Beginnings...

Okay so I'm going to start this blog thing like I start everything else in my life...with my eyes closed.  I think I mentioned that I don't like to read instructions before I start anything,  only when I get into trouble do I open the manual.  So it goes the same with my cakes and quilts,  I think I bought my first quilt book four or five years into sewing little pieces of fabric together.  At least with cakes, I knew how to make one and put candles in it.  It did take a few disasters to learn that you had to let the cake COOL before frosting it.  Patience isn't my gig.  I mean how hard could it be?

I got the brilliant idea of making a quilt when my daughter was about to turn three. I found some bright fabrics and came up with a simple design and started right in.  I had a cheap sewing machine and knew nothing of 1/4" seams and any other well known quilting technique.  So I started cutting squares (with scissors) and a paper template and sewed them together.

My First Quilt

As I sit in my quilting classes now, there is usually one person who is making their first quilt.  Their quilts look professional compared to this one,  but my daughter loved it so I guess that's all that matters.  Well, that and I bet there is no other one quite like it.

As for my first cakes, they didn't turn out quite as lop-sided as my first quilt.  My son's first birthday had a sports theme and the cakes turned out pretty good.  My mom had taken classes and had showed me that if you freeze the cakes you could shape them.  Good tip.  

So this was my starting point and to this day still love making quilts and making birthday cakes.  In less than a week, I will be making another birthday cake.  I bought all of the supplies today and as my son laid his eyes upon the very large tub of buttercream frosting (Yum!!)  his face lit up like the number of candles that now show up on my cakes.