Life and Fiesta Fireworks Quilt

Life …

I was glad for the farm boys to come down to the house and pluck up some ornamental purple plum trees that needed replacing.

Mr. Busy Bee man is to come out now and trim back the shrubs, replant, and add mulch.

The chute where the hogs are loaded onto the trucks. Do you see a rainbow around the sun?

The grain bin with the lagoon.

Irrigation system. Why is it so hard not to take too many sunset pictures? And there's that rainbow again. Is it my camera or was there really a rainbow there?

… as a Quilter

I’d love to do another art quilt of these silos with the barn. This is on the farm just south of us where Paul grew up.

I just disqualified myself from the CELEBRATION Challenge at A Mountain Quiltfest in Pigeon Forge,TN. You see, the rules stated that the perimeter of the quilt could not exceed 160.” Well, after quilting it I cropped it back to as big as I thought looked good, bound it, and added a sleeve. It measured 170.” Then I read the rules again and ran out of time. Aaarg!

I’m still toying with the thought of cropping off 2” from each side and 1” from the top so the fireworks don’t look incomplete. What do you think? And then the binding maybe should be all black instead of using the leftover scraps. Maybe I can enter it into a different show if I read and remember the fine print.

Fiesta Fireworks

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Life as a Quilter

Life …

In the morning …

… and in the evening, I will give thanks.

I attended a bridal shower for Cindy Mast.

These days you need to watch where you walk or you will become tangled in a web like what happened to Paul. It was dark yet and he was heading out early in the morning and walked right into one of these traps. When he got into his truck a spider was dangling from his arm.

Stacy had a birthday and turned 4.

Guests this evening for pizza were Russ, Loretta, and Allie from MO who are visiting Joel & Sheila. Russ and Sheila are cousins.

Go Amy!

Uh….oh!

… as a Quilter

I attended our monthly PTQs meeting. Here are a few pictures from our “show & tell.”

Sunrises and Guests

This is our view from the front porch early one morning last week.

A few minutes later, it looked like this.

And then one evening just before full moon, it looked like this.

Rick & Leona Good came to see us this past week.

While the men went to an equipment auction in Philadelphia, we ladies viewed quilts at the library in Columbus, took in an exhibit at the Columbus Art Center, went to a thrift store and an antique shop, and then had lunch at Cafe on Main. When we got home Leona set to sewing a quilt she brought along.

Paul's sister, Jeanie accompanied us and she helped Leona sew her quilt together.

I started machine quilting my Jungle Quilt.

And now my goal is to finish it by the end of April.

Leona and I each had 1 yard of "jungle" fabric that we challenged each other to make some sort of crib quilt.

The sunrise on another day.

Last evening in addition to having our children in for supper we invited these MDS couples to join us.

Lynn & Nettie Hiebert

Lloyd & Irene

My nephew Scott Hostetler and a friend, Jesse also joined us.

Dustin & Gina and Sunset

Dustin came home from Northern Youth Programs in Ontario, Canada yesterday. He met his girlfriend, Gina from New York, in Atlanta and they flew the last leg of their flights here together. We're so glad to finally meet her in person and learn to know her better.

It is my week to clean the church house and they were great help.

The other evening we had a most beautiful sunset.

I think it was the prettiest I have ever seen.

I'm not good at photography so I kept changing the settings on my camera and just snapped lots of pictures in the 'folige,' 'kids & pets,' 'underwater,' or 'beach' settings. I don't know. I just picked the best ones to post here.