Grandpa Jim & his Farmall Tractors

This is a new wall hanging for Mom and Dad's rooms.    I was thrilled to find this, it so well represents the farm where we grew up.

Dad looked at it, and said….”A Farmall…..it says C, but it looks like an H!”    

I loved the remark.   Still has the farmer in him!

We had geese, chickens, dogs, we milked cows and our swing was north of the house in the old pine tree….that tree was there when we moved to this farm when I was 5 or 6 years old.   And of course, we had red Farmall tractors.    (We had no silos and our barn had an addition on each side, not just one.)

I hope this brings back memories for my 98 year old parents, it did for me.

 

4 Generation Quilt

Referring to the quilt we made a couple of weeks ago.  This picture shows Kim, with 96 yr old Grandpa Jim, after she clipped all the seams and put through the washer and dryer to blossom and bloom.  It looks great.

Bucket List

Do you have a Bucket List?  My daughter has one.  On her list was a wish to make a quilt with her Mother, her Grandmother and her Daughter.  This week she was able to cross that wish off her list.  We four all got together at 96 year old Grandma Belle's house.  On Thursday night, after BLT's, we dove into a big sack of flannel, and cut 232--8-inch squares and 116 flannel squares, 6 inches. The next AM, after breakfast and coffee,  a beef roast and trimmings in the oven for dinner, we fired up sewing machines and got started sewing.  We made several visits to 96 year old Grandpa Jim at the Manor, and he wanted to know why we were slacking off!  That was in the AM, in the PM we also took a break and had coffee and cookies with him.  We laid it out on the floor, sometimes not getting all the squares back where we started, but by 6PM, we sewed the last seam. Amy has not done much sewing, and spent the day at the machine, as well as helping with the design decisions. I became the machine technician, the "layer outer", did some sewing.  Kim sewed, did the final sewing all around the outside, with Grandma Belle did the ironing, helped with putting squares together, and made the final seam.  Kim has to clip all the raw edges yet, and run it through a washer so it will end being a "raggy" quilt.  A good day of memories!  This picture is before the fringing has been done.

Quilt Club

Prairie Needlers Quilt club meeting was tonight, and we had a very good time!  A neighboring town's group came, so we had 32 people.  Almost everyone brought some Sew and Tells.  The beautiful items ranged from large and small quilts, hand quilted, tied and quilted on a long arm to baskets, bags, table runners, and lots of other things.  We had fun visiting and exchanging ideas with women who have the same interests as we do...cutting up big pieces of material and sewing the pieces back together!