I baked my girlfriend a birthday cake that we had at her murder mystery dinner party... If you haven't ever been to one of those, it's a blast!! Idea for the cake here or here for more detailed instructions. I just made two normal white cake mixes and separated each into 3 bowls with 6 bowls of cake batter total. Then I used the gel food coloring (which was MUCH brighter than the last time I tried this with regular food coloring) and dyed the small bowls of batter red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. Then I glopped them on top of each other in ROYGBIV order in the first round cake pan and opposite in the second. Turned out AMAZING! The best part was the surprise of cutting into the cake! She had nooo idea what to expect!
Next time I make a cake, I want to dye the whole batter that awesome blue color! I love blue and blue cake would be my favorite! haha
I've been quilting up a storm lately! I finished an excellent project that I worked on while my mom was here over memorial day but it has been sitting in my project stash for quite some time!
This is the finished quilt... Super tall husbands are great aren't they? Mine can reach the paper towels all the way in the cupboard on the top of the fridge... and can hold my queen sized quilts up for me for all to see! It's not a really good picture because it was only lit with the light in the room and the flash, but once it gets nice I'll take it outside to get really good pictures of it. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the way this quilt turned out. This one is my absolute favorite so far!
I especially looooooove how the back turned out! I had NO Idea what to do... I was originally going to replicate one of each of the quilt blocks all the way across the back... but I didn't feel like piecing and all that for 6 more blocks and what not... and suddenly this idea hit me. It's not too much color on the back, but it ties the back in perfectly with the front!
This is the binding fabric.... LOVE it by itself... kind of reminds me of finger prints!
but I LOVE it even more on the quilt. It looks so cool!! Plus this is a good picture of the close up quilting. I love how the variegated rainbow thread turned out. I used rainbow variegated thread on the top and just black in the bobbin. The black just sunk right in to the black on the back.
man i love this quilt!
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Now we're spending the evening getting ready to head to Michigan for the weekend. If any of you blog readers are on my facebook, try not to post anything on there because we are planning on surprising the in-laws. Things have been so great with them that I just really wanted to see them! Plus, my dad and his wife are going to be in town from Germany and we haven't seen them since Christmas when they came to visit us.
Mother-in-law used to be a quilter so I am going to bring my two latest quilts to show her and hopefully she is super impressed. She is giving me her whole fabric stash (!!!!!!!!!!!) because she decided that she doesn't have time or want to quilt any more. I am 100% sure that she is going to want to be an indian giver about this too lol... she always has sellers remorce. So she was telling me about all this fabric that she wanted to donate to charity or something and I was like um... hello? Quilter here! So now she is going to give it to me. She said she has 6 paper grocery bags full of fabric and she was trying to figure out how on earth to ship it to me because it was so heavy... I told her hold on a little bit, I will figure something out!
Heh heh, little does she know, we're headed to Michigan this weekend! Muhahahahah. I can't wait to pull in the driveway and surprise them! Last time we surprised them (Thanksgiving 08) they cried. I am hoping for the same reaction! I think it might even be better because they thought we would come for Thanksgiving... but they have no reason to believe we're going to show up on some random weekend!
I am over the moon excited to sit down with Mother-in-law and go through the fabric piece by piece and see where it came from. A lot of her fabric is her mom's fabric stash and her mom passed away suddenly at the end of last summer (a week after her dad suddenly passed away) so she is still grieving their deaths pretty hard, but I think it would be really theraputic for her to be able to talk about all the fabric of her mom's. PLUS --- I have secret plans for this fabric.
I am going to make her a quilt all out of her mom's fabrics. I am thinking a 9 patch or a coin quilt, depending on what size scraps are there. Oh, Fransson! has a pillow case quilt that I am eyeing and thinking that it will end up being something like that. I really have no idea what kind of vintage treasures will be hiding and I think this quilt that I will be making for Mother-in-Law will be my favorite yet. I think I will make it for Christmas or her birthday... I can't decide which... but the problem is....... Her birthday is in December and there is no way we will drive back in December. Maybe ... they would come out here? Oh lordy, I'll figure that out when I get there.
so that's really all I have going on...
Oh yeah, I baked this from scratch the other day:
And yes... it was EVERY bit as good as it looks!
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