Tag: SC

Turkey Tracks: Ailey at Hominey Grill

Turkey Tracks:  December 7, 2011

Ailey at Hominey Grill

Hominey Grill in Charleston, SC, is the closest thing to my grandmother’s table that I’ve ever found.

Cooking of this sort is rapidly being lost I think, even in the south.

I want to pass on the love I have for this kind of food to my own grandchildren, so I take as many of them as I can to Homniney whenever I can.  (Thanks Tara Derr Webb for finding Hominey for me.)

Here’s Ailey on her very first trip.  It was also Bryan and Corinne’s first trip.  We went for breakfast, which is terrific, but lunch serves the kind of food I remember eating at my grandmother’s.  (Tami and I went there on our “escape” day for lunch and ate too much to have dessert, which is awesome at Hominey’s.)

Ailey is eating her first scrambled egg.  She doesn’t get pancakes yet because babies don’t have the enzymes to digest grains until they get their molars, around two years of age.

In the following week, Tami and I took Talula and Wilhelmina, who are attending school two days a week, to Hominey for breakfast.  They are old hands now and truly love to go, which warms my heart.  Talula ate all three of her pancakes, all of her bacon, and half of mine.  The boys are furious with us!

Turkey Tracks: Notebook Covers and Fabric Boxes

Turkey Tracks:  April 18, 2011

Notebook Covers and Fabric Boxes

 NOTEBOOK  COVERS

On Friday, April 8th, Barb Melchiskey of Coastal Quilters organized a workshop with Carol Boyer, who came to us from New York with Marty Bowne, the founder of Quilting By the Lake, to make notebook covers using our overflowing button collections.   Eight participants started at 9 a.m. and quit about 3 p.m.  Some of us went home (me) and sewed even more as the projects were so much fun.  (The workshop enrolled 10 participants, but two could not come last minute.)  You might recall the blog entry I made last year during Carol’s visit.  We learned to stamp and paint on fabric, and Carol brought some of the many dolls she also makes to show at the Saturday meeting. 

 Here’s a picture of Carol with the first prototype cover she made:

 

Here’s a picture of completed notebooks as Carol and Barb refined the method Carol taught, which used bias tape to edge the covers. 

 

 

Here’s a picture of a Carol Boyer cover in process:

 

Here’s a picture of the possible variety with these book covers—from plain to decorated—that I did. 

The fabric and buttons on the “Bloom” cover–and the idea for single blooms–came from People, Places, and Quilts in Summerville, SC.  Here’s their number:   1-843-871-8872.  They sell kits with the fabric, buttons, and a colorful array of embroidery floss.  Their focus is pillows, and they sell books with the most adorable “sayings” one could embroider on a pillow and then decorate with buttons.  Carol Boyer taught us to use buttons as both single blossoms and to make multiple button “petals.”  And, she taught us to use embroidery thread–the whole six strands–in some of the creative ways you see above. 

I beaded the central leaf in the reddish cover fairly heavily–yet the effect is still fairly subtle.  – And the navy cover is of a Japanese indigo fabric, so I’m playing off the idea of Sachiko. 

FABRIC BOXES

On Saturday, April 9th, Coastal Quilters hosted Cheri Raymond, who taught us how to make fabric boxes. 

I’m afraid I did not do a good job of taking pictures of the amazing color combinations of boxes being made all around me as I was obsessed with making my own box.  But, here is one Beth Guisely made (green box) that I bought at our auction last year.  And, the one I made (pink pigs) at the meeting, so you can see what we did:

I glued the silk cord into the box top on the pink pig box and attached the cord on the inside of Beth’s box.  I experimented with beading the top of Beth’s box, and that worked out well.  (The boxes are gifts for two of my granddaughters.

And, here are the elegant insides of Cheri’s design:

It turned out that Pat Vitalo has been making fabric boxes for some time.  Here’s a picture of Pat’s very clever boxes:

The large open one folds up and is held together by its top.  I think it’s intended to be a sewing kit…

Anyway, you can see the Coastal Quilters had an intensive sewing weekend!