Flour Arrangements

American Pie | Blue Ribbon Apple Pie

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Maple syrup instead of sugar adds its distinctive sweetness to this award-winning apple pie recipe.
 
Before I moved to Friday Harbor, Washington, I’d never attended a county fair.   I couldn’t even tell you the location of the fair grounds where I grew up in Northern California.  

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Dream Cake | Tumbling Blocks Quilt Cake

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Geometric cookie cutters make it easy to create a Tumbling Block Quilt Cake with fondant. It’s the perfect cake for your favorite quilter!
 

My mother stitches my family’s history together one quilt at a time.   My childhood bed at my parents’ house — the one my daughter sleeps in now when we visit — is covered with one of the first quilts she made.  …

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Good Things Come in Threes

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Last summer, my friend Kimi came to visit us for her birthday.   She’s spent enough time on the island to know how she wanted to celebrate: dinner at South Beach followed by buttermilk cake with fresh strawberries and cream….

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