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.

Flowered lap quilt

 I made six of these blocks. I used PatternJam, but after I'd made them realized the blue and purple really just blend together. I'm going to put them together with a white strip between. In the end it turned out... very purple. VERY purple. I'm going to retry this pattern block with some different shades, and in a larger size, and we'll see what that looks like. This one will go to work to be a prize, unless someone tells me they really, really REALLY like purple lol.

Flowered stars lap quilt

I originally made most of the squares for this one back in the fall of 2018. When I returned to it, it needed only a few more blocks, but as I had not kept any notes and neglected to carefully measure, a close view of the finished quilt will show two blocks that are, um, smaller... anyways, it ended up about 4.5 x 5.5 feet. It's different shades of Keepsake Calico, packed florals, from Joann.

T-shirt dress with Jersey fruit skirt

 Experimenting with more of an interlock stitch on this one.

Reversible quilted skirt

 I've had this fabric for... a long time. Since graduate school I think, so around 15 years and counting. I finally put it together. It doesn't have pockets, just loops for my keys (which is all I really use pockets for). I'm not sure if zigzag stitching the seams really worked, but it seems to be ok.