Block 24

Be My Neighbor

by Stacy lest Hsu

You can go to her blog to download

the pattern by clicking here.

I just love her block and would love to

make a gazillion little houses

but life got in the way.

Last Friday raccoons got into

our chicken houses.

Through a series of miscommunications

Jeff thought we were shutting up the

houses and we thought he was.

We lost almost all of our chickens

My big Lavender Orpington rooster and his hen

made it through, 1 Americauna hen and 1 banty hen.

We lost all of the others.

The only good thing about it was

the day that it happened.  That night the Amish in

Jamesport were having their monthly

small animal auction.

Nancy and I hopped into the van, drove to Jamesport

We got quite a few egg layers, 2 sets of Silkies and some 

beautiful gold chickens that I'm going to have to

research to find out what they are.

We also bought these 2 turkey babies for Zoie

We live trapped the big boar raccoon and his sow and

called our conservation officer.

Two babies (or kits) came and hung out

with their parents 

until the agent

could coral them and take them and their parents

over to Wallace State Park to be Let loose

in the woods. 

Don't let their cuteness take you in.  They'll 

grow up to be as destructive as all the adults.

(I had to keep telling myself that!)

And all of this was after cleaning out

3 houses, filling them with clean straw

 & rounding up feedersand waterers.

Ships, Stars & Whales is our featured 

quilt from the vintage book Oceans Aweigh.

My nephew Jewell had discovered my Father-in-Law's

recipe for podjarka which is printed in the book

and I promised to email him a copy.

That should do it.

Now lets go see what the others have done with

Stacy's block.

Corey Yoder - https://corianderquilts.com/
Sherri McConnell - https://www.aquiltinglife.com/
 Betsy Chutchian - http://betsysbestquiltsandmore.blogspot.com/
 Jan Patek - http://janpatek.blogspot.com/
 Brigitte Heitland - https://www.brigitteheitland.de/blog

 Lisa Bongean - https://lisabongean.com/
 Lissa Alexander - http://modalissa.com/
Laurie Simpson - http://minickandsimpson.blogspot.com/
 Vanessa Goertzen - https://lellaboutique.blogspot.com/
 Stacy Iest Hsu - https://www.stacyiesthsu.com/blog/
 Robin Pickens - https://www.robinpickens.com/
Janet Clare - http://janetclare.co.uk/blog/
 Jen Kingwell - www.jenkingwelldesigns.com/blog
Joanna Figueroa - https://blog.figtreeandcompany.com/

Have a good week ladies.

Blockheads - Block 23

Block 23

Lucky Penny by

Vanessa Goertzen

You can go to her blog

to download the pattern

by clicking here

Back at the farm everything's growing.

This is the rosemary and basil

And here is was last week.

I do have a few flowers too.

As well as a very sleepy cat named Dueces.

Actually he's Pep's cat.

My cats are just overgrown kittens

and still tear around the house full speed ahead.

One of my favorite quilts from our vintage

book for the month (Oceans Aweigh) is

Save the Whales.

I think whales are awesome.  After the last

Market we had in Portland my sister Nancy and I

went down the coast to visit our Uncle Fred 

and Aunt Grace in California.  

We had booked a session to go out and see

Whales but it was canceled because this ocean

was too choppy so I'll have to be content with

my quilt.   My son Max did a woodcut of the

whale and I used it in the quilt.

Now lets go see what the others have done with

Vanessa's block.

Corey Yoder - https://corianderquilts.com/
Sherri McConnell - https://www.aquiltinglife.com/
 Betsy Chutchian - http://betsysbestquiltsandmore.blogspot.com/
 Jan Patek - http://janpatek.blogspot.com/
 Brigitte Heitland - https://www.brigitteheitland.de/blog

 Lisa Bongean - https://lisabongean.com/
 Lissa Alexander - http://modalissa.com/
Laurie Simpson - http://minickandsimpson.blogspot.com/
 Vanessa Goertzen - https://lellaboutique.blogspot.com/
 Stacy Iest Hsu - https://www.stacyiesthsu.com/blog/
 Robin Pickens - https://www.robinpickens.com/
Janet Clare - http://janetclare.co.uk/blog/
 Jen Kingwell - www.jenkingwelldesigns.com/blog
Joanna Figueroa - https://blog.figtreeandcompany.com/

Have a good week ladies.

Blockheads 3, Block 22

Hen & Chicks

by Laurie Simpson.

You can go to her blog to download

the pattern by clicking here.

Back in the garden and on the deck

the veggies are growing.  We had a

nice rain last night and they loved it.

some basil seeds got in with the rosemary

and seem to like it there.

Our Vintage book this month is 

which Oceans Aweigh which 

was dedicated to my 

father-in -law Byron Patek.

Byron was a Commander in the Navy during

WWII and earned a bronze star for

sweeping mines during a typhoon.

I thought since Father's Day is in June that it was

a good book to share this month.

Now lets go see what the others have done with

Laurie's block.

Corey Yoder - https://corianderquilts.com/
Sherri McConnell - https://www.aquiltinglife.com/
 Betsy Chutchian - http://betsysbestquiltsandmore.blogspot.com/
 Jan Patek - http://janpatek.blogspot.com/
 Brigitte Heitland - https://www.brigitteheitland.de/blog

 Lisa Bongean - https://lisabongean.com/
 Lissa Alexander - http://modalissa.com/
Laurie Simpson - http://minickandsimpson.blogspot.com/
 Vanessa Goertzen - https://lellaboutique.blogspot.com/
 Stacy Iest Hsu - https://www.stacyiesthsu.com/blog/
 Robin Pickens - https://www.robinpickens.com/
Janet Clare - http://janetclare.co.uk/blog/
 Jen Kingwell - www.jenkingwelldesigns.com/blog
Joanna Figueroa - https://blog.figtreeandcompany.com/

And while you're at it, you can check out what they did with 

Lissa's block last week since I forgot to post the links Friday.

Have a good week ladies.

Blockheads 3- Block 21

XOXO

by Lisa Alexander

You can go to her blog to
download the pattern by clicking here

Come back Friday and I'll give you
links to the other designers blogs
to see what they have done with Lisa's block.