Marine Corp Birthday, Veterans Day QOV's and!! Finished ( or not) Friday

Happy Friday!!!

What a week!!

Tuesday was the Marine Corps 251st Birthday and I had the Honor of spending time with a LT Col Marine - who served for 20 years as a pilot. Wow - the stories he told!!  The best honor was being able to wrap him in a Quilt of Valor!!

This is what his Whole Quilt looked like. I forgot to take a backside photo, I was so enjoying just talking with him!!

Then Wednesday!!! Veterans Day!!

The Pioneer Post VFW 2121 in Greeley invited us to come and award some of their members a Quilt of Valor - so That was our afternoon...

what a great event!! There was a cool ceremony at the Veterans Memorial, this VFW served a Lunch for all, and then our presentation wrapped it up. So super cool to be a part of!!  This photo represents Army , Navy and Marines, Dates served from 1955 to 2014 ! Impressive!!

If I counted right 

• Our group has awarded 143 Quilts this year
• I have done 24 Presentations
• Deb and Connie did 1
• Deb did 2 by herself
• We have had 10 sew days
• and 3 sew days with different groups ( League of Northern Colorado Quilters, Pieceable Friends Quilt Guild and Chevron Colorado)

and now - we are putting our feet up, getting all organized for 2027 - and .... counting what Quilts we have in the making haha!!

How did your Week go - Did you get anything Finished - or Not Finished?  I know a few of you were starting to work on Christmas presents.... Here's your push!! haha

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The Start of my Bee Gardens

If I am going to have bees.... I need a Bee Garden - right?

I do have corn fields to the North, and Alfalfa to the East, but.... TO be safe - they probably need flowers right?

YEARS ago ( and yes that is capitalized cuz it should be decades... but I don't want to go there)  I planted 100 bulbs in the fall, in the ground, and I think I fed the Moles and Prairie Dogs all winter - not a one came up.

This time - I am using Planter Boxes!!

These planter boxes had strawberries in them 2 years ago -and they did so good, and then this last summer  - they did not - so I decided we would plant bulbs in them and fingers crossed I get them to grow.

We ( aka my husband) rototilled the soil  - and added some of the great fertilizer we produce around here ( beef)  and I watered it real good to make sure it settled.

I might have accidently stopped at Home Depot and all the bulbs were 50% off - so I got about 100.... 
  

And then I planted - and I took photos of what I put where - and then I drew the directions  - north south etc on the photo - so in my mind... I am organized!

Tulips, Crocus, Daffodils, Hyacinth and one more bag of Tulips

I also have a ton of organic Marigold seeds, so I think I will plant those over the top in the spring and see if those will grow in between the bulbs?

I have two more small planters left - and am thinking I should put roses in them in the spring, unless my car accidentally goes to a store where bulbs are half price again....

A few of you asked how I keep getting my dogs attention for photos... Treats? well sometimes - but mostly its the anticipation of the FETCH!! haha!! These two are crazy for fetching anything that gets thrown.. and as you can tell - Pound puppy.... not so much.

In her defense - her boy was on the tractor and she wanted to be with him.

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It's finally Friday!! and Finished ( or not) Friday!!!

 I don't have a finish to show - but I have awards to show!!

We are on the final descent of our 2026 QOV presentations!!

This was in front of a group of 202 Veterans - and it got a little chaotic.... so the photos were hard to get.

My Buddy Jeff got the best one for us:

I am usually better at controlling the chaos - but there were a lot of Veterans who had family that wanted to be up taking photos - and some people just wanting to see the quilts ,so they came close - it was quite a fun time.... but I guess I need to be a little bossy with this many Veterans in one place (not sure that will happen... but one can dream haha)

This lovely Veteran wanted a photo with me afterwards - what you can't see is the table we had to bend around, and the Waitresses running thru. That Waitstaff - they are amazing and take care of these Veterans SO well!!  ( shout out to Golden Corral in Loveland CO)

I did get some Quilting in on a Future Finish.... So that's a good thing.

This is how we all feel today:

Conked out!!

How did your week go - are we getting things finished ( and dare I ask - ready for that holiday time of year that we give gifts for?)  I asked that secretly so as not to add stress to your day!!

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Bee Keeping and Scrappy Stars

Our county offered and *Introduction to Bee Keeping for Kids* and I immediately emailed and asked if older kids could come (like me!!) And they said yes - just to know that there would be kids there.

I am okay with kids - most of them like me ... sort of...  I speak their language haha

It was a great day!

They showed us all the gear and explained how the Bee houses work. She showed how they harvest the honey. And talked about our weather concerns - Cold and high winds- and explained the Queen Bees.

It was pretty cool - after that she showed us how to make candles with the bees wax. She makes a lot of other things as well.

And the kids seemed to be okay with a few extra adults around. 😉

I thought the class would go all day, and it was only about 1/2 day.....

You know what that meant right?  I could finished my Scrappy Stars!!!  I mean, I had already scheduled the time off.... yay!!

Got it all finished and took the pups to go take the photos... Remember those winds I talked about during the Bee Class... they showed up!

I was having quite the hard time holding the quilt still....

Finally it slowed for a moment - and the girls showed up to pose!!

The other nice thing? My son came home and he cooked - Lasagna... I think I will keep him!

Do any of you keep bees?  We were told the best time to get them and get started is Spring - so I have some time to research, but I know where I want them:  In the trees, and then I want to plant more flowers around where I will put them.  But I would love to learn more!

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Star and Crown is Finished!! and!! Finished (or not) Friday

This one has been in the works for a while - just meaning it has picked up a LOT of love !

It started when Pat Speth talked at our guild about Nickle quilts,

then we decided ( okay "I" Decided ) that we should make this block at a QOV sew day.

It wasn't hard but it was a time consuming little unit...

We finally got all the blocks made, I got the inner top done in March, Borders finally on it in August - and it worked its way up into the Quilting Queue. 

I quilted a Swirly Stars on it - and it is now in the hands of another group member to bind!! YAY!

You can see Pound Puppy there is trying to be a model - but her sisters are playing with a stick and she realllllllllly wanted to go... Who can say no to such a cutie pie?.

How did your week go? Did you get things Moved Along?

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Any one dressing up for Halloween?

Any one ready to *Fall Behind?*  Its dark at 7 am right now - so I am ready for the change - It will make it light around 6 am now. My dogs will be happy for that - they like early morning walks!

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Popsicle Sticks II

 is now a finish!! and the funny thing is - it was the scraps of another project... and that other project is in my *To be Quilted* cubby.... oops.... I see I have my Priorities haha!

Popsicle Sticks Pattern from Atkinson Designs

I was going to bind it in a blue but when I held Gray up to it - it said it wanted grey. I went with that. and then when I took it out to take photos and it was grey and cloudy and misty ( yay!!)   Gray was the right choice!

I am quite happy with how it turned out, I still have the 9 patch Square dance, elate and!! Some small scraps to work with. The scraps are on my ironing board so I don't forget them.... but, I am already dreaming of new projects!

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The growth of Scrappy Stars

 I have moved my leader ender quilt along - as I am sort of focusing on getting it to top stage right now, and of course!! Dreaming of the next leader/ender project I want to start.

Here is where I am as of This morning!

it is kind of fun to watch it grow from:

To this:

To where we are today - I can see there is an end in sight...

I do have another sunrise to share with you from last week, before our cloudy cold weather ( not complaining) came in!!!

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A Chunky Churn Top and!! Finished (or not) Friday!!

 For my Rainbow Scrap Challenge this year - I made Chunky Churn Dashes ( Pattern found at Quiltville.com)  And I Really had fun digging thru scraps for it - One of the pieces is only 1 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches - so I Was able to really use the small ones too!!

I know that October is Neutrals and November is Dark ( I think)  So I skipped ahead and used my Whites and Blacks to make the hourglass blocks.

But then I had it on the design wall - and I just couldn't stop!!

Ta da!!! And of course - the girls!! they wanted in on the challenge. They might have been the reason I couldn't stop - their waggy tails sometimes rearrange my Design wall - and I had the colors just the way I wanted them to be....

I had to keep going right????

I also made this one back in March ( maybe) 

And surprisingly I still have a few blocks left - but I have moved on to my Stars and will have to get back to the Chunkies in a minute or two.

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Cowboying around

 
We got invited to a showcase for our Mounted Shooting. It was super cool, and SO MUCH Fun!!!. They had Riders of all levels and in all places in their training of horses. We ran in front of a rather large crowd - and had a blast!!

The most fun part was all the people who wanted to come down and ask questions, learn about the sport, and a few even asked how to join in. 

And of course - you have to see the sunrises out here - When we get up early these days We are up before the sun - so what a treat to get to see the sun come up with these colors.!!

This is me trying to get three horses to the arena. They are the best and do very well, but the camera coming up - made them wonder what was happening.  The one on the left is the newest *under training* horse. He is about 9 and he has been with us for a year. And I love him!!!

Sunset from the garden  - or the weeds... 

Somehow the weeds have taken over faster than we can keep up this year. 

( so don't notice that part okay??)

This(below) is from the last weekend - our Club hosted a Competition - and it we had an auction and a fundraiser to raise funds for a Breast Cancer Support Center in the North Denver area. Three of our Members had actually used their services while they were fighting Breast Cancer. So it was pretty cool to give back.

We do three runs - and the horses are pretty good for rund 1 and 2, but then they get hungry - so they need a snack!!

It is a fun one - we all wear Pink. So the photos are pretty fun to see all the colors of Pink out there. 

Thanks for cowboying around with me 🤠

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