POTLUCK SUPPER AND QUILTER'S GATHERING

Last night was one of our Quilter's Potluck Gatherings at Quilts and Calicos Quilt shop in Exeter. A great time was had by all. Lots of food, lots of fabric, lots of laughs and friendship.

DECISIONS, DECISIONS

STITCHING SOME REDWORK

PIECING A QUILT

SMILE FOR THE CAMERA

THE "MODERN" GIRLS DOING THE DISHES :)

PIECING A QUILT

HAVING A GREAT TIME

HAPPY TO BE SEWING!

CHECKING OUT EACH OTHERS WORK

BUSY AS BEES AND SEWING UP A STORM

CUTTING FABRIC

CUTTING FABRIC

THE FEAST

NEW FAMILY MEMBER HAS ARRIVED

This is our newest family member to move into "Olde Crow Primitives". His name is "Magic". He is a gift from a very good friend of mine. Due to personal circumstances, she could no longer keep Magic. I promised her I would give him a good home for the rest of his life. He is an appendix quarter horse gelding. He arrived last night and met "Dolly" our Clydesdale mare and I think that they are starting to accept one another. I am sure they will become good pasture friends. He settled in well and is adjusting to his new home.

Magic

Magic is checking out his new surroundings

Breakfast Time

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Stitchery give away at A Primitive Place

NEW FAMILY MEMBER

There is going to be a new family member coming to live at OLDE CROW PRIMITIVES, but you will have to check back at the end of the week to see. I will be posting a picture of the new resident after he moves in.
Here is a hint: He has 4 legs :)

A BUSY WEEKEND!

This weekend was a busy one for myself and my husband. On Saturday, we attended his Family reunion and had a great time at that. Lots of good food and wine. My husband enjoyed seeing relatives that he hadn't seen for years. On Sunday, we were invited for Easter dinner at our friends house Paul and Gillian. We had a delicious turkey dinner with all the fixins and pumpkin crumble for desert. (My favorite) We had a great time.
Also, I posted a couple of pictures of a pincushion that Gillian made for me as a gift. She knows that I love pumpkins, so she made this for me. I just love it. You can tell that she put a lot of work into it. I am busy this week painting my sewing room. I'll be putting new flooring down too. Will post pictures of the end result.

Hand made pin chushion from my friend Gillian

Prim Pumpkin Pincushion handmade by Gillian

Hostess gift basket that I made up for Paul and Gillian with my home made preserves

Appetizers

Delicious Turkey dinner with all the trimmings

Beautiful table setting

MORE HOMEMADE BREAD :)

Fresh homemade bread from scratch baked in my 1925 Findlay Oval wood burning  Cook stove.  No bread machines for me. I am making a batch of my homemade cream of Portabello Mushroom soup for lunch and we are having it with some slices of this bread. Am I making you hungry yet?

Homemade bread fresh baked this morning

My lovely "Primitive" cupboard keep handmade by my friend Pam

One of my Easter Rabbits

EASTER BLESSINGS

Easter Blessings to everyone this weekend.

HOMEMADE BREAD FOR DH

Seeing that we still have snow on the ground and I can't work outside cleaning up my gardens, I decided to bake some homemade bread for DH's lunch. I also made some homemade cream of broccoli soup. We are out of firewood, and DH has gone back to the bush and collected some dry wood and he is outside splitting it now. We heat our old farmhouse with wood, and it is too cold to go without. We have been trying to conserve, but we did actually run out yesterday. So he will have a big surprise when I call him in for lunch. I just took it out of the oven 20 minutes ago and it is cooling on the rack. My kitchen smells wonderful :)

2 Loaves of homemade bread for DH

APRIL (SNOW) SHOWERS???

I love snow, but I think I have seen enough. It is April 18th, and this is what we got this morning.

I can't believe I was raking my flower beds last week, and now this. The poor daffodils are out and I  bet they wish they weren't.

More snow!

April 18th, 2011 It just keeps SNOWING!

SEW-A-THON

Today we had a Sew-A-Thon at our friend Brenda's house. We were helping Brenda make some scarves for samples at Quilt Market in Salt Lake City, Utah that is taking place next month. This is one of her awesome patterns that she designed. Brenda will have a booth at Quilt Market this year for all of her quilting patterns. We all got together to help and we finished today around 3 p.m. A good job done. Our friend Shirley helped out also, but couldn't be here today for pictures as she was working in her Quilt store because our area was having a Quilters' shop tour. Brenda and her husband Rob, made us a delicious lunch with homemade cream of spinach soup, home made bread, homemade pizza, and a lovely desert.

Janet, Brenda, and Michelle

Linda and Michelle

Michelle and Mary

Mary and I and one of Rob's delicious homemade pizza's (We ate 2 of these)

Linda, Mary, Me, Rob, Michelle, and Sandy after enjoying a wonderful lunch

The finished product...... 53 scarves

GIVEAWAY AT PRIMITIVES"N"STITCHIN

Becky is having a wonderful give away on her Blog. Please check it out. You could be the lucky winner!

http://primitivesnstitchin.blogspot.com

HANDMADE QUILTED VEST

I have been a quilter for 15 years now, but have never made any quilted garments. Well here is my first! Our Quilters' Guild had a workshop on the vest, but I was in school and couldn't attend it, so a friend of mine, Mary, helped me make it. It was designed by one of our very talented members, Sandra Thomas. It was a lot of work, but well worth the effort. Thank you Mary. Mary was a great teacher. She also bakes wonderful pies.

A VERY UNIQUE GRADUATION GIFT

I received this very unique graduation gift from my friend Brenda. She is an avid chicken raiser, egg collector, and quilt pattern designer. She has a flock of Rhode Island red laying hens and I received a dozen fresh eggs from her flock in a basket with a chicken card and a chicken.
Thank you Brenda!

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Check out this awesome give away at A Primitive Place Magazine

SOME GOOD NEWS

Today I received my final results from my College course. I received an Honours Diploma in Graphic Design. It only took 54 years to achieve this! Needless to say, I am very pleased.

SINNAMON BUNS :)

SINNAMON BUNS
Sinfully Delicious!

I made this batch of cinnamon buns this morning for DH.

My first time making these, and boy were they good!
Of course, I made him share :) 
I found the recipe on this Blog http://countryblossom.blogspot.com/
Thanks for Sharing Katy!

A WONDERFUL PATTERN

This is a quilting pattern that a friend of mine designed. The pattern is called Angels Watching Over Me. I just got it and I am so looking forward to making it. The picture does not do it justice. It looks amazing in real life. The redwork in this quilt is amazing. My friend Brenda showed this at "Show and Tell" at our Quilters' Guild. Brenda is a pattern designer and has her own website. There is a link to her site on my sidebar to the left. Among Brenda's Quilts.

FOOD, FUN AND FRIENDS

Last night was one of our dinner and sewing gatherings. Michelle was the host and she cooked us a wonderful meal with appetizers, a great main course and delicious turtle brownies for desert and fresh strawberries. I don't think I have ever seen strawberries that big in all my life. We enjoyed our dinner, then did a little sewing afterwards. We are all quilters and have been getting together at each other's homes every couple of months, for dinner and sewing and have been doing this for about five years. Thanks Michelle, it was wonderful :)

Shirley, Brenda, Linda, Mary and Janet

Turtle brownies for desert.........darn it, there goes my diet!

Having a toast to good times, good friends!
Shirley, Michelle, Linda, Mary and I

Mary and I

Turtle brownies..............mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DH

The other day was DH's birthday so I had this cake made special for him. I took him out to dinner to Montana's Cookhouse and we had all you can eat ribs. Needless to say, we both overate and we didn't have a piece of cake until the 11 o'clock news. The ribs were really good, but we both agreed that they were not as good as Henry's ribs. They are the best! Lots of birthday cards too from our family members. It was a great day! Happy Birthday :)