Day 6

Back to Sweet Violet

And our Mini Quilt for today

(fast and easy stitching - it's only 26" x 16")

not only welcomes you to Moda's blog hop

but will welcome guests to your home.

To enter my drawing for a free pattern for 

Welcome, make a comment, 

any old comment and I'll have the 

random number generator pick a number 

and announce the pattern winner tomorrow.

The winner of the Winter Wonderland BOM 

is Moosecraft who said

"Winter Wonderland is perfect!  You've got all the 

snow, trees and woodland creatures (and a kitty)

surrounding a cozy home!

Inside that cozy home is where I spend most of

my winter....stitching, of course!  :-)"

Moosecraft, if you will send your name and snail mail

address to Tammy along with the name of the pattern

you won, she will send your pattern to you.

Now we've got some hopping to do.

Let's go see what Rachel Benchley of

Basic Grey has in store for us.  

To get there click here.

And be sure to come back tomorrow for
Day 7 and another quilt.
I was a little late today because that
Kansas City Chiefs game yesterday exhausted
me and I overslept.  - But WE WON!

Day 5

Back to Sarah's Story

Winter Wonderland BOM

Fabric by Betsy Chutchian

Pattern by me

We just did a Halloween pillow so

lets start getting ready for winter.

I do so love this quilt and am almost,

but not quite, looking forward to snow 

and all things Christmacy.

To enter my drawing for a free pattern for 

Winter Wonderland BOM, make a comment, 

any old comment and I'll have the 

random number generator pick a number 

and announce the pattern winner Monday.

The winner of the scarecrow pillow kit 

(she signed her post "unknown") said

"I like that it looks so much like fall without 

just traditional orange fabric.

Unknown, if you will email Tammy at 

janpatekquiltsinc@gmail.com 

she'll snail mail your kit to you.

Now ladies, lets do some hopping.

To see what Robin Pickens has for us

go to  https://www.robinpickens.com

See you Monday ladies for a new quilt on Day 6.

Moda Blog Hop, Day 4

OK - this is going to be a little different.

The designer for today is ME 

and

to get to the pattern for my block,
click here

But I didn't just make an 18" block,
I turned it into a pillow
and I didn't just use the Sweet Violet fabric
but instead
used a combination of Sweet Violet
and Sarah's Secret.

Here it is sitting in my chair in the living room.

To make the pillow, follow the directions 

for the pillow top given in the link.

But then you need to turn the 18" top into a pillow

for the instructions on how to do that click here.  

To enter my drawing for the pillow kit, make a comment, 

any old comment and I'll have the 

random number generator pick a number 

and announce the pattern winner tomorrow -

(I know this gets repetitive but I can't think of

a different way to say it and I really need to

say it each day).

The winner of the BOM pattern is 

IowaTall Girl who said

                                            iowatallgirlSeptember 26, 2019 at 3:14 AM

                     I really like purple but haven't used the color too much in my quilts.

                                        Maybe winning would inspire me to do so!

I hope you like it :)
Even if I do say so myself, the quilt looks awesome on a bed.

Happy quilting 

Moda Blog Hop - Day #3

OOOOPPPS
I set this to post but I must have
done something wrong.
OK - so you'll get 2 posts in the same day and I'll have to
choose a comment from 2 posts

Back to Sweet Violet

This is Little House in the Big Garden - 

a 12 month BOM

made out of my Sweet Violet fabric line.

I just redid my guest bedroom when
Susanne Steil came to visit from
Germany and this is the quilt I put on the bed.
She seemed to find it cozy.

To enter my drawing for the BOM, make a comment, 

any old comment and I'll have the 

random number generator pick a number 

and announce the pattern winner tomorrow -

(I know this gets repetitive but I can't think of

a different way to say it and I really need to

say it each day).

The winner of the Church Bells pattern is

                                                           

                                                QuilterSeptember 24, 2019 at 8:40 AM

                                                                   who said

                                            Perfect pattern for all the things you think of during
                                               the Holidays - like the smaller size also.. something I
                                                              might actually get done...

Quilter, please send your snail mail address to

Tammie at janpatekquiltsinc@gmail.com

and tell her you've won the Church Bells pattern 

so she can send you your pattern.  

Congratulations. :)

Now that that's taken care of lets hop over to

Crystal - https://crystalmanningart.com/blogs/blog 

Barbara & Mary - https://www.meandmysisterdesigns.com/blog/

and see what they've got for us.

Day 2

This is

Church Bells in the Snow

made with Betsy's fabric line Sarah's Story.

And I just love it, even if I do say so myself.

To enter my drawing for a free pattern for Church Bells,

 make a comment, 

any old comment and I'll have the 

random number generator pick a number 

and announce the pattern winner the tomorrow.

The winner of the Tulgey Wood Farms pattern is

                                                               

                                                                               Barb who said

                                      I love the simplicity of your designs. I'm working on a Halloween one now!

Barb if you will email your snail mail address to

Tammy at janpatekquiltsinc@gmail.com and let her

know which pattern you won, she'll mail it out.

Meanwhile lets hop on over to
Lynne - http://kansastroublesquilters-lynne.blogspot.com/ 
and Corey - https://littlemissshabby.com/ 
and see what they've got for us.

See you tomorrow

Moda Blog Hop - Day #1

At Spring Market in 

Kansas City, I had quilts

and patterns from my Fall line

Sweet Violet and Betsy Chutchian's

Spring Line Sarah's Story.

Tulgey Wood Farms

On the 26th I'll post a picture and 

pattern of a pillow that

I designed using both lines.  

That day I'll have a drawing for a Pillow Kit.

To fill in the other days I'll post a picture

of a quilt and have a drawing to give away a pattern 

of the quilt I designed using either 

Sweet Violet or Sarah's Story

I'll also give you a link to the work of

other Moda designers who might be having

a give away too.

To enter my drawing each day, make a comment, 

any old comment and I'll have the 

random number generator pick a number each day

and announce the pattern winner the next day.

If you already have a pattern for that quilt, just email

Tammy and we'll let you chose any single pattern from the store.

Good luck ladies.

Meantime, we have some hopping to do.

Our designers today are Lella Boutique and Sheri & Chelsi.

To get to Lella Boutique go to  https://lellaboutique.blogspot.com/ ,

To Sherri's blog go to https://www.aquiltinglife.com/ ,

and to Chelsi's blog go to https://chelsistratton.wordpress.com/ 

My Oh My -- It's been a Day

I ended up in the hospital 

for a short second

but am home and fine now.

I'll tell you more about it later

but meantime

wanted to show you the quilt Mary and Connie 

were talking about on Chicken Scratch.

This is my 25th Wedding Anniversary Quilt.

They used this pattern to make a quilt for

Connie and Roy Tesene's 30th anniversary.

It's in my book Together Again.

If you want to make one of your very own

(whether it's your anniversary or not)

you can click here to get the pattern.

Have a good day ladies.

Quilting friends are the best friends.......

Some come all the way from Germany (Susanna Stein) to see you

and others just come from Lenexa, Ks (Robin Allen).

And while Susanna (on the left) was taking

a selfie of the 3 of us

Pep was taking a "selfie" of us taking a "selfie".

Besides taking pictures, we've laughed and eaten

and stitched and stitched.

Susanna and I have worked on my Anniversary Quilt 

and Robyn is working on this awesome quilt

for her granddaughter - nice bright colors.

Our vintage book this month is The Pokeberry Quilt,

a memory quilt I made for my father.

Each block in the quilt hold a memory

of my father - It's a very special quilt for me.

Our Deal of the week is Millennium Garden, 

a BOM that I designed with Alma Allen.  I have been

blessed to work with so many talented people

over the years and Alma was one of them.

And as well as being an awesome quilter 

she is a very nice lady, a 

real joy to work with.

To get your copy, click here.

See you next week ladies and

keep on quilting.

:)

A Day Late........

Well, Maybe 5

One of the not so great things about raising chickens is

that everything wants to eat them.

Recently we've been having a lot of trouble

with critters getting into the brooder house 

and dispatching my babies. 

Raccoons are NOT CUTE when they kill

my chickens.

We still had all of our laying hens but I lost my 

"pet" chickens - ones that are around not because they 

produce well but because I like the way thy look - 

kind of like playing with dolls. 

We called in a Conservation Agent who helped us

get the brooder house secure again.

I tried to order new babies from the usual hatchery

but it is past the hatch date.  Our friendly Conservation 

Agent came to the rescue Again with the news that the Amish

were having a small animal auction last Friday so my sister 

Nancy and I got in the car and drove to Jamesport.

We didn't have an address but "just find a place with 

lots of buggys and pickup trucks and you'll be there."

And guess what I found?

Lavender Orpington babies.

Who will grow up to be Lavendar Orpington hens 

& roosters. So now I have purple chickens to 

go with my purple fabric and quilts. 

I am assuming they will lay tan

eggs like my Buff Orpington hens but who knows.

Maybe I'll get lavender eggs - my aracaunas lay blue eggs.

And I also bought these 4.  They have feathers 

on their feet like my Cochins did.

Does anybody have any idea what breed they are?

I haven't had time to research it

mainly because I've been working on this months

Tablestand Quilt - Fall Favorites.

I would have gotten a turkey too (Max and Zoie both had

pet turkeys when they were kids) but they came up last and 

Nancy and I were too tired to wait.

Have a good week ladies - maybe I'll be back on schedule 

by then and post on Wednesday.

Holidays always throw me off.  :)

And I almost forgot

Our

Deal of the Week

2 patterns for the price of 1.

Trick or Treat

and

Wilhamina Witch.

To get your copies click here.