Missouri River Quilt Fest 2010

Saturday, I went to the quilt show in Jefferson City.

The doors showed you the way.


This was one of my favorite quilts.
I would never think of using purple and green together.
But now that I've seen it, I will rethink that one.
It was stunning!!!!
I only wish I would have taken down the name of it and who made it.
I was just mesmerized by it.


Beautiful dogs and birds.
The title is Summer's end.
I think I would change the name if I had this quilt.




This Dear Janet quilt intrigued me completely.
It's a take off of the Dear Jane quilt.
Would you believe I have been working on a Dear Patti quilt for some time now.
I am using 4 inch paper piece blocks.
Had I seen this 3 inch paper piece blocks, maybe I would have tried that.


3-D Fall stars, you had to see it in person to appreciate it.
The squares in the middle of the stars were folded and somehow sewn to stand out.
The shadowing was unbelievable!



Love the laundry bag!



I could recreate this picture easily with my childhood ironing board and iron that I have.



The inside entrance was the first eye candy. Only 300+ quilts to go.



Finally, I remembered to take my scissors and my pinking shears.
The are now better than brand new!


Debbie and Patty from Saltbox Primitive Woolens are busy stitching.
As I passed by in my hankie blouse,
Debbie said something about "Katie would like my blouse".
I said "excuse me Katie has already seen it".
They were surprised that I knew who they were talking about.
Katie at Primitive Woolens and I are blogger friends.




It was so much fun shopping in the vendor's booths.
I so wanted to take a Janome embroidery machine #530 home with me.
Does anyone have one?
Any suggestions?







And so I took many, many pictures of the beautiful quilts.
I also looked for Raymond from Nacho Grandma's quilts, but I was a little too early.
I heard he showed up a little later.
Maybe next time we can meet in person!






I will leave you with a slide show of the quilts.

Enjoy!!!!!

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A guitar giveaway!!

Yes you read correctly! I have some talented blogger friends. And they have some talented family members also.

Tipper at The Blind Pig and the Acorn is giving away a guitar.



Check out the CD's they have for sale.

AWESOME! I know I have them all.

Another blogger friend Tammy at Flat Creek Farm has a very talented son, John .

He has an awesome instrumental CD available.

Madison County Influences.

Summer treats

Brady with his cherry dip cone.

A treat after the ball game he had just played.

Alex's cherry dip cone for being so good at the ball game.

Picked our first bowl of wild raspberries.


Quilt show pictures to follow when I get time.

BREAKING NEWS

We got a call for a video conference last night about 10:30.

Rusty proposed and Sarah accepted!

From what we could see on camera she has a beautiful diamond ring!

We are so excited.

Congratulations you two!

Here is what it sounded like on their end.

It's a Bee-autiful day in the neighborhood

The winds came first.

And rains followed.

Life in the country is good!

Today it looked like this around here.

At the entrance to our drive way is this large sand stone.
Coreopsis have grown in a crack on top.

Along the drive are Shasta Daisies.

These heirloom tomatoes are doing well.

They survived a truck ride from Flat Creek Farm.

Thanks Ms. Tammy!

The wild raspberries are starting to turn.

That reminds me I need to buy some vanilla bean ice cream soon!

And so you see it's a Bee-autiful day in the neighborhood!

Such a tease I am!

8:30pm 81 degrees.

Bartering

Webster dictionary defines bartering as: to trade by exchanging one commodity for another.

What man doesn't love his own craft. At my house it's my blacksmith. He loves to make iron items. He makes some fine functional items. At work, it's my co-worker Tim, his craft is
BBQing. He occasionally uses us, his co-workers, to taste test his products. We don't mind.



So this week the blacksmith made a steak turner for Tim the BBQer. I took it to work on Friday and asked Tim if he was up to a barter. "Sure" he said. "I saw you carry a steak turner in."

The blacksmith was willing to trade the BBQer a turner for some BBQed pork.

Saturday evening, just as I was beginning to think what I could make for dinner, Tim called. He wanted to know if we would be home, he had some BBQ pork for us.



This is the grilled, smoked pork butt he brought.

And it was heavenly! I made a salad with fresh lettuce from the garden, added some mandarin oranges and celery to it, opened a bag of chips, warmed up some sour dough bread and voilà! dinner was ready. Oh, plus a nice cold 1554 Enlightened Black Ale for the blacksmith, and a Smirnoff Cranberry and lime for me.

Dinner on the deck, free food from a great co-worker/friend/husband of our children's grade school teacher, it doesn't get any better than that!

Thanks guys hope you two work out a barter again!

Engelbrecht Auction

On Saturday we went to the estate auction of one of my younger schoolmates. Harlen lost his battle with cancer several months ago. His wife was selling the farming equipment.

I remember riding the bus with Harlen. He was always the shy, quiet, little boy sitting half way to the back and always had a big smile.

The last time I spoke with Harlen, he came to my drive up window at work. It was just about 2 months before he lost his battle. Yet he was inquiring about one of my co-workers who was also suffering from the same horrible disease. Here he was himself fighting and still concerned about others. That's the kind of guy he was.

The auctioneer started the sale by asking everyone to remove their hats and to observe a minute of silence. I had to fight back tears then and now as I type this.



For you Zoey, I found this Missouri Primrose blooming while walking from the car to the sale.

This trunk sold for $27.50 I believe. I didn't buy it.

This is the biggest ice cream freezer I've ever seen. It sold for $17.50. I didn't buy it.

24 inch cane mill -sorgum press . It sold for $270.00 I didn't buy it..

The crowd around the tractors.

An antique horse drawn sprout beater. Too funny seeing it being loaded on top of the rack of the truck. Especially since the bed of the truck was loaded with boxes of fruit jars. I can only imagine how many were broken when they arrived home.

Solid oak fern stand. It sold for $25.00. I did buy it!

The sale ended at 2:00. We came home, showered, and went to the blacksmith's nephew's high school graduation party.

It was a beautiful afternoon/evening outside. The little ones sure enjoyed the playtime. So I will leave you with some pictures of the kids playing.