8 More Farmers Wife Blocks Completed

I have been feverishly working on these little guys. I had managed to get what I consider behind (though it is only a "Do Along"), I am quite happy to say I have 2 more to go to be "officially" caught up.... Whew hew!!!!!! But one of them can be a doosy! simply because I haven't figured out how to do it with less than 2 set in seams.
4" Block # 29 Economy/Kitchen Window

4" Block #30 End of Day4" Block # 31 Evening Star

4" Block #32 Farmer's Daughter
4" Block #33 Farmers Puzzle

4" Block #34 Flock

4"Block #35 Flower Basket

4" Block #36 Flower Garden

That is all I have for this morning, Maybe by this afternoon I will be "Officially" Caught up on these little Guys.

In case I don't "SEE" you again before, Merry CHRISTmas!!

Favorite things Friday

Hard to believe 2010 is almost at an end, and yet again another Friday has arrived. I was one of those that just recently ran across the "Favorite Things Friday" but have enjoyed it so much since. Be sure and click on the Favorite Fridays Gadget on the right and hop on over and see more Favorites.
My Favorites today includes a Double one "My Family" and Archery Shooting"
We were introduced so to speak to Archery a couple of years ago and really came to enjoy it. We each have are own bows. But wanted to share a couple of pictures of "My favorite Guys" doing what they enjoy.( I am usually snapping pictures so no pictures of me or my bow)
1st and foremost we have hubby who does not like to have his picture taken (hence the closed eyes)We are at an 4-H Archery Competition

The twins with their bows............... In competition

Checking out the speed of the Arrow

Walking the 3D Shoot track

All my guys at a 3D shoot South of here
twin 1 and 2, BIL, oldest son and hubby (sorry no pictures of me but I do shoot and have my own Bow and yes my arrows are pink and purple-mainly so the "guys" don't walk off with them-hey it seems to work with gloves and caps too- giggle... giggle)

The guys again on the 3D Course checking out distance of targets(they look so serious)

Oldest Son and Hubby

Again

The twins received their archery hunting licence so will be out again this weekend hunting the perfect Deer.

Well, that's all I have for today My Favorite Family..

May your Weekend be full of excitement and include some time for you. With the upcoming holiday remember the joy part of the season.

Have a Merry Christmas!
Judy

3" and 4"Farmers Wife Blocks, Christmas Parties and Some Cows

What do these all have in common you might ask? Well nothing other than all was happening in the same week. Hee hee.......

Our Guild's had their Yearly Christmas Party this last week, so wanted to show some of the items I received. I will start with the Minnekahta Quilt Guild since it was the first one last Thursday night down in Hot Springs.

At the begining of 2010 it was decided for every Show and Tell you brought in, your name would be in a drawing at the Christmas party for different gifts and that time the top gift was going to be a Accu. Go Cutter. Well who can not want one of those? Anyways, it just happened and would of happened anyways I was doing the Farmers Wife Sampler Blocks, And three other quilts of the week and one of the month, plus project Warmth quilting, plus all my normally quilting that I ended up with a few show and tells.

No I didn't receive the dreamed about Accu cut go, for what ever reason that was not purchased.But I did get my name drew and here are the prizes received:

A photo frame with a very nice saying in it, a very beautiful made Daisy Pincushion(I love this- it's the Black and White item in the picture) it included a $50.00 Gift Certificate to Sue' s "Quilt Shop" in Custer. A set of 2005, 2006, 2007 Calendar patterns, and a 300 page photo album. Also, I put in this picture 3 more of the Christmas blocks that I had won a couple of months ago when my name was drawn for the friendship blocks. If you don't know what friendship blocks are: they are where you put your name in and when it is picked you get to choose a block for everybody in your group to make you a block of your choosing. I have seen it done different ways. In this instance at every meeting the people that have not won names are put in a can and one name will be drew and that is the person who you make a block from for the next month, in which this was done every month til December. Another way it is done, is everybody signs up that wants to participate and it will go for that many months each name being picked for that particular month. Quite fun to see all the different blocks and ideas.On these particular blocks I asked for 12 1/2 Unfinished Christmas Blocks. At a later time I will get all my blocks together and post a picture of my blocks I received.

Christmas Blocks.........2005-2007 Calendars Gift Certificate and Album

DaisyPincushion(Isn't it just adorable)

I also attened our Christmas Party for the Black Hills Quilt Guild and though I haven't gotten a picture it was a very fun night! It was also a pot luck, bring a gift for no more 10.00, and play a game of left ,right, center. The food was amazing and very plentiful (actually you would not believe the amount of food) their were over 140 people I believe was said. For the gifts, all that participated were to get in a circle and then the Night Before Christmas was read and everytime the word "the" was read you were to hand the gift to the left. It was quite fun and some got a little mixed up but what a neat way to exchange gifts. I was blessed with a clip on magnifyer with light, which shall come in very handy since this year my eyes have decided to catch up eith my age.(giggle..giggle)The game was also blast! You have a set of 3 dice, they had and L, and R, and a C on them also a dot. (to start with we were asked to bring 3 Fat Quarters). When you first start you roll all 3 dice, then do with your FQ whatever the dice says; if you get and l, a dot, and a R yu would get to keep 1FQ hand 1 to the left and hand 1 to the R. Then next time you only get to roll dice according to how many FQ you have left. This goes around and around until only 1 person is left with a FQ. Then that one lucky person get to keep all the Fat Quarters that made it to the center (which is all except the 1). You should try it, is quite fun to play. This particular game Cindy from Fabric City won the Fat Quarters so be sure and Congratulate her when and if you see her.
When I wasn''t Christmas partying this week, I did keep plugging away on my Farmers Wife Blocks, both the 3" 30's fabric ones and the 4" Scrappy fabric ones.

3" Bk #37 Flower Pot..............3" BK#32 Farmers Daughter

3" BK#39 Friendship..............3" BK# 40 Friendship Block

4" Bk#27 Darting Birds...........4" Bk# 28 Duck and Ducklings

4" BK# 29 Economy (I too like Kitchen Window better)

4" Bk# 39 Friendship................4" Bk# 40 Friendship Block

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Then last but not least, when I wasn't doing any of the above I could be found ot helping the folks. A Week and a half ago they decided to Sell Out of the "Cow" business. Now I have had a lot of feelings on this, so will Not go into them here but will say it has been a very trying couple of Months!

Many of you don't know but my mother has had some health issues between having to restart her heart, new found diabetes, asthma, C-pap, and a recent OXY testing it has been a hectic time for her. Then Dad had his 2nd knee surgery, and ended up coming home on oxygen(though that seems to have been just a temporary need). All in all I know this decision was not an easy one for them, but considering all the health issues the right one for them.

My boys have taken it in stride, Me (we will not go there yet), Carl has decided that he needs to get a job to "Buy" the Ranch.

Anyways enough said........ the following are the last of the "Cowy pictures before the trucks came".

Bringin' them in.........................No worry's here-- food Yep! Yum Yum!!

In waiting.....................................What else to do but eat and wait.

What's Next? You tell me............................

Have a Wonderful rest of the week and may your surprises be happy ones and your dreams fulfilled! May the upcoming Holidays fill you with compassion, and excitement and remeber the "Reason for the Season"

MERRY CHRISTMAS All!

Judy

Favorite Things Friday

Favorite Things Friday brings to my mind this week the weather and Favorite Season of the year.

Here in South Dakota we are in Winter which I am sad to say is "NOT" my favorite.
(20 degrees, cold, snow/ice and some times 40's thrown in and quite often single digits) Now with that said, My Most Favorite part of Winter is the "Last snow" of the season. This in turn brings my most "Favorite Season"

SPRING The newness the innocence
The first flowers to show their peepers

The Cherry Bushes and the Apricot Tree's in bloom( they smell heavenly)

The Sweet William and Peonies in Bloom

The Sun loving Scaevola drinking in the sunshine

Not to mention the Rose's, Petunia's, Daisy's, Hycianthus and tons of other warm weather loving flowers. We certainly can not forget the Spring Time Babies, calves and bunnies.

Yep, SPRING is My Favorite! The Newness, and the Freshness I can smell it now!

Santa Claus' and Boys with their toys

Ho Ho Ho!!
For the Minnekahta Guild the gal who won the blocks for the monthof November was Jan and she has requested Christmas blocks. Any size, any colors, anything goes. For one of her blocks I seen this Santa Face on Quilters Cache and thought it would be perfect. Now you will notice that his nose, his santa hat yo yo and his eyes are just pinned on(this is intentional) I thought they should be added after quilting to make the quilter have an easier time of quilting.
Jan's Christmas Block

This little Santa is almost done(I just noticed that he needs his eyebrows quilted in).This is one of three I started last year and just finished up this #2, it is a pattern called"Nine Patch Santa" by Happy Hollow Designs. I am thinking of adding some sparkle snowflakes embellishments to his hatand do need to pick up some glasses for him(though I will run out to the shop their has to be wire left over from something out there). He is made using the Fusible Quick Grid product which really made putting his hat colors together.(Right at the moment the way I have his eyes pinned he looks a little grumpy...kind of like I have been feeling with this hacking cold hmmmm.....)
God's Painting#1

I just had to share these next two pictures, the last few mornings I have happened to be looking out at the right time and just had to snap the camera. These are taken out our front view off the deck.
God's paintings #2

Then I have ordered my "Christmas/Birthday Gift/New Years" or whatever you may want to call it. This is a Judy Neimeyer pattern and kit. I just loved the color scheme so yep we ordered it.
Glacier Star

It is a paper pieced pattern and am so ready to receive it and get started. I am in the process of doing another one of Judy's patterns but will keep it a secret for now.

Now on to the boy's and their toys part of this post..... This actually starts over a year ago with a thought and has came to this....... This first picture is a very innocent ("lol") of my twin boys and their recent birthday celebration of which they keep reminding me they are of "legal age" to get that drivers License and everything else that 14 yr. olds should and are able to do.(Help!!!!!! where did those two 3lb. and 4lb. babies go that we had to cut a diaper in half for because they were so small?????????)

Carl and his "Chocolate" Birthday Cake

Casey and his Banana Creme Birthday Pie

Yes, they did pick out what type of Cakes/Pies they wanted, now here I will add they "at times" are as opposite as they can get. One likes wranglers one likes loose fit, one likes orange one likes yellow and I could go on but you get the idea. Seriously though they are both wonderful! even though if one don't think of it the other will at some point.......Love them Dearly!

Which leads me to the "Toy"...... About a year ago one of these two came up with the idea that they needed a go-cart. Well, they seen them at Tractor Supply and a couple of other wonderful supply stores but much to their parents regret it was not a possible purchase. ("Are you kidding me 500.00-1000.00 for a toy that had a great possibility of ending them in the hospital"-I think not). So the not so happy guys decided that fine we'll make our own with "dads help". Thru the year they have found something here that could be a part, and something there that would work for this or that, an old garbage rack for a frame. A few months ago Carl decided was ready to start and get this thing going and finding another set of tires down at the ranch that "were perfect" in his words, well Dad not so much.. Now you must remember Bill works 50+ hours a week plus tons of other things on the side now we have kind of put this off for a couple of months so he finally decided OK. Carl did say that he would do it but needed his dad there to make sure he was welding it right(maybe that was the decision maker). Long story short, we now have a Go Cart, mind you it has no engine (as Carl reminds us daily that he needs one of them, as well as brakes and a clutch)For about two weeks it had no steering wheel or seat but Carl always managed to get Casey (Casey is our cc runner and Carl tells him it's good practice to keep in shape)to pull him around anyways. Well this last week they got the seat and steering wheel on and have decided now they need more power! The snow is yet deep enough here to make pulling tough. Now enters the 4 wheeler.....................

Carl getting the first "try" ride
So far soooo good........

Casey & "No I don't want to ride I want to drive"
Yes, that is what is working for brakes at the moment.... tenny runners

All in all it has been a fun project for them and honestly I don't mind them not having a engine but they are saving and on the lookout for one as well as a clutch and brakes. (You always hear that their toys just get bigger-yep it's true- not so long ago match box cars and little loopy tracks was all that was needed)Then they just informed me last night they want to find a automatic pickup like Dad's stick shift deisel...............Okay now....... I know why the "Gray" seems to be getting brighter!!
Gotta Love'em Santa's and Boy's and their Toy's!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have a Blessed rest of the Week!!

Design Wall Monday

This has been a slow quilting week and a half for me. I came down with this not so loving "lung hacking" cold that is trying to leave me in pieces and with NO voice. Which IS "NOT GOOD" in a house full of guys!! of With 2 of them having the big 14 Year birthday!!(ok.. maybe it's not quite that bad) but it has managed to find me rolled up in my warm cozy quilt with out much energy other than to sleep....... Anyways enough Whining..........


On my design wall I did get a few more of my 4" and 3" Farmers Wife Sampler Blocks made and hung. They are so neat to see up and together. You really must see Laura Aaron Hirds quilt and the new one she will be releasing a book on in 2011, which may be seen at: thefarmerswifequilt.blogspot.com and be sure and read some of her letters. (No I'm not an associate or anything I just think her sampler quilts are awesome!)


Here ar my 4" Farmers Wife Blocks in Scrappy Fabrics These will eventually be set on point and have sashing around them. Now to decide on the color for sashing.........
Here are my 3" Farmers Wife Blocks in 30's Fabrics . I just received a few solids and will be picking out one for the sashing on these little guys.

That's it for me folks..... That warm cozy quilt and a cup of something hot is calling again....
I hope this finds all anticipating the holidays and may your week be full of Blessings!!

Judy
Be sure to click on over to Judy's blog to see what everybody else has on their design wall.(just click on the Patchwork Block to the right that has Design Wall Monday above it and it'll scootch you right there.)