Rainy days make me want to nap.......

And it seems I'm not the only one.

Kitty Kate Kat is taking a

deserved rest - she was up all night - 

outside with Muffin Kitty, a big stray

male who has taken up residence in our barn.

He's called Muffin because of his color.  

He's gotten friendly enough that he will

let me pet him.  

When he gets a little tamer, he will go 

have a visit with the vet.

Meanwhile Kitty Kate Kat has been spayed 

and had all of her shots so no little kitties 

will come visiting.

Her real name is Katherine the Great and she lives with

Queen Elizabeth, our English Bulldog.

Deb Strain asked on Instagram if we had 

any furry friends who helped us work.

Indeed we do.  Besides Kitty Kate and Elizabeth, 

there is Jake's Welsh Corgi Dobby.

Dobby got his name because he likes socks.

He's staying with us while Jake is in 

college and now Dental School.

And while the animals are hanging around

keeping us company I have been working on

blocks from our 50th Anniversary Quilt - above - 

and the Clover Meadow Wallhanging.

The quilt we're featuring from our vintage book

Country Paths is November's Song

You can get the book with the pattern for 

this quilt by clicking here.

Meanwhile Fall is just around the corner

and to help us get ready, our Deal of the Week

is 20% off our Pumpkin Man Quilt.  

You can get your kit by clicking here.

I hope you and your dog (or dogs & cats)

had a good National Dog Day.

And I'm sorry, folks but the kit won't be in

the store until the 28th.  

I clicked on "Publish" instead of "Schedule".

Keep on quilting

Meanwhile

Lazy, Hazy, Crazy..........

Lazy, hazy, crazy,

Well...... kind of!

Martingale is getting set for

my Sunny Days to come out.

It will come out in January and

we're taking Preorder this month.

We should have it set up by next week

so be sure to come back then.

Meantime we're still selling our Vintage

book Country Paths (one of my all time 

favorite books) at 1/2 price.

This is one of the quilt patterns in it

by the name of Oak Leaves and Turkey Feathers.

You can see why this is one of my favorite books.

I just love these colors and fabrics.

And speaking of all time favorites and

things that I love, this is our grandson

Jake.  You saw him graduating from UMKC 

last May.  This week he started at UMKCs

School of Dentistry.  All of his hard work

in college paid off.

Congratulations Jake - only 4 more years of

hard work and you'll be a dentist.

Following up on the Watermelon Days 

theme, our Deal of the Week is 

the Prize Watermelon Tablestand Kit for 25% off.  

Gotta love ice cold watermelon on a hot, muggy

summer day.  :)

Well, I'd better get back at it.

Pep and I have been married 50 years on October 18th

and I'm making us an Anniversary BOM.  

Its 93" x 99" - Whew!

Stay tuned for further installments.

And still busy :)

America For Me

has certainly kept us busy.  

We weren't quite prepared for the

flood of orders for both the pattern

and the kit.

We had  enough fabric to make the sample but had

to order the rest from Moda for the kits.

Unfortunately the order for this fabric got mixed in

with an order for my next line.

Tammy finally called and they got it sorted out.

The fabric got here Tuesday and the kits are being cut.

Mary from Country Thread asked on her blog how I

got the quilt done so quickly.  I made the flags with

machine appliqué since the lines are straight.

DMC Machine Embroidery floss with 

the stitch set on one - almost invisible.

If you've been following Mary's blog you know

she's been having computer problems.

Our printers must have caught them - the problems -

because they both stopped working.

Everything finally seems to be humming along 

now though so patterns and kits have started shipping.

We are still taking orders for them or you can

get yours by clicking here.

This is "The Lady" from the same book - Lady Liberty.

I'm thinking of doing it again too -

 but with needle turn appliqué - 

maybe when we finish my 50th anniversary quilt.

Here are a few blocks from it.

And if you follow my blog, you know 

I have chickens.  Guess what I found the other 

day when I went to gather eggs.

He (or she) was in one of the nests.  Cullen was

with me and said it was probably a female 

because of her size. I'm not scared of snakes - 

never have been.

When I was young my father was in the Army

and we were stationed at Ft. Belvoir. 

We lived in Officer quarters with woods behind us 

and then the Potomac River.  Our house was 

shaped like a V with a little porch by the front door.

One spring a big black snake came up repeatedly

to sun himself on the porch.  My father

would go get our garden rake, pick him up

and take him back to the woods.   

Pretty simple and not scary.

Its August and August in Missouri is full of 

Watermelon Days.

Go to our store and any quilt pattern with a

watermelon is 50% off.

And speaking of 50% off our vintage book

for August is Country Paths.

I love that quilt - the patterns for it

and 3 other quilts are featured.

Well, I'd better go check the chicken house :)

and see if we have any other visitors.