Both machines were humming away by quarter to five this morning, one with more snowflakes, the other with more bookmarks.

All this embroidery has been a nice break from quilting, I’m enjoying it!  I’m going through a serious amount of white thread though!

I have to take a break for a little while though, and go make some more fruitcakes.  My fruit has been soaking in brandy for several weeks now, I’ve never let it go that long, so it could be interesting!

The new KitchenAid mixer arrives today, so tomorrow I’ll start baking cookies so I can test it out and see how it compares to my old one.  I was going to do the fruitcakes tomorrow and use it, but Jim decided it would be better put to use on cookies.  Imagine that.  LOL

Somewhere once I read that you could save all your scraps of water soluble stabilizer, chop them up and put them into a jar, and put some water in it to dissolve the pieces.  Then you can use this solution to brush onto fabric for say, decorative stitches in lieu of using more stabilizer. 

So there’s my half gallon mason jar, getting full quickly!  I have no idea of how much water to add though, if anyone has any experience in doing this, please share details!