Goodbye old friend

I can remember bringing you home 30 odd years ago, you were bright and shiny with a red exterior and a clear plastic lid.  The lid broke ages ago and your paint peeled into non-existence, but your aluminum usefulness persevered.  I could always count on even heating and easy clean-up.  Then your edges began to [...]

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Rolling, frogging and wrapping

First off I want to thank everyone that has commented or sent a message about my blog.  It’s nice to know that someone out there is actually reading what I ramble on about.
I stretched the preparation out over 3 days and ended yesterday with rollling and steaming 3½ dozen tamales.  A few hours after dividing the tamales [...]

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Batteries are recharged.

There has been actual stitching done around here the past couple of days.  Managed to do a couple of seams, a ship and a turtle.

The above seam is staggered running stitches woven with contrasting thread and the addition of X stitches.

Decided that every ocean needs a ship made of herringbone and cretan stitches.  The seam detail at the top [...]

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