Just Let Me Quilt: Christmas quilts

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Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Last Day Of The Virtual Christmas Cookie Exchange Blog Hop

What a week it has been! My brain has been filled with so many amazing ideas to sew and bake...great way to start the Christmas holidays! Please take the time to visit each blog and leave a comment. It's always a joy to hear from other quilters.

It's my day to share a project along with some incredibly gifted quilters.

I had a ton of fun creating "Decorating for Christmas."

The Nutcracker

The presents

The bird and star for the tree

A mischievous hand decorating the tree

Decorated homes

Fabrics: Riley Blake Designs "Painter's Watercolor Swirl" by J. Wecker Frisch

You can find "Decorating for Christmas in my Etsy Store HERE.

When we moved into this house, we were excited to have a Meyers lemon tree in our backyard. It was loaded with lemons the first year, but no thanks to a big windstorm, there are fewer this year. There was still enough to make some Lemon Snowball Cookies!

Lemon Snowball Cookies

1 cup butter at room temperature

2/3 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon fresh squeezed lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 teaspoon lemon zest

1/2 teaspoon lemon extract

2 cups all purpose flour
3 tablespoons cornstarch

*1 1/2 cups powdered sugar and 3 teaspoons lemon zest (for rolling the cookies in)

In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, cornstarch and salt. Set the aside.
Mix the butter until creamy.

Mix in 2/3 cup of the powdered sugar.

Mix in lemon juice, lemon extract, and 3 teaspoons lemon zest.

Gradually add in flour/cornstarch/salt mixture and mix just until combined.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Roll dough into tablespoon sized balls.

Place balls on baking sheet lined with parchment paper, spacing about 2-inches apart.
Bake in preheated oven for 12-14 minutes until bottoms of cookies are lightly browned.

Remove from oven and allow to slightly cool.
Roll them in the mixed 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar and 3 Tablespoons lemon zest.
Place on wire rack to cool.

Roll the cookies in the powdered sugar again, generously coating the snowballs.
Store cookies in an airtight container.

More of this year's stitching of Christmas projects...

Santa and His Dog

Free pattern HERE

Wreath of Joy

Free pattern HERE

Treats for Santa mug rug

Free pattern HERE

It's such a pleasure to blog hop with all of these quilters...check them out!

December 6

Creatin' in the Sticks

Inflorescence

Quilt Schmilt

Sew Many Yarns

Pumpkin Patch Patterns & Quilting

December 7

Life in the Scrapatch

Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life

Homespun Hannah's Blog

Cynthia's Creating Ark

Samelia's Mum

December 8

For The Love Of Geese

Days Filled With Joy

Food for Thought

Karrin’s Crazy World

Becky’s Adventures in Quilting and Travel

Stitchin At Home

Words & Stitches

Colletta's Kitchen Sink

December 9

There's a Pinterest page for this year's Virtual Christmas Cookie Exchange HERE.

There's a giveaway, too!

I love the Quilt Taffy store and one winner will get $20 to shop there...fun!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Christmas 1956...can you guess which one is me?

Thank you for stopping by!

Merry Christmas!

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

It's The Last Day And My Day Of The Virtual Cookie Exchange

It always makes me a bit sad to see the Virtual Cookie Exchange come to an end.

The thought of waiting another year for a cookie party with you is so hard!

But we have today, so let's enjoy the virtual scent of fresh baked cookies, new ideas for traditions,
projects, and beautiful Christmas quilts. I love hanging out with you!

It's my day to share my own recipes, quilts and traditions along with some other

amazing blogger friends. I'm glad you're here for my party!
P.S. I think this is one of my longest posts ever...sorry. Just skip to the end when you get bored.

CHRISTMAS IS ABOUT FAMILY

I'm lucky I have a totally normal family!

TRADITIONS

When I was a child we spent Christmas Eve at my grandparent's house.

We HAD to wait until my grandfather got off work before we could eat or open presents.

Since he was the manager of a grocery store that stayed open as long as possible,

that meant our waiting seemed like FOREVER, especially for a little kid like me.

We were so tired and hungry by the time he got home!

I'm the one up front with two of my older sisters in dresses my mom sewed for us.

CHRISTMAS MORNING

My mom started the tradition of Christmas morning breakfast and we've carried it on.

Some of them don't bother to get out of their pajamas.

CHRISTMAS EVE PARTIES

Every year we had a party that included two of my favorite friends and their families.
Lots of food, laughing, and memories.
We had so much fun!

We'd have a special visitor sometimes, too.

Our Christmas Eve parties are pretty much just my family now...with the Monkey Boys, of course.

ANNUAL GINGERBREAD HOUSE DECORATING

This is a much anticipated event with some serious competition involved.

Sometimes things happen accidently or on purpose...

The number of gingerbread houses has grown quite a bit over the years!

COOKIE BAKING

When my kids were little, Christmas baking was massive at our house.

There were cookies for school parties, church parties, neighborhood gifts, our traditional

Christmas Eve party, and "eat me now" cookies. Then the Monkey Boys came along

and everything changed. My daughter took over the baking and now I sit back and enjoy

the delicious rewards of all the goodies she bakes. My family loves her baked cookies!

THIS YEAR'S COOKIE RECIPE

I had a cookie recipe I'd been wanting to try (I even bought all the ingredients) but I didn't
have the time to tweak it by removing some of the yucky stuff that was in it. Okay, so maybe it
didn't have yucky stuff in it, but it had things that I didn't want in there. My daughter came to the
rescue and said she'd whip them up for me. Yay! She even took photos...yes, she's a keeper.
With a baby on her hip, a toddler holding on to her legs, and four other monkeys climbing
the walls, she tweaked the recipe and made cookies that were so delicious!
They were Monkey Boy approved, too.

Ganache Filled Cookies

Grinch Ganache Filled Cookies (just add a little green dye)

Grinch Inspired Christmas Quilt

This is my newest 2018 Christmas quilt...I love that Grinch guy!

Thanks for scrolling through my Christmas stuff!
Check out the amazing stories and recipes from some very special blogger friends:

November 27

Kwilty Pleasures

Tu-Na Quilts, Travels, and Eats

Happy Cottage Quilter

Sew Many Yarns

For The Love Of Geese

November 28

Creatin' in the Sticks

Adventurous Applique and Quilting

Bumbleberry Stitches

Melva Loves Scraps

Beaquilter

TODAY - November 29

MooseStashQuilting

Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life

Kathleen McMusing

DesertSky Quilting

Life in the Scrapatch

Ridge Top Quilt

Cynthia's Creating Ark

Bejeweled Quilts by Barb

Pumpkin Patch Patterns & Quilting

Operation Domestic Goddess

Just Let Me Quilt

Hold on...there's two giveaways!
Two lucky winners will be chosen.

Rules:

Leave one short and sweet comment to enter both giveaways.
The winners will be chosen using Random Number Generator.
ENDED ~ Ends 12/1/2018 at midnight MST.

The first giveaway is from Quilted Works (thanks Quilted Works!)
It's an amazing gadget for holding your sewing tools.

Oh Sew Organized Stash 'n Store
(accessories not included)
You can find it in their store HERE.

Congratulations to Daryl who won the Stash 'n Store!