Ian Pegrum (he/him)

I’ve seen this idea around here and there, but I’ve always sort of overlooked it because the ones I’ve seen haven’t really been my style.

Feel free to add a button to your post to say that you hung out with us cool heirloom recipe gals.. Now link away!.See back here for the features on Friday!Red and white at Christmas is my very favorite.

So why do I use so many other color-schemes too?Well, I also love those and I just want to enjoy it all, but red and white is at the top of the list..I picked up just two of these snowflake napkins at Target last year thinking I would make a pillow or something, but then, I didn’t.. I’ve used them here and there, just sitting on top of a side table, or whatever, but it just never seemed right.

I cut my two napkins in half, so I had four strips of fabric measuring 10″ x 20″..I laid three of the fabric pieces out on the ground end to end.

I decided that was long enough and just put the fourth one on a table in the living room as a doily type thing..

I used some white grosgrain ribbon to attached the pieces together and to hide the seams.🙂 And then there came the email that changed everything.

They had read the manuscript and loved it!It was already with the copy editor!

They decided that they were going to change the title of the book after all and they were going to use one of my suggestions from a few months ago as inspiration!They wanted to do photos in the book and they wanted me to take the photos!