Hi Friends, I’m excited to share with you my favorite fall cookie recipe, and my favorite autumn DIY sewing craft. I don’t know about you, but I want to enjoy the fall season and its beauty a little longer before I start on Christmas thoughts. So I thought I would share with you my favorite fall craft to make and my favorite autumn cookie to bake!
First my favorite fall craft is fabric candy corns! I have DIY directions and a pattern for you. I love these adorable candy corns for several reasons. First, they are super easy and fast to make, and you can make several in no time at all. They can be kept out all fall season long and into Thanksgiving. They look great in a basket, rustic stoneware, or wooden bowl mixed with greenery, hay, pumpkins, gourds, or even alone by themselves.
They also make part of a wonderful Thanksgiving center piece mixed in with flowers, a table runner, pumpkins, fresh fruit, and gourds. They require very small amounts of fabric showing that you really don’t have to spend a lot of money to make your home look and feel cozy for the autumn season!
Depending on your style and the look you want to achieve you can make these fabric candy corns in all kinds of shades of yellow/gold, cream/white, and orange/rust. If you want a more farmhouse primitive look choose deeper tones and darker color fabrics. If you are looking for a more cottage look, pick more earthy toned or pastel toned fabrics. Here’s a little secret I do to my fabric candy corns, I rub them with cinnamon! Doing so gives them a nice autumn scent and it also gives them a little “grunge” look that I love to acheive in my crafting and decor.
I hope you will make some fabric candy corns for your autumn decorating. We have directions and even the pattern for you free here. DIY Fabric Candy Corn Pattern and Directions:
We even have these in our “Learn to Sew” sewing kits with all supplies here in our ETSY shop.
Molasses Sugar Cookies are my favorite fall cookie! My friend Sarah gave me the recipe which she says has been passed down for four generations to her, and she has already shared this recipe with her daughter and grand daughters. So now that is six generations of families spending quality time together making and enjoying these delicious cookies. I love the thought of that.
Take a look at the quilt in the photo of the cookies. That quilt was passed down to me from my Nana. My great-grandmother, Mamaw, from southern Illinois, made that quilt by hand in the 1930s from scraps of old clothes, curtains, and bedspreads. Before my Nana passed on, I asked her if I could please have one of Mamaw’s quilts, and the pearl white nativity set that my Nana made in ceramics class. They are both so very special to me.
I hope you try these cookies, they make the house smell so much like fall, and they are delicious!
Here’s the recipe! Sarah’s Molasses Sugar Cookies Recipe:
Carol Bohenek
Hi Judi,
So nice to received your email, I enjoyed it very much.
Last year I picked up the Cranberry Orange bread at Wegmans so delicious.
I will definitely try the molasses cookie recipe, Just last week I made your chili recipe and was thinking of you.
Carol Bohenek
Judi Harris
Hi Carol,
You will LOVE these cookies! It was nice to hear from you!