A great way to make easy Blueberry, Cranberry, Lemon Scones

Yesterday my youngest son requested scones for breakfast. Usually on a Friday morning this type of request wouldn't be granted, BUT since I was still on holidays and since he was suffering from a sinus infection, I got out my favourite recipe and got to work.

I haven't made scones since I started using Thrive, so I decided to "Thrivelize" my recipe!! I got out my Thrive blueberries, Thrive cranberries (about 1/4 cup of each) and Thrive Lemonade powder (1/2 tsp) and mixed them with a little water (3 tsp). I let them sit and got to work on the scones.

Here is my super easy scone recipe:

2 1/4 cups   all-purpose flour
2 tbsp         white sugar
2 1/2 tsp     baking powder
1/2 tsp        baking soda
1/2 tsp        salt
1/2 cup       cold butter cubed
1 cup          milk
2 tsp           lemon juice

1. Mix the lemon juice and milk and set aside.
2. Add the five dry ingredients to a food processor and pulse. Add the butter and pulse until the mixture resembles course crumbs.
3. Pour this mixture into a bowl and add the milk - stir with a fork.
4. At this time you can add whatever additions you want.

         *** My son loves chocolate chips in his scones, so I take out enough batter to make three scones and add the chocolate chips to it. For the rest of the scones I mixed in my Thrive berry mixture,

      5.  Drop by large spoonfuls onto parchment paper.
      6.  I sprinkled Thrive honey Crystals on top, but you could use sugar instead.
      7.  Bake at 425 F (220 C) for 12-15 minutes (until puffed and golden)

Makes about 12 scones (or 9 if you are the Baker family LOL)

Using the food processor makes the job quick and easy. And using Thrive is a great way to make easy Blueberry, Cranberry, Lemon Scones that are super yummy!!

8 Great ways to use Oh Canada Fabric

Celebrate Canada - our newest book - is FINALLY available!!

In this book Nellie and I show you 8 great ways to use Oh Canada fabric from Northcott. These fabrics are a favourite for most Canadian quilters and we had a blast using them to design three quilts, a wallhanging, a tablerunner, placemats, an apron and a tote bag!!

The book is now available at quilt shops, on our website and on Craftsy! All of these projects would also look great made with fabrics from your stash!!!

Mountain View pattern

Nellie and I have been VERY busy this summer!! Our latest pattern for Northcott, Mountain View, has just been added to our Craftsy Pattern Store!!
This pattern uses Northcott's Stonehenge Aspen Ridge panel and co-ordinating fabric so it is super easy and quick to sew together!!

 Here it is - the finished project!! Look for this pattern and fabrics at your local quilt shop and check out all of our downloadable patterns on our Craftsy site.

Why Thrive???

I guess you could say I have my hands full with everything going on in my life. Between working as a pharmacist, having two teenage boys, family health issues which have us going out of town for medical appointments almost every week and my quilting businesses, I pretty much fill my days. People are always asking me how I do it all (the answer is being organized) and why I take on more projects (the answer to that is a bit more complicated I think LOL - perhaps I just want to try EVERYTHING).

My newest venture is Thrive foods and I really happened upon it by accident. While I was in Florida visiting my parents in March, my mom's friend asked me if I had ever heard of Thrive. She said it was new and it was freeze dried food. My first reaction was "yuck" that sounds disgusting. But, she told me to look it up online so I did and the more I looked at it and the more I thought about it the more interested I became!

 Thrive is really a revolution in food! And for someone who is as busy as I am, I needed some help ensuring that my family had nutritious, delicious and EASY food!!!  For almost a year now we have been using and loving Isagenix, but I wanted to be able to make healthy meals for my family too. For years I have been buying fruits and vegetables on a weekly basis and watching them go bad before we could eat them!!

Besides the convenience and the reduction in waste, Thrive foods are packed with nutrients!!

We have been loving our Thrive foods and we are having so much fun sharing them with our friends and family! Check out the Thrive Life Website to see all of the products available - believe me you will be AMAZED!!!

Quilting the birthday quilt

Finally...

Just like the cobblers children who never had shoes, sometimes my kids have to wait a long time to get a quilt. Carson has been waiting for his birthday quilt to be quilted for over 4 months now!! There always seams to be another customer quilt that needs to be done first. But today was the day!! I FINALLY assembled the backing, loaded it on my Gammill and got to work!

The birthday quilt loaded onto the Gammill

I made this quilt top by appliquéing large hexagon shapes onto a single piece of fabric using fusible web. The hexagons were cut using my Bullseye Hexagon Die set from Accuquilt. I used the blanket stitch on my sewing machine to stitch down all of the edges. I especially liked the look of the edges that were stitched with the black and white variegated thread - it almost looked like piano keys when it was finished.

After the quilt was loaded on the machine, I selected a variegated grey thread and decided to do a meandering design over the whole quilt, but once I got to the first hexagon, I decided to try out a different design.

As I made my way across the quilt, I tried out more and more designs in each of the hexagons. This quilt was so much fun to quilt as I knew my son would love it even if I made a "mistake". 

Here is the quilt all quilted - now how long is it going to take for me to put binding on it??? Maybe he'll get it by Christmas LOL.