I love to make baby quilts..........it's my favorite quilted item. I picked up this sweet little print on Shop Hop, the blue quilt has the same print, different colorway as the green quilt above. It was a bit of a challenge to myself to see what I could do with 2 FQ's of the print.
Sometimes its just fun to do quick and easy, it's been a long week and easy was almost to hard to handle......
Anyone want to make a little Rhubarb/strawberry sauce? This is my brother's favorite!I like to do a double batch while I'm messing around, yesterday I did two double batches at a time. This can also be freezer jam or just pop into the fridge after it's cooled. I like mine on toast, everyone here eats it on waffles and it would be fantastic on ice cream!
I have 3 trays of chives in the dehydrator, and a tray of sage. I like having my own herbs to use, an herb garden is being planned for the farm this year. (these are from my mom's)
I whipped up a little baby quilt during shop hop last week, I had no ambition to do anything that took any thought. I went downstairs and found these strips cut and bundled. I'm sure they were for some promotion or long ago show as I remember a few of the prints from the sale room. I demonstrated how to do a Streak of Lightning setting to anyone who came into the shop that day.
This is my brain.............ok that's what it feels like today anyway.......full of junk!
I thought the artwork in Nashville was really fun, not sure the city thinks it's great but I appreciate it.
Thursday night was the customer appreciation night at the Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Nashville, this is the view off the second story balcony. They closed the Cafe down for the company party with about 400 in attendance. Drinking, dancing, live band and food, it was a FUN night.
Downtown Nashville view from the tour bus......
Thursday my new friend Dick and I went to the Hermitage, the home of Andrew Jackson. I love being a tourist and doing touristy things! This is a pic of the side of the mansion, the dinning room was as long as the house and to the left was the outside kitchen. They are fixing the front columns of the house so no front pic's. I enjoyed the tour and the grounds are just like a big park now but in 1837 over 200 people lived and worked there. 
I whipped up this cute little baby quilt last week with new sale room fabrics. I LOVE the doggy prints! I just had to use these, the pink is so fun and the block was soooooooo easy!
Miss Millie's Garden is the name of this one. I used the Strippy Dog Days Pattern and got it on display. Sold one kit already so I hope it's a hit. My pic kind of washes out the color, I like it more up close and personal.
Changed the border on the horse quilt and got it back on the display floor. I really wanted to have it quilted before Shop Hop but I ran out of time.
The Crossed Path quilt is quilted and bound! It went out on display yesterday too. Today I am packing for our trip to Nashville and cleaning.......I'm looking forward to sitting by the pool and drinking margarita's. It's a bad time of the year for Kev and I to be gone but the corporate world don't care about farming, animals or Shop Hop. So he's going to take the classes offered and grump about being gone all week. 
Here's a few pic's of Josh and his date Alyssa. No they didn't want their pic's taken but that's what Mom's do, they take pic's!
Alyssa, Josh and Amanda. (don't she look like a little doll?) I made them get regular pic's taken and this is them standing in line waiting.........
I snuck in the official pic taking area.......good thing the photographer is a sweetheart.
I would of thrown a fit if she wanted to wear flip-flops...........look what I got instead.......ok I'm off to work, gonna miss the promanade but at least I got a sneak peak at all the beautiful girls and
Can you tell our favorite part of Easter? I love the different kinds of jelly beans they make now. Sweet Tart, Jolly Rancher, and Starburst.......yummy! Hersey chocolate and Kevin's favorite Reese's Eggs. The Easter Bunny did show up.......left the kids goodies in Wal-Mart bags. The guys are fixing brunch this morning and planning a day of outside work. I'm the bar wench later, the boss took his wife to her families Easter celebrations for the weekend. I am so excited that Spring is finally here!
Oh I love hatching eggs!!! Watching chicks is better than T.V. I am up to 23 as of tonight with a dozen or so more starting to break out of their shells. Last night in the middle of watching Being John Malkovich I heard peeps from the kitchen, so I raced out and sorted eggs. Yes right in the middle of that strange movie I was laying on the kitchen floor with my head stuck in the incubator. (I did go back and finish watching the movie half hour later) When I went to work this morning one chick was out, tonight 23!!! I should be done hatching by Monday then Kelsey will take the incubator home and they will hatch a batch or two. They want at least a hundred hens.........wow........I just love Spring and all the new babies that come with it.
Just thought I would pop in and show off Luanne's quilts. (this means I have nothing of my own to show) The top one is a graduation gift for her granddaughter.
I think this one is a graduation gift also, I can't remember what she told me. This is the second one like this that she has done.
This one is a confirmation gift for a granddaughter. Luanne is on a bright fabric kick! 
This is Heidi and her baby Charity. They are fainter goats. Charity will be on the small side I think, she is so much smaller than the 4 other goats running around here and she is about the same age. I catch her and carry her around, she is getting friendly. Heidi is super friendly, almost a pest.
This is what I did at work today. Kaleidoscope by Dear Debbie Designs. Resa and Julie picked out the fabric's and I whipped it up today. I also got the 5 kits together and ready to sell. It's a 8 hour project for the quilt top assembly if you don't obsess about placement of color. (chop & sew-chop & sew)
The Orchard Quilters put together this quilt for a family in town that lost their house to a fire.
This is a Heartstrings QAYG that Jay gave us last Saturday for the same family. I love it! I am really glad they sent this with us, now the whole family can be covered in quilts!
Tonight we go to the in-laws for cake, it's a birthday ritual. It's Mike's turn and I made these for a present. Just what every guy would want....pickled eggs!!! (the brown specks are dill seeds, not dirt)
The Heartstrings sew in was wonderful, it's so nice to sew with a bunch of like minded people. Linda and I got 40 QAYG blocks made and we each got a third of a quilt put together.
Here's the whole group, the quilt in front is a Chinese coin from a past project. By the end of the day I do believe she had it almost finished.
Here's Mary with a finished top, I love her new method of setting, if you look closely you can see that the sashing is a basket weave pattern. Her and the girls figured out an easier way to make the joints less bulky. 
In honor of St. Patrick's Day we made a few things to celebrate. While I was quilting last night Sara brought out the knitting loom and made this lucky hat. This is #7 we've made together and I think she's enjoying the process. (I wonder if she's wearing it all day in school and what her hair looks like under it?) We also made lucky charm necklace's. She made one and I made three. I wanted a little more bling than she did I guess and she ran out of time before having to get ready for bed. Sara and I have a lot of fun crafting together, can't wait till she starts finishing UFO's like Kristin does.
Went to see my brother Kelsey yesterday while my truck was in the shop in Norfolk. I told ya he was going to build a goat cart! Lucky and Oreo are 8 weeks old now so it was time to start training them. They are soooooooooooo cute! The wood part is not permanent, he will change it to metal when they are bigger and he knows what size to build.
Mollie didn't stay in the cart when they started moving but it made for a cute pic!
I did get a chance to run into Hobby Lobby for sewing machine oil and I picked up this new toy for Sara and I. I broke her last one at Christmas before she got to use it even. The yellow hat was the first, not crazy about the brim, and the second hat Sara is modeling, it looks better. I had to have Kev and Brian read the directions and demonstrate it this morning, just couldn't figure it out on my own. (Kev wanted to put a motor on it, such a guy!) Well I'm on my way to work, so I will play with our new toy more tonight!
Let me introduce Pepper, she came to live with us yesterday. Kelsey and Helena brought her up from Stanton where she spent the night with them after the Madison sale. So far she is fitting in well here, not thrilled to be part of the heard most of the time but they are nice to her when she does hang out with them. I was in the kitchen awhile ago and heard a loud noise, (goat noise) went to my bedroom to look out the door and she's standing there in my room looking at me! I shoo her out and shut the door, two minutes later she's standing in the kitchen talking to me!! That goat can open my bedroom door!!! I shooed her out again and locked it, then I stood there while she tried it again! I have to admit I'm impressed with her.....
I am going to show this quilt off finally, it's not quilted yet. I have no electricity in my studio so no quilting till Kev gets around to fixing the problem. The Orchard Quilters made it for Linda Puls, she fell on the ice awhile back and hit her head. Her recovery has been good and we're all looking forward to seeing her tonight. 
These two sweet babies were adopted by Kelsey and Helena yesterday at the Madison Auction. The top pic is Snow White and the bottom pic is Cracker. I don't know what kind of goat they are but my guess is Pygmy. They are over a week old but other than that I don't know much about them. They are learning what a bottle is though, the hard way!
They will be trained to pull a cart and maybe carry a pack. Helena fell in love so they will be pets first, work goats second.
I got Luanne's second quilt done, I love it! (so does her family, I think there's gonna be a fight over it) 
I went to town to mail the scarves/hats and dropped off Luanne's quilt, spent an hour there discussing quilts, hope I left her with a few ideas. Kelsey was here making baseboard and trim for his house, sent him home with some honey. Now I'm heading back to the studio....more quilting!
Kev loves gadgets, his newest toy is a Food Saver. (he also got a meat slicer the same day) After the boys got done sealing everything in sight food wise I got the bright idea to seal hats! I'm going to mail these off for charity and I thought it would save space to seal them. There is 5 hats and a scarf in this bag. I have a few more things to get ready to mail but Kev told me to quit using his expensive bags to mail things so I'm not sure if I will seal anymore hats..........guess a Ziploc bag will do the same thing. Oh but it was fun to tease him about sealing things!
Finished this Rail Fence quilt yesterday, well the top anyway. It's a sample for work, I had enough fabric to make up two kits. I wanted something soft and sweet, a little bit of Spring! I did learn my lesson on not using two different sewing machines while sewing one quilt, wow, what a difference! I did bring this one home to quilt this week.
Hey Mom! Do you recognize these blocks? Another UFO ready to quilt.
My kids are living with Helena and Kelsey now, they are going to train them to be cart goats. I gave them the option of selling them this next week at the auction but they are attached and won't give them back. Lucky and Oreo are going to be spoiled kids! (hey don't she look great in her new hat and scarf?) Kelsey took one of the ugly hats, he didn't care what color it was, he said as long as it kept his bald head warm it didn't matter what color it was. Gotta love little brothers, he knew the right thing to say to keep me motivated to make more hats! 
I finally found the time to finish my horse quilt at work. I would of liked to quilt it before displaying but I'm not sure how long it will be before I get back up there so I hated to have it gone longer than a few days. I only made 5 kits so maybe it will sell out before I get it quilted. I loved the pattern, it went together perfectly. It's called Country Lanes by Atkins Designs. I call this version Country Lane Horses. (oh how original) I have 4 more quilts to do samples for before Shop Hop in April and I'm hoping to get more than that done really. 
I've watched a bit of T.V. this week.......the hats and scarf on the left side are leftovers from blankets I did for Christmas and some of Grandma's yarn. I love to make curly scarves but this one didn't turn out as expected. I like it anyway and think it will be fun to wear. The hats on the right side of the pic are made with yarn my friend Linda gave me quite awhile ago. (Linda do you recognize it?) I had to promise Sara I wouldn't make her wear these because she says the yarn is ugly and she don't like brown. Who knew teenagers were so picky? I will donate the hats I can't shame my family into wearing...
I pick up the hat loom in the evenings when there is something on T.V. I want to watch. I have to share my chair with Sammy and Sadie every night and sometimes Snowball gets in on the crafting too.
One of my favorite ladies does scrap quilts. I like this one the best so far. 