pumpkin pound cake....

yesterday was baking day, thought i would give this pumpkin pound cake a try.....very simple recipe the hardest part was finding the canned pumpkin, bought several love pumpkin desserts....
in a large bowl mix 2-1/2 cups sugar & 1 cup oil
add 3 eggs, beating well after each one
combine 3 cups flour, 2 tsps baking soda, 1 tsps each cinnamon & nutmeg, 1/2tsps salt, 1/4 tsps ground cloves
add this to sugar mixture alternating with a 15oz can of solid-pack pumpkin
pour into a well-greased tube pan
bake at 350' for 1 hr., mine needed about 5 extra minutes
cool, remove from pan & dust with powdered sugar
love the spice aroma now filling my home, very autumn....
enjoy your slice of cake....

made some changes....

made a few changes to the quilt from saturday's class, not sure now looking at the layout from post below, but this is how the blocks talked to me today and it's together so it's not coming apart....
i never know exactly how my quilts end till i'm done....enjoy your creative changes....

my day's work....

made these blocks today at Country Loft, quilt design Spirit by Country Sampler...block looks alot more difficult than it really is, quite simple that is if you can remember to cut the right size strips, which i did have difficulty with today so i have quite a few patched together nine patches "oh well" i love how it's turning out....have you noticed how square my blocks are, not my doing of course, our sweet talented instructor Catherine did these all for me, now if she would just move into my sewing room who knows what perfection i could achieve....

haPPy FaLL

today is the first day of fall, enjoying it.....

Pintrest....

put a new gadget on my sidebar, well i didn't exactly my hubby did it for me, ThaNKs SWeeTiE!
the new gadget is for you all to check out my latest obsession&addiction Pintrest Oh My GoSH what a concept and it's got me hooked line & sinker...
you name it you can see it there food, drinks, art, decorating, fashion,the cutest little animals you've ever seen, DIY ideas, etc., etc....
you can view without an account but you'll want one with lots of boards & oodles of pins....so go click on mine and check out the WonDerlaND of Pintrest....
enjoy and don't get so involved that you forget about me....but i'll understand totally....
cheri

new patterns....

new fall designs have been posted on http://www.quiltsbycheri.com and are available now just in case you want to stitch up some for fall decorating....enjoy cheri

Wool Pumpkins, November, Black Lovage and Acorn Quilts

baking day....

chocolate & peanut butter chip pretzel cookies recipe link in post below....

chocolate & peanut butter chip pretzel cookies find thie

find this yummy to your tummy recipe at http://sugarcooking.blogspot.com/2010/07/pretzel-cookies-with-chocolate-peanut.html
i'm sure there's lots of other delicious treats too....
enjoy cheri

knit along....

finished instuctions for four new fall quilt patterns yesterday, sending pictures to my website gal tonite should be posted in a few days so i decided last night to start knitting a cowl, someday the temperature will drop below 90' here....
making this up as i go, if you'd like to follow along i'm using size 13 needles and chunky yarn, plan on striping it and using different stitch patterns....
i cast on 37 stitches and am using the seed stitch for i'm not sure how many rows yet....
seed stitch is k1, p1 till last stitch k1....
next row p1, k1 till last stitch p1 continue repeating row 1 and 2....it's that easy....
enjoy your day cheri

decorating fo fall...

check out post below on how to...