It was a good day to just stay inside with the A/C on, seeing how that even this morning it was already so humid, 80%, down right sticky and thick. After my coffee, I went out to open up the hen house so the girls could go do their thing. Beside letting them out and giving them scratch, I'll check the nesting boxes for eggs. All I could see was the golf balls I have in the nesting boxes. This is to fool the snakes so when they swallow one thinking it's an egg, it will become stuck inside them. An egg will collapse and be digested but not a golf ball so the effect of that is the snake will slither off and die somewhere. Well that is what I came across this morning, a black snake who had swallow an egg. Saw me and tried to escape the way it came in the box but as it was leaving in the space it enter in was now too small to pass through now, with that egg in it. And there was no way I was going to grab that thing by the tail to get rid of it. I
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I was able to work all afternoon working on a set of the Farmer's Wife 1930's. Had two that were paper pieced and being that it's not my favorite way it takes me a while and had two that were pieced. I was able to get those two pieced ones done in the same time it takes me to do one paper pieced. Funny how that works.
Today is the 30's club at Sager Creek Quilt Shop. So this morning I worked on the last two blocks I needed to finish the two month sets, #6 & #7 Here is the block, Jewel, I was working on. Thought I had everything laid out as far as the paper printed for the block and marked on paper which fabric is needed for each section (paper piecing). But so much for thinking. Not sure what went wrong on this block Need to get a little more fabric now to correct my mistake tonight. Other than that, here are the rest of the blocks done . Tonight being that it's December, we always have a cookie exchange. So the cookie I'm making is called Christmas Crack or Saltine Toffee Candy Now if you've never had this you'll know how it gets it's name. It is addicting Besides being addicting, it's very simple to make. You only need four ingredient, unless you add nuts on top, then five
Can you believe it... here it is 1st of December. Like the saying goes, time flies. Today I can say time flew by also. When I went out to let the chickens out I did not see the buzzard today. I did see him yesterday underneath the barn but not today, I don't know where it was. One of the things I needed to do today was process the venison that "the man of the place" had harvest Saturday. It has been cut up and on ice aging the past 3 days. I ground up 15 pounds of meat. That went into the freezer. Then I made a big batch of chili with a with a couple pounds of it. I also worked on Farmers Wives 1930 Sampler. Was given 2 month worth to work on. I would say out of 10 blocks, only two of them you can do without paper piecing. So needless to say I am getting a lot of practice doing paper piecing. I was able to get three blocks done today. Also I was able to finish cutting out all the pieces needed for the rest of t
Again I have my hands in too many pots at the moment. First I'd like to share what I did take down from the design wall this morning and that was the UFO I found. the split nine patch. It wasn't much to put together seeing how I had all the fabric and I just need to cut out that setting triangles and the sashing, just needed to assemble. Did that yesterday and it stayed up on the wall until this morning, then I took it down. Then I put up another UFO. I would like to get done before the end of the year and that is my chicken scratch blocks that I have been working on since I believe 1990. I have had them completed for at least a couple years but just put them away and hadn't done anything with them it's about time I do something with them. I want to put them on point but the stars are not a perfect square so when I first attempt at it a while back I wasn't happy with what I was looking at. But time has passed and yo
Today was a very busy and active day for me. I started out by doing the usual, which was to go out and let the chickens out of the hen house. Well there was the buzzard sitting on top of the hen house. Had my camera with me so I was able to snap a shot of him up there. It stretched its wings out but did not take off and fly. Never did see it leave. Then had to go to the quilt shop to pick up the next two sets of blocks for the Farmer's wife Sampler. Went by the store get a couple things. Then I went by the church and help decorate the Christmas tree which I have to say look very stunning this year. Sometimes one color can look really pretty. We did the tree only in red ornament, bows and Poinsettias this year. Came home, fed the cows and straightened up a little bit because didn't have a chance to get to that this morning before I left. I was able to get a couple hours of sewing in which I proceeded to work