Yesterday morning as I was opening my pantry to get some steel cut oats, dates, pecans, and rice milk to cook a bowl of cereal for Dick and I, my eyes were drawn to my baking center where the KitchenAid Mixer stands. I decided the mixer needed a cover worthy of its important role in my life. It works virtually every day for me. During breakfast I envisioned an embroidered cupcake outline on a linen kitchen towel, but a cupcake needs to look like a party... a celebration... with vibrant happy colors. My plan took a detour and I set to work on an applique instead to give it a "Look at me!" attitude. I cut off the towel's prexisting border because it was outdated and replaced it with the zigzag border instead. It looks like I spent painstaking hours sewing on rows of rickrack but it's a scrap of fabric I had spied in the bargain remants bin at Joann Fabrics a few weeks back. It was folded up neatly in a corner of my sewing room waiting for its day in the spotlight. If you haven't appliqued before, or it's been a long time and your remembrance of the technique has grown fuzzy, here's a tutorial that breaks the process down into easily understandable steps.
organically grown triticale in our field
canoeing in our wetlands
raspberries growing wild on our property
our back porch fieldstone fireplace
