A slice and a quick dolly quilt

Now that term 2 has begun here in Tassie, the task of filling the lunch boxes is back on the list. One of our favourite snacks for recess is Honey Oat slice from the Weekly's Beautiful Biscuits cookbook. It ticks all the important boxes - budget friendly, very quick melt and mix, no biscuit rolling and is great when you're out of eggs (as I was last night!) The wholemeal flour, raw sugar and oats must make it a little bit good for you and it's sufficiently both chewy and crunchy. Also, the kids love it!

It's a definite regular in our biscuit tins. The recipe has been requested and subsequently shared with quite a few friends and one of our kinder teachers!

Honey Oat Slice

1 cup rolled oats

1 cup sultanas

1/2 cup raw sugar

1/2 cup wholemeal self raising flour

1/2 cup coconut

150g melted butter

1 Tb honey

Mix dry ingredients together. Melt butter and add with the honey to the dry mix. Combine and press into slice tin. Cook in moderate oven for 30 minutes.

Hope you enjoy it as much as we do. 

Yesterday was also spent on sewing a little dolly quilt for the girls. I bought these fabrics a few weeks ago for a simple lap quilt of 4.5 and 8.5 inch squares for the lounge room. I did all the cutting at Mum and Dad's last week and decided to use the scraps for a doll quilt. I think because the strips were so little I decided to make the 'leftover quilt' first. The risk of losing half the scraps was too great! New dolls were given to the twins for their birthdays so the quilt has come at just the right time!

The pink and white spot for the backing has been in my stash for just a little while. My mother-in-law sent it south after she had a clean out of a hallway cupboard or two. There are quite a few metres of it and I love it. So many of our favourite fabrics go with it. I think it will also back the bigger version of this quilt. Thanks, Bev.

A finished product within two days. The twins and I chose the buttons today and sewed them on just before school pick up. I didn't add to the pile of UFOs but I didn't exactly make any headway on it either!!! Now I just need to get on to the quilt this material was bought for.
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