March 1-2, 2014 Weekend, another Pair of Slippers, Two Purple Hats, Indian Maiden Quilt Finished, and March has Came in as a Lion

I woke on Saturday to find that I had won the Made it Challenge for February 2014 over on Woolhogs blog. Maryanne hosts a challenge every month and I won a beautiful shawl from Trevlyn of Babushka Craft.

After I pulled myself down from the clouds I started my Saturday off with finishing up these adorable slippers, before heading to Twist to teach the second session of my Crochet 102 class. I arrived early so my friend Lisa and I had lunch together at Picasso’s Pizza. I love that place BUT it is so loud in there we couldn’t hear each other, hopefully next time we can go somewhere quieter so that we can visit better. Anyway it’s always nice to get together with Lisa to share our thoughts on teaching.

My second session of 102 went very well, out of the 7 people I had last Saturday; 3 brave souls showed up even though the weather was turning bad with ice coming down. The other 4 are rescheduled to take my next Crochet 102 class which are Tuesday, March 4^th or March 11^th from 6-8. I was so proud of Linda, Virginia, and Kelsey who completed a granny square, circle, coaster, and a swirly scrubber. It makes my heart happy to know all of these women have the skills to go on to crochet anything that their hearts desire. Oops, I forgot to mention that I made a purple hat before I left to go to Twist too. I’m sorry to say that I didn’t get a picture with my three students this time, but hopefully I will see them again for another class.

John and I were going to go out to eat and go to a movie on Saturday evening but with the weather turning bad we decided to stay close, so we had dinner at LeMonde and came home and watched Despicable Me (# 1). After all of those minion hats that I crocheted you would think that I wouldn’t want to watch them in a movie, but I enjoy it anyway. For those of you who asked where the picture of John and me was taken; it was at my niece Emilee’s wedding in January. We were the first ones who stepped out on the dance floor after the bride and groom danced. And the funniest part about it was that John’s jacket was tucked into his pants in the back on his right side. When I found out, I just reached back and pulled it out for him. He had tucked in when he had gone to the bathroom to give himself his insulin shot. We had a good laugh, as always.

Sunday morning I woke to snow, sleet, ice, and COLD. So I decided that I was just going to hibernate for the day. And that’s just what I did, so I made another purple hat…..

and I sat in my nest most of the morning making another pair of slipper soles, and

finished sewing the little crocheted flowers onto my Indian Maiden quilt. The Indian Maiden quilt is going to go in the Prairie Quilt Guild Quilt Show in June. There were three sets of hands that made this quilt; first mine which cut all the appliqué pieces and trims out by hand, then hand sewed all the Indian maidens pieces on the background block, then made a button hole stitch all the way around each maiden by hand, I then sewed the trim on by machine. After I made 20 of these maidens I stuffed them in a shoebox and stored them in the closet until my sister asked me what I had done with them. I told her and she asked if I wanted her to sew them together to make a quilt and I told her of course, because obviously I wasn’t going to do it. So she picked out the fabric and started setting the blocks together and called me one day and asked if I would like for her to make 2 quilts instead of one, since the 20 blocks would have made the quilt very big. After she was done setting the blocks together and adding the backing we decided to have Mom hand quilt them. So she hand quilted them, then Jackie sewed the sleeves on the top and gave them back to me. When I got them back I noticed that one of the squares looked like it needed some little crocheted flowers on it. So I crocheted some flowers out of crochet thread and I sewed them on.

I am so glad that the quilts are finally completed. (I think? For now)

I also made Pozole. Pozole is a Mexican soup that has pork meat, Mexican spices, and hominy in it.

I even soaked some chile ancho chiles to blend up to use in the Pozole.

I made some homemade flour tortilla chips. I stack my tortillas and then use a pizza cutter to cut the strips….

and I made homemade salsa. John thought he was in heaven.

I ended the day by blogging and watching the Academy Awards, but of course I had some interruptions from John who needed my attention again and of course he got when he showed me one of his latest creations and it was for me. 😉

Then he brought up these lovely earrings.

He is such a goofball, but he makes me smile so I think I will keep him. It’s always a good weekend when I have time to cook and create some things. So what exciting things did you do or not this last weekend? I would love to hear all about it.