Spring Flowers

 

 

 

Here are my spring bulb flowers in my front flower bed: the grape hyacinths, daffodils, and you will have to imagine the pink tulips. The deer think the tulips are their candy and have left only chewed up leaves. Next year I will have to get them covered with netting as soon as they peek out of the ground!

Calico Salad

 

Here is the dish that I made for the potluck meeting at the library tonight. People like it and ask for the recipe.
Calico Salad

1 16 oz. pkg. frozen mixed vegetables
1 small chopped onion
1 cup chopped celery
1 can red or black beans
Sauce:
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon prepared mustard

Mix flour with sugar, add vinegar and cook while stirring until thickened. Add mustard. Pour over vegetables and refrigerate for at least two hours.

Dear Jane Sewing Day April 14

 

Here are my 32nd and 33rd blocks finished!

Raffle Quilt and Show!

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It's been a long time since my last blog post, and this is the reason why - the raffle quilt for the guild that I was in charge of this year! The past month or so I have been focused on getting it done, hand quilted. I've had guild members at my house to work on it 2 or 3 times a week and I've worked on it most evenings. The show was March 27 and 28; the raffle ticket sales brought in over $2900!! I'll be posting more regularly now, I've a lot to catch up on.

Lincoln and Darwin 200th Birthdays

February 12, 1809 Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born. Both men who made and changed history. A couple of week's ago the speaker at church discussed them and recommended a Newsweek article and the book Rebel Giants.
This quilt was made from the brown jelly roll strips that I won at the guild's drawing in November. I didn't know what to do with them until I saw this pattern and thought the brown strips resembled a log cabin and Lincoln would be in the center. Our quilt show theme this year is "Quilting Our Heritage - The Lincoln Legacy". There is a special category on Lincoln/Civil War/Illinois quilts, so that is where it will go.

On Wednesday, I hosted my women's book group meeting. The book we discussed was The Emancipator's Wife by Barbara Hambley. An historical novel about Mary Todd Lincoln which was rich with detail that revealed what life was like for women in that era, as well as her personal problems and sufferings.

Illinois Sampler

All twelve blocks from the DQG Evening Groups 2008 block of the month project are completed. Here are three of my favorite ones and all 12 on my design wall. I have been thinking about different settings, and have decided to do a garden maze setting as I saw in Elm Creek Quilts by Jennifer Chiaverini. That's what she did with her sampler quilt. Now to get it done and quilted for the QuiltFest March 27 and 28?

"Brigid's Fire"s
I made this wallhanging in a class with teacher Sharyn Craig in 2006, I finished it in February, so I named it for Brigid. It is an old pattern called Royal Cross. I hung it in my hall this week in honor of Brigid/Candlemas/Ground Hog's Day.