OPAM finishes for January/February and FNWF!

 

Where has February gone? These are my finishes for January and February.

Tomorrow night is Friday Night with Friends hosted by Cheryll. Head over here to sign up. Hope you can join us.

One Sneak Peek Revealed!

 

You may remember this sneak peek 

from a few posts ago.

 

It was this table runner I made for Simone. Now that she has received it, I can show it to you. The fabrics are Central Park by Kate Spain.

I got lots of stitching done on the weekend but,

 of course, it is more secret sewing! 

So nothing else to show you at the moment.

But I can show you what I bought this morning. Fabric for a special project. It's not secret sewing, so you'll get to see it soon! Well, once I put it together anyway!

Friday Night Sew-In!

Last night was the Friday Night Sew-In with Heidi (Handmade by Heidi). The sign-up was a bit late this month. I wasn't even sure it was on but I still stitched anyway.

As it is secret sewing, I can't show you the front! Not very exciting, is it! That's the problem with secret sewing. But in the end you eventually get to see the completed project. Hopefully, it is worth the wait!

Choc Chip Biscuits!

At our blog get together last week, the topic of biscuits came up (not sure how or by whom). I had a couple of requests for my choc chip biscuits recipe. I thought others may like to have the recipe too, so here it is.

  

Christine’s Choc Chip Biscuits

1 cup sugar

125g butter

1 egg, beaten

1-2 tbs coffee and chicory essence (optional)

¾ cup dark choc chips

1¾ cup SR flour

Cream butter and sugar. Add egg and coffee essence. Mix. Add choc chips. Mix. Add flour and mix together.

Roll into walnut size balls and place on oven tray.

Bake in moderate oven (180⁰C) about 18 minutes or until golden brown. Loosen biscuits while warm, cool on trays. 

** The Coffee and Chicory Essence gives a lovely flavour and colour to the biscuits. It doesn't have an over-powering flavour of coffee. 

Variation - Choc Choc Chip Biscuits

  

Replace dark choc chips with white choc chips.

Add ¼ cup cocoa with flour.

Our Mill Rosie Friends Get Together!

 I'm a bit late with my post about our wonderful day at Mill Rose Cottage with the Mill Rosie Friends but here it is! It was such a wonderful day catching up with everyone.

 

Our designer swap this time around was Rosalie Quinlan. Everyone had outdone themselves again. There weren't any duplicates!

I was lucky enough to get Sharon's swap gift. A bouquet of flowers made with fabric designed by Rosalie. They are so much nicer in person. The flowers are sitting in a lovely vase (which I've just realised you can't see). Sharon also added a box of Roses chocolates to go with it.

I made this door hanger which has dried lavender in it. It smells lovely! Barb was the recipient of my gift.

I think we all managed to get a little stitching in amongst the chatting! We had a wonderful Show and Tell.

 

Mel's sewing room hanging.

Sharon's beautiful Vignette quilt.

Barb with her crocheted blanket.

 Rosalie hiding behind her Sewing Room hanging.

This is also Rosalie's. I just love the old kitchen stove block (as well as all the other blocks).

Shez was starting to get hungry and couldn't wait for the waitress to bring her lunch. Here she is eating an agapanthus flower!

Aaahh! Shez is so happy now lunch is on it's way that she's singing! Or perhaps it has something to do with that glass of wine! LOL!

 The obligatory photo of Shez taking a photo of me 

taking a photo of her!

 Sharon gave me a little bag filled with these lovely goodies.

 I had admired Barb's tin like this last time and Barb got one for me. It's great as it has a hinged lid.

Shez gave me a jar of lovely homemade cucumber relish. There was also some home-grown zucchini and cucumbers.  I've just made a yummy zucchini slice for tonight's tea. It will taste so much nicer being home-grown! Thank you, Sharon, Barb and Shez for my lovely gifts.

 These are name brooches that I made for the five of us original Mill Rosie Friends.

 Thanks everyone for such a wonderful day of fun and friendship. I can't wait for the next one! If you head over to some of the other girls' blogs you'll see some more photos.