Finishing the Jam Jar

 Hip Hip Hooray! Root- a toot toot! and Zippety Dooh Dah! 

Yeehaw! I have a finish!

 

Hey , I celebrate any little finish I can get done. Don't you? 😀😁

Welcome , my beautiful friends and Happy happy Thursday! 

So how has your day been thus far? Are you nearing any finishes yourself? It doesn't have to be stitching or crafting.  It can be anything. A good book, chores- yep anything. I say give yourself a good pat on the back . It makes for a sunnier day. 

Well, the Apple Jam Jar is all finished. Some of you may remember that , I shared the chart a few weeks ago as a CHOOSE YOUR OWN COLORS chart. 

So let me share what floss colors I used. 

I decided to use 3 different reds for my apples. 

Apple Jam Jar - From the Mason Jar Series

FLOSS  : SYMBOL  MOTIF:

DMC 414 (O) Mason Jar lid      

DMC 3721 ( R) 1st apple on the bottom      

DMC 355 (R) 2nd apple on the bottom

DMC 356 (R) top apple

DMC 610 (V) Apple stem

DMC  640 (P)  Quilt star in the apples

DMC  782 ( Y)  Center of blossom

DMC 3371 ( • )  Jar

DMC  739 ( W) Blossom

DMC 732(X) Grass and Leaves

DMC 733 ( U ) Grass

DMC 3021 ( T) Wording

I am so very grateful that you shared a moment of your day with me. 

If you are in the neighborhood, drop by after lunch. I will be sharing my Apple-icious Hutch tour . My hutch is filled to the brim with apple goodness. 

Apple Hutch Tour will be posted at 12:00 CST

Have a great  day! 

As Always...

Happy  Stitching and Quilting, y'all

Melisa 

"Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.  "- Walt Whitman

Hugs and Stitches!!!!🤗🧵❤

Dedicated to my dear sister, Amy 

 I love and miss you so much.. Love you , Amo. 

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It's All About Apples and a Mason Jar Freebie

 Y'all it's just about that time of the year! Apple Pickin' Season!  Oh, I cannot wait.

How about you? 

STAMP 1 - A BASKET OF APPLES

Up on the mountain a few counties away, are some delightful apple orchards where apples galore are sold by the box.

 Perhaps Mr. Pinker and I will take a day trip and snatch us a box or two. Maybe stop by the pepper patch and pick up a 5 gallon bucket of bell peppers for just $5.00 too. Oh, that would be wonderful.  

Apple Crate  

I am pulling out more of my apple decor. Yesterday I went thrift shopping and found this fabulous apple spongeware canister. 

"Oooh that will be perfect!" I squealed in delight . "Not only can I pair it  with my blue enamelware but  also with the gorgeous cross stitch that sweet Donna sent me a few weeks ago in a Blessing Box, " I told myself. 

 Aaaw don't you think they make a good pair?  I am smitten. 

She also sent  this beautiful hand stitched and appliqued quilt. Swoon!  Isn't it darling? 🤗 Or should I say apple-icious! 🍎🍏

Apples, quilts and a pie- now what is not to love. Hee! Hee! Thank you sweet Donna.❤😘  I will cherish these. 

 I may be moving the apple quilt in the near future to my hutch when I pull out more apple-icous goodies to display.

Speaking of apple goodies. I hope you do not mind if I sprinkle links to previous apple themed posts that I have shared in the past. There are recipes, mini quilt instructions, doodles , cross stitch and of course loads of country clutter or as some call it  good ole' fashioned junk  treasures😁. If you are interested, just click on the colored links, Sweet peas and you will be magically transported back to the post.  

Apple-icious Country Christmas Hutch Tour.

Apples, Apples, and More Apples Fall Hutch Tour - 2024

An Apple A Day Hutch Tour 2023 Fall Hutch display

September Apple Basket Doodle

Green Apple Butter Mini Quilt Instructions

Slow Cooker Apple Butter Recipe

Hot Apple Pie Dip Recipe

Nanny's Applesauce Cake Recipe - A 1940's recipe

Apple Mini Sampler  No photo for this little cross stitch freebie. Even after all these years I am still working on it. LOL Slow as molasses 

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Have I told you that I eat an apple every single day? I think I have . Anywhooo... I keep unsweetened applesauce in my pantry just in case I run out of apples before I can get to the grocery store. 

An apple a day keeps the doctor away or so they say. 

Behind my Granny's old log cabin were massive apple trees along a fence line. If we were  lucky and if Granny was up to the trip, she would  take us youngins' into the woods, past the small grape lined trellises to the apple trees with limbs drooping to the ground with ever so heavy apples. We would fill our little basket up with green apples . Of course , we could not resist eating an apple or two before we traipsed back through the weeds to the old log cabin. 

Apple Picking- A Heart Doodle Freebie

Meanwhile back at Nanny's on the farm, there was cooking going on.  She would be busy in the kitchen cooking a batch of her fresh fried apple fritters. Yum! Yum! They were always a treat to enjoy especially when they came out of the old, deep iron skillet piping hot. 

Nowadays, I settle for eating apples sliced with a dash of cinnamon, but every now and then I will treat myself to something special. 

Cinnamon- Sugar Apples Recipe

Combine 1/4 cup of sugar and 2 teaspoons of cinnamon. Set Aside. Core, peel and slice 2 -3 apples into wedges and sprinkle with cinnamon- Sugar mixture. Microwave in a microwavable safe dish on high setting until tender. Serve. 

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Before you leave, may I show you the new apple design I am working on? 

It is called Apple Jam Jar from the Mason Jar Series.  Three large apples jammed into a jar. 

I have just begun it and have not decided on the colors that I will use. 

So I thought I would share it as a CHOOSE YOUR OWN COLORS CHART. Use as many or as few colors as you want. In fact you might want to add some colors. 

Hmmm... Should I have 3 red apples or mix it up with red, yellow, and green apples? I am not sure, but I will keep you posted on my progress and I will update this post once it is completed.

UPDATE- SEPTEMBER 12, 2026-  Apple Jam Jar is all finished. 

So let me share what floss colors I used. 

I decided to use 3 different reds for my apples. 

Apple Jam Jar - From the Mason Jar Series

FLOSS  : SYMBOL  MOTIF:

DMC 414 (O) Mason Jar lid      

DMC 3721 ( R) 1st apple on the bottom      

DMC 355 (R) 2nd apple on the bottom

DMC 356 (R) top apple

DMC 610 (V) Apple stem

DMC  640 (P)  Quilt star in the apples

DMC  782 ( Y)  Center of blossom

DMC 3371 ( • )  Jar

DMC  739 ( W) Blossom

DMC 732(X) Grass and Leaves

DMC 733 ( U ) Grass

DMC 3021 ( T) Wording

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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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🧵FREEBIE ALERT!  FREEBIE ALERT 🧵

Herrschners just posted four Country Charm Ornaments freebie charts. OH MY GOSH ! They are as cute as a country button! I hope you will pop over to visit them. 

I guess, I have rambled long enough. 

Have a sweet day! 

And...

As Always...

Happy  Stitching and Quilting, y'all

Melisa 

"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb, that is where the fruit is.  "- 

Hugs and Stitches!!!!🤗🧵❤

Dedicated to my dear sister, Amy 

 I love and miss you so much.. Love you , Amo. 

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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