Apple Picking and Wednesday Rambles- A Heart Doodle

Hello there Apple Dumpling! Come in ! Come in!   You know I am always up for a good visit. 

How has your week been thus far? I hope you are doing well and are enjoying these last days of summer. 

The laundry is all done and most of it is put away from our camping trip. 

Yesterday, I pulled out a few fall totes and so it begins- fall decorating! Have you started yet?  Or am I the only one late to the fall decorating party! 😀😃🍂🍁🍂

I have really enjoyed having the yellow thrifted hexagon quilt hanging in the living room from the quilt shelf this summer. It lightened up the room and went perfectly with my bee decor, but I guess it is time for it to come down. 

I have not decided what will replace it yet. 

Soon the bee decor will be buzzing back to their bins and squirrels will invade the buffet. 

I have pulled out some of my brown dishware and crocks.  The little butter dish is my newest addition to the collection which I bought on the trip.  It is way in the back of the shelf propped up. 

Here is a sneak peek of my hutch . It is dressed in all things apple related. Of course , I will be doing a country clutter tour soon. Hee! Hee! 

The little red Tea tin in the background was a thrifty find on our recent trip. 

Speaking of apples My newest doodle is  all stitched up! I worked on it when we were camping in Kentucky. It is simply called "Apple Picking" .

Apple Picking

 Do you go apple picking with the family come fall? 

We used to pick apples at my Granny's homestead. She lived on the mountain and behind her cabin was a small vineyard; beyond it deep into the weeds, we would come to an opening where large  old apple trees with limbs to the ground stood tall, droopy and proud.  Hmm can you stand tall and be droopy? I think so. LOL.

 Anywhoo, as kids we loved going to the back of the property to pick green apples . Mom would make fried pies with them when we got home. But most of the time we liked to eat them straight off the limbs. 

Apple Crate  

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If you are interested in stitching this piece,  just grab , the images. For printing tips, refer to the post Tips for Printing which has loads of tips from my sweet friends. 

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                                My doodles are hand drawn and are never perfect.  

 The "Year of Hearts" blocks are embroidered on an 8 1/2" x 8 1/2" piece of cotton. You may want to cut your fabric larger for the hoop and then after embroidery trim and square to 8 1/2".  I used 2 strands of DMC floss and  the back stitch. I color tinted my design with crayons and colored pencils and carefully heat set the color with an iron. When you heat set the color, place a clean paper towel over the design and press .

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Both of my grandmothers loved to cook. Granny did not follow recipes and just added a pinch of this and a smidgen of that .  And everything she prepared turned out perfectly.  

Nanny was a fabulous cook too. She loved the whole process - looking at the grocery sales, writing the list, shopping, cooking- you know the whole 9 yards.  I am fortunate that I have some of her recipe books and handwritten recipes as well.

 

She wrote  her Applesauce Cake on an old envelope. Lol I just realized that I do the same thing.  I always use old envelopes to make lists on. 

Here is Nanny's Applesauce Recipe as she wrote it.  This was stuffed in her 1940's General Electric Cookbook.  Don't you just love old recipes? 

NANNY'S APPLESAUCE  RECIPE

1 Q - applesauce

1 teaspoon  soda

2 cups  sugar

1/4 lb  oleo

2 teaspoons cinnamon

2 teaspoons nutmeg

1 teaspoon  allspice

1 teaspoon of cloves

1 box raisins

nuts optional

4 c of plain flour

DIRECTIONS Combine applesauce and soda. Stir well. Add remaining ingredients except flour. Mix well. Add Flour and mix well . Pour into tube pan . Bake at 375 degrees for 1 hour. 

Of course nowadays, you might word the recipe different , but it is so much fun to look back. 

Sorry for the wrinkles. 

My Year in Hearts doodles are coming right along. I hope to work on figuring out how to set them this week. I am still brainstorming , but I am almost there with an idea.  

Well Sweet Friends, I guess I better get off here and do some work. Don't ya' think? I am sure you have a busy day ahead of you as well.  Don't forget to do something fun though! Thank you for dropping by and...

As always...

Happy quilting and stitching, ya'll

Melisa

"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb; that is where the fruit is. " Mark Twain

Hugs and Stitches and Warm Spring Wishes !!!🤗❤🧵

Dedicated to my dear sister, Amy . Love and miss you., Amo ❤❤

Ya'll come back now, ya hear ! 

If you have missed any of the other heart doodles, I do invite you to visit the previous posts by clicking the colored links. ❤

 Block 1 A Winter's Night, 

Block 2  Country Mail Delivery  

Block 3 A Country Spring Day

Block 4 Early Birds

Block 5 Strawberry Patch 

Block 6 A Buzzy Garden

 A Buzzy Garden with Bee Berry 

Bonus Block- Time for Gardening

Block 7 Jar of Geraniums  ( really block 8) 

 Block 8 Sunny Sunflowers