{"id":1673,"date":"2013-10-05T16:37:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T16:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2013-10-05T21:02:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T21:02:31","slug":"a-gathering-of-quilts-and-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=1673","title":{"rendered":"A Gathering of Quilts and Seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"

We spent a night in the beautiful hills of brown in Brown County this week.\u00a0 We stayed at our daughter and son-in-law’s beautiful house in the woods.\u00a0 You have to drive a long, long drive to get to their house.\u00a0 It is surrounded by trees and this time of year it is so beautiful there.\u00a0 Have I used the word beautiful enough???<\/p>\n

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I broke my camera and cannot use the zoom on it so you will have to use your x-ray vision to see the pygmy goats in their pen.\u00a0 They can get out in the larger pen and I did let them loose and had a hard time getting out the gate because they wanted to come with me.<\/p>\n

Anyway, for me it’s almost a vacation to go there.\u00a0 We babysat our two youngest grandsons and had a fun time with them, then when they went to sleep, I sat out on their back deck and looked at the stars. They seemed so close and crystal clear out where there are no city lights to dim them.\u00a0 I think I saw a star explode, if that is possible.\u00a0 There was a bright, flash of light and then\u00a0 it dimmed slowly.\u00a0 Planes flying across the sky were more visible in the night sky.\u00a0 All that could be heard were the cicadas in the trees.\u00a0 Complete silence except for the passing of cars way down the hill.\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, and the baaing of the pygmy goats.<\/p>\n

I have given my daughter several quilts in the past and she has hung them all over her house.\u00a0 Here are a few.<\/p>\n

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I like how she used a tree branch to hold it.\u00a0 I believe this is a Country Threads pattern.\u00a0 We use to sell these in our store.<\/p>\n

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I really love this quilt, but it looks better in her house than it does in mine, although I would like to make another one.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 I had this log cabin fabric and it worked perfectly.<\/p>\n

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This block makes me thing of Alaska.<\/p>\n

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Kind of a blurry picture, but this is the double wedding ring I made for my daughter when she got married.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have since made two more.\u00a0 They are really easier than they look.<\/p>\n

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I called this Cardinal in the Pines. Do you see the cardinal?<\/p>\n

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As I tucked my grandsons into bed I saw the quilts I had made them for their beds.<\/p>\n

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I made this Double T quilt because my grandson’s name starts with T.<\/p>\n

I also completed piecing a quilt from some quilt blocks a friend from church gave me.\u00a0 Her mother or grandmother had pieced the blocks a long time ago from\u00a0old fabric and feed sacks.<\/p>\n

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I really loved how this turned out.\u00a0 Kind of Christmasy I think.\u00a0 It made a pretty big quilt.<\/p>\n

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I love the old fabrics in it. This could have been someone’s dress at one time.<\/p>\n

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This fabric looks like fabric from pajamas that my brothers use to wear.\u00a0 Just a side note.\u00a0 When my brothers outgrew their pajamas, guess who they were handed down to?\u00a0 Yes, I wore my brothers old pjs.\u00a0 Funny thing was, I liked it.\u00a0 The fabric was always so soft because they had been washed so many times and besides, I very rarely got new pajamas when I was younger.\u00a0 I was a tomboy, though, so it didn’t bother me.<\/p>\n

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More pajama looking fabric.\u00a0 The blocks were very uneven and I had to do some trimming to make it all come together, but I think it turned out well.<\/p>\n

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This time of year I gather seeds from flowers for next year’s garden.\u00a0 I order zinnia seeds from Wild Flower\u00a0Seeds out of Texas.\u00a0 I usually get a pound of seed and I can have flowers all over my yard that way.\u00a0 I like to mix the old seed with the new to get several varieties of zinnias.<\/p>\n

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I go through the garden picking off seeds like this and storing them until Spring.\u00a0 I use to help my mother gather seeds when I was a girl.\u00a0 I enjoyed doing it and Mother always had a beautiful garden.<\/p>\n

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I gather lots of Cleome seeds. These flower actually reseed themselves, but I like to spread them all over.\u00a0 They are an old fashioned flower that has been around for a long time.\u00a0 David does not like them because they always grow around the pool and lean over and drop their seed in the pool.\u00a0 I did not plant many this year and I still had lots.<\/p>\n

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This would be several packets of seed for several dollars so I save by gathering the seed.<\/p>\n

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I gathered them in this little china cup from a tea set I bought at Walt Disney World one year.<\/p>\n

Well, I have done nothing this morning but drink coffee, watch the news and quilt so I have got to get up and get moving.<\/p>\n

Here’s to Brown County, saving seeds and quilts that make a home cozy.\u00a0 Bye.<\/p>\n

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We spent a night in the beautiful hills of brown in Brown County this week.\u00a0 We stayed at our daughter and son-in-law’s beautiful house in the woods.\u00a0 You have to drive a long, long drive to get to their house.\u00a0 It is surrounded by trees and this time of year it is so beautiful there.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5,22,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-home-and-family","category-home-decor","category-quilting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}