I’ve been gone most of the day to a family reunion and it was so much fun to see everybody! I have no news and only one reader photo, a Country Threads pattern.
What do you call a row of rabbits hopping backwards? A receding hare line.
Thanks, Carol!
I should add more about the gardens and quilt show. This year they baked 56 pies. They ran out at 5:00 pm, and luckily one of the owners had froze some crisps from their Fathers’ day brunch at The Caboose in Tracy, so Dianne warmed up the apple crisps and the gals were able to still serve dessert and ice cream. We had a well-known lady, Cynthia Buchholz, from Hutchinson MN as a guest she brought samples of her barn quilts and they also had bird houses and cute quilt designs on a square marker for a flower pot. Cindy’s hubster, Richard makes the birdhouses and the markers. He paints the houses and they have a cute quilt square on the front of the bird houses and the square. He makes a wooden ladder also and in each opening of the ladder they have a 12”X12” barn quilt. I think there were 5 on each ladder. You can see her info on Bittersweet Barn Quilts. She will travel to teach her barn quilt class, or you can take a class in Hutchinson MN at the Historic Depot. I think she will be coming to Tracy to teach a class or two. I have made two barn quilts at classes she gave in Hutchinson, also, she has another Facebook page called Barnquilt Addicts. Would you believe she has over 100K followers? Barn quilts are very popular. She will also make a barn quilt for a person as well. I forgot to say my Anderson ancestors came from Tvete, which is near Lake Bullaren in Sweden. This weekend in nearby Walnut Grove, MN they are performing Laura zingslls Wilder Little House on the Prairie, this is weekend #1 of three performing weekends at Plum Creek Park. This is year #48!
Thank you for adding the info about the Quilts. I’ll be visiting her website.
So glad to hear you had a nice time at your reunion. Was it a potluck? Did you come home with any new recipes?
The CT checked quilt just looks like fun; I love it!
It’s raining here this evening, and we want to watch the Fever game. It starts at 6:30, but our TV keeps going off and on while it’s raining. I hope the rain passes by the time the game starts. I hope Caitlin has a better night tonight. You can see the frustration on her face and her body language.
I picked cucumbers, green beans, zucchini and summer squash this afternoon before the rain came. We still have Japanese beetles in our raspberries. I’m not picking them anymore. I made 6 batches of raspberry freezer jam and that is plenty, but I do give a lot of it away to family and friends.
I loved that quilt. I had it hanging on my front porch, every spring.
The moon was gorgeous this morning
Mary, could you repost the picture of Rose’s quilt with the 3″ squares you are doing as leaders & enders? That is a fun block stitch and I am doing them between larger projects, not as leaders & enders. Thanks much
Nancy, I found two posts which mentioned Rose and leaders and enders. The first one has a photo
https://chickenscratchcountrythreads.com/uncategorized/catching-up-5-4-25/
https://chickenscratchcountrythreads.com/uncategorized/another-rainy-day-7-5-25/
Thanks for your help in finding the 3″block quilt that Rose submitted. That is exactly what I needed and where I eventually scoped it out before I spotted your response. Limited technical skill here!
Happy stitching.
Never mind my request…I was able to locate it in earlier blog post…longer ago than I recalled. All is good!
Nancy – great! It was on my list for tonight – you just saved me some work!
I wanted to let Kris in WI know that the succulents in the boots picture in the last blog post was mine and they are hens and chickens from my in-laws house. They are over 60 years and we just keep subdividing them for another child or grandchild to keep at their house. The latest one is going to a granddaughter who just bought her first house with her fiancé so we are excited for them. She’s finishing her masters degree in speech therapy but has a job as a nanny for a family and will start some clinical work this fall. With the succulents in a boot she gets some of her great grandparents home and her grandpas old work boots.
Kathy–
What a wonderful gift, a way to honor family heritage and a great story to go with the Hen & Chicks. They will make the doorstep extra special.
I was hoping to get a slip of my husband’s aunt’s Christmas cactus, (also on “oldie” that never failed to bloom), but it was gone from the house before anyone really had permission to enter. This aunt was the family matriarch and when she called a family gathering, everyone appeared; her sister (with whom she had an on-going rivalry as to who made the best Cool Whip salad/dessert!), all five of her brothers, their wives, plus the next two generations! I knew I was accepted when she let me wash the Haviland China all by myself…after only five years! Keep those memories alive, folks! Kris in WI
The end of June we attended my husband’s 60th class reunion. Was fun seeing people who don’t live in the area. They decided to have them every other year from now on since everyone is getting older. One guy came from Scotland! It’s hot (mid 90’s +) for the next foreseeable future. I just hope there are no thunderstorms rolling thru. There have been several lightning caused fires already. Also, combine caused fires as they harvest the wheat. Stay cool everybody!
Almost the middle of July..where are the days going so fast, (why also). Wednesday the Tracy CCW gals had and celebrated the 10th anniversary of their Quilt and Garden tour! I had my most recent quilts, table runners and a couple of pillows at one of the five locations in and near Tracy! Great turnout! The event is even recorded from a few previous years on YouTube..Prairie Yard and Garden! JoLynn, who started this event tours a few gardens with the host Mary Holm. This year many people came from distances! (They saw the show on Pioneer PBS). Last year my family on my dad’s side of the family had a large reunion. I was on the committee and it is a lot of work for everyone! Our relatives were Hoberts, Holms, Rialsons, Helgesons, Almjelds, Carlsons. I am certain I forgot some. Our Great-Grandparents’ name was Anderson, many if not all changed their last name. Our cousins from Norway were in Minnesota for a week. We met them when eight cousins visited Sweden and Norway. I am working on a re-do of log cabin quilt blocks to make a table runner, my re-do is making the squares all the same size.
Cynthia – what a fabulous idea and obviously it was well received and attended. What better combination is there than gardens and quilts? Is JoLynn’s last name Olson by chance? I just got the email with the quilts which I’m going to look at now.
The Carlsons! My grandfather and his 3 brothers came to the United States about 1900 from Stavanger. Two stayed in Wright County, Iowa, and 2 settled in Blue Earth, Minnesota. I don’t really know the ones who moved to Minnesota, but some of Dad’s cousins used to come to funerals, etc. Could it be we might be related? Stranger things have happened!
Betty in Rapid City
Jolynn’s last name is Johns. She did two interviews at the garden tours with Mary Holm. YouTube…Prairie Yard and Garden #3607 , I just looked and the full tour at 28:47 and two other smaller clips. I spoke with people from Spencer, IA, Madison, MN, Worthington and many from South Dakota. The first photo shows two table runners I copied the one on the left, and tried to make mine as close to the original one. My wonderful Aunt Flo bought this at a garage sale, it is hand stitched and hand quilted. I hate to say this but it took me two years to do mine. I had to work on those triangles to get them right, they looked like wedges, but eventually JoLynn and I got the tight shape and off I went! Photo #2 is a darling pair of children’s quilts and the family that brought their mothers quilts also brought flowers, tables and other displays such as this darling child’s table with a cute table cloth and dishes plus cute little seat decorations for the chairs, maybe they are doilies. #3 was a cool quilt I photo’d at one of the five garden and quilt sites! #4 is a throw or table topper or a wallhanging if one would like to do that. The maple leaves were given to me from a customer I cleaned their home, these were left over from a quilt, so I put it together simplistically so it could be appreciated, not in a box any longer! #5 is my own t-shirt quilt. Some of my fav t-shirts from memorable locations. #6 is a Country Threads Pattern…Must be a Gameboard! This was my first attempt using all scraps and following a pattern not in a class. #7 is a photo of my backyard and one of my gardens. #8 is one of my favorite quilts from a Mary Engelbreit panels. I had a challenge to make this colorful and I used three of my favorite quilt blocks, made a couple too small so had to go bigger to match up to the panel square… I made a very similar one for a friend who loved the panel…I did just the panel for her too..but this has oh so much more pizzaz..the squares are r square, they are rectangles…I even got a text from my good friend letting me know…’Thought I better tell you the Mary Engelbreit quilt was just stolen. Don’t worry, I’lltake good care of it!😂😂😂. I was just getting out of my car to go to where my quilts were hung up..and was shocked when I read the first sentence…then read the second sentence and had a good laugh! This is an annual event, this was year #10! When you purchase your ticket and get your booklet with the write up on the gardens and the people who provide the quilts, you also are entitled to your choice of a slice of pie and ice cream (the church makes many different pies and freeze them, and if you purchase one you bake it. Their pies are $12 I believe) this is a fund-raiser for the local Catholic Church. (Pies and the proceeds from the event). Sorry this is so long.
Cynthia – thank you for this wonderful tour of your quilts!!! I loved the “play by play” for each. I thought Jolynn might be someone I know. I’ll bet you’re exhausted after this huge event – now you can rest.
Resting yes, but the gals who organized and did the show are resting for a bit! It was a very warm and sunny day at 86*. Last year it did rain, so this was better! Lovely gardens and beautiful quilts. Styles of quilts have changed over the years, they have evolved!
Glad you had a nice time at the family reunion, it’s been years for me to attend one because if one of my generation, my sister Nancy, doesn’t reserve a park and provide most of the food, tableware, etc., no one else will!
By the way, there is no receding hare line on my farm, Nelson and Sammie make sure they RUN in the right direction!
We are supposed to have two consecutive days of storms rain and high humidity. My hair has been poker straight after my bouts with covid but this humidity still makes frizz and curls.
Blessings to all
Suggestion here regarding making the food for a family reunion. Please help your sister and form a committee, people who don’t live nearby can still help. We had our reunion at a location that had a large party room and we had deadlines for paying for the food/hall rental, and then you get a number count of who is coming. I suggest they pay ahead of time, but we had a cashier at the door. Our family came to Garvin Minnesota, the meal and reunion was at Bittons Roadhouse. They made the meal.