Hopscotch Quilting and Missing Lane

My lastest Etsy creation on Katy Trail Creations

Special thanks to the girls, Morgan (who loves my cookin!) and my youngest daughter Kirsten.

 Yes there's a great meal in the works for their help :)

 

Speaking of Meals,

Pardon my absence from the Tasty Thursday posts. We had a tragic loss in our lives and I just didn't feel like cooking from the stash of recipes.

In short, just because the hurt is still deep, we had an 11 year old tragically killed in a tractor accident. He had been one of our daycare 'kids' and his younger brother just left for Kindergarten last month. The family was like our own.

Please say some prayers for them. There is nothing more needed when there's a loss of a child.

This was our Lane one Fall weekend back in 2011 in Florence, Missouri. He came to greet us while we were having Rachel's Senior pics taken. He had just been out with his dad deer hunting. His home is just down the road in this picture and I know his home now is in Heaven and our forever in our hearts.

 

 

 

 

 

At the Auction

A little birdie called last Sunday to tell me about an auction.

They said there was a LOT of fabric AND yarn.

I could hear it calling me......

Thanks Bob & Maybelle. I used to call her Aunt BellBell :)

I Really, Really liked the old enamel stuff,

but alas I was not the winner in that bid.

But I did unexpectedly win the bid on this Kings Cutlery.

 I think someone was sleeping.

 Gonna polish it up.

Here's some buttons & notions.

TADA!

(I'm around 2 and 3 year olds wayyy too much)

Now this needle is one big son of a gun.

It was in the button stash.

I see doilies in my future.

 Yes I did get some fabric. And that includes a significant amount of muslin. Let the quilting begin! 

Already got a String Quilt block experiment in the works.

More later on this if it works out so check back soon.

Father's Day Weekend

Look who finally put their uniform back on after a year!!

Ron escorted the county-wide tractor parade last weekend, Saturday & Sunday.

Should have made him take a camera along to get pics of the antiques.

Happy Father's Day, Ron!

Friday nite was farewell to the Fiorenti family. We treated them to dinner out at El Espolon's as they emptied out their freezer & frig to us. They sold their stove, leaving them stranded in the cooking department. So we were definitely ready to help them out!

Our best wishes for a safe & quick journey go out to them on their trek to Georgia and their new start there.

Editing this blog post as of 11 pm. starting in this paragraph.....

Used up some string quilt scraps and have some photos chronologically showing the pieces I used to make some hot pads.

So here goes....

I used recycled denim for the backing & then used a layer of pieced batting to insulate. Not too much waste from my scrap stash.

These are Very scrappy but I couldn't throw them away.

Final pic shows front & back views