Blossoms Bluff Quilt

I had one project I  knew I wanted to finish(and start) 

at

our fall retreat this year!

It was Blossom's Bluff by Whirligig Designs

I was lucky enough to get the exact fabrics needed for this project 

from 

Pleasant Pheasant Fabrics

Tamara had a kit she was planning to do 'someday'

but 

she decided she could sell it to ME!!!

I sewed it on my little featherweight

Crazy how this little box of fabric can be an entire quilt

I am LOVING my 'new to me' longarm!

This is the tenth quilt I have quilted up since September 25!!

I used a pantograph called Marmalade to do this one.

It really made this quilt pop 

with

 some Quilter's Dream double poly batting

Now to get it bound! 

One more Christmas gift ready to go!

Thank you to Tamara for making my day! 

She took all the thinking out of what fabrics to use.

I love it!

Counting down...

Christa 

Happy Thanksgiving.....

To all my American friends!!

I hope you eat, drink and be merry with family and friends!!

We all know what the day after brings besides leftover turkey!!

If you are looking to get some deals for black friday....

Head down to Pleasant Pheasant Fabrics

Tamara is having a sale of 40-80% of fabrics for Friday and Saturday!!

How can you resist??

She has EVERYTHING you would ever want to start or finish your quilt!!

Moda, Clothworks, Island Batiks, Blank, Studio E....

You name it...she has it!!

Winter's a coming...go stock up!!

Can you believe there is only 39 days left of 2019??

Christa

A Day of Fabric and Friends



Yesterday I had the honor of helping Tamra

 

of The Pleasant Pheasant Fabrics

 

 choose new lines for her Fall order

 

 

Oh...the possiblities!!

 



 

For a moment I thought I was back at Houston Quilt Market!!



 

 

I know what I like but tried to keep all of my quilty friends tastes in mind.

 

 

Tracey? Colleen?? Any of these??

 



I loved these striped batiks...

 

(and Kate Spain)

 



So that was a super fun morning.....

 

 The afternoon was spent with the Heart and Hand Guild

 



 

One of their members, Irene Roy

 

 is embarking on a new adventure as she moves to Saskatoon in September

 

 

Irene is an incredible quilter

and

 any guild that she joins will only benefit from her wealth of knowledge

 

She has made not ONE but SIX of these scrap apple quilts!!

 

She has dabbled in so many artistic ventures and is amazing at them all

 

At 87 years young,

 we teased her about how 80 is the new 50!!

 

Irene's presence will be missed but not forgotten

 

I know our paths will cross again... quilters travel!!

 

Their guild did a challenge due for the Fall and Irene has already finished her!!

 



 

 

Good tidings on your voyage to a new city.

 

I can only imagine the fun your going to have.

 

Thank you for your influence ~ you make us all want to be better quilters!!

 

Till then...

 

I am off to repair a tractor.... what we quilters won't do to keep our stash up!!

 

Christa

 



Seeding in the Dust

Seed in the dust.....

 

The bins are going to bust!!

 

Seed in the mud...the crop will be a dud!!

(my favorite old wives tale)

 

Loooook at the dust!!

 



 

 

We cut it alittle close on the seed...

 

Not much left after we finished!!

 

 

The equipment has been clean out...

 

With plenty of help from the crew...

 

The birds are busy building new nests...

 

 

Kricket and Tundra are lounging around  and enjoying the fresh grass..

 

I even snuck in a day of designing a new project for Pleasant Pheasant Quilt Shop

 

It is for the Row by Row Experience coming up this summer.

 

It involves the theme 'water'

 

Stay tuned for updates on this event...

 



 

I am feeling like I need to book a cruise....

 

Christa

 

 

 

 

An International Quilting Day

I was off to Crosby, North Dakota

 

 to show a new group how to do Cathedral Ceilings

 

 

These were my kind of sewers...

 

These girls were fast

 

It was right to work...

 

2 hours later we had snack mats as samples!!

 

It was an international event all round...

 

They showed me their exchange blocks with the Estevan Guild....

 

I thought I recognized some of this handy work...

 

Joice Begg's hummingbirds....

 

Shirley Pederson's bleeding heart....

 

Thanks to Tamra and Leona of Pleasant Pheasant Fabrics

 and

 the girls for inviting me.

 

On the way home.....

 

I have seen this sign for 29 years

and

 always wondered what it represented...

 

 

It is just before you cross into Canada.

 

After a little research.....

 

  It was the Trail from Texas to the north that cowboys used to move their cattle to market.

 

It has been there since 1934!!

 

 

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The End of the Lost Trail1967 News Item LOST TRAIL. . . Tourists and natives alike have paused in curiosity for many years to look at this unusual sign at the Ambrose Border Station on highway 42, and county librarian Ruth Ralph and Vince Gilloley of Phoenix, who formerly manned the border station, have uncovered some of the interesting history behind the sign that marks the “End of the Lost Trail”. History buffs are aware of the significance of the old Chisholm Trail, which marked the path for hundreds of cattle drives from old Mexico and Texas to Abilene, Kansas. Ranching in much of the north moved upward from Abilene, and many of the cattle that first stocked the badlands and rugged plains of the Dakotas were driven up from Texas. In 1934 an Elk City, Oklahoma, rancher decided to mark the old Chisholm trail with attractive signs, all the way from Texas to Abilene, and on thru the northern branch to the Canadian border. For his last sign he added the appropriate words, “The End of the Lost Trail”. Like the rest of the signs the one at Ambrose also says “Going up the Texas Chisholm Trail, 1867”. This sign is the only known remaining marker in the Dakotas. Standing beside it is Warren Norman, who took care of the sign when it had to be removed for recent highway construction, repainted and refinished it, and had it erected again. This item originally appeared in a local newspaper in 1967. From the collection of Randi Knutson.

 

I always thought it referred to the fact that when you cross the border into Canada

 

 

The road turns from pavement

 into

 a nightmare TRAIL where you can get LOST in the potholes.

 

Quite an embarrassment when that is the 'welcome' we give to the people

 

 who come to visit from United States.

 

 

 

I think we need to move that sign up into Saskatchewan!!

 

Christa