Happy Girl Gang Wednesday

It's July - 

Christmas in July 

for just a few more days and

here are a few of our favorite things

And a few more

 and even more

 

You can go to the store to grab some pattern and kits and

start stitching by clicking here because next Monday

which is the last day in July

we're going to raffle off one of my

quilts.  I'll tell you which one Monday.

Meanwhile have the very best week

with the people and quilts that you love the most.

Jan

 

Happy Girl Gang Wednesday on Saturday this week

My - it's been quite a month.

Every year we get new chickens and here is my original

order this year.  When I got them I put them in the

little house for the bantys and locked it up.

We thought the house was secure but one by one

they disappeared.  Jeff thought it was a black snake

or maybe a weasel but whatever it was the 

babies weren't safe.  

I ordered some new ones and we put them all in

Thistle's old cage and kept it in the office.

(Thistle was Kelly's rabbit that went to rabbit

heaven). Anyway that would work temporarily

but not for long,  so what to do?

I remembered that the people on the corner had

a really neat little chicken house and didn't take 

it with them when they moved.  I met our new neighbors

and found out that they weren't planning on keeping

chickens.

Long story short

I bought it and Jeff moved it into the

chicken yard.  

Of course this types quickly but really took quit 

awhile.  

 You can tell which ones are survivors from

the first order because they're quite a bit bigger.

Anyway, they're safe and sound now.   Since

I have my babies safe, I can concentrate on 

quilting again.

And we're still having Christmas in July.

Christmas 101 is our pattern on sale this week.

You can go to the store to get your pattern

by clicking here

 In the midst of all that, I think I forgot to post the blog

on July 12th so here it is.

We're going to have a Christmas in July 

sale all month and the item on sale

this week is a

Star Spangled Christmas

Kit on sale for 20% off.

You can go to the store to get your kit

by clicking here

If the store doesn't have it on sale just

email Tammie and she'll get it for you

at the sale price if we have any left.

Right now I'm going to feed the cat, check on the

chickens and take a small nap,

Have the best week with the people and quilts

that you love.

Jan.

Happy 4th of July on the 12th

Let Freedom Ring & 

    

Stars for the Lady

BOGO patterns

Kit for Let Freedom Ring 20% off

MASSIVE PATTERN SALE

 - all patterns with Flags or

Eagles 50% off 

This week only

Happy Girl Gang Wednesday on Sunday this week

Here's why it took so long to get a post up

Here we have 7 straight run (not sexed)

Buff Orpingtons and 7 straight run Bantys)

I got to sit outside the post office and wait 

for the pouring rain to stop the day they

came before I went into get them.

I stopped at Coop to pick up their Chickstart

and got them quickly home and under the

warming lights.  The one in the bottom picture with

the black spot is a Silver Laced Wyandotte rooster.

The raccoon got my first one out of the big house

when he killed all my bantys.  I do NOT like raccoons 

and now I shut up the chicken houses when I feed

the barn cat.  That way I don't have to worry about

Jeff maybe being late.

 And happy almost 4th of July.

Our Vintage book on sale for half price

 this month is Liberty Garden

and this is one of the quilts in the book.

Besides the large quilt here there is a medium

quilt and quite a few small ones.

Liberty Houses, Liberty Pumpkin, Liberty Eagle

and Liberty Urn.

The BOM pattern on sale this week is

Flags of the American Revolution.

Since I'm posting early this week because I was 

too busy to post last week, I'll post again Wednesday and maybe

give you some more history about the flags.

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.

Happy Girl Gang Wednesday

                                                   The 20th of June is American Eagle Day 

 American Eagle Day celebrates the day

that the Eagle was first included in the seal of

the United States in 1782.

Now it also serves to remind us to protect the Bald Eagles.  

In honor of the eagle our sale item this month is

Eagles and Roses, one of my favorite BOMs

I hope you enjoy making it as much as I did.

Right now I'm working on a quilt I designed using 

Deb Strain's latest fabric line.

It's called Santas Tree Farm and besides Santas and trees

it has snowballs, mittens, and of course stars.

And naturally, my printer stopped working so

everything is taking a lot longer.  I have to 

convert everything to pdfs and send them up to Tammy 

to print.  Then either she brings them down or

I go up and get them to proof.

Whew, I'm tired and pretty soon I need to go

up to the barn to feed the cat and shut up the

chickens.  My new chickens including the bantys

are due to ship next week.  

I'll take pictures for you as soon as I get them.

Right now I'm going to feed the cat, shut up the

chickens and take a small nap,

Have the best week with the people and quilts

that you love.

Jan.

Happy Girl Gang Wednesday AND

 Happy Flag Day.

I'm really rushed today because I've spent

most of the day designing a new quilt out

of Deb Strains coming line 

Woodland Winter.

I can't show it to you yet because it

won't be out for awhile but I can tell you that

it's her next Christmas line which gives you a

general idea of the colors.

I've been somewhat sad lately because one night 

Jeff neglected to shut up the banty's house and 

a raccoon got in and killed all of my banty's, including

the babies.  

Now every night when I go up to feed the cat, I close

up the houses myself.  They may have to go to bed

a little early but they get to wake up in the morning.

If you want something done right, do it yourself.

Jeff still feeds them all because my 78 year old self

isn't up to carrying the buckets of feed but I can still 

shut the doors on the houses and lock them.

I went to Cackle Hatchery's website and ordered some 

bantys and my usual order of Buff Orpingtons for eggs.

I usually order straight run so I get both hens and roosters.

I also ordered one Silver Laced Wyandotte rooster

because he disappeared out of the big house.  (I suspect

the same culprit.)  He got along just fine with the Orpintons 

so I'm sure this one will too.

And speaking of shutting them up, it's getting to be 

about time to go do that.

But first the sale item of the day.

It's American Eagle month - 

American Eagle day is June 20th.  The observance 

celebrates the day in 1782 when the bird was added 

to the official seal of the United States.

Our sale item this week is the BOM pattern for

Eagles and Roses.  You can go to our store to get

the pattern by clicking here

That's about it for today.

Have the best week with the people and quilts that you love.

Jan

Happy Girl Gang Wednesday

 The special this week is 

Audra's Iris Garden BOM

for 20% off.

   

This quilt has a story to go with it.

My father was a veterinarian and a

major in the Army.

He died when I was 8 of Hodgkins

Disease and my mother and her 4 children

moved to Kansas City where she built a house.

While waiting for the house to be finished we

lived with my father's parents, Ralph and Audra

Laird.

Grandmother Laird had some beautiful iris

and when our house was finished she brought

some to our house and planted them.

When I grew up, got married and we moved

to Cameron, mother brought some to our

house for our garden.

Our son Max now has some at his house,

we'll move some to Brians house this fall  

and Kelly has moved in with us 

so we share ours with her.

Audra's Iris Garden has certainly spread out.

Every Spring when the iris bloom I think of

her and what a wonderful woman she was.

And of course, being who I am I had to 

record it in a quilt.  I hope you enjoy making it

as much as I did.

Have a good week ladies with the people 

and quilts that you love.