Coissant Calzones

Ingredients

• 1 tube Big Croissants
• Small can Tomato Sauce
• Pepperoni
• Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
• Garlic Powder
• Ground Basil
• Toppings are optional they are changeable but remember less is better.

Steps

1. Preheat Oven to 350 F
2. Open and unroll croissants

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3. Lightly sprinkle with basil, garlic powder, and/or pizza seasonings.

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4. 3 Pepperonis per croissants

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5. About a teaspoon of sauce per croissant

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6. About tablespoon cheese per croissant

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7. Wrap as to not let sauce out, small holes at corners are ok. That will let steam out.


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8. Place on ungreased cookie sheet
9. Lightly sprinkle basil, and garlic powder again.
10. Cook 13 -14 min.s or until lightly browned
11. Remove from oven sprinkle with cheese
12. Cook and additional 2-3 min.s till or until melted
13. Let cool for 5 min.s
14. Enjoy!

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Curtains Continued... or are they?

Hello Everyone,

So when I left off with the last post we were sorting blocks into strips. For the next steps I'm going to start at 1.

1. After you have your blocks sorted into the design that you wish, use straight pins to pin the blocks into strips.  A strip looks like the following picture, a strip can be two or more blocks long. Place one pin for ever two squares as shown.
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2. Sew the blocks together. The closer you get your corners the better the quilt will look. This is kind of like color in the lines,  pirate law is that it's more like a guide line. Do not sew the pins! Of course if you were to hit a pin your needle will, in the best of circumstances, just bend and not break. Worst circumstance is your needle breaks and now you need to  take the needle out and replace it!
3. Now match match the strips in the order you want them to go. You do not need pins for this step.
4. When you are done sewing the strips together you have what is called a panel. This is one of my panels. This is when my husband saw them and decided that he wants a blanket instead. So I smiled and said OK :) <--- Happy he decided this before I did the next step, but at the same time aggravated because I now have to go seam rip 3 strips off.

5. When seam ripping you want to be sure not to tare the fabric. Use your seam ripper along the seam cutting the thread in between blocks. If you do it is not a big deal, you  can patch it, but if you can help it you do not want to do this.
6. When patching use a piece of fabric about a 1/2 in larger then the hole in all directions. Sew the patch all around the hole. Then use a wide short zig-zag stitch, go over the hole.
7. Ok now that you rearrange you blocks/strips so it makes more of a blanket shape you want to iron the panel.
8. Now go back to the store to get batting, the middle fluffy stuff, and fabric for you backing, quilt back. You are going to buy enough of each to go over the edges about at least an inch and a half. Consider how thick you'll want it to be. The thicker the batting the warmer the quilt of course.
9. When you get home the first thing you do is wash, dry, and iron your fabric.
10. Trim your frayed edges. Sew the back panel so it is a little larger then the front panel. You can trim excess fabric, remember save your scraps you can use them later.
11. Now you want to find a large empty flat space you be able to spread your quilt out on. Decide how you would like to do your main outer binding edge. The one I will be doing is folding and hemming the back up to the top.
12. Now depending on how you want to bind the outer edge you layer your panels and batting if your doing it like me, lay all layers out like a blanket you would normally use. Make sure every layer is flat before the next layer is down.
1. Back panel on the bottom
2. batting
3. top panel
13. Now use either quilting safety pins or straight pins. The quilting safety pins are like normal safety pins only bent so that they can be used to pin a quilt, they also hurt less if you accidentally bump while sewing the center binding. You want to pin every block. Remember this is holding everything together till you sew in the ditches, bar-tacks in corners, or tie corners with yarn, depending on how you plan on doing that. You do not want any of these binding options to be more then one block a part, ask the quilt fabric shop how far apart they recommend because this depends on your batting.
1. Stitch in the ditch means to sew along a seam of the quilt.
2. Bar-tacking is when you sew about 4 stitches forward and a backwards stitch on the corners of your blocks.
3. Yarn ties are when you use yarn to hold all the layers together, tie this in a square knot.
14. Complete your stitching in the ditch, bar-tacking, or tying now always working from the center out. This is one of the pirate rules that I have been taught. The following picture is the result of my stitch in the ditch. You can also see how it is layered.

 The back will end up looking something similar to this...

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15. The edging I am folding and pinning it up and in like in the picture.


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16. And Congratulations! You have created a quilt and I am sure it is Beautiful. See I told you, YOU CAN DO IT!

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Hi First Blog - Curtains

Hi,
I am Arggkitten or Kitten for short. I am new at this but I have a lot of cool stuff to share. So here it goes! I grew up in southern Arizona, United States. I am happily marred 3 years this June. I am currently a junior at college working on my BS in Education. When I am done with school my goal is to have a 3rd grade classroom. I have three cats and one dog.  My favorite questions are why and or how? My favorite things to do are learn, craft, sew, play video games, going to the dog park with Lilo,my dog, spending the day with family and friends, and watching & reading nonfiction science, history, fantasy, anime, and cartoons. I am planning on blogging at least once a week about my projects I create, lessons I make, recipes I create or really like, and occasional just fun stuff. I am also always open to ideas for any blog ideas.

I am currently working on creating quilted curtains to hang in my sewing room. The pattern I choose is called a tumbling block which kind of looks like a checker board in it's simplest form. When they are done they will be 4 inch squares. If you would like to make a similar set read below....

You will need

• a way to measure your fabric. I suggest a healing cutting mat, it has measurements printed on both sides and is used with a rotary cutter
• a pair of good scissors
• a rotary cutter, which blade you get depends on the type of fabric you buy (I found it's the easiest way to cut fabric straight)
• at least one fabric with pattern, If you want more than one pattern, a good idea is to look at fat quarters, these are a 1/4 of a yard and usually a fraction of the price
• one plain fabric or the closest to plain (when you look at it from a distance it looks like a solid)
• sewing pins
• masking tape

1. Buying Fabric... You need to decide how big the future curtains will be. Normally when people make curtains they make them the width and a half of the window. So if you have a 4 foot window you need 6 feet of curtain. and of course the length, this part is more of a personal preference. Decide how big you want your squares to be when it is done. When you sew them you need to allow a 1/4 inch for hem line, any less then this you might develop a hole, more then this it is a waste of fabric.
2. Go to a few different fabric stores, every fabric store has different fabrics. When you buy your fabric, you need to remember that fabric is sold by the yard. If you go to a small local shop they will be able to help you with the amount of fabric you need to complete your project, and if you ask they might help you with colors. Big stores don't normally do this. Do not worry if you come up short on fabric you can always get more.
3. When you get home... When you get first thing you do is wash and dry your fabric. If you do not later when you wash it might not all shrink the the same and then it will look weird.
4. Iron your fabric The flatter it is the less fabric you waste, and easier it is to sew.  Fabric is expansive so try to waste as little as possible. You even want to save scraps, you can use them to make a scrap quilt, or pillow case. I'll most likely be making this next since I have so many scraps myself.
5. Create blocks... Square off your fabric. This means to cut the frayed edges off.
6. Cut your squares into the size you decided earlier remember to add the 1/4 inch for the hem. I have forgotten before and it wastes a lot of fabric if you do not catch yourself.

7. Combine your fabrics, each block contains 4 squares. You want two of your constant solid fabric and two of the pattern fabric squares. Before you sew, if this is your first time, read you sewing machine manual, and NEVER wind your main knob backwards this will mess up your gears and eventually break something.
8. Sew the squares. Each letter represents a fabric

9. Sorting... Next sort the blocks into strips. How you sort is completely up to you. Have fun! It's kind of like doing a puzzle. This is the step I am at now.
10. Creating into strips... Use the sewing pins to connect your blocks into strips, place labels on the bottom so you don't get the strips confused later.



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11. Sew strips together to create top. This would normally be a blanket so the top means the side you would want facing up when laying on the bed or in this case the room.
12. Next I will go buy my batting, backing, and rings. My windows are single pane this will help keep the air temperature I want in the room.

I'm not quiet sure what I'm going to do after this as soon as I figure this portion out I will blog it as continued curtains. I am planning on blogging at least once a week.