The Ranchre's Daughter Quilt Along (Week 21) Lady of the Lake

The Rancher's Daughter at work...

I didn't realize my son was snapping pics of me while I worked today in his work studio!
So here I am, determined to get another block out for you ladies.
 

Lady of the Lake

I had some 'sidekick' help today too...

Little Miss Em coloring in my sketch for me.

She also threaded the needle for me too,

since I couldn't find my glasses...

And little sis...

was in the background making her own block...

So this was the perfect block for my story today.

When the Rancher designed his cattle ranch from scratch,

him being from Kentucky,

he wanted a lake with an  old covered bridge over it 

that actually creaked when you went over it.

Yep...he figured out how to make it do that.

One night the boy who had won my heart

was serenading me out there in the canoe...

so romantic.

Dark, stars above,

him singing and playing love songs on his guitar.

All of a sudden it looked like 2 huge white sea monsters stood up out

of the water howling....

It was that dear brother of mine and his friend shirtless!

The boy said he almost started using that guitar as a paddle to get us out of there...

until he realized the joke was on us!

Cutting Instructions:

A     Cut (1) 4½ X 4½ Square (Red)

            Cut (20) 1½ X 1½" Squares (Red)

 B       Cut (1) 4½" X 4½"  Square (Red)

             Cut (20) 1½" X 1½" Squares (Red)

Make 20 A/B Half Square Triangle Units

(Not 12 like I did here!)

Sew side rows together making sure all Half Square Units are positioned the way they are supposed to be:

Sew side rows on first:

Complete Block:

And here's a few other pics:

Thanks for being so patient ya'll!

I'll write another post again as soon as I can about my birthday and the new gran dbaby!

Toodles....

 

The Rancher's Daughter Quilt Along...Daughter's Playing Hooky...

So have you ever tried to go on vacation...

and still worked??

Yeah...that doesn't work out too well.

But it is what I am trying to do!

Last Monday, Tory, her hubby and baby dropped me off at the airport...

 I flew into Denver...

stayed the night with my folks,

who took me out to the Outback for my birthday dinner

and handed me a new Galaxy 3 Samsung phone

for a 'prezie'.

Schweeeeeeeeet!

18 hours later they dropped me back off at the airport where I

flew into Bismark ND where the ole 

man who I hadn't seen in SIX months...

was waiting...

 Now that was a sweet moment!!

Onto my daughter Brooke's house...

where it was parade time,

Museum time with  the child who turned me into a grandma...

Doctor appointments, suicide rides down pool slides,

all the good stuff ya know...

Then the Guitar Man and I loaded up this grandson of ours

and headed down south to Boise...

where another whole brood awaited...

Daughter #2 is bringing grand baby #12

into the world,

hopefully this Saturday...

on my 51st Birthday!!!

We have to be at the hospital at 5:30 in the morning

for the scheduled C-Section.

And here she is with her precious little family:

All day long,

I've been trying to get at my daughter's sewing machine

to make this week's block.

But it is 

"Grandma this, and Grandma that,

Mom this and Mom that!"

I am lovin' every minute of it,

so please forgive me for the next few weeks while I am down here.

I'm going to help Ashley out for a few weeks to get her on her feet

after the surgery and help to take care of little baby

McCoy James Fisher.

 

I am going to do my best to get some blocks posted.

Maybe...just maybe I will get up before the household wakes 

in the morning...

Toodles my Understanding Guys and Gals!

 

Whoopsie!!

Oh my....

Monday...where are you...

 did you go?

I was frantically running around trying to get out the door for a 4 week trip!

I will write more when I get to a computer. My Kindle isn't letting me spell words correctly. 

I will tell you that I haven't seen that ole Guitar Man of mine for Six months...and I fly into Bismark at 12:30 today to be gobbled up by him!!

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Toodles...

The Rancher's Daughter Quilt Along (Oh Brother....go jump off a cliff....) Week 20

Week 20!

That means 20 blocks!!

It's amazing to me when you take a project and just work at it little by little,

even 1 hour a week,

eventually....

it gets done!

And if you never would have dug in....

you wouldn't have the finished project piece!

Now last week, I told a story on my brother.

I have more!

Two that come to mind.

Our ranch house was set up with our kids bedrooms and 2 guest rooms all at one wing of the house.

Kind of like servants quarters ya know....Ha!

Mom and Dad's room was way at the other end of the house.

Which made prime real estate for big brother to rule the roost on our end.

One night, mom came running out of her room frantic, she heard us girls screaming!

She first goes into the kitchen, and finds big brother...

reading his bible no less.

"What is going on?" Mom pleads

Big brother says, "I don't know mom, I'm just sitting here reading my bible.)

As we got into bed, he'd emptied boxes of scrunched crackers into our bed!

Yeah right...reading his bible!

Another thing he was notorious for:

Whenever we had boyfriends coming to take us out, he hung our bras and panties from all the small chandeliers

that hung down the hallway where our bedrooms fanned off from.

So any of you have any 'big brother' stories out there to share??

This week's block is a good 'ole star block.

Cutting Instructions

A Cut (36) 1½" X 1½" Squares (Red - Off White Polka Dot)

B Cut (16) 1½" X 1½" Squares (Green Print)

C Cut (8) 1½" X 1½" Squares (Red Print

D Cut (1) 2½" X 2½" Square (Red Print)

Make 16 A/B Half Square Triangles

Make 8 A/C Half Squares Triangles

Whoops....need 8 more Green ones:

Lay out block:

For Center Block:

Draw a line  diagonally down each 1½ X 1½ Side Squares and stitch on line.

Sew Row 1 and Row 2 squares together all the way down.

Continue with Rows 3 and 4

and Rows 5 and 6

Now sew rows together horizontally:

Wala...finished!!

Hope you all enjoyed!

The Rancher's Daughter Quilt Along

Hi my Quilting Buds!!

I am sitting here sweating....

trying to get this block sewn for you all....

there are thunder storm and tornado warnings....

my a/c is out....

and I think I'm going to hang it all up and head down

to Clarksville to squeeze on that little boy of mine!

I've had 2 different companies out here to fix the a/c...

4 different appointments...

and the last appointment they blew the transformer.

So I hope once again you will forgive me

for not posting a block today!

I will try to get it posted this weekend some time.

(So sad face!)

Sorry gals!

Heading out....

The Rancher's Daughter Quilt Along Week 19 (Oh Brother Where Art Thou?) Block Tutorial)

Happy Good Morning Monday to all my Quilting Buddies out there today!!

Are you ready for another block??

I'm sure  you all are caught up

and waiting with abated breath!! 

So let's get to work!

I will tell you the story at the end...

Cutting Instructions:

A Cut (24) 1½" X 1½" Squares (Off White)

B Cut (9) 1½" X 1½"  Squares( Red and Off White Polka Dot)

C Cut (9) 1½" X 1½" Squares(Red)

 D Cut (9) 1½" X 1½" Squares(Green)

 E Cut (9) 1½" X 1½" Squares(Yellow)

 Make  (6) A/B Half Square Triangles

Make  (6) A/C Half Square Triangles

Make  (6) A/D Half Square Triangles 

Make  (6) A/E Half Squares Triangles

Layout Block:

Sew Rows 1 and 2 together,

Sew Rows 3 and 4 together,

Sew Rows 5 and 6 together:

Can you see my mistake here?

If you don't cut your sewing apart, and just lay Row 3/4 on top of Row 1/2 and pin it, they stay nicely together and don't get twisted!

Sew Row 1/2 unit to Row 3/4 unit,

Sew Row 3/4 unit to Row 5/6 unit:

See my mistake yet?? I still hadn't!

Aha...caught the mistake:

Rip out!

Resew!

Sew all 3 sets of rows together:

 And one more block done!!

Okay, here's the scoop!

There were 3 girls and 1 boy in our family.

Yep, he was the oldest and a pain in the patootie!

One day The Rancher and his wife, had to go out of town,

and left big brother in charge.

(First mistake in my opinion!)

But he was 18, responsible, smart, level headed....

wait a minute...

this is my brother we're talking about!

(Love you Ted!)

He didn't think us girls were treating him right,

so he took one of dad's gun's out of the gun case,

(made sure we were watching)

went outside where we couldn't see him,

and fired a shot!

                                       Us girls came running out of the house

scared out of our wits.

He was laying all funny on the ground.

We started bawling, fawning over him,

telling him we were so sorry,

and that he was the best brother in the world.

He gets up...after his faking and says,

"Thought so!"

Now we were madder than hell at him!!

 Ahhhh....big brothers!

I'm going to leave with a picture of my little helper this week.

Grandma got to keep him for 2 nights while mama and daddy went out of town!

 

Baby Kash amongst The Rancher's Daughter Quilt  blocks!

Happy, Happy Quilting!!