Mushroom, Mushroom, Mushroom Soup

As the winter settles in we eat a lot of soups...  and I thought I'd share one of our favorites.

Mushroom, mushroom, mushroom soup.... this is my own recipe. Nothing low fat about it!

Celery
Onion
Mushrooms
How much of each is really up to you. I like lots of mushrooms!!! The more the better!  That why it's called Mushroom, mushroom, mushroom soup.
Salt and Pepper
Chicken both
1 stick of butter
3/4 cup of flour
4 cups half-and-half (you can use milk but it will be thinner and not as rich)

In a medium saucepan, saute onions, celery and mushrooms in olive oil. Salt and pepper to taste. As this is sauteing I add a little bit of chicken broth to keep mixture moist. Add as needed.

Once the veggies are cooked to desired doneness, turn down heat to low with just enough chicken broth to barely cover.

In a larger sauce pan melt butter. Add flour and stir in to the butter. Slowly whisk in the warm half-and-half. Cook and whisk until smooth and thick, about 5 minutes.

Add the vegetables with their cooking liquid. For a thinner soup add more chicken broth or water. Stir well and adjust the seasonings if necessary.

Hope you enjoy! 

(Sorry for the not so good pix...  I'm not accustom to taking pix of food.) 

Snow

I was hoping for enough snow do a little snow dyeing with...  maybe next time!

Ta Done

I love Native American art from the Pacific Northwest and I love this quilt!!!  The best part is my customer gifted me with the pattern  :-)

Right now is salmon season...  and we do live on the coast and on one of the major rivers that the salmon travel up to spawn.  I see fisherman out everyday fishing for these beautiful fish...  (yummy too)

 

 

I had a lot of fun with the background fill...

 

And I wanted the border to look like white water rapids...

 

 

And then there is the back...

 

 

Sneak Peek

Ta Done

I finished the Strippy Quilt a few days ago for one of my customers... (sorry the lighting isn't better.)

We decided on a simple water meander.

And Koy....

 

 

While taking these pix I noticed I missed a few fish scales...  :-(

 

So Saturday I load the quilt back on to my machine and added the missing scales...

 

Some quilts are really hard to get good pictures of depending on their color and what the sun is doing.  Right now we are having very cold but sunny days, and the natural light coming in big picture windows is really bright.  This created a lot of glare in most of my pix of this quilt, so I hope you can see them without hurting your eyes....

I have used these Koy motifs in the past on several quilts.  It's been along time since then and I forgot how fun they are do!  Hope my customer like them as much as I do ;-)

Flying Geese Tutorial

As I cruise around Pinterest, often I see pins of my quilting in a Flying Geese border from this post.  With this I've had several inquiries about what path I used to quilt this border...

So here it is...  Step by step directions.  (the geese are flying sideways in my diagrams, but it's the same no matter which directions they are going)

I start with quilting my feather in the bottom goose and Stitch in the Ditch to the right corner (or bottom corner in the diagram).

Continuous Curve up to the next Goose and repeat feather motif.

Continuous Curve up to the next Goose.

 Continue to fill the Geese with feathers and Continuous Curve until you reach the end.  Now is when you can decide how you want to finish the last side of the background triangles.  You could Continuous Curve, or Stitch in the Ditch back to the first Goose.  I decided to add a swirl...

Swirl in each background triangle back to the first Goose.

 

 

 Stitch in the Ditch to the left corner (or top corner in the diagram).  Finish the background triangles with Continuous Curve quilting until you reach the last Goose, and swirl back to the beginning.

There you have it... 

 

Wordless Wednesday