Taylor Made Designs

Happy Halloween

The house is decorated, the candy is ready and I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of the kids in costumes. 

Over the years, Quilt Market has, more often than not, fallen on Halloween.  So I am extra excited to be here.  According to my husband, we don't usually get a lot of trick-or-treaters so this year I used our electirc Christmas luminarias to make Halloween luminarias.  I cut the bottom out of 7 plastic pumpkins (.94 each) and put them over the luminaria bases.  I think they look very festive and inviting to anyone wandering around looking for candy.

Keep your fingers crossed that it works or you know who will end up eating these candy bars!

Zebra Cake

Look how cute this fabric combination turned out using the new Slice of Cake Pincushion pattern.  My daughter, Elizabeth, also know around here as The Apprentice selected the fabrics.  We call it the zebra cake for obvious reasons but one of our favorite desserts also goes by that name.  You might know it as a Refrigerator Roll.  You will find the recipe on the bottom of a box of Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafer Cookies.  When you cut the finished roll on a diagonal you get a black and white stripe so when the girls were little they always referred to it as "Zebra Cake".  If you have never made this delicious dessert you might give it a try.  It's cookies and whipped cream...what's not to like?