Luv-e-lee...beautiful colors !

I am glad you like it Lorchen!

Beautiful mug rug Vicki - fabulous colours, reminds me of the fuchsia and montbretia flowering together here in August.

Those colors go so well together--beautiful mug rug, Lorchen and Vicki.

With big apologies to Vicki for the delay... I have no idea why I'm always so busy.

Anyway, the colours of this mug rug are my all-time favourites (I make an exception for nautical stuff and/or all shades of green - that novel should have been called "Fifty Shades of Green" to attract me, but I'm digressing.... ). It's much too bautiful to put a tumbler of single malt on it. But I do use beautiful things, so it's 'premiere' will be with a 20-year-old Aberfeldy during the autumn half-term holiday at the end of October. In the meantime, seeing that I read a lot, that lovely lace bookmark will get used. Right now it's at page 112 of 'The New Elizabethans: Sixty Portraits of Our Age' by James Naughtie.

Thank you so much, Vicki!!

Scary! Considering we can do Land's End, Penzance, Cornwall to John O' Groats, Scotland in about 14 hours by car (according to goole maps) and those are deemed our two furthest points for Britain going south/north. Mind you we do pack a lot of variety of scenery into our small space

Although I have been learning about Samuel Hearne recently who did walk over much of Canada and discovered it for the British. An interesting man.

PosyP wrote:
Haha Rosemary! Canada is big! When I was in Winnipeg (about 17 hour drive from my home) I was not even half way to Toronto!

crocus999 wrote: We seem to travel where we have family to visit and our daughter went to university in Winnipeg. I would love to visit you in Quebec. That would be awesome. I will not be able to attend Quilt Canada but hope to if it is every back out west. I planned to go two years ago when it was in Calgary but we had a blizzard that weekend and I am not a good winter traveller. Even though it was May at the time!!!!

It does sound like a lovely recipe Jane. I might even try it sometime before next Autumn.

As we switched around a bit I missed two questions... Ritzy, for your English rib stitch, I found a video that shows it clearly at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3AkwiqPYZY. Hope this helps!

Jane, I just looked at the recipe you provided the link for from the Huffington Post on how to make moon cakes with the fruit and nut filling. I've actually had them in Shanghai and they are delicious (at least I like them a lot). I did not have a recipe for the filling so thank you so much! I'm definitely going to try making the recipe you posted--I read through it and it seems pretty authentic. I'll probably try making this recipe well before the next time moon cakes are served to make sure the recipe turns out correctly. Molds are pretty inexpensive, you can get them from places like http://www.Browncookie.com or just surf the web for moon cake molds. However, even without a special mold, they'll come out fine. In that case, for decoration, you can take some red food coloring, dip the tip of a chopstick in it and mark the top of your moon cake with dots from the chopstick (three or four dots). That would be pretty too!

As a teen, I did the across the USA trip--we started in Illinois. And, I had the same experience with seeing the clouds and realizing they were mountains. A beautiful country we live in--but very big. Six hours from the north end of our state to the south end.

PosyP wrote:
When I was a young girl we drove across the USA. I remember driving across the great plains and getting to a point where in the distance you began to see something that looked like a faint cloud on the horizon. I believe that was somewhere in Kanas. Eventually it sunk in that we were seeing the Rocky Mountains. We still had hundreds of miles to drive before we reached the foothills of the Rocky's. That experience made us ever so grateful that we were not making the trip in a covered wagon like the early settlers had done. No, Rosemary, when Terrie said 3 days I think she was refering to a car. Even today with our wonderful interstate highway system it takes about 6 hrs to drive from the eastern to western border of my state (Pennsylvania). If you are driving across country at that point you've hardly just begun.

crocus999 wrote: :shock: :shock: :shock: Oh my! Is that walking?

Next time you're coming east, go a little further and come to Quebec. (and visit me) The roads are like a third world country, but the folks are fine. How could you stop in Winnipeg? It only takes three days to cross Ontario!

The CQ show this coming year is in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Have you ever been to one?