas quilt. I had ordered some Christmas fabrics that I liked (you know, on clearance, end of the bolt prices), plus received some great coordinating pieces in a Mystery Bundle. A purchase of gray solid sealed the deal!</div>
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Did some chain piecing in September, and did a lot of sewing on the wedding day in October...<br />
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I had the quilt put together (for the most part) by the end of October....<br />
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And then I hit a wall. I stopped working full-time (voluntarily) the end of October. And I think that I was stopping myself from quilting because the house wasn't clean enough. Like, I hadn't done a good enough job on housework that I didn't deserve to quilt. Self-flagellation, party of one...<br />
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Not only that, this quilt is huge (by my standards) and I knew that it would just piss me off when I tried to quilt it on my little bitty beginner machine with the itty bitty throat. So I considered hand tying it with yarn. When I asking my coworker what she thought of hand-tied quilts (because I don't care for them and I wanted a quilter to tell me it was okay), so said no, but that she had just ordered a long-arm and that I could quilt it on her machine!!!!<br />
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Oh, happy day!!! The beginning of January, seriously, like on the 1st of January, I finished up the final 3 seams to finish the quilt top, made the backing, and then latter in January set off to Audrey's to quilt it up.<br />
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Audrey says she's still learning her machine, but she still taught me a lot. Neither of us are artists with the panto-graph, but it turned out just fine. The entire time we were there, my whole body was just buzzing! Like the electricity was in me! I told Audrey and her husband that there was no way my husband would like them now, because I'd be going home and telling him that now I need a long-arm!<br />
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But, alas, I have neither the money nor the space for a long arm. Perhaps in another life...<br />
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And since I'm slow as molasses, it took me until February to make the binding and bind the quilt. What's with my slowness???<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Foxes are super cute, but not one of the Christmas fabrics!<br />
They just went so well with the other fabrics, I had to use it!</td></tr>
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By the time it was bound and washed, we'd had a Chinook blow through and melt all the snow off the trees... I held out for about a week, hoping for snow to pretty up the joint, but it didn't happen...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">crinkly goodness!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I LOVE the backing fabric!!!</td></tr>
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So I finally got Jeff and the camera and the quilt and we headed outside.<br />
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I'm so happy to have made this quilt, and the finish makes me so proud!<br />
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And as I sit here writing this, I see the hoarfrost all over the trees, with a light snowfall coming down, creating beautiful winter white trees... Time to photograph another quilt!<br />
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Cozy Christmas Quilt is my first finish of 2017.<br />
Also, it's the first quilt for which I used the QuiltCut2, the design wall, and Audrey's long-arm sewing machine. Quite the quilt of firsts!<br />
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Linking up to:<br />
<a href="http://www.cookingupquilts.com/mcm-62-crushing-on-teaching/" target="_blank">Main Crush Monday</a><br />
<a href="http://lovelaughquilt.blogspot.com/2017/02/monday-making_26.html" target="_blank">Love Laugh Quilt</a><br />
<a href="https://sewfreshquilts.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sew Fresh Quilts</a><br />
<a href="http://www.conniekresin.com/2017/02/linky-tuesday-february-28th.html" target="_blank">Freemotion By The River</a><br />
<a href="http://myquiltinfatuation.blogspot.com/2017/03/a-family-keepsake-and-ntt.html" target="_blank">My Quilt Infatuation</a><br />
<a href="http://fortworthfabricstudio.blogspot.com/2017/03/fabric-frenzy-friday.html" target="_blank">Fabric Frenzy Friday</a>Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821046394964856791noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247389781053918.post-52377230780523614112017-01-23T09:33:00.000-08:002017-01-23T09:33:36.661-08:00August 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nice view from Jeff's union picnic dinner</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another nice view - this one from the Gulkana Fish Camp - near where the Jeep had been dumped after being stolen...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just another trip to Anchorage (near Sheep Mountain)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and the return trip home, shortly before Gunsight Mountain.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Checked on the fishwheel for one of Jeff's co-workers.<br />
Took another of his co-workers, and his family, with. <br />
They've not yet been here a year so they can't harvest from a fishwheel yet.<br />
The fishwheel is on a island, and you have to ferry across a slow area of the Copper River to get to it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The goat trail to the parking area for the fishwheel.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sun came out shortly after we got there.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And I caught Jeff admiring a rainbow.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is one of the two fish that were in the fishwheel. We sent the fillets home with the other family.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And we took home the salmon eggs from the one fish that had them.<br />
I gave them to my boss who then made "stink eggs".<br />
I did not request to try them...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One night we decided to head up to the overlook and try to photograph the AlpenGlow.<br />
Mother Nature did not disappoint.<br />
August 30, 2016 9:57PM near Glennallen, AK</td></tr>
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<br />Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821046394964856791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247389781053918.post-51298916324414139002017-01-22T13:52:00.000-08:002017-01-22T13:52:16.619-08:00Richardson Highway (August 2016)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Do you see the glacier?</td></tr>
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I had earned a free night stay at the hotel chain we usually use, but could only use it in Fairbanks (apparently the hotels in Anchorage are too high of a "level"), and we couldn't transfer the free night to anyone (which I totally would have done!), so we took a trip to Fairbanks in August.<br />
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The only other time I'd been to Fairbanks was on our honeymoon, and I just did not care for the town.<br />
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But at least the drive up was pretty, and we got to have some yummy Chinese food at Pagoda House in North Pole!Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821046394964856791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247389781053918.post-44686533631568731352017-01-11T15:33:00.000-08:002017-01-11T15:33:00.158-08:00Crockpot Tomato SoupThis is the Crockpot Tomato Soup recipe that I like to use from <a href="http://www.ayearofslowcooking.com/2008/08/restaurant-quality-crockpot-tomato-soup.html" target="_blank">A Year of Slow Cooking</a>:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4-25-16 - Jeff pointed out that the rhubarb is growing - I've never seen it in this stage before...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5-29-16: I found and removed the flower</td></tr>
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We have four rhubarb plants on the property - 3 are on a ridge (man-made, small, I don't know what else to call it) just North of the high tunnel, and one plant is in the high tunnel. Two of the three outside we knew the previous owners were going to take to their new house. Well, as hearty as rhubarb is, the plants in those two spots did come back, but small and traumatized. We decided to leave those plants be for this year, to let them recover. The largest plant we have is the one outdoors that was not touched. It was probably 6 feet across before I harvested the first time. I've harvested a total of 3 times, and gave rhubarb to a few people, and made a dessert once. And we have 18 or 20 cups of chopped up rhubarb in the freezer. It's been about a month since I've harvested it, so I really should do one last big harvest and take the rest of the plants.<br />
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Fun fact: As a kid when I would read the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, I didn't know what a "pie plant" was, and so in my head I just envisioned a pumpkin, because, you know, pumpkin pie. But a pie plant is actually a rhubarb plant! The more you know...<br />
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Hey All - I wrote this post the end of July but never posted it. Posting it now for posterity, cuz I'm gonna want to go back and reference this in the future. Also, now I want rhubarb crunch...Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821046394964856791noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247389781053918.post-58818195019631427642017-01-09T10:26:00.000-08:002017-01-09T10:26:12.133-08:00Our Alaskan Garden Finale (part 4 = August 2016)Well, now that I've gotten back into blogging a bit, I thought I might work on finishing up this Gardening series - partly to finish what I started and partly because I want to be able to look back on it and see it documented....<br />
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Pretty obvious I stopped taking many pics after I broke my phone the end of July... This was all I had of produce/gardening for all of August. That, and things were getting kind crazy at work, and I was getting to the point of "Geez, how long will all of this grow?"<br />
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For our first year, I think we did a pretty darn good job. I don't have any stats, but I know I've made a few loafs of zucchini bread, three or four rhubarb dump cakes, countless pans of carrots/beans/pea pods. I made (what I like to call) salsa (and others would possibly refer to as pico de gallo, but no cilantro because cilantro is gross) using cherry tomatoes, and it was, well, different.<br />
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We have a lot of frozen tomatoes. I want to try to make tomato paste, but haven't decided yet to buy a food mill. I've also considered making pasta sauce, all to use up those frozen tomatoes. We've decided we most definitely need to plant way fewer tomato plants in 2017.<br />
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It was nice that we had two different kind of beans planted, because one type started producing way before the other. But whoever decided to plant the one kind on that tall lattice thing is my enemy because I am short and it was very hard to get to the beans. I'm gonna need to see if I can find some "dwarf" plants for 2017. No need to have my beans trying to be 10+ feet tall...<br />
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The zucchini and squash had a big problem. We have one or two nice zucchini, some decent round squash, but had a big blossom end rot problem. Not sure why, but it resulted in a lot less zucchini in the freezer than I had hoped for. But hey, I have no idea where my loaf pans are, so whatever...<br />
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The giant cabbage split, or got pecked to death, or something. The strawberries were delicious, but I want to figure out a different way to plant them this year than in a 4x4 box. Strawberries don't frequently come back the following year up here; it gets too cold. The corn got ears, but didn't develop. I was super sad about that. I found out that I LOVE picking carrots, and want to plant a whole lot more next season. Celery never got thick, but got tall, and we have some in the freezer, which I've used.<br />
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We frequently shared produce. Cucumbers went to the lady down the street. Lettuce went to anyone who would take it! Turnip greens went to some southerners at work who were so darned excited to have them, and to the neighbor who gave us some salmon in return. We harvested a ton of produce right before our trip to Fairbanks, and didn't want it to go bad, so we took a bunch over to Jeff's coworker; his family really enjoyed it and I was happy to hear that.<br />
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The things I'm really disappointed in: <br />
We didn't really work the soil before it snowed. My bad. I didn't really know where to start, didn't really ask for help, and just let time pass. I have no idea how bad this is going to affect the garden for 2017.<br />
Without thinking, I invited someone to participate in the garden with us. I should have thought about my personality and the fact that me not having full control over my project would not go well. We will not be asking anyone to join us in gardening for 2017.<br />
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We've not yet made a plan for 2017. There is a rip in the south side wall and there are some wear spots in the roof. I know that I have a lot of work to do once the snow gets melty (it'll stick around for a while back there). And I still need to make plans of what to plant where. We'll have to see if we put the roof on, or if we go for more of a "low tunnel" situation, since this tall, huge high tunnel is in need of some fixing and is really way to big for us. I don't know, maybe with me not working full time it won't be too big for us. Time will tell. Stay tuned...Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821046394964856791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247389781053918.post-25962597118638388862017-01-08T14:49:00.000-08:002017-01-08T14:49:23.667-08:00Our Alaskan Garden (part 3 = July 2016)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After getting that awesome first zucchini, we had problems. Blossom end rot problems. There can be many causes, but I figured I would concentrate on the "too much production" problem, and I cut off all the rotting veg and leaves. And I've also been harvesting when the veg is smaller than I would like, but I don't want it to "turn." We've also worked on decreasing the watering (whole 'nother story) and since then we have had better luck. I have long given up on a huge zucchini crop, though.<br />
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July 4; July 5; July 7; July 22; July 28 x 2</div>
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July 19; July 22; July 28</div>
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The other stuff:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">7-3-2016: Strawberries</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">7-7-2016: 100+ degrees in the high tunnel...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">7-28-16: ginormous cabbage</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">7-28-16: front to back: turnips, cauliflower, carrots, lettuce, celery</td></tr>
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July 1; July 7; July 10; July 19; July 22</div>
Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821046394964856791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247389781053918.post-86076019515500419982017-01-07T16:22:00.000-08:002017-01-07T16:22:40.450-08:00My 2016 Instagram as Evaluated by Makelight InsightsInstagram has been all colorful with the<a href="https://makelight.com/" target="_blank"> Makelight Insights Year of Colour Insight Reports</a>. I do have a tendency to the nerdy, and like to see numerical/graphed/charted data, so "Hey, bandwagon, don't forget me!"<br />
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So, here's my visual color evaluation of my 2016 Instagram posts:<br />
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Hmmm, that's a lot more brown than I had anticipated... But I can see where the <a href="http://ouralaskalife.blogspot.com/2016/03/finished-berry-bravo-quilt-and-what-i.html" target="_blank">Berry Bravo Quilt</a>, <a href="http://ouralaskalife.blogspot.com/search/label/gardening" target="_blank">my gardening</a>, and even fireweed are...<br />
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And lucky for me, they get even more detailed than that...<br />
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Yes, monthly colors! January is the Copper Basin 300, so pics of dogs and scenery. Okay, brown makes sense. Skip down to June, July, and August to see my gardening colors... I may even start using a month "separator" this year as I've seen others start to do, so as I scroll through my Instagram I can see the year mapped out a bit better. Yep, another bandwagon...<br />
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I had already blogged about my <a href="http://ouralaskalife.blogspot.com/2016/12/best-nine.html" target="_blank">2016 Best Nine</a>, but I ran that on December 9 (way too early), so was happy to see a new Your Top Nine from Makelight Insights (which I ran on January 4).<br />
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My Best Nine ended up in there, but also a new photo of the cabin that's on work property that I can see from my office. The light was brightening the snowy trees and the sky was a dark blue; so happy to see that others liked it also.<br />
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They also had this color evaluation: surprising to see so much orange/brown/red, until I look at the pics...<br />
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They've even shown Individual Image Palettes for the Top 9:<br />
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Yep, lots of brown. Way less purple in that pic of the Berry Bravo Quilt than I had anticipated...<br />
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Okay, I know it's a lot of analytics, but here's a bit more:<br />
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Most Common Themes (what they've evaluated my photos to include) vs Most Popular Themes (based on likes). Hmm, need to get more pics of log cabins, I guess....<br />
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So, enough geekery for you? I like seeing stuff like this, so if you have any suggests for (free) sights that with analyze stuff for me, let me know!<br />
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Also, if there are any aspects of Alaska life that you would like to read blog posts about, let me know! And, if you're here for the Alaska stuff, please don't let the quilting/crafting and everyday life stuff turn you away. Just give me blog post ideas and I'll do my best to provide!<br />
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Happy 2017 everyone!Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821046394964856791noreply@blogger.com1