Lots More Navy Blue Gingham Items For The Kitchen

My large 40 ounce white teapot needed a tea cozy.  I put a ruffle on this one.  I keep this teapot in the pantry but now it's ready to use with a nice roomy cozy.

Pot holders.  I made these to be a wall decoration in the kitchen.  I'm putting them up with velco command strips.

Apron/dress for my dish detergent bottle.  This was easy and fun to make.  I actually ended up using glue to secure the bias binding on the back because the binding strip was too narrow to sew on the back.

Stand mixer cover.

And I still have about two and a half yards of the blue gingham.   I haven't made the toaster cover or a cookbook cover.  Two things that may happen in the future.

Blue Gingham Hanging Dishtowels

   I made some hanging dishtowels with some of the blue gingham that I used to make the kitchen curtains.  I love these.

    I have plenty of the blue gingham fabric to make a cover for my stand mixer.  I'm going to make that as soon as I get the coordinating white solid and navy solid fabric I ordered a couple of weeks ago.  I want to make the cover in the patchwork style like the one I made a couple of months ago  using 2.5" squares.  I will probably make some potholders as well.  Then I have to think of something else to make with all the leftover gingham.

   I've also been knitting some dishcloths.  I'm making a kitchen set for a niece who got married last fall.  I know it's late but I just decided the other day that I wanted to do this.  I will knit her a set of dishcloths, sew up  a couple of potholders and make a couple of hanging dish towels for her.  I wanted to show you the pot I use as a yarn bowl.  My daughter bought this strawberry pot for me about 12 years ago from someone who throws pots in Indiana while she was on vacation.  I have never used this for any plants.  I have been using it as a decoration and as a yarn bowl for years.  It's kind of fragile and I wanted to keep it nice.

Changed My Mind, Again. Had To Revisit A Recipe

    Last December I made gingerbread cookies.  When I made those cookies I did not enjoy the process of making them because I had to mix the dough by hand and it was difficult.  I also used a recipe that made a lot of cookies (Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond's recipe).  I swore I would never make gingerbread cookies again and I even went so far as to throw away my cookie cutter.  But I really enjoyed the taste of the cookies and after thinking about it, I knew I would be making more gingerbread cookies.

   So this year I made the decision to buy a stand mixer (it was on sale and I love it) to help with the mixing of the dough.  I did some research and found a smaller cookie recipe.  And I got a new gingerbread man cookie cutter.

    I found this recipe on youtube The Stay At Home Chef Gingerbread Cookie Recipe.  The description below the video has a link to the written recipe at their blog but the video is nice because she also gives baking tips.

    I made gingerbread cookies yesterday.  It was an easy recipe to make and the stand mixer worked great.  I was really happy with the cookie dough I made and it yielded 15 cookies.  I did not have any dough left over.  It was all used.  I made some men, some hearts, and two round cookies with leftover dough.  I can't wait to try them and let you know how tasty they are.  The unfrosted cookies are now in the freezer waiting for a special birthday in November.

   This recipe made just enough cookies for me, but it would be easy to double it.  The stand mixer made the process effortless.

   I didn't take any pictures of the cookies because they were so dull looking with no decorations on them.  Just brown cookies.  But I hope they will taste great.

Yo Yo Flower

   I made this yo yo flower to put on my 6" quilt display stand.

Pretty Mini Quilt Stand

      I just had to have this little quilt stand I found at Connecting Threads.  It's super cute and I can't wait to make a mini quilt to hang on it.

Disappearing Hourglass Quilted Stand Mixer Cover

      I've been wanting to make a disappearing hourglass block since I saw the video by Jenny Doan of Missouri Star Quilt Company demonstrate the process.  I even bought fabric to make a quilt top with this block in the future.

     Yesterday I decided to make a stand mixer cover to replace the one I bought many years ago.  I was only going to make the blocks and jimmy up the cover with some white borders, then I thought the whole thing would look better quilted.  So I put borders on the blocks, added some white fabric at the top to pull the two blocks together.  I used the white fabric as backing and leftover batting from my last quilt to sandwich it.  I quilted it with straight lines and put the blue binding and blue ties on it.

   I really like this stand mixer cover and it was the perfect project to get me out of my daylight savings time slump.  Now I can move on with my vinyl pouch project.