Farmer’s Wife Program

At guild this month, our program was by Laurie Hird, author of The Farmer’s Wife, a quilt pattern book. I think occasionally that I should make a quilt from this book.  With the whole farmer’s wife theme going on.  I haven’t jumped yet since my Dear Jane quilt remains unfinished.  *sigh*  I was just talking [...]

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Curious July LaPetité

The July pattern for the LaPetité group is George by Rosie of Schnibbles fame.   George in the Curious George sort of Monkey Wrench block pattern sort of way.   A stretch but a cute one. I used the charm packs Wild Rose by Blackbird Designs that I bought in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in [...]

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Summer Sewing Classes

I had 4 students in my summer sewing classes.  We had 3 weeks to meet in June & July but had fun in the short amount of time.   Since there were 2 brand-new students, we started the first class with a review of the parts of the machine and sewing on paper.  Then we [...]

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Farm Visit from Another Perspective

K brought home her college friend, C, for a visit the other day.  It was K’s usual 22 hour visit. Delightful but always too short.  We’re thankful she has a job so really not complaining here.  :) Her friend, C, is from Singapore and was excited to visit a farm.  I wondered if she had [...]

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Summer Sunset

Last night while waiting for JP to come home from worship team practice and K & her friend C to come for an overnight visit…  all the sky was lit with this beautiful sunset! Thru the pine trees –

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Misc Farm Fest

More chat & more photos from our quilt retreat – E & I LOVED this quilt and would like to make smaller versions of it.  Maybe a 3 x 3 setting with 5 pieced houses.  So….. we left here VERY early at 6:35 a.m. on Saturday so that we could go to the sponsoring quilt [...]

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Farm Fest

I had a great time at the quilt retreat and finished 3 of 7 rows and 1 border out of 4.  We were in the hardest, most challenging, class. Here are progress photos of my quilt — After we had made some of the regular Shoo-Fly blocks, she taught us about making the mini Shoo-Fly [...]

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Farm Fest Prep

I’m going to a quilt retreat with Elinor this weekend.  We’ll drive back and forth and get to sleep in our own beds.  Plus I’ll need pure breakfast to counteract the other meals that are provided.   (the housing isn’t provided so it is either home or hotel) We had a choice from 5 (or [...]

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July Wind Storm

I awoke early Monday morning to hearing rain & wind.  A lot of wind!  First off, it was amazing I had slept until 6:20.   I got up and took the 2 steps to peek out the blinds.  VERY windy! I crawled back in bed, mumbled to Phil it was very windy (thinking he get [...]

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Plenty of Projects

K usually asks before she comes home if I have projects for her time at home.  Especially with the extra day she got over the 4th.  Yeah for Monday holidays. My list: plant flowers along the front porch (it is embarrassingly terrible there)  I bought 2 flats of sale flowers on Friday night. go over [...]

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