In amongst this Ben and I have had some long walks, as my hip ache less I have been slowly increasing distance and pace and it seems to be working.
I have found a source of free range eggs at the very top of the village, and have been told about a Farmers Market in Llandeilo.
Any way, on to plants. I picked these up at Lidl,
Ground cover to go on the left hand side of the steps up to my greenhouse.
These pretties came from Aldi and will go in with the others.
They were all on the dry side so I gave them a good drink.
I cooked a roast on Sunday and while the oven was hot cooked a few sausage rolls and a small batch of plain scones. I cut the scones with a knife instead of cutters as I hate to reroll and will not waste any. They taste just as good no matter what shape they are.
I skinned 3 sausages and rolled out the meat to fit the amount of pastry that I had made.
Back to the title. triangles of the half square variety, well not quite. i made these by sewing 2 charm squares together round the edges and cutting corner to corner across both diagonals, this gave me 4 HST.
A mixed selection pressed and ready to sew.
Some trimmed and laid out, I quite like this mix if light and dark, the solid squares are 2 charm packs of Kona Snow that I won a couple of years ago.
This was going to be a Chevron block but I placed some facing the wrong way and now it will be building blocks.
Happy, happy, happy.
I have to scoot off and take Ben out now, I am getting The Look.
TTFN Pam
You have been busy. I love your idea of just cutting scones into squares, as you say it saves waste and eliminates re-rolling. I'll have to try that next time. The patchwork blocks are looking great.
ReplyDeleteI have always cut them into squares or rectangles, it saves time and waste., I am happy with how the blocks are coming out but it is sewing on the bias so I am using spray starch.
DeleteThe food looks yummy and the patchwork will be brilliant. You have crammed a lot into one day!
ReplyDeleteSome days I get loads done then another day will simply dissolve and all I do is walk Ben and cook dinner.
DeleteYou are very clever at sewing, we get quite a few plants from Lidl, they are very reasonable.
ReplyDeleteI like Lidl, I did not use them before I moved as they were the furthest away, now I go there at least once a week.
DeleteSquare scones, brilliant, I'm going to throw away my cutters.
ReplyDeleteI have always looked for the easiest way to do everything, when I make mini quiches or patties I cut pastry squares, I press the corners up for quiches, for patties I cut the squares a bit bigger and fold the corners inwards to make a lid. I have cut my fingers on those metal cutters too many times in the past.
DeleteVery busy, cooking, plant buying & crafting. I really had no idea to cut scones rather than cutting them out in rounds. How bad is that. I shall definitely do that next time.
ReplyDeleteI claim no credit, I just copied my granny, we even had squares of pastry for jam tarts.
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