Clearman's Cheese Butter Topping!
At the Von's grocery store in Covina, I found the Clearman's cheese bread topping for sale. The prices in California for everything were...
Bringing the best of the past into today
Welcome! It’s a pleasure to welcome you to this passion project of mine... chronicling a quarantine spent growing and preserving food and making quilts to keep the people I love warm and cozy up. Whether you’re a beginner looking to learn, or a seasoned professional exploring new ideas, A Quilty Cannery is here to inspire. Check out the latest posts below.
At the Von's grocery store in Covina, I found the Clearman's cheese bread topping for sale. The prices in California for everything were...
On Tuesday after Labor Day, we finally had reached the time of our Disneyland reservations. We jumped in the car at 6:30 am and headed...
I have found there is a deep and abiding love for all things In-N-Out burger, for people who grew up on a Daouble Double and fresh cut...
A trip up into the fruit basket... to try some oils and vinegars. After ending our Channel Islands National Park adventure, we decided to...
One of the destinations on the memory tour list was Northwoods Inn for dinner. My spouse has many happy memories of this place, and...
We were supposed to take a trip to Los Angeles in April of 2020.. when the world shut down and life had other plans. We've been waiting...
Here's the next installment: August 2022 is the column on the far right: You may note that the August column is longer than the July...
I've finished the last few weeks of blocks, and here they are: This was from the past week (MBH#4, Block 23, by Brenda Riddle, called...
It's late August, and it's time for a quick garden update and recap. The summer of 2022 in zone 4b (Minnesota) has been cooler than...
This year, we had enough ripe tomatoes from our garden, that my friend and I were able to incorporate them into our annual tomato sauce...
This is the final post about my Desert Blooms quilt, because it's now finished! Here it is, fresh from Wildflower Quilt Co and the long...
Over the weekend, I was looking for another project that wouldn't be a huge undertaking, and I found the half-done quilt top I bought at...
Mid-August is usually the annual you pick corn (aka Corn Pick) for Pahl's CSA members. Since we split a share with our good friends,...
Time for another block from Sherri at A Quilting Life! This month's block called for 8 flying geese, and the churn dash border. I...
I picked up all the fabric for the 2022 Minnesota State Hop a week ago, today, and I just dropped off the quilt top at Wildflower Quilt...
This week's block (#20) was Stop-Go by Stacy Iest Hsu. According to her design, it's supposed to look like this: I had some concerns,...
Finally got to last Friday's bonus block #7, the star turn. I've been doing so many flying guess and half square triangles this year,...
This week's block shouldn't have been too complicated... but there was something about the way the pattern was written that I just...
It's Moda Blockheads Block Release-Eve! And with the week flying by, I never posted about the block that I did for week 19 (The block,...
July is the time when the green beans start producing, and our Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm offers a "U-Pick" in their...