Don't Be Fooled

 

Good morning, my friends. It's that day when we must be wary. There's a prankster around every corner. As I mentioned in yesterday's post, we're going grocery shopping today. You can bet we'll be on high alert.

There was a long list of to-do's yesterday. Everything got done, including walking on the treadmill. Yay me! And so it was late in the day by the time I made my way to the sewing room. No worries, though. I was able to finish the fourth row of the Stair Steps quilt. 

Already, the blue block was partly sewn together. I was able to finish that off pretty quickly.

I needed one more yellow block...

And then I could sew them into a row.

And then I could sew the fourth row to the rest of the quilt.

This is going to be a very large quilt. If I wasn't trying to use scraps, I might stop right here. There are two more rows, and I'll keep going until I've finished them all.

It was dinner time by then. I had a hunk of gruyere cheese I wanted to use. Also, somehow I'd ended up with multiple open bags of frozen corn in my freezer. It sometimes happens when we've been traveling. I leave a partial bag in the freezer at home, and then I buy more on the road. And having made two long trips last year, I believe I might have done this twice. In any case, I wanted to use some of that, and this recipe covered both nicely.

It was my third try making these Corn Souffles. These turned out perfectly.

On my first attempt, I baked them in a 4-cup souffle dish. It took positively forEVER to bake in that size dish, and even then, it still wasn't done enough. On my second try, I did them in these two-cup ramekins, but they still took a long time. They didn't rise enough, and they were still slightly soupy in the middle.

Having written myself some notes about this, I put my accumulated knowledge into this third try, and these turned out just right. They were done all the way through, and they'd risen nicely. The green cast comes from a portion of a poblano pepper that goes into the mix. The whole concoction is pureed in a blender, and then baked in these ramekins. (I used my toaster oven for this.) They were very tasty...a little rich, maybe, but still good. You can find the recipe right here.

Okay, so I'm ready to work on some other things today. Next up on my list of WIPs is to start another Gumballs quilt. I rarely make the same quilt twice, but I had fun with this one, and so I want to make it in another colorway. This time I'll use greens, blues, and aquas. Here's the red version quilt top, finished just recently.

Also, I'm nearly finished with my "Cozy Quilt" stitchery. I doubt I'll finish it today, but tomorrow isn't out of the question.

That means I'll need to ready my next piece. Next up will be 12 more tiny blocks for the Tiny Treasures project. Here are the tiny treasures I have so far.

Finally, I think I'm ready to start the quilting on the Amish Sampler. It's been hanging out on my machine relaxing its wrinkles away. This is my last sandwiched quilt. If I'm to do any more quilting on larger quilts, I'm going to have to make some quilt sandwiches. 

And this being the first day of April, it's time to choose a goal for April's

My goal for April is to quilt and bind the Amish Sampler. Probably I'll start on it today.

Okay, so that's all I have for you today. It's a dark and drizzly day out...pretty typical spring weather for us...sunny one day, raining the next. And it's time for me to get going. Those groceries aren't going to buy themselves. And, wouldn't you know it? They won't put themselves away either. It's just one thing right after another, isn't it?