Home Made Ice cream

This year, instead of sewing for the teachers and assistants, I decided to make home made ice cream. I use an electric ice cream maker we got at William Sonoma as a wedding present. I love it!

I use the basic recipe of 1 cup milk, 3/4 cup of sugar dissolved into it, then 2 cups of cream and 1-2 tbsp vanilla. Flick the switch for 20-25 minutes. The trick is the cream. I made some last week with whipping cream. Lovely. The stuff I made in the last 2 days was with table cream 18%. It was more watery when it froze, not as creamy, but still good.
These tags are Stampin' Up! stamps from years ago.

These stamps are from PaperTrey ink. I made different flavours by adding the ingredients in the last 5 minutes.
For cookies and cream, just let the kids have fun crushing oreos in a baggie. The strawberry was sliced and mashed with sugar to help it juice. The strawberry rhubarb was cooked down, cooled and added.

There are so many other flavours to make, but the trick is that if you have to cook anything down, it has to cool completely before being added. So it's a think it out thing, not a spur of the moment thing. When you feel like making it NOW, then it's cookies and cream, or vanilla bean. Oh, we have homemade vanilla that DH made a while back. Vanilla beans soaked in vodka for about a month. nice. the longer, the better. Then I scraped a pod into the cream as it was swirling around in the machine.

k, next up.... This basket was a steal at a yard sale for $2! I grabbed it and ran. It's a great size. I fit all the ice cream containers into it and then some.

And another tea pot cozy. I've made a few more colour ways. Fun Fun Fun. The designer that I got the sweater scraps from has offered more scraps twice now. I still have 3 bags, but I want to get more! Help me. Fun to figure out colour combos. I think this one is my favorite. This time, I used boiled wool suiting for the front and back. Hope it keeps the pot hot.


Whew, you still here?
School is out and I feel relaxed! We played at the sailing club until way past bed time. It's great to see them playing imaginative games. Tonight it was traveling to Portugal on the Hobie cat trampoline. But they came to the picnic tables to stay at a hotel. Hope the kids sleep in tomorrow. I know I will.

Thanks for stopping by,
Amanda

another teapot cozy

A teapot cozy in blue and greens with a splash of orange.

Fun to make

I forgot to take a picture of the back. i found a felted sweater big enough to do the back in one piece. it is a nice sandy colour.

Off to start the day,
cheers,
Amanda

more cell cozies

In the bags of sweater scraps origins here were a lot of sleeves and turtle necks.
I couldn't help but make more cell phone cozies.

It was fun to choose colours of wool blend felt for the diamonds.

And the hearts were bought from Deserres.

My first batch of cozies can be seen here

Dryer balls will come tomorrow. I just felt like having a bit of colour for today. We got dumped with between 5 and 10 cm of snow yesterday. Blizzard, can't see the end of the street kind of snow. Today is very bright and the sound of trickling, melting waters everywhere was encouraging.

Ciao,
Amanda

trio of imperfection

The lesson of the day is... don't sew when you have a smashing headache!

Didn't feel like lying down, so I sat. quietly at the machine, slowly sewing. therapy of the best sort yes?
My By Hook & Thread tag is on the wrong side. backwards.
Got the tag right on this one, but the key fob is inside the pocket?!!

Zippy wallets are from Noodlehead. And here are some that I've made before here
Should have quit while I was behind....

The problem with them all is the placement of my tag. This little tea bag cozy comes from the book Pretty Little Cozies . Easy enough. except my own addition of the tag.

Still functional and a little laugh to whomever it is gifted to.

thanks for stopping by,
Amanda

cell phone cozy

By joining the 21st century and the cell phone technology, I needed a cozy for my touch screen phone. I cut a cuff from a felted sweater and used it for awhile until I decided what to do with it.
Today, I knew what I wanted to do....

Here is the cozy opened...

A few squares (i couldn't cut a diamond. How do you cut an elongated diamond?)

And a few machine stitches...

A seam on the inside, which I serged. score for sergers. Can you tell I'm still excited about it after a year?

And you get a pretty pile of phone cozies to give to your friends. Yes, Char, you can have one. Whatever is left over after Michele chooses. unless, I see you first?!!?

Oh, the back. Don't forget to show the back.


Thanks for looking,
Amanda

Car Cozy

I got this tutorial from
Handmade by Jill

Who in turn credits the idea from
My Little Gems
I made the orange cones and traffic light on my own.

I used repurposed fabric for this one. The outside was an ikea cutain in a previous life, the inside was my husband's pants. The print fabric on the bottom is a recent purchase from Fabricland.


I so love making these and have made a bunch for birthday prezzies. Please, as requested by both originators, do not make to resell.


I'm off to clean my room to play with my new to me serger! I got a grown up serger! with lots of coloured threads to boot! And i have some Ikea fabric we picked up in Portugal that I've been saving for a new choir bag. But i must clean my room first. maybe not.....

thanks for looking,
Amanda