Karen Kay Buckley

Now for some more quilts from the International Quilt Show in Houston. The quilt below was made by Caryl Bryer Fallert and it won 1st place in the Art-Abstract, Small category.  What’s not to like?  I always love Caryl’s use of color.  Beautiful.  For more information about Caryl go to www.bryerpatch.com

“In Quiot’s Market” was designed by Patt Blair from California.  It won 2nd place in the Art-Painted Surfaces category.  Pat worked from a photo she had taken at an open market in Ecuador.

“Boston’s Back Bay” won 3rd place in the Group quilt category.  It was made by Mary Lou Schwinn, Janet Dye, Joan Randall,  Janet Duncan Dignan, Patricia Smith, Garciela Piccolo. I am always fascinated by these types of quilts where the photo is broken up and each person makes a section of the photo.  And in the end they all work so well together.

Here is another project from the Group quilt category.  It is called “African Rhythms”.  It was made by Jane Hall, Tama Brooks, Kathy Hefner, Mary Cocoran, Margaret Jordan, Sonja Labarde, Janice Pope and Marlene Roys.  Great layout.

“Butterfly Dance” made by Anna Faustino of New Jersey won 1st place in the Art-Abstract, Large category.

Have a good week and  more quilts from Houston to come.

In closing,  a big THANK YOU for your response to my  Perfect Scissors.

I just returned from teaching in Liberty, New York.  When I arrived at the hotel there were lots and lots of men with guns and they were all in camo!.  Had me a little concerned.  However, since my dad was a big hunter I was pretty sure what was happening.  But, when you pull into a Days Inn and see guns being carried into the hotel….well, it’s a little disconcerting.  I confirmed with the hotel registration desk that the next morning was opening day for deer hunting in New York.  OK, so all’s well.  Two ladies from the guild, Joanne and Cheryl, picked me up at the hotel.  We had never met before and they said they knew it was me because I was the only person in the lobby not dressed in hunting attire.

We had a very delightful meal and the next day I taught a workshop for the Calico Geese Quilt Guild.  What a nice group of ladies.  They had a potluck lunch.  Everyone brought something to share.  The food was excellent.  I say it all the time.  Quilters know how to cook.  I asked Joanne if she would share her egg salad and brownie recipe.  Outstanding!  Both of them.  Apparently Joanne is known for her egg salad.  She has chickens and I gather the secret to the recipe is her fresh eggs.  Joanne shared her recipes with me.  They are at the end of this blog.  This was one of my trips were I forgot to take photos.  I hate when I forget to take photos.  It’s just that sometimes I am so on task that I forget about the photos.  You can find out more about the Calico Geese Quilt Guild at http://www.quiltguilds.com/new-york.htm

Here are some more photos from the International Quilt show in Houston.  I loved this little bug.  Well, it was actually pretty big.  I’d run the other way if I ever saw a bug this big but in a quilt I love it.  The name of the quilt is “Our Divine Miss Beetle” and the maker of this quilt is Sonia Grasvik from Seattle, WA.

“Tiger Eyes” was made by Patt Blair of Mt. Baldi, CA.  Fantastic face.

Just look at this amazing miniature quilt.  It is called “Mission Impeccable”.  For me it would have been mission impossible!  How does one pick up those small pieces?  The maker was Kumiko Frydl from Houston, TX.  The ribbon is almost bigger than the quilt.  Fabulous.  As you can see from the ribbon it won first place in the miniature category.

This next quilt was made by Hollis Chatelain and the name of the quilt is “Innocence”.  It won the Viewer’s choice award.

Here is a close-up shots of Hollis’ quilt.  The quilting shows many faces.

Joanne’s Egg Salad

1 dozen hard boiled eggs, peeled and chopped.  Add a good squeeze of honey mustard, 2 heaping spoons of sweet pickle relish, and mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste.

Joanne’s Easy Turtle Bars (makes 30 bars)

1 pkg chocolate cake mix

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted

1/4 cup milk

1 cup semisweet choc chips

1 cup chopped pecans

1 jar (12 oz) caramel ice cream topping

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly coat a 9 x 13 pan with non-stick cooking spray.

Combine cake mix, butter and milk in a large bowl.  Stir until well blended.  Spread 1/2 of mixture in the bottom of the pan.

Bake 7 to 8 minutes.  Sprinkle chips, half of the pecans over crust.  Drizzle caramel over this.  Top with spoonfuls of remaining batter.  Sprinkle with remaining pecans.

Bake 18 to 20 minutes or until top springs back when lightly touched.  (Caramel center will be soft)  Cool completely in a pan on wire rack.  Cut into bars.

Thanks again Joanne for sharing these wonderful recipes!

I’ll share more quilts from Houston in the next blog.

I’ve been so busy shipping orders that I have not had time to blog this past week.  As many of you know I have a new product, Karen Kay Buckley’s Perfect Scissors.  They come in two sizes, 7 1/2″ and 4″.  This has been a real labor of love for me.  I’ve been working on this project for the past 3 or 4 years.  I’ve been selling other brands of serrated scissors but there were a couple of things I wished could be improved.  I wanted a safety shield for the scissors.  I wanted comfortable soft grip handles.  And I wanted my scissors to be sharp to the very point.  And I wanted all of this at a good price.  After several years of working on this project the scissors finally arrived last Thursday.  Yippee!  I posted a newsletter and am happy to say lots of you have ordered.  And I’ve gotten emails back from several of you telling me how much you love your scissors.  It’s hard for me to explain to you how much your comments mean to me.  Thank you so much for supporting my decision to have the scissors made.  If you are not on my newsletter list please go to my “store” page and click on “scissors” for more information.

International Quilt Festival in Houston.  What can I say.  Another awesome year.  Even though I taught every single day while I was there I did find time to do a little shopping and most importantly to look at the quilts.  Here are a couple of the top winners.

Best of Show was Sharon Shambers quilt Mystique.  It is an amazing quilt.  Sharon has won many, many awards and they are will deserved.  Her workmanship is beyond belief. You can find more about Sharon at www.sharonschamber.com

Here are some close-up shots.  Quilting with black thread.  Now that took some guts.  The areas in red are covered pieces of cording.  The black area you see behind the red cording is the black backdrop behind the quilt.  The area between the red cording is actually an open area.

Pat Holly won one of the top awards.  She won the Maywood Studio Master Award for Innovative Artistry.  Pat’s work is also incredible.  It’s all in the details.  Pat’s quilt Paisley Peacock is machine appliqued with tiny buttonhole stitches over the raw edge.  Done to perfection.

The Founders Award went to this incredible Baltimore Album quilt.  Nancy Kern’s is the maker of this quilt, Mary Simon Rediscovered.  You can find out more about Nancy at www.nancykerns.com Nancy closely reproduced an antique quilt from the DAR museum.  Stunning.

This is another of the top prize winners, Royal Amethyst.  The maker is Rachelle Denneny from South Australia. This award was sponsored by eQuilter.com and it was called The World of Beauty award.  You can find out more about Rachelle at http://amqretreat.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38:rachelle-denneny&catid=11:teachers

This quilt, Eternal Garden won the Robert S. Cohen Master Award for Traditional Artistry.  I believe this quilt was entirely sewn by hand.  The maker is Yoko Sugisawa from Toyoko, Japan.

I’ll share more quilts from the International Quilt Association show in my next blog.  Stay tuned.

When I was teaching in St. Charles a couple of weeks ago a student, Mary Beth Clark,  who took my “Heard It Through The Grapevine” workshop in 2001 brought her finished piece for me to see.   She used her block for a Round Robin group and this is the result.  Her quilt turned out beautifully.  In case you are not familiar with a Round Robin, it is when several people add to your center square.  So, Mary Beth made the on-point block in the center and then friends added the corners and border designs.

Another student, Betty Brister,  sent me a photograph with this note:

Dear Karen Kay:  It is with great pride that I announce that I have a quilt in the IQA show in Houston this year, and I want you to know that all the applique was done using your technique.  “My Friends Made Me Do It aka Starlight Garden” is in the Mixed Technique category and will be included in Karey Bresenhan’s newest book “Lone Stars, Volume III, Texas Quilts from 1985-2011”.

I was able to photograph Betty’s quilt while I was in Houston this past week.  It is stunning!

Congratulations to Betty and Mary Beth for successfully making some beautiful quilts.

Next weeks blog will be quilts from Houston.  There was lots and lots to see.

In order to fly from Harrisburg to Chicago I had to fly through the Philadelphia airport to make my connections.  I honestly cannot ever remember being in the D terminal in the Philadelphia airport.  A new experience!  As I was walking to the D terminal I came across a surprising display.  It stopped me in my tracks.  It was a display of old irons.  It was a rather large collection.  Who would have thought?

Oh, how I wish they still made irons like this.  I love the sharp edges and the points on these irons for the type of pressing I do on my applique.

I can honestly say that I have never seen a round iron before.

I love this green iron.  If they made one like this today I would buy it in a heart beat.

My flight to Chicago was uneventful.  My favorite kind.  I taught a workshop on Monday and lectured both Monday evening and Tuesday morning for the Prairie Star Quilters Guild in St. Charles, Illinois.  You can find more information about this guild at http://www.prairiestar.net What a pleasure to work with such a well organized group.  They have several people on their program committee which means one person does not get bogged down doing all of the work.  Great idea.  Susan Jensen picked me up at the airport and dropped me off at my hotel.  I enjoyed the drive from the airport to the hotel getting to know a new friend.  Mary Stewart was also on the committee and Mary took great care of me…… from excellent dining to showing me around the area.  We stopped at a spice shop in town.  I had never been in a store that had nothing but spices.  I enjoyed myself very much finding some new spice mixes to try.  Mary also worked hard getting our workshop location set-up and organized.  Mary took me on a nice little walk through a local park along the river.

And then a friend and fellow teacher showed up in my class, Barb Vlack.  Barb teaches a lot of classes on Electric Quilt plus other quilting related classes.  You can find more information about Barb at www.barbvlack.com/about_me/about_me.htmWhen Barb taught for my guild several years ago she presented a great lecture and several workshops on using the Electric Quilt program to aid in designing quilts.  Very interesting.  Barb is very organized and really knows her stuff.  Barb was kind enough to drive me to the airport on Tuesday.  Traveling on Tuesday was a little crazy.  There were some very severe storms.  I thought for sure that I would be in Chicago until Wednesday.  But, as luck would have it my flight took off only an hour after it was scheduled.  Not bad.

My next adventure is a week in Houston for the International Quilt show, my 25th consecutive visit to quilter’s heaven!!!  I can hardly wait.  There will be lots to blog about when I get back.

I love driving in the Northeast this time of year.  The views are amazing.  I was invited to lecture and teach a workshop in Somers, New York for the Northern Star Quilters Guild, www.northernstarquilters.com/  .  The name of the guild sounded familiar to me.  As soon as I arrived at the location of the lecture I knew I had been to this guild before.  One of the members reminded me that I had been there in 1997!  Thirteen years ago!  Holy cow!   For many, many years I have been telling a story when I begin my border lecture.  The story goes something like this….The reason I started doing a lecture on borders is because one time when I was lecturing to a guild in New York a lady, at the end of my lecture which included some of my antique quilts and some of my quilts, said she had a comment to make.  I’m telling you when she said that I was a little worried.  It’s normal for someone to ask a question but for someone to say they had a comment was a little disconcerting.  Then this lady said, “I think after seeing several of your quilts you need to consider doing a lecture on designing borders.  The borders on your quilts are really interesting.”  I had a sigh of relief at her comment and told her I would think about it.  On my drive home from New York in 1997 all I could think about was her suggestion because over the years I have used a lot of different borders on my quilts.  This lady’s suggestion brought about a border lecture, a book of my quilts showing all of my border ideas and how I design them and a 3 hour workshop on this same subject.  Who would have ever thought that one little suggestion could lead to so many good things.  Well, when I walked into the auditorium it was like deja vu.  I remembered the room.  I remembered that this had been the place where the comment was made.  When I mentioned this at the start of the meeting I said I wanted to thank whoever made the suggestion.  Some people said they would like to take credit but apparently that person was not at the meeting or does not remember making that comment.  But, being in that room really took me back.

On Wednesday the guild held their workshop at the Mahapac Library.  Here are some views from room where the workshop was held.

On my drive up to New York I finished listening to Nicholas Sparks newest book called ‘Safe Harbor”.  I told my girlfriend I was half afraid to listen to a Nicholas Sparks book when I was on my way to a guild.  My reason…..I often cry when reading a Nicholas Sparks book.  I was afraid my make-up would be running down my face when I arrived at the guild for my evening lecture!  I think I’ve mentioned this before when it comes to Nicholas Sparks.  I love that he takes just a few characters and really develops them.  This book was no exception.  Katie/Erin is in a very bad marriage.  Her husband is abusive.  When I was listening to this book on my drive I was talking out loud in my car saying things like…I’d like to smack her husband…I have some big friends who could do to him what he did to her.  Nicholas Sparks always has a way of allowing me to really relate to the characters and the grief they are going through.  I fell like I know them and want to help them.  Without giving the end away…..I liked the ending.

My next adventure will take me to Illinois.  I’ll fill you in when I return.

My most recent trip took me to Waterford, Connecticut.  I visited the Clam Shell Quilt Guild www.clamshellquiltguild.org/index.html This was kind of a whirl wind trip.  I flew in on Wednesday and flew home Thursday night after the workshop.  My guild contact person was Tara Thornton who picked me up at the airport in Providence, RI.  As Tara drove me to the hotel the views were breathtaking.  It’s that time of year when the leaves are just starting to change in New England.  Here is just a little of what I saw.

This week I am going back to the New England area.  I’ll be driving to New York and plan to leave home a little early so I can stop and take some more photos.  I love this time of year in the Northeast when the leaves are changing, the sky is blue and there is a bite in the air.  It might be time to put my sandals away and get out my boots!

Tara took me to a Greek restaurant before the guild meeting.  I really loved this stained glass window in the restaurant.  The shapes and the colors were very appealing and the little perfect circles around the design of course caught my attention.

My trip to the Clam Shell Quilters was very enjoyable, albeit short.  I made some new friends and saw some familiar faces.  Thank you ladies for allowing me to lecture and teach for your guild.  It was really a pleasure.

In a previous blog I told you that some of the ladies from the  Fort Wayne potluck dinner were going to share their recipes.  The first one is from Janet Ditton.  Janet said the recipe came from the Purdue University student union kitchen.  This salad dressing was fantastic.  Janet used this salad dressing on a bed of mixed greens.  I think it would also be good on a pasta and veggie salad.  I bet you’ll find many uses for this dressing.

Purdue Dressing

1/2 cup sugar

1 teaspoon ground mustard

2 tablespoons grated onion

1 teaspoon salt

1/3 cup vinegar

3/4 cup vegetable oil

1 teaspoon celery seed

Place sugar, mustard and salt in blender.  Add grated onion (including juice) and a little vinegar.  Blend.  Then alternate adding vinegar and oil mixing after each.  Add celery seed and blend a little more.

Enjoy.   Thanks Janet for sharing your recipe.

This past week has been a very, very busy week for me.  I started the week going to Fort Wayne, Indiana.  It was my first time to visit Fort Wayne.  I thought based on the size of their airport Fort Wayne was going to be much smaller than it actually was.  On my first evening in Fort Wayne several ladies from the guild invited me to join them for a “potluck” dinner.  Each of the ladies who attended brought something to eat.  And they all knew that I ate vegetarian and they were most accommodating.  The meal and the company were excellent.  My guild contact, Jan Johnson, is going to be sending me some of the recipes which I will share with you in a future blog.

On Tuesday I taught a 3 hour workshop on designing applique blocks and borders and gave a lecture that evening.  Then on Wednesday I taught a 6 hour machine applique workshop.  When you see the pictures below you can judge for yourself but I think these ladies had a good time and learned a lot.  They look like happy campers to me.

You can find more information about this guild by visiting their website www.appleseedquiltersguild.com/ I know I have mentioned this before after visiting other guilds but I think Fort Wayne might just go down as doing the most charity work of any guild I have attended.  I’ll grant you that I don’t always know the total amount of charity work each guild I visit is doing but I do know the Appleseed Quilters are certainly doing more than their share.  Keep up the good work ladies.  This guild also has a lot of little “bees” as they call them.  Since the guild is pretty large they opted to form smaller groups (“bees”) that meet in a more intimate atmosphere so the members bond a little better than if they only see each other at the larger guild meeting.  Great idea ladies.

Here is one of the not so fun things that happens during my travels.  Sitting on the runway of the Fort Wayne airport for an hour because of problems in Chicago, which is where I had to make my connection late Wednesday evening.  But, I made good use of the time.  I finished reading the book I mention below.

One thing that I was excited about that was unrelated to my quilting adventures this week was a book that I read.  The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group marketing people apparently check to see if people are writing reviews, etc. about their authors.  Well, one of their marketing people, Adrienne Sparks, noted that I wrote a review on Pat Conroy’s book called “South of Broad” in my blog.    Adrienne wrote and asked me if I would like an advance copy of Pat Conroy’s new book “My Reading Life” which is due to be released the beginning of November.  I was very excited to be one of  the first people to read this book.  And I would highly recommend it.  After reading several of Pat Conroy’s books over the years it was a pleasure to see how he developed as a writer.  He writes about the books and people who have had an affect on his writing.  After reading this book I think that Pat Conroy might possibly be one of the best read authors of all time.  He talks about how if he liked one book from an author he would devour all books written by that author.  I do understand that mind set.  I too find that once I find an author that I like I go back and read all of their previous books.  I just wish I could find as much reading time as Mr. Conroy.  It is no wonder, with his extensive reading library, that he is able to use some of the best descriptive words. Thank you to Pat Conroy for this glimpse into his reading world and too Adrienne for sending me an advanced copy.  What a thrill.

On Thursday I drove to Paramus, New Jersey to present 2 lectures and a workshop to the Brownstone Quilters Guild www.brownstonequilters.com/ Another lovely group of people.  It took me a little under 4 hours to make the drive.  If the New Jersey Parkway was not so congested the drive could be made in close to 3 hours I think.  But, as always, I was listening to a good audio book which does make the stop and go traffic not as bad.  (I’ll fill you in on the new Nicholas Sparks book when I finish it.)  This was my second visit to the Brownstone Quilters.  I had been there probably ten years ago.  Boy, that reminds me just how long I have been doing this.  The guild was very welcoming and took great care of me while I was in Paramus.  The workshop chairperson had been reading my blog and on the morning of the workshop there was a chai tea latte sitting on my table.  I am so spoiled.  I love it.  I just love those kind of surprises.

One of the greatest gifts I receive is hearing the complimentary comments of the students as they leave the workshop.  It does my heart good to get such great comments.  I put a lot of work into preparing for my workshops because I want to ensure that all the students have a good day.  One lady said “You don’t know what you don’t know until you know it”.  Every applique teacher uses different techniques.  I only teach the techniques that work well for me.   But, I am a firm believer that if you really want to learn about applique you should take classes from as many different teachers as you can.  We all present the information in a different way and sometimes you might not be ready for it but the next time it might just get through to you.

This week I’m off to Connecticut via the Rhode Island airport.  Should be another interesting adventure.

I am finding as I get older that I need help to see things better.  I have talked about this great invention in some of my lectures.  The magnifier attachment for my Bernina sewing machine.  They do make generic ones also.  This is my 820 Bernina machine before the magnifier is attached.  The machine has excellent light casting down around the foot area.

But, when I sit in my chair and try to keep my posture correct, back straight and legs at a 90 degree angle, it’s rather hard to see some of the detail work I like to do without bending over.  I find that the Bernina magnifier is the perfect solution. I absolutely love this attachment.  The Bernina magnifier box offers 3 different magnifiers in one box.  Each is a different strength.  I go back and forth between two of them depending how tired my eyes are.  On this model of Bernina the arm to attach the magnifier swings up and down easily.  This is a nice feature because sometimes when I am using the needle threader on the machine I prefer to swing the magnifier up and out of the way.

Thank you to who ever thought of this.  This machine accessory really does make my work better.  It allows me to be more accurate.

I feel it is my obligation to test things for my students and fellow quilters.  (That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!)  On the final day of  Quilt Odyssey in Hershey, PA a couple of years ago one of the vendors was selling an interesting light.  Since it was the final day of the show they had the price slashed.  Great news for me.  (Like the full price would have stopped me!)  Since I drove to this show I had my car so I could get the light home with me.  Attached to the main light stand is one bendable arm with a light on the end.  On another bendable arm is a magnifier.  This is like getting 2 for the price of 1.  Light and magnifier.  Here is a picture of my 730 Bernina without the new light.

And here is the photo using the light and magnifier.

I forgot to mention that on this machine…just above the needle and to the left I also have a “Bendable Light” attached to my machine.  I love my 730 Bernina machine but I find that I need more light. The combination of added lighting really makes it easier for me to achieve the detail work I like to do.

Now, if I am sewing by hand I find this light to be extremely helpful.  This light is made by Dazor.  On the underside of the light is a round light bulb.  The bulb surrounds the magnifier.  It is a great asset to me when I hand applique.  Again, anything that makes my work better is “a good thing”.  When I was traveling in South Carolina years ago a guild member had one of these in her home and I tired it.  I really liked it and asked Joe to do an ebay search and he found a used one for me.

If you are younger and don’t need this yet…..just wait.  You’ll be glad you know about this when the time comes.

I’ve just returned from a great trip to Texas.  I started in Midland, Texas.  The home of Laura Bush.  Her mother still lives in Midland.  If I got the story correct President and Barbara Bush also lived there for  several years, along with their children.  But, enough about politics!  I was there to work with the Midland Quilters Guild, www.midlandquiltersguild.com

Mary Hanel was my contact person for the Midland guild.  She picked me up at the airport and we then went out for Mexican cuisine.  I love Mexican food and lets just say it’s better in Texas than in Pennsylvania.  Another night we went out for Mexican and I had an avocado enchilada that was to die for.  I say this all the time….quilters know where to find fabric and food.  Excellent combination.  One night some of the ladies from the guild took me to a Japanese restaurant.  And unlike my trip to Maryland when we went for Japanese….this time I remembered my camera!  This restaurant was just like the one I had been to in Maryland a couple of weeks ago.  The chef cooks right at your table.  And the food is really good and really fresh.

Here is the chef making my grilled vegetables and noodles.  In addition to cooking the chefs show off some of their knife skills which are really fun to watch.  This chef actually played basketball with each person at his table.  He shot a small ball of rice into each persons mouth!  Very funny.

One of the things I had forgotten……… several years ago the Midland Quilt Guild had asked for permission to use my Midnight Floral Fantasy quilt pattern for there raffle quilt.  Well, the same thing happened with the Midland guild that happened in my guild when we used this quilt for our fund raiser.  A guild member won the quilt.  That hardly ever happens in our guild and the Midland guild said the same thing.  Here is a photo of me and the quilt winner, Pam Simmons.  Pam was kind enough to bring the quilt to the lecture so I could take a photo of it.  Thanks for sharing Pam.  The quilt looks fabulous.

Next I had to fly to Dallas to get to San Antonio.  The airlines are strange but what are you gonna do?  Gail Dentler from the Quilt Guild of Greater Victoria was nice enough to drive from Victoria to San Antonio to pick me up because I could not get a good flight time into Victoria.  I did not take any pictures while in Victoria.  Sometimes I get so wrapped up in teaching and talking with the students that I forget to take photos.  Not taking photos does not mean I did not have a good time.  I had a great time in Victoria!   I had been to Victoria a long time ago.  So long, that I had forgotten I had been there until I walked into the church where they hold their meetings.  I remembered being in their meeting room.   To learn more about this great guild go to:  www.quiltguildvictoria.org .  This guild did something a little different for lunch.  They have guild members who are not taking the workshop provide lunch.  A guild member or several members will make food and bring it for the workshop participants.  The food was excellent both days.  And there was a lot to choose from.  The first day Jean Dean made a coconut cake that was to die for.  It melted in my mouth.  Jean was nice enough to allow me to share her recipe.

Coconut Cake recipe by Jean Dean

5 eggs

1/2 cup milk

2 cups sugar

8 ounces Baker’s Flake coconut

1 cup oil

1 teaspoon coconut flavoring

2 cups flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 teaspoon salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Prepare an angle food pan or bundt pan with Crisco and flour.  Cream eggs, sugar and oil.  Mix dry ingredients together in a separate bowl.  Alternately add milk and dry ingredients to the egg, sugar and oil mixture.  Mix well.  Add flavorings and coconut.  Pour mixture in prepared pan and bake for 1 hour.

While cake is baking prepare the glaze:

In a small saucepan put 1/2 cup water, 1 cup sugar, 1/4 cup butter.  Bring to a boil and then set off heat.  Add 1 t. coconut flavoring and 1 t. vanilla.

When cake is finished baking, bring glaze back to boiling, and while cake is hot, punch holes with a skewer all over cake in pan and pour glaze over cake.  Let cake cool completely before attempting to take out of pan.  Wrap tightly in Saran Wrap and then in foil.  This method of storage is recommended over storing in a covered cake pan.  This cake freezers well.

Jean says she hopes you all enjoy this cake as much as her family.

I’m home for a week and next week I’m off to Fort Wayne, Indiana the first part of the week and New Jersey later that same week.  It’s gonna be a hectic week.