Ranchin' Around

Notice: My Primary Email is down ( its an error on their part and they tell us all will be back soon) It's a little frustrating, but I am using my secondary email... so that may explain the different email haha!

out with the old... in with the new? But I am keeping the horses!!!!! 

Two of my babies - well not really babies, but in the snow they jump and kick and could fool you!!

Mornings aren't so bad sometimes ;-)

Woke up to this... Love the look, feel the chill

Happy Wednesday!!!

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Pink Lemonade

 I am continuing to work on the piles that I have created. The next one I picked up was full of color, and I didn't have any notes as to what I had thought I would make from it... so!

I just had fun... Cut everything into 3 1/2 inch strips - and ta da!!

I made Rail Fence Blocks - 9 1/2 inch ones so the top went together SO fast!!

But!! There's More

I had more blocks left and so... 

Top #2!!

And then - there were a few left over blocks and Left over pieces - so I cut them into 3 1/2 x 9 1/2 picees and put together some crazy Nine patches... Mixed them with the Leftover rails and

Ta - da  Number 3!!

It was blowy and Snowy and cold outside, and my kids were home, and we were laughing... thinking that it was too cold to have a picnic - but these fabrics reminded us of Pink Lemonade.... and so..

That is their name.   And just to let you know Pink Lemonade ( the drink) heated up... Not a fan!! But we tried!!

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The Quilts of 2022

I am never good at the year end round ups... I am glad I have photo proof as to what year things were created, because dates... elude me!!!!

I did run My Top Nine thing on Instagram and this is what it came up with:

and I like those... at least I remember them all... but two are not finishes... so that's kind of a bummer....

Oh! Well maybe not - now I have more to finish for Finished ( or not) Fridays!!!

I also made Photo Albums - so that At a Glance I could see all that I did in 2022.

Here is the Link to all of My Friday Finishes: Alycias; 2022 Quilts  

It looks like I finished 54 - 51 of them were mine... 

I added the 3 quilts I Quilted for QuiltDivaJulie ( and I bound!! oh ya - extra points) that we sent off to Mercyful Quilts as part of the Positivity Quilt drive.

I also took 40 Quilts to Hospice - some of those are in this album, some aren't - they were ones I had pieced years ago - and just didn't think to document them. Now I am sad about that... I guess a better goal for 2023..

And Quilts of Valor that I worked on :  2022 Quilts of Valor

I either made the Whole thing, did the Quilting, or put the blocks together ( and then Quilted it).  There were 16 of those.  

and Thats what I know about 2022 haha!!

Happy New Year!!! 

Baseball Gingham/Buffalo Plaid Finish and.... Finished ( or not) Friday!!!

Happy Friday!

For some reason this week I am all messed up on what day it is... I blame the snow, the shoveling of the snow, and more snow haha!!!

I have a Start to Finish!!

Remember those Buffalo plaid/Gingham Quilts that are so cute? Well I saw the Video from The Fat Quarter shot and it said you could make the whole top, cut to finish in 3 hours... and guess what? 

They were RIGHT!!!

I made mine a bit bigger tho.... and Ta Da!!!

I think I better go take photos in the Sunshine when it appears... the Snow seems to change the color a bit....

I used a Blue, Red, and Two cream prints for the front

You wanted to see our snow right? Its no where near as bad as others, but! It was heavy snow and I was happy about that  ( moisture to the pasture!!)

Here is the Back... A little leftover from the front and some more fun Baseball Fabric

Remember that Pile Project I told you I had to work on?   All these Baseball Fabrics were piled too - haha!! 

Apparently I am a good pile maker!

And I had fun Quilting it too - I knew that it was a busy quilt, so it mostly needed a fun pattern.

There you go - A baseball quilt... Ready for Baseball Season

(It will be for sale in my Etsy Store : Quiltygirl Etsy Store  ) 

Oh- the sun started to shine  - heres a better color photo:

and now!!! It is your turn!!!

You have ONE LAST FRIDAY to brag about a 2022 finish!!!

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More Fabric

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These are called ( on the selvedge)

1930's Nostalgia Prints

Each piece is a little over a yard.

Shipping $7.50

Fabrics Free

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I will contact you for address - and you can Venmo or Paypal...

Join Us Friday for Finished ( or not) Friday!!!  I actually have one more.... yay!!!

Scrappy Scraps

THEY ARE SPOKEN FOR AS OF THIS MOMENT

BUT KEEP CHECKING EACH DAY... I HAVE MORE!!! ( acckkksss)

Dear Quilters...

I pulled out a box looking for a fabric... and it said box...

Was more than I know what to do with.

it is 9 pounds 2 ounces of fabrics - perfect for that Next Scrappy Project

or for the Rainbow Scrap challenge of 2023.... or the Table Scrap challenge

or..... for your imagination to go crazy....

 The Fabric is Free to whomever would love it - the Postage is $15 via UPS ( so I need a UPS able address)

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Hopefully someone is ready to tackle these scraps!!!

16 Patches Finish and Finished ( or not) Friday

This is the second to the LAST Finished ( or not) Friday for 2022!!!! Last week you all had a Ton of finishes.... shall we keep it going???

I started this 16 patch quilt back in August - it was inspired by an Antique photo.... and of course, I had to do it in Patriotics

but then...  I wondered how I should quilt it - and ... this is what I came up with!

I chose to load it longways, and quilt in long rows.

The Top and the bottom have patriotic scenes (I think they are Judy Lyon designs - she shared them on the QOV members page and I thought they were cool)

and in the Middle two white rows I quilted the words,

In the Colored rows I quilted Stars and flags...

And Ta-da!!! The finish!!!

One more week to finish on more item for the year.... go go go!!

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A Little Mountain Trip

 We had a day off and thought... lets go up the mountain!

And off we went.... the car temp thing said 35 - we were excited - perfect snowshowing weather.....

until we got out and the wind was HOWLING... Ground blizzards all over the trails, but Holee cow is that gorgeous. I had my trail map so was pretty confident we were good for a few miles in, but we didn't want to get much further than that - just in case the Ground blizzards got worse...

Check out what we got to see tho!!

The Views..... oh man - I love them...

This one was just so cool to stand and watch - the way the wind moved the clouds in - they were rolling, and that fine mist like looking was the snow...

I had a hood, but snow was still going down my shirt!!! I had my Snowshoe pants on - and they really worked good. They are supposed to cut the wind - and they are lined - and man... I was glad!!!

These are kind of out of order... Below is what we saw

Above is how close we hiked....

Deer!!!   I got ice cream for seeing him first!!!

(its a family competition... and I like to win!!)

Not too much later - we saw him.....

This is us trying to take a selfie with s DSLR.... my cell phone was in the trunk of the car on this little jaunt ( we took 2 different trails)  

Have you ever tried to just turn the big camera around and see what you can get?  

after our hiking we stopped at a BBQ joint for lunch. We walked in and they informed us that their heater wasn't working - I thought it was quite balmy in there - and didn't have to take any gear off!!!

Then...

We stopped at SweetHeart Wineries in West Loveland. They actually had tried to grow grapes - but they had a hard time keeping the ELK out of them... Too funny!!!

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and guess what? They work when your heater decided to quit in the middle of a Blizzard.... I guess that's a story for another day too .. I will tell you two days later ... we had heat again...

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Spreading the Love

I am getting a slow start around here today. My only defense.... its cold!!! and supposed to get colder... which means more ice has to be broken on water tanks... our tank heaters can't keep up. And... I look like the staypuff marshmellow man with all of my layers...

but!! Roads are opened - so it is ALL Good..... ( our roads were closed 2 1/2 days last week due to blizzards)

BEFORE!!! The blizzard hit on Tuesday - I got to help spread some love to our Veterans!!!  Are you ready???

Above was the First group - bright and early Saturday morning. They were the best - the smiles were contagious, and the stories  - oh lawsy the stories!!! There is something about getting a group of Vets together that make the stories get funnier...

and then the second group.

We got this one awarded and it was so great!! All of these quilts were made by One Quilter with a super big heart of this group of men... and she had one of them help her choose what quilt went with what vet so they all fit their personality. IT WAS AWESOME!!!

And as I was driving home, then temps started dropping... and by the time I got home it was snowing at my house. That is what you call "Perfect Timing" right?

Oh and in between the two large groups - I got to do some single awards - but they were all still active duty - so...You'll just have to pretend you saw the photos ;-)   Great couple of day!!

One of my latest Client quilts - so cute - and quilting hearts all over it!!! 
 

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Ethels Quilts of Valor and !!! Finished!! ( or not) Friday!!!

 Happy Friday!!!

To those who have had blizzards... Much sympathy to you... this wind... Blows!!! Oh my gosh - I am over the wind!!!

My Friend Ethel has been a faithful QOV'er from the beginning with me!! I started machine quilting them in 2003 and in 2004 decided to teach 100 5th graders how to quilt.... kinda forgetting I still did NOT know how to bind!!! Ethel jumped in and helped so we could get our Quilts to the Soldiers at Fort Carson!!

and since then - she is a QOV machine!!!

These are her latest two that I quilted 

I also might have gone Snowshoeing in Wyoming to get these photos.... or maybe

it was just to see the skies!!  I love this one - where she fussy cut the Eagles in the Hearts on the quilt. I am sure a Veteran is going to LOVE this one!!!

And next!!

Check out that Eagle Border!!! Doesn't that just frame this quilt beautifully??

She does such Great work!!! its an honor to quilt her quilts....

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