{"id":67038,"date":"2025-07-07T06:55:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=67038"},"modified":"2025-07-06T12:17:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T19:17:29","slug":"a-little-sew-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/a-little-sew-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Sew Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67041\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67041\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250704_153313_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67041\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250704_153313_wm-sm-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"Coffee Walnut Cake\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250704_153313_wm-sm-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250704_153313_wm-sm-768x794.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250704_153313_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 85vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coffee Walnut Cake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WOW! Sew Day was a mob scene on Saturday. It was great, but very busy. I thought there wouldn&#8217;t be very many attendees, because of the holiday weekend, but I was wrong.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We even had a person Julie and I met at the Fair come and visit. I only got to talk to her a little bit, but I hope she joins. The more the merrier!<\/p>\n<p>After reading several installments of the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/44zhI3A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jenny Starling series<\/a>** (<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/46w5yev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Castle Mystery<\/a>** was the one I really remember the cake playing a part) and hearing about her delicious walnut cake, I decided to make one. I looked at a few recipes and decided on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nigella.com\/recipes\/coffee-and-walnut-layer-cake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one by Nigella Lawson<\/a>. I had everything except Caster sugar, so was pretty much set.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sew Day is a great way to try new recipes as I have a lot of good tasters available. Also, usually I only want a piece, or two, so a whole cake is too much for the two of us. I came home with one large piece left, which tells me it was a success. I think I will add a little more of the coffee flavor to the batter next time I make it. I posted about it on IG and like to think it was the lure of cake that brought some many people out to Sew Day.<\/p>\n<p>I got a lot done. I cut out the final Triumphant border.It was a struggle, but I did it. I felt like I had totally forgotten how to use the HuRTy rulers since the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/triumphant-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last time I worked on the quilt<\/a>. \ud83d\ude41 I got a free HuRTy PuRTy quilt pattern and may make it just to cement the use of the rulers in my mind.<\/p>\n<p>I cut a few pieces for a Hackney pouch that I have been working on since I visited <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/birch-fabrics-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birch Fabrics<\/a>.&nbsp; This was sort of an in between project while I waited for Lynette to be free to work on my lesson.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67043\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67043\" style=\"width: 295px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250705_182329_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67043\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250705_182329_wm-sm-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"Anchoring lining to exterior - ready to sew\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250705_182329_wm-sm-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250705_182329_wm-sm-768x781.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250705_182329_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 85vw, 295px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anchoring lining to exterior &#8211; ready to sew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I brought the 6 Open Wide pouches I had prepared and we went through anchoring the lining to the exterior.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have done the technique before, but needed a refresher and this was a great one. It all came back to me as we worked together.<\/p>\n<p>I also showed Lynette what I was doing with the zipper tabs. I was able to&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After I got home, I did a yoga session and saw some fabrics I can use for more zipper pouches.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All in all a good day!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>**N. B. : Obviously, you should shop at local quilt shops and small businesses. However, if you are too busy or can\u2019t find what you need there, I use Amazon affiliate links and may be paid for your purchase of an item when you click on an item\u2019s link in my post. There is no additional cost to you for clicking or purchasing items I recommend. I appreciate your clicks and purchases as it helps support this website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WOW! Sew Day was a mob scene on Saturday. It was great, but very busy. I thought there wouldn&#8217;t be very many attendees, because of the holiday weekend, but I was wrong.&nbsp; We even had a person Julie and I met at the Fair come and visit. I only got to talk to her a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/a-little-sew-day-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Little Sew Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[137,413],"class_list":["post-67038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-bamqg","tag-sew-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67038"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67048,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67038\/revisions\/67048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}