Bee Patriotic Sew Along - Week Two!!

Welcome to my blog and 

welcome back for Week Two of the 

Bee Patriotic Sew Along

For this sew along we are

sewing patriotic things from the 

Bee Patriotic Bundle

or of course you can use 

fabric from your stash:)

Grab your book

VINTAGE CHRISTMAS 

and let's do three more blocks this week.

This sew along will be 

easy to follow...

simply sew directly from the book!

You can make your blocks in the

 exact same prints that I did 

by of course looking at each 

block photo for placement 

or you can 

"bee the boss of your own quilt"

 and switch it up!

CLICK HERE

to download the schedule of what blocks that 

 we are sewing each week as well as the

 cutting guide for the smaller quilt 

setting if you are making the 6" Blocks.

(12" Block setting is already in the book)

Okay ...let's do this!!

First up we have the 

GLISTEN BLOCK

from page 39 of the book.

This is another block that 

all of a sudden looks so different

 with red and navy 

instead of red and green.

I think it looks like 

a big firework just exploded! 

Our second block for this week is 

HOLLY AND IVY BLOCK

on page 41 of the book.

Now that I'm thinking fireworks...

this could be one too!

Instead of Holly and Ivy 

we could call it the 

OOOOO and AWWWW Block because

 that's the sound everyone makes

 when fireworks explode LOL

Last block for this week is 

MISTLETOE BLOCK

on page 59.

I really really really love this one

 and the color combination of it.

That gingham in the corners

 gets me every time because I love it so:)

I think I'll use my quilt 

to wrap up in during every 4th of July fireworks from now on:)

There are a couple of things 

that I wanted to share with you this week.

One is my 

SUPER STAR PILLOW TUTORIAL 

that I did during my 

Bee Happy Sew Along.

It's super easy to make and

 I used my Sew Simple Shapes.

As you can see I also used the same

 Bee Backgrounds fabric and a lot of

 the prints that I'm using in this sew along.

CLICK HERE

to check it out...

I hope you want to make one!!

I also wanted to show you this block

 that I made during the

 Farm Girl Friday's Sew Along for my first 

FARM GIRL VINTAGE BOOK

My block is called 

OLD GLORY

and it's on page 47 of that book.

Of course it's in 6" and 12" sizes...

which makes it perfectly interchangeable

 with all of the blocks in my book 

Vintage Christmas!!

The remaining thing that I wanted to

 share with y'all this week 

is another summer memory that 

comes with another recipe or two!

I'll give you a recipe first:

*Hello Dolly's

2 cups crushed graham crackers

1 stick real butter

1 can sweetened condensed milk

1 cup chocolate chips

1 cup coconut flakes

1 cup chopped nuts

(pecans or walnuts)

Melt butter and mix with

 graham cracker crumbs.

Press evenly into bottom 

of a square pan (9x9)

On top, layer the chocolate chips,

 coconut and chopped nuts.

Evenly pour the sweetened 

condensed milk entirely over the top.

Bake for 30 minutes in a 350* oven.

The top should be lightly brown.

Let them cool completely 

before slicing them into small squares.

I grew up in a camping family and 

mom did a lot of food prep beforehand.

One of the things that she ALWAYS made 

were Hello Dollys for as long as I can remember.

She made several batches to 

last throughout our trip! 

Mom layered them in tupperware between 

waxed paper and put them in the freezer 

until it was time for camping.

Then she kept them in the cooler so that 

the chocolate would not melt and 

they would slowly unthaw in there.

Another thing that she did was make what she called "Hobo Dinners" and they were for the first night of camping.

She would make these the night before we left ...refridgerate them and then put them in the cooler right before we pulled out of our long farm lane that us kids called "the rocky road" lol

Here's how she did them.

She would start saving soup cans before our trip so that she had plenty.

She would take the lids 

completely off and labels off too...

and wash them up good and 

put them away until it was time.

 Each can was for one individual dinner.

The night before was food prep...

who knew mom was before her time!!

Starting in the bottom of

 each can she would layer the following:

1.Sliced carrots 

(these go first because they

 take the longest to cook)

2.Diced potatoes

(peeled of course)

3.Diced onions

(she only added these for

 those of us who liked them)

4.Fresh sweet corn

and then about a tablespoon 

of butter or what she would call "a pat"

The final layer was a well seasoned

  5.Hamburger patty 

squished into the top until

it was even with the top of can.

She topped each of them with a

 double layer of tin foil and

 an elastic band to hold it on.

When we arrived at our campsite 

(which seemed to take forever to us kids)

the first thing that dad would do

was to choose the campfire site and build a fire. Then while he was setting up the rest of the camp...

it could be burning down to nice

 hot ashes to cook the hobo dinners.

Once the ashes were hot enough he took the elastics off but left the tinfoil and set each can in the fire...off to the side where he shoveled hot ashes.

It didn't take them long to cook and we would all pack a pair of mittens so that we could hold our own can and eat our hobo dinners around the campfire.

We all got a can of "pop" and afterwards we roasted marshmallows!

We would sit around the fire and talk...laugh and sing under the starry summer night.

 We were happy that we were there and we would begin a plan of all the fun things that we would do starting in the morning!!

We always had a great time and some of my fondest memories of growing up were camping with my family and friends.

I still love to go camping to this day...

but its not so rustic now

and instead of going camping I go clamping!

Well I hope this post wasn't too long 

for you and if it was ...

you can skip the boring parts lol

I will be back here next week with

 three more blocks...yay!

xx

Lori