M is for …

~ Liz A
March 28, 2021 – M&Ms

M & M … what we call our girls, Meg and Meliss …

Also the candy, about which I did some serious research for this post …

As you can see, I had to open several bags in order to properly match thread colors (ahem). And have you ever noticed that M&Ms are not all the same size … or shape … and that the letter “m” isn’t very clear …

Plus, they’re really shiny, which made me think a Deb damask backed with harem cloth would be just the thing …

But it wasn’t.

So I started over … first making freehand circles in split backstitch with two strands of DMC, starting in the middle and working outward, then sketching and stitching “m m m m m m” …

because Ellis …

(the video is 12 seconds … just turn up the volume and wait for it)

15 thoughts on “M is for …”

  1. Oh that happy Ellis grin…I’m right there with you Ellis, mmmm indeed!
    So sweet to see your M and M’s; we call our twin daughter, our munchkins and even though our twin grands are a girl and a boy, they are called our volume 2 munchkins!

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  2. LA – glad you did so much research and with a helper as well – just have to get these things right. What a beautiful way to celebrate M&M. Thanks for surgery wishes. Go well. B

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  3. Projects such as these demand good research! I am amazed that they went 3D after starting in the middle – intriguing and perfect outcome. Such fun and a great mmmmmm!

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    1. The 3-D was definitely intentional … going from the outside in on Deb’s damask resulted in more of a pyramid … inside out worked perfectly

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  4. do you haver a favourite colour in your m&M packet? I remember the brightly coloured hard coating with the letter ‘m’ printed on each one clear as a bell and the size being round and totally uniform but I haven’t eaten an m&m for over half a century so may well be romanticizing the memory!

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    1. definitely blue (the grandkids look at me funny when I tell them the blue ones taste best) … back when we were kids, there was a light brown color which was retired in 1995 and eventually replaced by blue

      I remember having Hershey-ettes foisted on us kids from time to time … they were definitely not top shelf

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  5. Okay, I totally agree with Ellis and am now craving M&M’s! We’ve been watching episodes of The Food That Built America (so fascinating!) …M&M’s were in the candy/chocolate one – packaged in little cylinders so that you could pour them right into your hand, it was during wartime.
    My parents were M&M too and had license plates MK2 and MK2 JR (mom). My mom used to pour a small pyrex pudding dish of M&M’s to nibble on in the evenings. They were always in our house, which has maybe made it hard for me to give up candy…I was so raised on it!!! lol

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    1. I just read that they actually had light purple candies in the 1940s which were replaced by the aforementioned light brown … of course, now you can special order them in any color imaginable … for a price

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  7. Back in my teens I spent way too much time studying & eating M&Ms. I still have a box in the basement full of evidence of my crazy obsession. I remember the light brown ones, and when the reds went missing because red dye was banned. I think that they were invented for the soldiers in WWII- chocolate that they could carry that wouldn’t melt. OK, I’ll stop, but I could go on and on…

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    1. Oh yeah, I had forgotten about the red scare (sorry, couldn’t resist) … my study go-to was popcorn, generously buttered and salted … and there was no better party food back in those halcyon days than pretzels, beer and M&Ms

      Nancy mentioned a History Channel series The Food that Built America that we are hoping to watch on Don’s ipad … M&Ms get a mention in the chocolate episode

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