July !

  July is busy too ! After our week at Nashua campground, I came home to  get   a few projects done ! The white wholecloth quilt called to be to be DONE and Delivered to my Brothers daughter.. just in time !  They have a new grand baby to wrap up !

 here  are the  quilts that placed at the Worth County Fair.. along with stickers rather than ribbons !

  July 9 - 14 was Local Fair I  won several ribbons there.  They did give normal size ribbons, Just not normal colors of ribbons. The blue ribbon    was purple..  It kinda plays a mind game when  tradition has the grand prize as being purple.... nutz

  Linda's Christmas quilt  received purple/BLUE and the  Red & Black Braid received a Red 2nd.

  My Ocean Belize blue quilt received a Red  2nd

  The funky green ribbon shown is actually the   equivalent of the light purple for runner up........ or in this case  Best Hand Quilting won with  Holiday star '12 belonging to Jake & Jade

  Shelley's Christmas Star won a purple/BLUE ribbon.

  Because last year  there were so  few entries  to judge or compete with I took everything I could that  could fit a category.  This green daisy quilt is very old wall hanging. It recvd a  white ribbon for 3rd.

  Shelley's  white whole cloth baby quilt won a purple/Blue.

  and the Grand Prize !!! shown above is a dramatic kaleidoscopemade by a MC woman, whos name I dont know..  This  quilt is neat in the construction of it ! Well Done !

 

 Jake & Tim did some repair to the wood shed.. !

  Tugged at my heart to  watch this....... to see Jake up n down the ladder !!

   This was Oct 5 !  xox

  and soooooo we have been in this Iowa house a whole year now !!
 Not many changes made indoors,, but the yard and  raised beds have been put to work.

 The garden is growing and we have Beans to can !  Goodies to chop for supper !

 ......  Grammas canning books were pulled form the box  and found a good spot on the shelf.

  a small batch. ...but a  start !!

  July 16 - 21  Hampton Fair     The judge here was very thorough !

  
Shelley's, Linda, Jades Christmas quilts, a whole cloth,  the black red  braid,  and Frank Windows.. all won blue ribbons.

 We also attended  the school reunion and visted many locals at the Golf course.  We set the Beast up at  Thornton park with  Shell Lin Lori camping too  and others that showed up over the weeked Larry,  Al , Nancy & Mark,  Jake  & Jade w Carson, Steve S, Mark F , Bob & Lori...

.. a Good Time was had by ALL !

Worth County Fair and Short RV Trip

 We did the  Worth County Fair...  There were several quilts there, but I didn't care for the judging...  The woman never looked at the backs. She never examined the binding..  She didn't check points...   between eating the  various brownies and cookies from the  food dept around the corner,  The Judge and her helpers while  licking  their fingers simply held the tops up said I like or I don't like..... and then gave a lil red or blue sticker ~ like a kindergarten work sheets type sticker. NO ribbons ~~~!!!


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  Finally the sun came out for a few days in a row !!  We quikly packed up and  found a nice park... as always the machine goes with me.....

June !

   All of May was busy  ! First we got the RV tuned up inspected for the year. We also spent t a  few days getting the garden planted ! and the yard cleaned up form our 'Late winter. The remainder of the  month included trips to  Des Moines,  Eldora- Pine Lake with Beast and  wild weather, also off to Kansas City for graduation party.

  Now that we are home. For the month of June,  I'm catching up on current projects,,  6 Belize blue feathered stars for a commission  in TX.

 ....... theres many many lil  stinkin triangles  in this quilt here they are chained off the table and pooling on the floor. ...400 or so !

  I 've found a sewing table that is portable and a very nice Height.  This week I'm sewing near the PC while keeping up on a family event.

  The next big project is a whole cloth quilt for expected baby in July. that's getting closer !!!

  It always amazes me how a simple humble piece of muslin can be transformed with  mere  pencil and needle & thread................ plus couple hundred hours.

 

 

  I'm working on this project in the front room while watching too much news.

  Every now n then I have to get up , stretch, walk around and  cheer along all the  garden goodies that have been planted. We have tucked seeds in all the  various beds around the  new house.   Near the garage we have chard  and cabbage .. still very small.

  at the  street side we planted bushy green beans in amongst  some  wild things from  previous owners.

   The backyard bed has wide rows planted to  try out the digger Santa brought me..
 new toys !

  Along the fence line  in a wide bed are the tomato........ 30 of them..  I'm in the mood to can this year,,,,Heres to  Good Iowa Dirt !!!

MAY !

 Its been a busy spring here ! Odd one too ! With snow this past week . a whole 8 1/2 inches !!     One day we did bike ride around the area.. the next day we were in Des Moines with tank tops on  to take the RV for tune up...  The following day it snowed ! nutz, some body ticked off  Mother Nature for sure LOLLLL...

 So while  tucked away in the house instead of playing in the dirt..  We hung this special May basket quilt.  This quilt was made by girls around the world that  were in a chat room CrazyQuilters. It was hosted by Nancy..   If I remember right   it was quilted in Canada.. and bound during the long drive from there to Kansas City in 1999.

  Participants rang from  a gal stationed in Japan,  couple from Canada, couple from Australia.  an immigrant of Pakistan, New york, Kansas, Nevada,  Wisconsin, Tennessee.. a fun bunch of girls !

  May 3 !! 8.5 on the ruler !

  Ive been busy !!  After working hard on the 2013 Winter star Quilt to Top  stage.  It was time to  do a commission job of 5 Red feathered stars... Next on the list is  this whole cloth baby quilt Hand drawn and hand stitched for a niece that is due soon.  I better get to work. !  I also have another one to do for   the next grand baby ! coming in November.

  Along about Feb I started   the garden in the basement.. I think past owners had a grow light set up down there. ..so  I'm giving it a try. !

  Up stairs the  Dining room table changes as often as the projects do !
 Here I have the finished  Feathered Stars waiting for starch.. and  dozen squash plants waiting for bigger space.

.. and always the puppies are there to   keep an eye on me.

 Dandy loves this  door open to watch the world go by ~~~~

Holiday13 in progress !

 

 

Holiday 13

 

started with tracking down an outdated magazine pattern... ( Thank You Donna)

  to a few road trips with Tim...

   letting the sun shine in and warm things on a winter day...

 . lots of ironing , cutting,  measuring, fussing...

 ... a new folding table found at a  thrift sale  and made to fit my machine by Tim  .. xo..

   some 14 hr days.. some 6 hr days to  tackle the mess...

 ... tame the beast of  wanting it done.. waiting to see if it all comes together...

 . ..a crazy technique where you pull paper off the back..

 .. This close to done!.. a marathon of borders......

 DONE. ...  waiting in line to be quilted.... I have Two  baby quilts to finish first !!!~