It is time to finish up the quilt top!
I finished mine up just in time to take about two photos before the sun set. I had completely forgotten about the time change and that the sun sets at 5 pm EST! I will be trying to get more photos in better light later this week.
Look at the lovely quilt top! I will have to put some thought into how to quilt it with the thread painted blocks.
The colors of the beautiful Katie Jump Rope and the thread painting using Aurifil thread did not come through properly on the last minute photos at all!
And then there was the wind!! The Monument is my favorite place to take photo but it always has gusts of wind to make the teenager hate taking photos even more!
Doesn't she look thrilled?
If you missed the thread painted blocks, you can find out how I started them by visiting The First BOM post here.
I used only Aurifil thread of this project. Here are some of the colors I used.
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This giveaway will close 12 pm EST on 14 November. This giveaway is open to all of our international friends. A random winner will be chosen and contacted on or about 16 November.
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Am I first - or are you moderating comments? I love to bake cakes with a nice icing/frosting made from scratch. My grandmother taught me to bake cakes as she had a stroke and could not do it for herself anymore. Being diabetic, holidays and birthdays are the only times I bake cakes now.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to completing my Maggie's First Dance. What a lovely quilt! Every Thanksgiving I make a Misissippi Mud Pe, sometimes two! Yum!
ReplyDeleteGreat quilt! Christmas is a time to make candy in our family; almond roca, peanut butter brittle, divinity etc.
ReplyDeleteI love making Christmas cookies. Favorites are Jam Filled Stars with raspberry jam.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite seasonal treats are norwegian baked goodies from my mother-in-law.
ReplyDeletemy favorite seasonal thing is anything pumpkin. we always make my favorite sweet potato casserole
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I have enjoyed seeing your thread painting and your quilt is beautiful. My favorite seasonal things I cook for the holidays are pumpkin pie and stuffing.
ReplyDeleteIt would not be fall without a pumpkin pie. Delicious end to any event is a slice of this pie with whipping cream. Love the colors you chose for your Maggie's First Dance! clara-chandler@att.net
ReplyDeleteDesserts are my thing spicey Pumpkin pie, cheese cake, christmas cookies, lemon pie, bluebery pie, crumb cake surprise. 24Tangent@gmail.com
ReplyDeletePumpkin Pie - I love Thanksgiving because I get to make and eat Pumpkin Pie!!
ReplyDeleteYour quilt top turned out great!
ReplyDeleteI love pumpkin pie and pumpkin cheesecake for Thanksgiving. I also love to bake a variety of cookies for the holidays...especially thumbprints and a chocolate pepper cookie called Wienerstube.
Shortbread cookies with orange and cranberries. Mmmmmm. Pumpkin pie with whipped cream, too, but that goes without saying. Love your quilt.
ReplyDeleteOh gosh!! I love baking cookies for the holidays and give dozens away to the elderly in my community. Love making cut-out cookies and frosting them really pretty!!
ReplyDeleteI love making fresh pumpkin pies this time of year.
ReplyDeleteI really don't understand this time change. My body wants to sleep with the setting sun, so it is a hard one for me to adjust to as well. Lovely quilt top finish!
ReplyDeleteI love apple pie. I cannot make an apple pie but I can make apple bread pudding.
ReplyDeleteI am constantly trying new recipes and as a result have lots and lots of favorites! I do love a simple cranberry bundt cake recipe that starts out with a yellow cake mix. So quick and simple, but so yummy with fresh cranberries!
ReplyDeleteI have all the patterns ready to start. I've been getting ready for our church Craft Fair which was this past weekend. Now I can start catching up on other things.
ReplyDeleteThere are too many favorite seasonal treats to list! The one thing that I usually only make for the holidays is a light & dark fudge recipe my MIL gave me when I got married. That is everyone's favorite holiday treat!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite seasonal food is Rapure Pie at Christmas. I love making it, I love the smell in the house while cooking and I certainly love eating it. The best part is when eating Rapure you never do it alone, always lots of family and friends to help finish it off!!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday treat is scotcheroos. A couple of things I like making for the holidays is cranberry relish and butterscotch pie.
ReplyDeleteOur whole family loves pumpkin pie made with our secret recipe. I cook from scratch most of the time.
ReplyDeleteSo many favorite seasonal treats. Guess if I have to pick one, it would carrot cake - funny I know. I love digging up carrots when the weather gets cold then turning them into delicious carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. My family looks forward to savoring this desert in Nov. and Dec.
ReplyDeleteYour photo shoot is so real life! LOVE that! I like to make pumpkin bread this time of year. I also love the after Thanksgiving leftover sandwiches! Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, a little mayo, on some wheat bread. Mmmmmm!!! I dream of it all year! Thanks for the chance to win! I haven't tried the clearly perfect angles yet and would love to!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite seasonal treats are anything with pumpkin--pie, cookies, bread, muffins, etc.
ReplyDeleteJust plain beautiful. I love your fabric choices. My favorite seasonal treats are endless:) Maple, apple, pumpkin, peppermint; you name it and I like it.
ReplyDeleteGreat job! It is really beautiful! My favorite treat for this time of the year is Pumpkin Pie. And for Christmas I actually love Fruitcake. But I don't like to cook so I purchase every thing from our bakery.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to making cranberry nut bread and then having a slice with cream cheese as I watch Macy's parade.
ReplyDeleteYour thread-painting is glorious and adds so much detail! Great work and a beauty of a quilt! My favorite fall treats to bake are apple crisp, pumpkin bread and chocolate anything always fits in there somewhere!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite seasonal treat is sweet potato pie. My mom always bakes an extra one for me to take home after Thanksgiving, to eat all by myself!!!
ReplyDeleteHomemade toffee is my favorite candy, as for baking treats -- Swedish Spritz. My family made them every year at Christmastime, and last year I finally made them for my family. Delicious.
ReplyDeletethat waa quick I only received the final instructions yesterday! I am so enjoying pumpkin soup at the moment, here in the UK they say only 6% of all pumpkins sold are eaten the others are carved, they do not know what they are missing and now I add coconut milk to the soup it is even more delicious
ReplyDeleteOur favorite holiday treat is Caramel Corn made from Old Dutch Puff Corn. Follow the recipe on the bag but instead of 1 bag, use 1 1/2 bags. Less chewy. By far my family's fav!
ReplyDeleteMaggies First Dance has been a wonderful time. My seasonal treat would be at Christmas, and have our own yummy strawberries with shipped cream .Summertime in the Southern Hemisphere is perfect for those luscious berries.
ReplyDeleteI have to say a favorite around our house is date nut pudding....oh yummy, can't wait for the holidays.
ReplyDeletelove all the different fabric choices used in the quilts. On Christmas Day my sister in law cooks a traditional English lunch. Roast turkey and pork with all the trimmings, followed by hot home made plum pudding with custard.The children will not let us change. I live in Australia, so it is often very hot, so thank goodness for aircon. On lesser occasions I make a great cheesecake, and prefer to do the baked ones. Now 2.10 am so I am off to bed.
ReplyDeleteAwesome finish! Don't include me in the draw, since I'm one of the Maggie's Dance bloggers, but I wanted to hop over to tell you this is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteI can't remember the name of them, (we called them logs), but I love the cookies with pecans, you bake them, then roll them in powdered sugar. Guess I will be baking today!
ReplyDeleteIt's not sweet but the holidays are when we make yeast rolls from my great grandmother's recipe. Love how your version turned out!
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Love your border on Maggie. Cinnabons are a favorite, Xmas time we always have butter tarts.
ReplyDeleteLove, love, love your quilt! My favorite Christmas treat is homemade Nanaimo bars, but having the largest sweet tooth in North America, lol, I love all treats
ReplyDeleteI really love your quilt, the colors are so beautiful! One thing I always like to have for a snack at Christmas time is a mixture of cashew nuts, raisins and Christmas M & M's. And a favorite is my Mothers 3 layer jello salad in red, white and green.
ReplyDeleteYour quilt is beautiful!! Thank you for chance to win your Give-a-way too! :)
ReplyDeleteI usually bake cherry pies for Thanksgiving & Christmas too..if I didn't, there would be a mutiny round our house!! lol My husband make stuffing & does the gravy for the turkey (& the Ham for Christmas!)
I enjoy cooking winter squash, fruit salad, vegetable dishes along with the turkey. Thanks for the offer
ReplyDeleteLovely quilt!!! I love the design & the uniqueness
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I don't normally have a favorite holiday goody. But I do take requests from my children what they would like. They are all adults and it is so nice to have them home on the holidays so I try to treat them with a couple of things they carry home with them.
ReplyDeleteFavorite treat candied nuts, I cook an amazing Szechuan turkey!
ReplyDeleteI make a cinnamon apple cider in an electric coffee pot for my square dance friends every year at Christmas. They asked every year when I am going to bring my hot cider to dance. It is easy to do, you can 6 cups of apple juice, 1 12oz can Sprite or 7up. Pour in an electric coffee pot. In the coffee basket, you add 1/2 cup red hot candies, about 20 pieces of cloves, and 2 sticks of cinnamon. Let it perk and you have a beautiful red cup of hot cider.
ReplyDeleteFor Thanksgiving we do the traditional turkey and or ham; Campbell's green bean casserole; pumpkin pie; scalloped corn; yam apple cranberry casserole; candied apples a recipe from my mom-in-law; mulled wine; water, and juice for the non-drinkers. This year we will be trying new things as one in our group has developed a severe gluten allergy. This is a new one for us. If any of your readers has GOOD recipes that are gluten free please share with me at enclosed email.
ReplyDeleteWe are not consistent in treats for the holidays always have cookies but not always the same kinds; always some decorated sugar cookies; often a spiced cookie that is milder than ginger snaps; cherry winks from a 1950s recipe my mom and aunt made made. Candies may include buckeyes; fudge; peanut butter cups; we don't make anything complicated!
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My favorite dessert is any kind of cheesecake!
ReplyDeletePumpkin Pie and Christmas Cut Out Cookies.
ReplyDeleteSeasonal treats - food that I don't have to cook. LOL. Dinner with family and all of those lovely leftovers suit me just fine!
ReplyDeleteFor Thanksgiving I love Sweet Potato Pie. For Christmas my favorite is dunking treats into chocolate. Sometimes I even wait for the chocolate to dry! lol I guess Martha Washington Balls are my favorite!
ReplyDeleteWe have been doing low carb for several months now so I will be looking forward to trying some low carb/low sugar things this season
ReplyDeleteI like your quilt and am using it and the other bloggers' quilts for inspiration when I start mine. (Late to the dance as usual!)
ReplyDeleteI'm usually in charge of baking cookies for treats, and Sesame Chicken Wings as my contribution to our potluck dinner.
Pumpkin pie until I can't squeeze through the door and as always Turkey soup then the winter months to come.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite seasonal treats have changed considerably since being diagnosed Celiac. My first year was "I can't have anything nice" then as I learned more I was able to include treats. My very first 'new' treat was Apple Pie, to celebrate Autumn.
ReplyDeleteMy family's favourite which they implore me to make each year is a Christmas fruit cake where the fruit is marinated for at least a week in a famous orange flavoured brandy. The cake is then macerated in the same indulgent brandy each week for a month. The cake lasts forever - well it should but rarely lasts a week or two.
ReplyDeleteI love the Spring, and Easter dinner. Ham, cream corn, broccoli w/cheese sauce and scallop potatoes. Home made bread of course. emmareid (dot)reid (at) gmail (dot) com
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance to win. You've made me hungry!
My Family Holiday Recipe is my Christmas Log . I buy Christmas Plum pudding for the feast, but can not end the Holidays with out the LOG even if it is for my Son's birthday Jan 18th.
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite seasonal treat is a fresh off the tree Orange. My most enjoyed seasonal dinner is a Turkey Thanksgiving Dinner.
Love your quilt , cookies dozens and dozens of cookies, I bake starting now for weeks.
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite seasonal treats are stuffing,sweet potatoes and Christmas cookies!
Love your quilt! I don't have a particular treat, whatever I'm in the mood for works.
ReplyDeleteSeasonal treats ... pumpkin pie, stuffing, sweet potato pie
ReplyDeleteThis year we decided to skip cooking for the holidays, we're going to be making reservations instead.
Seasonal treats have to include chocolate with whatever the prevailing treat is. Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving, July 4th, Mother's Day and especially Halloween all involve chocolate. Won't be cooking Thanksgiving dinner this year as I'm having wrist surgery on the Monday before. It's time for my daughters to take care of (cook for) me!
ReplyDeleteNot seasonal, but my French Caramel Rice Krispie Squares are good any time, any where, any day!!!!!
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Pecan pie is aholiday treat for us.
ReplyDeletePecan pie is aholiday treat for us.
ReplyDeletePumpkin cake is one of my favorite deserts to bake for the holidays. My family now requests it over pumpkin pie. O-o-o. I think I want to bake one now.
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ReplyDeleteLove your quilt almost as much as pavlova. Have been given a Herman cake so that gets made every ten days so not much else anymore.
ReplyDeleteyour quilt is great! Special Christmas cookies for others. This years is frosted Maple Walnut.
ReplyDeleteWe make a sweet n spicy nut mixture
ReplyDeleteI just finished my borders.
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