Quilt Group September 2022 Mary Ann and Barbara

                                 Bring Your Favorite Halloween Quilt  

 Pumpkin Cheesecake

2 cups crushed gingersnap cookies (abt. 15 normal sized cookies)

¼ cup melted butter

3   8-oz. pkgs. cream cheese, softened

¾ cup sugar, divided

1 tsp. pure vanilla extract

3 eggs

1 cup pumpkin puree

1-2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice

 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  In a medium bowl, combine the cookie crumbs and butter.  Mix well. Press onto the bottom and about 1 inch up the sides of a 9-10-inch springform pan.   In a large bowl, cream together the cream cheese, ½ cup of the sugar, and the vanilla.  Add eggs, one at a time, beating well each addition.  Remove 1 cup of the batter and set aside.  To the rest of the batter, add the remaining sugar, pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice.  Beat well.  

Spread half of the pumpkin batter onto the crust.  Top with a few spoonfuls of reserved batter.  Top with the remaining pumpkin batter.  Run a knife through the batter in a swirl pattern to get a marbled effect.  

Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes or until almost set (just slightly jiggly.)  Let cool a bit then refrigerate for 4 hours.

Prep. Time: 30 minutes plus gingerbread cookie baking time.  Baking time: 45-50 minutes.  Serves 12.

Quilt Group @ Vicki's August 26th 2022

Always a great time together with these ladies.
Vicki served us a delicious lunch and as always great conversation.

Donna started our "Show and Tell"
These days we are trying to use up fabric we have in our stash.

 

Postage Stamp Quilt 
One inch finished blocks 

Peg's baby quilt for new Granddaughter.

 

 

Wrap Ukraine With Quilts

 

Peg told us about a project she was working on.

Wrap Ukraine with Quilts

She has been putting together 5 inch blocks and made some great quilt tops.

 JoAn brought three quilts to donate.

 

Peg finished tying her quilts and they are off to help
"Wrap Ukraine With Quilts"

I added a couple of my quilts to the project1

 

 

Vicki's niece made this fabulous quilt.
Blue Ribbon in the Oregon State Fair.
Exploding Heart Pattern by Slice of Pi quilt Patterns. 
"It is so appropriate for how my heart feels about Russia's invasion of Ukraine"