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<\/a><\/p>\nI am loving this little quilt from Kathleen Tracy’s book.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s almost folk art in its simplicity.<\/p>\n
It’s not very big, but it packs a wallop color wise and will look cute as a table topper or a wall hanging.\u00a0 It’s hung here by this….<\/p>\n This chicken toy I found at an antique store years ago.\u00a0 Before I even had a thought about raising chickens. I guess I have always had chickens on my mind.<\/p>\n I did make a mistake on this quilt and it’s been fixed, but you can see it here if you know the pattern.\u00a0\u00a0 It was fun making this quilt and used very little material.<\/p>\n This is a pile of Bulls-eye blocks for the Bulls-eye quilt being taught over on the blog, Country Threads Chicken Scratch.\u00a0 I am making a lap-sized quilt, but you can make it smaller or larger if you would want.\u00a0 This is another quilt that is suppose to use up one’s stash, but it hasn’t made a dent in mine.<\/p>\n There are still a few steps to making the blocks so they won’t look anything like this when I am done.<\/p>\n While searching through my stashes and boxes, I found this book I bought eleven years ago. I know that because I\u00a0 always write the date on the inside cover of a book when I get it.\u00a0 I had high hopes of making a quilt from the book, but none has happened so far.\u00a0 There is a lot of history about\u00a0Louisa May Alcott in the book.<\/p>\n So then I had to hunt down this book….<\/p>\n Little Women, which was in my family’s library when I was a child and I am ashamed to say I have never read it. I have seen practically all the movie versions of it from when Katherine Hepburn played Jo, to June Allyson playing her and then Winona Ryder.\u00a0 Then PBS is having Little Women on and have sexed it up a little bit more than I like. Why do modern movie producers feel the need to do that in so many movies?\u00a0\u00a0 We really don’t need to see the sisters in their skivvies, do we?\u00a0\u00a0Even though Miss Alcott was a women’s rights advocate, I think she would be shocked to see her girls parading around\u00a0in their underwear.\u00a0 Anyway, I really must read this book sometime.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I remember it when I was growing up and looking at the pictures in it.<\/p>\n I guess because I had seen the movie I didn’t think I\u00a0needed to read the book, but\u00a0if it’s\u00a0always true for me, the book is much better than the movie.\u00a0 The only book I have ever read that I thought the movie was as good was Gone With the Wind, even though a\u00a0whole lot of things were left out of the movie such as Scarlette\u00a0 had more\u00a0children than Bonnie Blue.<\/p>\n We finally had snow this weekend. We’ve been having almost Spring like temperatures for a while, but this is our normal usually in January.\u00a0 David went from cleaning the pool…<\/p>\n to building a fire.<\/p>\n And because of all the\u00a0snow, the birds must be fed.\u00a0 They go through a lot of feed. We just bought two more forty pound bags of bird seed and hope it lasts the rest of the month, but I’m not betting on\u00a0it.<\/p>\n I counted twelve cardinals at the\u00a0feeder yesterday and today I barely got the feed in the feeder when two cardinals\u00a0 flew above my head.<\/p>\n Birds wait in the trees like airplanes on a tarmac and drop down when it’s their turn.<\/p>\n I love seeing the cardinals against the new fallen snow. So pretty.\u00a0 I was worried about the birds this year.\u00a0 A businessman bought the property right next door to us and cut down all the trees.\u00a0Almost every\u00a0last one. The only one left was the one right by\u00a0my shop and I asked him not to cut it down as it was mostly on our property.\u00a0 I still worry about it.\u00a0 He did leave a few bushes for the birds to alight in and I am planning to plant some more trees\u00a0this Spring.\u00a0 I was worried that all the birds would go away, but so far, we have more than ever, it seems.\u00a0 They have all moved over to our property where they\u00a0know there are people who love trees and bushes and birds and squirrels.<\/p>\n This is my one lone tree. A maple. I hope it will grow big and strong and lovely. You can see the barren field next door where the travesty took place.<\/p>\n There use to be trees all long the property line. They had to come down because of “liability” concerns.\u00a0 I was very sad about it all, but I will be planting\u00a0more trees\u00a0on my property.<\/p>\n Sadly, in our travels, I am seeing more and more of this destruction of trees and meadows across our country due to “progress,” where whole forests are cut down and burned and housing developments and businesses\u00a0sprout up like weeds and a blight on the countryside.\u00a0 I know people have to have somewhere to live and work,\u00a0but the wanton destruction of forests and farmland is very disturbing. It cannot be replaced and in newer developments, they are even told what kind of trees they can plant, so there is no diversity and that’s what I thought government and businesses were all about. You can drive from one city to the next and see the same kinds of houses and business and everything looks generic.\u00a0\u00a0 I call some of these developments, Taupevilles, because all the houses are the same color.\u00a0\u00a0 I’d love to see\u00a0just one\u00a0red house in\u00a0 them just to stop the boredom.\u00a0 As you can read, I am very passionate about this. We cannot lose all our forests and farmland to development.<\/p>\n Just a picture of my work area in the house while I watch tv or listen to the radio.<\/p>\n All the yarns laid out to inspire me.\u00a0 Oh, and laundry that is less inspiring!<\/p>\n A devotional book to feed me spiritually.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n