Care and Feeding of Quilters: A Holiday Guide

There's a madness that comes with the holidays, but at some point like a storm settled, we quiet down, sit with our families and welcome our friends to a cup of tea, a bite of something wonderful, a taste of Christmas.

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So what do you serve your quilting friends? Do you respect their latest diet? With that in mind, I went looking for some sinless Christmas decadence. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. And any quilter I know would melt  at the sight of these tidbits on the table.
This truly sinless fruit Christmas tree is button cute. 

Another sinless effort is this veggie "gingerbread" house by Green Giant.

But for us hard core sweet girls we'll just have to get out the frosting. These reindeer are very sweet in every way. And vanilla icing would make it into a snow man, easily.

This seems perfect for those who just drop in.

But my favorite holiday desert only got  made once. It was supposed to be a jelly roll. That didn't quite work out. 

As I was rolling the roll, there was an unholy argument between one of my cats and one of my guests. It was so unsettling that the jelly roll fell apart in my hands. It lay on the tray in  chunks.

We got out more jelly, pasted it together, covered it with powdered sugar and called it "tree bark in the snow". It won't every happen again because that cat and that person will never be allowed in the same room with each other again.

Disaster as it was, I served tree bark in the snow. No one noticed. They took seconds. They licked their forks and knives.

And that was when I realized the most important thing. That whatever we serve people with love is always perfect, just as it is.

Fill their cups with coffee, coco and tea. Stir to perfection. Drink in the warmth of  holidays, just as they are with the people you love. May yours be happy and bright!