Knot Sew Crafty

Auction by Springtree

Check out the stunning photo that Maya from Springtree Road is auctioning off--photograph.

She's so talented!

Tutorial and Giveaway

Michelle from the always-delightful Green Kitchen has posted a lovely Wrist Pin-cushion Tutorial. Head on over and visit and you may even win one of your own!

Awards

I've been given two blog awards this week, one from the fantastic Jessica at Zakka Life and one from the lovely Caroline at Burrow House. The thing that I've discovered about blog awards is that they are a great way to find new blogs to read, so I'm going to take this opportunity to introduce you to some that I especially enjoy visiting these days.

Here is my list of 14 blogs for you to meet:

Rancho Gordo Beans Blog
Audrey & Maude
Britt-Arnhild's House in the Woods
Buttons Magee
chikaustin
The Claw
hausmaus
The helylle-foträta styling experience
jolly hockey sticks
Juicy Bits
Lily and Agathe
sweet paul
The Winemaker's Wife
favorite chose

If I didn't list your blog, I'll get you next time, and please consider yourself awarded anyway, if you want to be. If you're visiting here, I'm sure that you have a blog that I admire! If you're new, leave a comment and I'll come visit you.

Hooray!

The delightful Fred's World is back! Go visit him and say hi, and don't forget Happy Loves Rosie!

Craft Book Book Club

The Crafty Daisies are starting a Craft Book Book Club. Sounds like fun, and I really hope I can get it together to participate, but back-to-school time is always so crazy that I'm not sure. If any of you crafties, or even any knot-sew-crafties, out there are interested, the book club "rules" are posted here.

And Tomorrow, I Buy Lottery Tickets...

Just heard from Marnie of the delightful girl number twenty. Guess what? I'm one of the winners of her fabric giveaway!

I feel like the luckiest blogger in the world!

Who, Me?

Jessica from Zakka Life just e-mailed me to say that I've won this lovely book:

How exciting! You will all be receiving Japanese desserts made out of felt for the holidays...

Thanks so much, Jessica!

I'm Not Worthy

Jessica from Turkey Cookies has nominated me for a blog award. I'm quite happy about it, as I still feel very new to blogging and positive recognition is always delightful, especially when it comes from someone whose blog I enjoy as much as I enjoy Jessica's.

The award comes with these rules:

1. The winner can put the logo on their blog.
2. Link to the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs you’ve nominated.
6. Write an acceptance speech in the style of the Academy Awards, thanking every body’s mother, father, sister, brother, aunties and uncles and the kitchen staff at your favorite restaurant!

I hereby nominate the following "Brillante" blogs:

The Procrastinating Girl

Amy from 4patch

Alison from Betty Lives!

Maya from Springtree Road

Andrea from Under a Blue Moon

Nan from Pots and Pins

Paige from Funny Magic

Denise from Mom in Madison

I want to thank anyone and everyone who has ever looked at Knot Sew Crafty, even if only for a moment, and even if it was only by accident.

Life is Good!

Amy from fourpatch just dropped off some rhubarb that she picked at her mother's house.

Should I make, perhaps, a flummery?

Labné and Flummery? Yes, Please!

One of my all-time favorite blogs is Eggbeater, by Shuna Fish Lydon. It's a great food blog, which would be enough, but it's also delightfully written, funny, and the pictures are fantastic too.

This week, Shuna is featured in the New York Times Magazine, in Amanda Hesser's Recipe Redux feature. I can't wait to try her recipe for Labné-and-Ricotta Cheesecakes With Rice, Nut and Raspberry Relish. The original idea was to serve the labné with a raspberry flummery, which is a fruit pudding of sorts, but Shuna followed her instincts and ended up with a relish on top instead. I am so glad, because the relish sounds amazing!

As for flummery, I am especially happy about its resurgence, because the name just couldn't be better--flummery!!--and because my family has been making a variation of it forever, calling it by the German name, "rote grütze." For the linguistically minded among you, that translates to "red grits," even though the dish has nothing to do with grits at all. I bet you could serve it over grits and it would be delicious. We usually have it with vanilla custard or whipped cream, or if we're very lucky, both.