Happy Girl Gang Wednesday

We're having a Heat Wave in Cameron

so I decided to cool us off a bit

by doing a winter quilt

so our sale item this week is

Winter Wonderland.

I just love this little quilt.

Years ago I read something written by a quilter-

 I'm sorry,  I don't remember who.

But she said that you need 3 things to be happy

1. Someone to love

2. Something to do

and

3. Something to look forward to.

Well, I lost my main "someone to love" and am really glad

I'm a Christian (Missouri Synod Lutheran) because I 

know I will see him again when I die and go to heaven.

And of course my "something to do" is quilting.

I talked with Max last night and my "something to look

forward to" (besides eventually dying) is going to be staying

with Max one week a month, Jake one week the next 

month, and Zoie one week the following month.

That leaves me one week to stay at home and work with 

Tammy on quilts.  And since I mainly do appliqué, my

quilting will go with me.  

Kelly is here to take care of dogs and cats 

 and Willie is here to take care of my chickens.

When Pep and I got married we rented a house in

Kansas City and started looking for land between

Kansas City where my mother lived and Chillicothe

where his parents lived.  We found 80 acres in

Cameron and built our house here out of Midland Brick

and Tile, (Pep's dad's brick plant).  55 years later when he died,

the kids wanted me to move closer to them but leaving the

home we built together would be like losing him all over again.

For the first time since he died, I feel settled.  This will work.  I can 

have the home Pep and I built together and still have the 

comfort of relationship with my children.

Thank you Jesus for working this out for me.

You can go to the store to get your  quilt kit by 

clicking here.

Now have the best week with the people and quilts that

you love and I'll see you  next week 

    YAY!. 

 

Happy Girl Gang Wednesday

It's July and time to go

 

down by the Sea front

Down by the Sea back

I just love whales.

When I was in California visiting my Uncle Fred

and Aunt Grace they asked me what I would like to

do.  The first thing I told them was that I wanted to

go see the whales.  It was awesome.

And right now, making this little Tablestand

has got to be more fun that watching the Democrats

figure out what to do about Biden.  

You can go to the store to get your Tablestand quilt by 

clicking here.

Now have the best week with the people and quilts that

you love and I'll see you  next week when I'm supposed to

be getting some more baby chickens.    YAY!. 

Happy Girl Gang Wednesday - On Thursday this week

Since Thursday is the 4th of July

And in keeping with the occasion

the item on sale this week is 

"Flags of the American Revolution" 

Flags of the American Revolution

The first flags adopted by our colonial forebears were symbolic of their struggles with the wilderness of the new land. Beavers, pine trees, rattlesnakes, anchors and various other insignia were affixed to different banners with mottoes such as "Hope," "Liberty," "Appeal to Heaven," or "Don't Tread on Me."

In the early days of the Revolution, there were colonial and regimental flags by the score. The Boston Liberty flag, consisting of nine alternate red and white horizontal stripes, flew over the Liberty Tree, a fine old elm in Hanover Square in Boston, where the Sons of Liberty met.

Still another was a white flag with a green pine tree and the inscription, "An Appeal to Heaven." This particular flag became familiar on the seas as the ensign of the cruisers commissioned by General Washington, and was noted by many English newspapers of the time. [Available from FlagLine.com.]

Flags with a rattlesnake theme also gained increasing prestige with colonists. The slogan "Don't Tread on Me" almost invariably appeared on rattlesnake flags. A flag of this type was the standard of the South Carolina Navy. Another, the Gadsden flag, consisted of a yellow field with a rattlesnake in a spiral coil, poised to strike, in the center. Below the snake was the motto, "Don't Tread on Me." [Available from FlagLine.com.]

Similar was the Culpepper flag, banner of the Minutemen of Culpepper (now spelled Culpeper) County, Virginia. It consisted of a white field with a rattlesnake in a spiral coil in the center. Above the rattlesnake was the legend "The Culpepper Minute Men" and below, the motto, "Liberty or Death" as well as "Don't Tread on Me." [Available from FlagLine.com.]

In December of 1775, an anonymous Philadelphia correspondent wrote to Bradford's Pennsylvania journal concerning the symbolic use of the snake. He began the letter by saying: 

I recollected that her eye excelled in brightness that of any other animal, and that she has no eye-lids. She may, therefore, be esteemed an emblem of vigilance. She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders. She is, therefore, an emblem of magnanimity and true courage. 

It was probably the deadly bite of the rattler, however, which was foremost in the minds of its designers, and the threatening slogan "Don't Tread on Me" added further significance to the design.

The Moultrie flag was the first distinctive American flag displayed in the South. It flew over the ramparts of the fort on Sullivan's Island, which lies in the channel leading to Charleston, South Carolina, when the British fleet attacked on June 28, 1776. The British ships bombarded the fort for 10 hours. But the garrison, consisting of some 375 regulars -- and a few militia, under the command of Col. William Moultrie, put up such a gallant defense that the British were forced to withdraw under cover of darkness. This victory saved the southern Colonies from invasion for another two years.

The flag was blue, as were the uniforms of the men of the garrison, and it bore a white crescent in the upper corner next to the staff, like the silver crescents the men wore on their caps, inscribed with the words "Liberty or Death." [Available from FlagLine.com.]

The Maritime Colony of Rhode Island had its own flag, which was carried at Brandywine, Trenton, and Yorktown. It bore an anchor, 13 stars, and the word "Hope." Its white stars in a blue field are believed by many to have influenced the design of our national flag. [Available from FlagLine.com.]

The Army preferred its regimental flags on the battlefield instead of the Stars and Stripes. A popular form of the U.S. flag that was used in battle had the obverse (front) of the Great Seal in the canton.

The Army also used the Stars and Stripes with 13 stars in a circle. The Stars and Stripes was officially used in Army artillery units in 1834, and in infantry units in 1842. [Available from FlagLine.com.]

If you go on line and find my book you'l find lots of history on the different flags.  Until then, you can  just follow the pattern, make the quilt and have a great 4th of July.

You can go to the store to get your copy by clicking here.

Meantime, have the best week with the people and quilts that

you love and I'll see you  next week.