Busy Me

I've been very busy lately with hay season winding down, creating & maintaining a web page for our community center, aiding in sponsoring a community-wide luncheon on Saturday & just finished up with my church's annual homecoming service. Mrs. B. & I posed for a quick photo amid the celebration. Whew! I'm exhausted but happy everything went well. What's happening in your world? I'd love to hear from you.

A Great Time

Not only did we celebrate our veterans, we also had a wonderful parade with floats, antique cars & folks on horseback. I, of course was nowhere near those horses. 

My community used my dad's old truck decorated with names from around Plum Creek.

Celebrating Veterans on ther 4th of July

A big salute to the Veterans!!
 Here in central-ish Texas, my little community will be saluting, veterans past and present, this Saturday.  There will be a scavenger hunt and board games for the kids, a mini museum for the adults filled with items from way back when, a car show and of course, good eats!!!

These are just a few of my family, friends and community members who served with honor.

Happy Easter

Greetings all! For those who celebrate Easter, I hope yours is a great one!!

 

1 Peter 1:3-4 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade.

Celebration At Last!

Bells are going off!

Confetti is floating in the air!

Hooray!!!! Post 1600 is finely here!!!!
I'm doing a happy dance right now and Mr. Cowboy is laughing his cowboy hat off watching me.
If you have stuck with me this long, you have definitely gone on a wild journey. Thanks for hanging around.
Now, let me give you an update on my venture into making quilts for the Veterans at my Senior Community Center. I have eight quilt tops made, four are already quilted so I've been on my knees getting the others sandwiched and ready to quilt.
My goal is to have them ready by November 1st. I can do it because these are small quilts. Just a token of my appreciation for the service of some wonderful men and women.

This particular quilt top I've had for many years with no real idea of what to do next but it's a great one to give to a Veteran. The photo is fuzzy for some reason....must be camera error!!!

This quilt I made last year and it's quilted as well. It's from my Fractured Star design. I added the white stars to give it a different look.

The winner of the final FQ is Joyce Carter whose favorite color is RED!!!!! Mr. Cowboy sends his congratulations because he was getting a bit worn out from pulling names from the old cowboy hat each week......LOL.  It's been so much fun doing these quilts for the Veterans and I thank each and everyone for participating and lending your suggestions.

I'll have photos in November of the festivities for the Veterans.

I hope everyone enjoys their weekend!!

Celebration Part 4

So, after several nights sleep I decided Log Cabin blocks would be the perfect solution. Of course I made a few to see if my thoughts were on point. 

Yep! So off to the old stash I went to find more blues/reds/creams.

I feel really good about this one. I might sew on a border but maybe not! At the moment it measures "51 by 45."

Thoughts??

Now for the winner of the FQ this post. It's Needled Mom whose favorite color at the moment is YELLOW! Congratulations to you. I must tell you, Mr. Cowboy gets to pull the names from the hat and always comments about the blogger names. I just laugh and send him on his way. That reminded me of when me and my brother were children and dad had a CB in his truck. Some of you may remember those which were a way to communicate back in the 70s. Truckers had them in their big rigs and when regular drivers discovered that CBs were a great way to outwit the Highway Patrol.....well you see where this is going.....LOL!  Dad's handle was Rancher on the Road. David and I loved to hear him talking with everyone on our road trips to Galveston. Mom was not so happy with all the chatter.

Sorry, I got off topic for a moment.

Remember that if you've won a fat quarter you can still participate. Just leave a comment and mention your favorite color. I'm very close to the 1600 post mark!!!

 

I'm already planning the next quilt. This process has been very therapeutic and has made me very happy.

Celebrate Countdown Part 3

Slept on what to do with this eagle. I added a light brown border then found some patriotic fabric in my stash to dress up the block. So far so good!!

However, my mind has gone in yet another direction. So that eagle is tabled for the moment. 

Here's the eagle I'm working on now.

The star design is one that I've use many times and is perfect for what I have in mind. I've use several shades of greens and golds on my HST and tone-on-tones.

I really like this eagle with its beak open. I've used permanent markers and crayons to highlight feathers and the bold brow on the eagle.

Here's the finished top measuring 54 inches square.
Next......

Magpie's Mumblings is the winner of the second FQ!! Congratulations to you. Blue and purple are her colors for now, so I'll be sending out the color BLUE to her as soon as we talk via email. I don't have much purple in my stash, if you can believe that.

Remember to leave a comment and mention your favorite color to participate in the give away. If you've already won a FQ, you can still win again.

Here's another pic of the little firecracker!!

Have a great weekend everyone.

Help Me Celebrate

Greetings Everyone!!

I was looking over my blog the other day and discovered that I'm 9 post shy of 1600 posts. OMG! I can't believe it. I've been blogging since 2007 & through many ups and downs in my farm-girl live, I've enjoyed every minute of getting to know many of my fellow bloggers.
So I decided to do a count down & some give-aways to build up to the number 1600.  I'm giving away a fat quart (the winner choses the color) each post until 1600. All you need to do to participate is to leave a comment and in said comment mention your favorite color starting with this post. I'll gladly send to my international friends as well.
Now, onto my next Veteran s quilt. 

I made this HST quilt last year & it just sat on a shelf collecting dust bunnies.

I'll be placing a close up of an eagle at the top. I really like it so far but I'll need to add more details.

Stay tuned for more FQ give aways toward my 1600 posts!

Finally, here's one of my grandbabies. I can't believe they were able to snap a photo with the hat still on her head. She's a firecracker!!!

Another Birthday

Hi everyone!!

I'm celebrating 64 years of life today. I know that some folks don't like to share their ages with anyone but I've never been that way. My students use to ask how old I was & I'd always tell them. It was fun to see their expressions. Some would even remark that I was as old as their parents!! I'd just smile.

Anyway, I'm enjoying life, nature, family, etc.

National Quilt Day Part 2

I decided to piece the backing together in groups so this was group #1.

I then sewed on some Tumbler pieces from my UFO stash. Then added the small Disappearing Nine Patch quilt to that. This was group #2.

Group #3 came from a Nickel Square project from several years ago. To which I added more Tumblers.

Group #4 is a small quilt I made awhile back from my own design called Fractured Star. 

I don't have a big enough display board to show the final piece but I'm so happy to have finished in a day. It measures 65" by 75" at this point which is big enough for a couple of quilts.

What did you do for National Quilt Day?

National Quilting Day!!

It's National Quilting Day, I hear, so I've decided to take on a new challenge. The above photo is a partial view of one of  Mr. Cowboy's pastures. He loved the sky background with trees and some of the cows in the foreground. He asked if I could make a mini quilt of it.

OMG!!! He doesn't ask me for much usually so I was happy to try to do my spin on the photo.

I found some green fabrics to play around with and got started.

Here's what I have so far minus the trees and cows.  I'll probably work on it a bit more today.

 

Then it was on to my backing quest. Some of you may remember that my "Wacky" friend Molly challenged us to make our own backing instead of purchasing it. So I dug through my UFO blocks and small quilts and found four that will work as a new backing.

I will be sewing most of today to get these four small blocks and quilts into a big enough backing. Cross your fingers.

2017!!!

Hi everyone!!!

Merry Christmas!!

To those who celebrate the birth of Christ, Merry Christmas!!

For unto us a child is born.

Happy Thanksgiving Holiday

2016 is nearly gone & the fall & winter holidays are here. Mom & dad use to ask what we kids were thankful for. We'd swing into a list of things. I've never forgotten those time. So this year I wanted to do a small bit of my thankfulness.

I am thankful for:

Knowing that I am a child of God!

For my mom

For my little people

For my Mr. Cowboy

There's more but I'll share that when we gather for Thanksgiving dinner!

I hope everyone who celebrates this time of year has a wonderful time.

Christ Is Risen

Happy Easter!!

The Daunting Task of Blanket Stitching

When I started the Be Attitudes I knew that once I finished the blocks I'd have to stitch the pieces down. I knew I'd do blanket stitches around but, oh the time consuming effort. On the bright side of that thought is.......I'm doing the stitching by machine so why am I even complaining??

Hope everyone has a nice Labor Day Weekend!!

Blue Moon and....

It's a blue moon which is an additional full moon that appears in either the third of four full moons in a season or a second full moon in a month. This from Wikipedia .

I took this pic around 2 this morning which was just about the time I arrived on the scene 60 years ago.

Happy Birthday to me!!

The New Year

2014 is almost up and "15" is nearly here. A toast to the old and well wishes to the new, may your new year bring you joy, a peace of mind and contentment!

Happy New Year Everyone!!!!

Veterans Day

At our retired teachers meeting, we honored & lunched with veterans from WWII, Korean War & Vietnam War. 

I salute all war vets!