The Rancher's Daughter Quilt Along (Haystack Block 10 Tutorial)

Another Monday....
another Block!

Welcome back to:

I drove home in the pouring rain at 5 a.m.
from Tory's to be able to get this block to you all like promised!!

Yeah...I know....
if I had it together...I could preplan a little better..
do my posts ahead of time.

But something I haven't shared yet.
Kenny Roy....the Guitar Man....
left for North Dakota January 10th and I haven't seen him since.
Oh this could sound so dramatic...
like he left me.
No girls!
He got a job up there on the oil rigs fracking.

No more cutting fabric for that 'ole boy.

He's happy, thrilled actually to be in a man's job again.
But guess who got his full-time job??

So yes. I'm behind. Will I ever catch up?

On to the block:

I tried to find a block that I thought related to a 'haystack'.
These haystacks can be a work of art to make them
stand erect over time,
weather jumping kids and rough cowboys pulling them apart.

The Rancher didn't believe in having a television.
Nope. He never had one, and still doesn't.
So us kids....of course thought we were abused,
and that surely he should have been turned into somebody for the neglect!

Funny thing....I still don't have a TV.
Ken was used to one and talked me into having one for a few years...
but I couldn't handle it.

So us kids, had haystacks, work, animals, a pond etc.

Our haystack housed more fun than just about anything.
King of the Hill...hiding places, you name it.

The Rancher also housed a Sunday morning church meeting in his home.
To paint a picture...
our living room had three full sides of windows.
No curtains, no blinds.
One could see the comings and goings of the ranch.

On this particular Sunday...
people were having a hard time concentrating on the dealings of the Holy Spirit.

The haystack was on fire.

Big and beautiful, roaring fire!

No more haystack that year. 

All was well.
The fire put out.
The people calmed.
Back to reality.
But I sure liked that Sunday.
Didn't have a hard time sitting still in my seat.

Okay...
onto our block:

You will need to cut:

A (24) White 1 1/2" squares
B (12) Green 1 1/2" squares
C (12) Yellow 1 1/2" squares
D (12) Red 1 1/2" squares

And of course time to make some Half Square Triangles
Click Here for Tutorial on HST's 
  

Make 8 A/B HST's

Make 8 A/C HST's

Make 8 A/D HST's

  Layout on Key:

 
          Sew Row 1 pieces to Row 2 pieces:

            If you are having trouble keeping your pieces situated right,
I've come up with a solution.
It might seem a little tedious,
but this time I didn't have to do any ripping out!
First block in this project for that to happen.

So keep Row 1 and Row 2 blocks together.
Don't cut them apart.

Continue sewing Row 3 and 4 together.

Lay them beside Row 1 and Row 2, not taking them apart.
Do the same with Rows 5 and 6.

Now sew Row 1/2 to Row 3/4

Rows 3/4 to 5/6.

Clip apart, lay them out and now sew the horizontal rows together:

And there you have it...

another block done!!

Hope everyone has a fantastic week!

Toodles...

 
       

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The Rancher's Daughter Quilt Along (Block 9 Courthouse Steps Tutorial)

A Happy Monday to Everyone out there in Blog Land

this morning!

Time to stitch, stitch, stitch...

 Here's my story for  today ladies!
Hope you enjoy....

There was a boy.

There was a girl. 

Yep. Me. The Rancher's Daughter.

This boy, my oh my, the girl thought the sun rose and set in him.

He was oh so debonair and too handsome for his own good.

Jet black hair, disarming blue eyes that pierced into a gal's soul.

At church he sung those ole Gospel hymns, harmonizing with the best of them,  and his voice made it sound as if 

angels were among us.

On top of that this boy, guitar in hand, 

a twinkle in his eye,

 would grab the girl and run her down to the Rancher's pond.

He'd gingerly help her in the canoe, push off from the edge

and in between fits of rowing,

the serenading began. 

Unbeknownst to the Rancher, the boy was coming to the girl's

window early in the morning with coffee and doughnuts.

The boy lived in one of the cowboy trailers at the end corner of the spread.

He worked for the Rancher. Not on the ranch,

but down at the airport where the Rancher housed his plane

and had a prefab business going in a big  empty hanger he had leased out.
(I should've known...it was the plane he was after!)

The girl worked there as a secretary.

The Rancher started his kids employment at age 10.

Yep! Big ole secretaries at the age of 10.

He believed in work!

"You don't work, you don't eat" was one of the Rancher's most popular sayings.

The boy, wasn't treating the girl right.

The Rancher had a fit and informed his offspring,

it was time to call it quits.

The girl was heartbroken. This was her true love.
The Rancher just didn't understand.
 

The Rancher didn't budge.

The girl broke up with the boy.

The boy didn't like this. This had never happened to him before.

Weeks later, the boy told the girl he had to take her out to talk to her.

The girl plead before her father.

The Rancher finally consented. Dinner and right back home!

The boy, the girl....they came back...
 engaged.

Oh that  Rancher was not a happy man that night.

Had never seen him speechless before.

And to make a long story short.

The girl, the boy...they wed.

They had four of their own little offspring.

The boy found greener pastures.

Left the girl with the four little ones, aged 10, 8, 4 and 3

and headed out with his secretary.

It was a long time before the girl ever walked up those Courthouse Steps again!

Rancher 1
Rancher's Daughter 0

"Man I hate it when he's right!"

And here's the block to honor this oh so delightful story!! Ha!

Courthouse Steps

 A  (9) 1 1/2" X 1 1/2" White Squares
B (25) 1 1/2" X 1 1/2" Red Squares
C (6) 1 1/2" Green Squares

Detour.....

Baby Kash is with me in the studio today. He's watching cartoons. Turned 3 months yesterday!

 Layout block with all the squares:

Sew 8 A/B's together

Sew 6 B/B's together

Sew an  A to a  B/C (HST)

 Sew a B/C (HST) to a C
Sew a C to a C/B (HST)
Sew a C/B (HST) to a B
(You could just lay this all out on your drawing and place in rows and just sew each piece together like I've shown you in other blocks if this is too confusing.) 


Sew Rows 1 and 2 together (Vertical Rows)
Sew Rows 3 and 4 together (Vertical Rows)
Sew Rows 5 and 6 together (Vertical Rows) 

This time I didn't cut each of these  rows apart. I just kept the first set together, sewed the 3/4 rows to that,
and then rows 5/6 together. Saved time. 

  And I could press the rows all one way to the right,
and then the next to the left, etc,
so they nestled together when I sewed the horizontal rows together.

   And yep!! Another block completed!!

Thanks so  much for joining in!

I'm going to pick a winner through the Random Generator tomorrow for my Giveaway!
Good Luck ya'll!

Toodles....

  P.S. Hope there's no mistakes in this today. Been kind of preoccupied with this little bundle....