Easy bread,

Last week I got one easy recipe for bread, from one TV program I looked. The recipe was look quite interesting, so I wrote it down and decided on weekend to try. It was as easy as they promised it to be.

Ingredients:

1 kg flour
9,5dl.  lukewarm water
2 tbl spoon sugar
2 tbl spoon salt
18 gr dry yeast it is same as 75 gr. ordinary yeast
1 egg

Mix flour, sugar, salt and dry yeast very well through. Add water and mix it very well through. You do not have to knead the dough. Cover with plastic and let it stay in fridge over night. Next day around lunch take it out and let it warm up to rooms temperature. Take a baking tray and cover with baking paper and lightly with flour, because dough is not very hard. When dough has became to rooms temperature, you can divide dough for 2 equal portions or 12 smaller buns. Cover the breads or buns with whipped egg and bake them 1 hour in 200 degrees. 

Bon Appetit!

Have a nice spring day,
                                          Ingrit

Sweet braid,

In Sunday I finally took time and baked after a while again. I really felt good to do it, since I love to bake. Unfortunately there is not many, who would eat it, else I would love to bake much more often.

Ingredients:

600-800 gr. wheat flour
4 dl.  water or milk
60 gr. butter
4 tbl spoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
50 gr yeast
1 egg

200 gr. hazelnut cream
150 gr. dark chocolate
200 gr. dried apricots

crush yeast to the bowl and add sugar. Mix it until yeast has melted. Add salt. Under the time warm up milk or water up to ca 35 degrees and add it to melted yeast and sugar mix. Melt all the butter and add it to the mix. Mix it through and make sure that all sugar is melted. As a last add flour little in a time and mix it. Knead until dough is fast. If you can, take it out of bowl and let it stay in the counter about 1 hour. After that divide it 3 equal shares.

Roll all shares in equally out in squares. Chop the apricots and chocolate . Cover each square equally with hazelnut cream and chopped apricots and chocolate in full length. Roll it up. Braid the rolls and lift to the baking pan. Whip up the egg and cover the braid. Let it stay out another 35-40 minutes. Heat oven up to 200 degrees and after it has stand out, bake it 35 minutes.  After that it is ready to eat.

This braid was filled with hazelnut cream, chocolate and apricots, but it can be filled actually with anything you want. This dough was quite sweet, since I had used sweet yeast and little bit more sugar, but this same dough can be made even to salt pastry. Just use ordinary yeast and little bit less sugar and little bit more salt and salty filling. 

Enjoy it with good cup of coffee.

Have a nice evening,
                                     Ingrit

Bag for spring,

Today I was an inspiration evening in Jönköping in my dealer for my sewing machine. We was quite many today and it was actually fun. Always nice to meet other persons, who has the same interest for sewing.
Last time, I could not be there, because my shoulder, but since I planned to go this time, I did not do anything with that hand for a week, so that I could go there. Last time, so many had wished to make a bags and so, today we did it.
I am so happy for it. I had for a while wished to make a new bags for myself for spring and summer and for different occasions. Today it was just a start. More pictures from my bag can be seen in my handworks Facebook page. This bag will have couple of details more, but for now, I have to wait a bit, since the embroidery card I ordered shortly after new year, has still not arrived. Hopefully soon it will arrive and I can make final touches for it.
Next bag I will make, I will use bit different material from my home. Can´t wait it already :) When it is done, I can promise, that you will see the result.

Have a nice day and enjoy the spring,
                                                             Ingrit

Updated list with embroidery patterns,

My list has been now updated. One new patterns has been added. It comes from Husqvarna and name is: Elegant Cases. Soon I will try to make some examples from it. Just need to let my shoulder to have better day.

Husqvarna Viking patterns:

Card 263 Line Art Flowers 
Card 257 3D Flowers
Card 253 Elegant Cases
Card 252 Yarn Art
Card 247 Most Popular Lace
Card 237 Quilting for the Holiday 
Card 231 Textured Quilting II 
Card 229 Majestic Seasons
Card 227 Christmas Creations
Card 222 Cross Stitch Harmony
Card 215 Hoop! Sew! Go! 
Card 214 Towel Magic
Card 203 Special Techniques Butterflies  
Card 202 Cutwork Finesse
Card 200 In Full Bloom
Card 197 Embellish with Yarn
Card 193 Wing Needle Embroidery
Card 186 Mega Madeira Borders
Card 182 Felting Art Embroidery
Card 180 Mega Blossom
Card 178 Mega Decór  
Card 163 Dimensional Decorations
Card 162 Blooming Flower 
Card 153 Colors of Autumn
Card 137 Swedish Santas 
Card 128 Flowers and Fashions
Card 117 Mega Borders
Card 78 Kitchen & Garden II
Card 74 Fuzzy Wuzzy Bears
Card 68 Beautiful Baltimore
Card 47 Butterflies

Pfaff patterns:

Card 452 Handbags and More
Card 436 Grand Dream Yarn Quilting Special Techniques
Card 429 Elegant Pop-Up Flowers
Card 424 Endless vintage cotton lace

Inspira patterns:

Towel Time!
Kitchen Art
Endless Elements
Flower Fun
Elegant Bottles
Easter Friends
Fantasy Flowers
Playtime
Mega Florals
Christmas Eve
Cross stitch borders
Baltimore in Bloom

Spring is on the way,

Today it has been another nice spring day. Ok, most of the time it has been nice. It also rained a little, but it was much different compared with the previous rainings in the winter time. That rain had fresh air with it. It smelled as spring.
It also nice to see how the warm weather has made nature much nicer. First flowers have been start to have flowers and all the nature starts really to wake up. Buds on trees are growing by every day.
Today, when I and my husband took a walk out in our neighborhoods together with our dog, when we found first wild flowers in flowering. Weather has been promised to be nice and warm during a daytime until Saturday. When it should be some snow again together with rain. Even thought, that I love winter and snow, when as it is outside right now, when I honestly do not want anymore snow. Tulips and daffodils in my garden has been grown quite much during last days and I would like to see them flowering instead that it should be frozen.
Since it is spring outside, when I discovered a nice spring even inside our house today. I had some tulips onions in ground at kitchen window. Today I saw that almost all have got flowers. It was actually quite nice view. Every year, I like tulips more and more. They are so simple flowers, but when they are blooming, they are such a beautiful to look.
Soon spring has arrived in full speed. It is a nice season as well. It is so nice to see how all is starting to grow and how nature starts to be greener and changes this gray color with green.
Have a nice evening and enjoy the time outside. All this changes and sunny days are just what we need after dark days, when days was shorter and colder. All this warm and sun gives so much positive energy. At least it is for me.
Love,
          Ingrit