Chocolate-peanut-caramel clusters

This time I am going to keep track of how I do it with notes for next time, if there is a next time.

Supplies

• 5 lb brick of Peter's caramel from Amazon
• 4.5 lbs of milk chocolate, dipping chocolate
• 1 big container of cocktail peanuts
• freezer paper
• all the pans I could collect
• double boiler
• butter

Heat up the double boiler, melt slices of caramel with frequent stirring. Dumped in peanuts and poured it out on freezer paper on a pan. Filled two big pans and let cool.

Then I cut the caramel into squares, melted the chocolate, and dipped them, putting them back on the freezer paper to cool in front of an open window. I didn't have quite enough chocolate and I also got tired of the fiddly work at the end, arranged a bunch of the squares, and poured chocolate over them. When it cooled, I cut them up again.

I think I could do this and space them farther apart, letting the chocolate go around the squares. If I get up the energy to do this again, I'll consider it. Now I just hope they don't melt before we can sell them.

Orange flowered triangles lap quilt

The finished quilt is lightly larger than the top of a card table. It was donated to the library as a prize.

 I made a smaller set of this, realized I'd left out a strip, then decided to keep going and make it a little bigger. This is the first part, just fits on a card table. Then I sewed a couple hundred more squares together, then realized they were in the wrong order, put a few more rows on and called it quits.

Flowered squares

The final quilt is 5' by 5' and will be donated to the library.

 This is an improvement on the previous, over-purpled blocks. I used different shades of the same fabric and made them larger, using 6" squares.