Two Quilts

Power sewing is what this should be called. My DIL is a Pre-K teacher (I think she's nuts!) and has two classes with 20 students per class. Their school has a major fundraiser and the teachers are required to come up with something for the auction. This year she decided to make quilts--but since there are two classes, there has to be TWO quilts.

These two quilts are the handprints from the students in each class. She had the students write their own name under their handprint. She's going to go back and write their whole name somewhere on the block, her name, and the name of the school somewhere on the quilt.

I then took the blocks and sashed them with two different fabrics to make sure they were different.


She tied them with red thread. I think they turned out really cute.


The backings were even done different from each other. AND..these were done in a day and a half! Definitely a lot of sewing done in a short amount of time.
Sure hope DIL's principal appreciates these! They will be on display at her school for about two weeks before they're auctioned off. Wouldn't YOU buy a quilt if your child's handprint was on it?!
And, if that wasn't enough sewing...we made another baby quilt for a gift she needed. I didn't get a picture of it, but after binding three quilts in an afternoon...I think I've got the technique down pretty good.

Crossroads nearly finished

I've been asked by several if I've finished my Carolina Crossroads...no, I haven't but here's where it stands(lays). It only needs borders. (It's laying on top of a small pink quilt, so don't think there's a crooked pink border on the end!) I'd like to make it larger and haven't figured out a way to do that just yet.

The red sashing is a blender fabric and isn't the stark red it seems in the pictures. It's bright for sure, but I like what the sashing did for it--toned down the busy-ness of it. Judy has claimed that lime green is the new neutral, but red is the neutral at my house.


I have the rail fence blocks that I replaced with solid blocks and I'm thinking they will make part of the border too. One of these days I'll get to stay home and work on it.

(No, I haven't started the Orange Crush project either. Must finish some things first!)

One ugly finish.

DH's cousin recently has her first child (a leap year baby) and asked for a camo quilt. Okay...I'm a little slow, but a camo baby quilt? This is what I came up with. Glad it's going out of state (without a label) and she tells nobody who made it.

The camo squares are 8", so that gives you an idea about how big it is. It's all flannel--no batting and camo flannel on the back-- so it'll make a nice snuggly-ugly quilt.

Controlled Burn

Springtime always brings smoke to the skies. In our area we burn the dead grass off so the cattle can start grazing the green grass faster. We also had an abundance of grass last year and couldn't graze it off as fast as it would grow. If we don't burn the excess off, then there's the chance it could get burnt for us (lightening or a stray cigarette). We don't want more than the grass burnt...like the trees and barn...so we do a controlled burn. The ground is worked around the edge with a disk on the tractor and then the field is set to fire.

We burnt about 120 acres this year--not a big job, but a necessary one. Yep....real good on a person with a head-cold too.

Then we came home to this....storms and rain and more rain.

Just a picture of the girls eating hay. Wish somebody would bring me supper sometime.

That time of year

• Horribly sick
• Jury Duty!
• Deadlines at work
• Internet service not working at home because of storms

Life is just crazy right now. Will return shortly.