March Quilt and Slow Stitching Update, Food Chat Too

We had a snowfall warning yesterday which didn't materialize and now are under a rainfall and freezing rain warning. The ground is still very frozen so where will the water go is the worry. I'm hoping it won't get as icy as we have had it so often in winter. Turkeys from my sewing room window...

Yes, I've been busy in the sewing room stitching more of the Everglade blocks together. This project is entering its second year? but I'm no longer berating myself about timelines. My stitching world is just for me, myself and I and the three of us are fine with it. ;)

 And I've been choosing fabrics and cutting out the initial templates for Liberty's Birds. I notice the original photo showed mostly the primary colours in solids were used. But I don't have many solids so I will have to use more prints. The yellow fabric below is gorgeous and I do want to use it for the Yellow Goldfinch. 

How many of us said prayers at night before going to sleep, I wonder. I know I said a prayer every night that Mom had taught me. I don't know when she stopped listening to it but I continued to say it long after she stopped hearing it out loud. At the end, I would always add family names for God to bless. I came across a sweet cross stitched version of it at This Etsy Shop. Past Pattern Palooza is a great place to visit...lots of familiar items us older folks would recognize. 

It's thought this prayer originated in 1698!

 Meanwhile in my cross stitching, I'm finishing up another of the bees. This one is Tudor Bee and I'm enjoying putting in the finishing stitches. I wanted this one completely stitched before my new start which I'm itching to begin. 

Wanda over at Exuberant Color shared her lovely Tilda Whimsy quilt. Such a neat and simple pattern and perfect for showing off pretty motifs in fabrics. The free pattern is found at Tilda's World; actually I think that is a link to the pdf of it. How generous these fabric designers are!

For tonight's meal I'm trying out the Easy Baked Spaghetti recipe from the Feel Good Foodie. I love when you can eliminate pots and pans. Since I'll have the oven on, I'm going to try the roasted potatoes recipe I saw on Instagram. You just put potatoes, olive oil and an envelope of dry onion soup mix all together and bake. It's been years since I've used this soup mix in a recipe...I used to make a chicken recipe with it that was tasty. I'm going to be adding carrots to this as I have some that need using up.  I'm making this much food because with a freezing rain warning we might lose power. Always good to have leftovers in any case. I'll let you know how these recipes worked out. I love to read about what is cooking at your house. 

We are almost finished the latest batch of Raisin Buns or Biscuits or Scones, whatever you call them in your part of the world. 

I used my old recipe and they were fine, a little dry maybe but we eat them with butter and jam so that helps, washed down with tea. I cut back the sugar as always. I don't know if that affects dryness; you wouldn't think so. 

Well, I'm eyeing the weather out there trying to decide about a walk which I badly need. Should get it in now, says Ned, who knows what the afternoon will bring. Good advice.

Hope you are warm or cool in your part of the world and your stitching fingers are flying!