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Sunday Puttering

Taffy In The Morning

The Sun is deciding on a daily basis lately if it wants to show its face or not. Today is cloudy – it won’t rain but it is keeping it cool around here. My favourite kitchen store is now at least an hour away from our new place instead of fifteen minutes away as it was in the city. Since we decided to make a day of it and drive there through the beautiful wine country yesterday, puttering around the house today felt like the best thing to do on a cloudy, cool Sunday. This boy of mine is very skittish, so it was also very nice to have him around in the morning during breakfast!

Homemade soap

This is the first batch of soap I made from scratch in this house and it was time to take them out of their moulds. They spent the night in the freezer so I could pop them out very easily. I am desperately in need of essential oils for the soaps since we decided to buy them after the move. I better get on with it! I used jojoba oil and tea tree oil for these. I love home-made soap.

Potato Leek Soup

After taking care of yesterday’s shopping and the soap in the kitchen, I made a light potato-garlic-leek soup for lunch. I love putting fresh thyme in this soup. However, since my new thyme plant unfortunately didn’t make it, I had to used dried ones this time. The soup was very tasty nevertheless.

Castle Quilt Top

I have been working on finishing a few quilts too. I finished putting the wonky castle quilt top together – I’ll quilt it with an Argyle pattern very soon.

Flowers Of The United Kingdom Quilt Top

Before I work on the castle quilt though, I want to finish this mini first. The top is ready and I finally have an idea on how to quilt this one – lots and lots of overlapping concentric circles.

So that’s my Sunday so far. Now I am off to play a video game with my hubby and later on make a chocolate pear pudding for desert. He is making dinner tonight. Woohoo!

Wish all Sundays were this quiet!
-Soma

Coffee Chemistry

Caffeine Chemistry Quilt Pattern

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I am very much a coffee addict – tea too, for that matter – anything with caffeine in it. Looking back, I realised that the addiction started in college. Before then, my version of coffee was a cup of hot milk with a sprinkle of instant coffee. I am serious!! A caffeine quilt pattern was definitely in order.

I have always loved chemistry and astronomy the most, so I was pretty sure I wanted to study the chemistry of stars because that was a perfect blend of the two. If only it were that simple! Once I started college, I took a plethora of science classes just because, and I had the hardest time deciding on a major because I wanted to study everything. Later on I moved on to study computers because they were new and seemed extremely interesting too. However, looking through a telescope still fascinates and humbles me and chemistry still excites me.

I was torn between making a coffee-themed quilt pattern and a science-themed quilt pattern. In the end I decided to blend the two and created Coffee Chemistry block.

I envisioned the caffeine molecule drawn on a chalkboard, and luckily, I had the perfect fabric on hand for that. The pattern is done in three sections – the cup, the arrow and the molecule.

The block is fairly easy to make. However, I also added an embroidered version of the molecule in the pattern, just in case you weren’t feeling like paper piecing the molecule.

I am seeing a bag in my future using the above block. It will be a fun bag to carry around, proclaiming my love of science and coffee. I know some of you are either yourselves caffeine addicts like I am (you know who you are! *wink*) or you definitely have someone in your family who is one. Perhaps you can make a fun mug rug with this pattern?

Need to fill my cup!
-Soma