which fusible interfacing???

Get the lightest weight non-woven fusible interfacing you can find. Pellon is a good brand; they make a variety of weights -- get the really light stuff. You should be able to get it at JoAnn's or Hancocks or Craft World or anywhere you buy fabric, though it may not be available at the LQS, since it's generally used more for garment sewing.

Julia > Hello everyone

Claudia, you don't really have to use a fusible interfacing. In fact, I'm not really sure that the chemicals in fusibles are ever a 'best choice'. You can simply use the same fabric you're using for each piece as a backing. Turn them (gently) and instead of using the fusible to hold them steady, apply the tiniest bit of plain old Elmer's school glue or a glue stick if you're authorized to have one. Pin point size dots will get it, you don't have to load it with big globs. Congratulations on all you're doing as a Jill of all trades. I don't think I could change a battery, don't even think I could lift one . . . but I do know how to bake bribes and create a killer banana pudding. Do what you've go to do. Polly

Usually the lightest weight fusible will be called "featherweight". I prefer HTC brand interfacings, just because I have had better luck with them. (I don't like the ones with little "dots" of glue, much prefer the "all over web" type of glue on the interfacing. Gives better adhesion, and less chance of bleed through of glue to the right side of the fabric.)

Most fabric sh> Hello everyone

You seem to be able to buy it in packets, or off a roll, I'm using "HeatnBond Lite" at the moment and am very happy with it.

Cheers Anne

HeatnBond is a fusible web, used to fuse 2 pieces of fabric together. Claudia is looking for a fusible interfacing, which is fusible on only one side. They're not the same.

Julia in MN

mmmmmmmmm ..........banana pudding.........mmmmmmmmmmmm do you layer it with vanilla wafers to make it "fancy"???

If you are at walmart trying to get a length of heatnbond light and you can't get anyone to cut it go over the the prepackaged stuff and you can just walk away with it. No wondering if help exists at the cutting table. BTDT.

Taria

Anne Rogers wrote:

mouth watering....drool on chin..... I had a short stay in the hospital a year or so ago and one of my friends brought over some banana pudding because she thought my throat would be sore after my anesthesia. Well, it wasn't...but that didn't stop me from snarfing it down anyway. Do you have a favorite recipe? I've never made it.

Not Polly, but my DH loves banana pudding. I never had a "recipe", just layer pudding, Vanilla wafers and sliced bananas in a bowl. Polly, I too, stand up wafers around the edge of the bowl. But don't do the crumbs on top usually. Sometimes it even gets to sit long enough for the wafers on the interior to get soft.

And try making it with chocolate pudding sometime. yummy.

Pati, in Phx

KJ wrote:

I realised that after I posted, but if I'm understanding the method right, if you pin the web to sew the shape, then turn inside out, then iron, I think you may actually get a better result. Fusible interfacing often seems more difficult to set.

Cheers Anne

I just had it for the first time a week ago...and my sil made it w/ low fat vanilla wafers which stayed firm . She didn't like it that way but I thought it fine. I think hers was made with cream cheese too-- a bit rich for an ending to a meal--but good !

I don't really have a recipe; am only extremely particular about the ingredients. Bananas should be ripe, the pretty ones are totally unacceptable. I won't use 'fake' vanilla wafers - a treat like this deserves real vanilla. I have been known to stir in chopped, toasted pecans, tiny marshmallows, coconut or whipped topping; maybe even a meringue cloud on top. One time I substituted condensed milk. That one was rather rich but didn't get tossed out. Polly

Here is a wicked recipe for banana pudding.

marcella

Here's my favorite banana pudding recipe!

Good grief. Holy cow! and @#! Marcella, did you notice that the recipe calls for 8 egg yolks? That ought to be enough cholesterol to pay the rent for an entire cardiology clinic. If you're a bit interested in living a while longer, I don't think you should be cooking that one. Polly

Thank you Polly. I was about to fall over when I read that too. Anything with that many eggs probably tastes really rich and has to be bad for you : ( Taria

Polly Esther wrote:

At my house banana pudding means it was too hot to bake a pie crust. I have two versions depending on whether a corn starch pudding or a flour pudding is the thing. You can fling cookies at it, or smush them up for a crumb crust, or just put it in a bowl. Ash's favorite is the flour version, so here it is:

Banana Pudding

pint of milk

1/3 cup of sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons flour 1 egg well beaten 1 tablespoon butter 1 teaspoon vanilla 4-5 ripe bananas sliced

Scald half the milk. Mix the sugar salt and flour together with the cold half of the milk. Slowly stir the cold mixture into the hot milk and cook it slowly until thickened stirring constantly. Cover and cook another 5 minutes on very low heat stirring every minute or so. Stir a little of the hot mix into the beaten egg and then add the egg in while stirring quickly. Cook for another minute while stirring, then take it off the heat and stir in the butter and vanilla. Cover tightly and allow to cool. Layer in a dish with the banana slices and allow to sit for an hour before refrigerating.

Meanwhile back at the ranch.... The now ex-yard man left a half a six pack on my front porch (which is why the handy-critter in chief fired his butt, No Drinking on the Job!) so tonight we are having faux-chicken jambalaya for supper, and the heck with banana pudding! we are having bananas foster and ice cream for dessert.

NightMist the particular chicken jambalaya recipe we are fond of (from River Road) calls for a can of beer " The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that's where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won't do if they don't know about it. This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight."

Polly, if you're going to go, you might as well do it up right and enjoy yourself on the way out ;-)

marcella