King's Hawaiian Rolls (Copycat)

Last month my sister Caron threw a surprise party for her hubby Brian. She did a Hawaiian themed party and she did an amazing job. The food was delicious, fun games, great decorations, and no kids. Anyways, I told some people that I would post the recipe I used to make homemade King's Hawaiian Rolls, sorry I'm just now doing it. They taste so much like the real thing, people didn't know they were homemade. They are in the picture in the back. I made 108 rolls, which was three batches. So here is the recipe, if I forgot anything let me know.

King's Hawaiian Rolls (Copycat)

1 pkg. yellow cake mix

2 pkg. yeast or 4 1/2 tsp.

1 1/4 cup pineapple juice, warmed (110 degrees)

1 1/4 cup warm water (110 degrees)

1/2 tsp. salt

5 cups flour

First, in a large bowl combine pineapple juice and water, making sure it's very warm, but not hot. Add the yeast and stir until it's dissolved. Add the cake mix and stir. Put in 4 cups flour and the salt at the same time. Mix until smooth. Slowly add the rest of the flour until the dough isn't sticky, but not dry. Let dough rise. Shape dough into 2" balls and arrange on greased baking pan. Let dough balls rise. Bake in oven at 350 degrees, for about 20 min. or until tops are golden brown. Brush the hot rolls with butter. Yield 36 rolls.

My First Pinwheel Quilt

Here is my first pinwheel quilt. I love pinwheel quilts so I had to make one, and I LOVE the fabric Darla by Tanya Whelan. So I put the two together and this is what I came up with. I'm keeping this one for myself! I even hand stitched on the binding instead of sewing it on.

This was the biggest quilt I have stippled so far. It turned out nicely thanks to my sewing machine.

Here is a picture of just the top piece finished.

Another project I finally finished. I used a 12"x 24" canvas and painted it a grey with a hint of blue. Then I sanded it a little. I glued the pictures onto black craft foam for dimension and glued it onto the canvas (the glue I used is Scotch Quick-Dry Adhesive, worked great). Then lastly Connie made me the vinyl lettering. An easy project that I'm glad I finally finished. What handsome boys!

Tanner was invited to a B-day party for a girl, so I whipped up a purse for her. I think it turned out cute, she's nine years old and she seemed to like it.

New Moda Fabric Prices!!!

Prices have been lowered in my Fabric Shop!!! Check it out and order your favorites. We have Jelly Rolls, Layer Cakes, Honey Buns, Charm Packs, and Patterns. Just click Fabrically Delicious and it will take you to the website. Have fun shopping!!!

Make Your Own Ironing Board Cover

Here is a very simplified tutorial of making a cover for your ironing board. Mine was only a year old, but looked like a century old because of the cheap padding and cover that came with it. Plus I've learned that when you sew a lot, you iron a lot. But the actual structure of the board is in great condition. So here was my attempt to make a new cover and it turned out great, I love it.

First you will need some cute fabric, I bought mine in the decorators fabric on clearance at Jo-Ann's. You will need elastic cording (I only needed one package), and Insul-Bright for the padding.

Insul-Bright is meant to be used with high heat. You could probably use something else, but I think this is probably the best.

These steps to cover the ironing board are the same for the Insul-Bright and your outside fabric. Do all the steps with the Insul-Bright first, then repeat using your outside fabric.

Lay your ironing board on top of the Insul-Bright or fabric and cut around leaving enough to hem and roll around underneath to cover the edges about 4 to 4.5 inches. (I just left on my old cover).

Hem using about 3/4" seam. Make sure you leave an opening for your cording to go through. You should back stitch at your opening. I made my opening off to the top side.

Feed your cording all the way around trying to evenly disperse the elastic cording as you pull it through.

Pull the cording from both ends tightly so you get a nice snug fitting all the way around. After it's pulled tight and you have a good fit, tie the two ends together. Clip the excess cording, leaving a little extra.

Now that you have finished making your padding cover, you repeat the same exact steps to make your fabric cover for the top.

You are finished and ready to iron. I love it, I don't feel the metal underneath anymore or have to look at all the ugly brown stains. Good luck!

Polka Dots and Stripes

For Memorial Day weekend our family went to Leavenworth, WA. Leavenworth is a cute Bavarian themed town. There are lots of cute shops, food, and live music that included yodeling. We had a really good time.

One shop had this pottery that I just fell in love with right away. I had a really hard time deciding which ones to get. I loved the red and white the most!

This size bowl was the only one with the stripes and polka dots together, so I definitely had to get this one.

Cute!!!

Okay, so right before we left town, I needed just a few more pieces. If money wasn't an option I would have took it all home.

Utah and Another Girly Quilt

Last weekend my wonderful husband let me get away to Utah to see friends and family. It was a short, but sweet trip. Here are some pictures of the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point that Kathleen and I went to. The weather was perfect! The flowers were beautiful! One of the best parts was they had Kettle Korn, mmmmmmm, my favorite.

Kathleen and her family just adopted a sweet Ethiopian baby girl. I went to the baby shower and gave her a quilt I made her using Swanky Layer Cake and a pattern from Moda Bake Shop. I'm still just a beginner quilter, but this pattern was easy to whip up. I attempted to stipple the quilt with my new machine and it did wonderful. I love how it turned out.

I appliqued Sitota's name on the quilt. Sitota is an Ethiopian name meaning Gift of God. She is such a good, sweet, adorable baby.

Like the last quilt I made, I machine stitched on the binding, easy and looks good, I think.

My boys had their pinewood derby race with the Cub Scouts. Tanner's car did quite well, and Spencer...well... he's done better in the past, but they all had fun.

A Quilt for Aria

Here is Aria my brother Chris and his wife Emily's daughter isn't she adorable? I'm excited I will be flying to Utah this weekend to see them and friends. The last time I saw Aria she was just an infant, now she is a 1-1/2 yr. old.

So I have all this girly fabric and what can a mom with four boys do with girly fabric? My first project was a quilt for my niece Aria. Unfortunately this took way longer than I had anticipated. I did a lot of hand quilting along with machine quilting, and with my new sewing machine I was able to finally finish it. In case you are wondering what fabric I used, it's Sultry by Basic Grey, I used the pattern Arcadian Garden which uses a layer cake.

This is actually my first "real" quilt. I made a couple of rag quilts for my boys, but this one took a lot more work. I love the way it turned out, especially after washing it. I love the crinkle look.

You can see that every other square was hand quilted and the others machine quilted.

Finally for the binding, I sewed it on instead of hand stitching it on. I really like it, it's not going anywhere, very strong and way faster.

Now that I've done this quilt, I've started another one, and I can't wait to show you.