3rd Anniversary of Rednesday!

I'm going to try this link again....click here:suelovescherries.blogspot.com, to see all kinds of neat red things!

3rd Anniversay of Rednesday

Congratulations to Sue over at It's a Very Cherry World .... ....it's her 3rd anniversary of Rednesday, so take a look at all the fun red links! Today I'm linking to Rednesday linky party with this red and white little quilt that I just made around Christmas. I would love to try and get a Farmer's Dotter Friday linking party started.....is anyone interested? Since I'm kind of into polka dots, I'd like to have people show pictures of either vintage antiques with polka dots and or vintage quilts OR antique farming pictures. Does anyone have any of these things you'd be willing to show? Let me know....please leave a comment!

Sorry I'm so late in posting the last winner of the drawings...the winner of the $20 gift certificate to the Farmer's dotter quilt retreat is Lisa! I've had bed and breakfast guests this week and this weekend was Kooper Dane's 4th birthday and we had extra family here visiting, so not much free time! Keep watching for drawings later and thanks to all of you who are new followers. Merry Christmas to all of you, if I don't get back for a few days!

5th and 6th day prize and 4th day winner!

The photos today are of my quilt retreat...you can read more about them on my website...the link is on the bedroom picture of my sidebar.
Today and tomorrow I'll be having a drawing for a $20 gift certificate towards a stay at the Farmer's Dotter quilt retreat that I have here in my home in Southwest Iowa. I live in the midwest, 2 hours away from Des Moines, Iowa, Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska, and Kansas City. I love to have quilters and bed and breakfast guests too! So if you're up for a road trip, join in the drawing! I will draw for it sometime Friday afternoon, so keep on entering until I draw!

Yesterday winner of the pattern for a tiny quilt pattern is Lee...email me your address...thanks to all for entering!

4th day prize and 3rd day winner!

Sorry I'm a little slow today...my new grandson, Kruz needed a little snuggle time with Grandma...his mom is having back troubles, so Grandpa and I are helping out.
Any way....yesterday's prize winner is Jeanne. Email me your address and I'll get the pin cushion pattern in the mail to you!
Today's prize is another pattern I've designed to look like an antique doll quilt. I love antique quilts (who doesn't!) and I design my patterns to look like antique quilts. I have quite a collection of vintage fabrics and feed sacks, so several of my kits are made out of the older textiles. I sell patterns and kits for these on Etsy and would also be willing to sell them wholesale, if anyone is interested, please email or call me.
This little quilt measures 8" x 8".
Thanks for taking the time to look and enter my drawing!

3rd day give away & 2nd day winner!

This is the pattern I will be giving away to some lucky winner today!

I'm giving away something every day this week, so keep stopping by and leaving comments so I can enter you in the drawings! I'm in the blog hop at the Quilting Gallery and there are over 240 other quilters who are also giving away prizes...lots of fun, but I warn you, it takes lots of time to look at them all, but you have until Saturday, when most of them will do their drawings.

The winner from yesterday's drawing is Sallie! She wins her choice of a cute little pin cushion that I made. Today, I'm having a drawing for the pattern to make your own, so make sure you get your name in the drawing...anyone who's a follower can enter, by just leaving me a comment, today!

2nd Day Give-away and 1st day winner!

Today's give-away is your choice of these two pin cushions that I've made from recycled materials. One is made from a piece of an antique cutter quilt and the other is made from an antique doily. Tomorrow I will give away a pattern to make one of these pincushions yourself, so check back tomorrow and leave comments both days to be eligible to win the pin cushion or pattern! Check out my last blog for more details of this 8 day blog hop give away and go to
And the winner of yesterdays drawing IS: Jennifer Gail! Congratulations Jennifer, you can email me with your choice of pattern and address. Thanks to everyone for participating! Please keep on commenting every day for more chances to win daily!<
the http://quiltinggallery.com/ for over 240 give-aways! The link to all the give aways is in my last post, also.


And the winner of yesterdays drawing IS: Jennifer Gail! Congratulations Jennifer, you can email me with your choice of pattern and address. Thanks to everyone for participating! Please keep on commenting every day for more chances to win daily!

Free Give Aways at the Blog Hop Party!

I'm participating in the blog hop party at the Quilting Gallery starting tomorrow...click on Quilting Gallery image above. More later about what I'll be giving away...gotta make sure this link works!

The list of bloggers participating in the Blog Hop Party will be made available Saturday morning, shortly after midnight, Eastern time. Return here then, to start hopping and entering the give-aways from your fellow quilters. This hop lasts from December 10th thru December 17th and I've decided to give something different away each day...ranging from retail values of $2.75 to $20.00!!!

Tomorrow, I will be giving away a free pattern of your choice. They range in price from $2.75 to $8.40. The picture at the top of this post is of one of the quilting patterns I have available. You can see all that I have available in my Etsy shop...I can't seem to get my Etsy shop to link to this post, but if you go down one post, the link is in it.

Here's the deal...I've decided I need a little help, PLEASE!...I need more followers here on my blog and more admirer's on my Etsy store, so to be eligible for the drawings you need to be a follower or admirer, PLEASE, PLEASE, then just leave me a comment every day if you want, or just on the days you like what I'm offering, to be eligible for the daily give aways. Thanks for taking the time to look and happy blog hopping!

Free shipping til December 11th!

I'll be listing a pattern soon for this pin cushion. I like to make mine out of either pieces of old quilts or doilies, but they can also be made out of new materials. I will give away a free pattern for these square pin cushions to the 1st 10 people who make an order from my Etsy shop...this offer expires December 11th. I also have free shipping til December 11th.

Please click on this link://http://www.etsy.com/shop/thefarmersdotter to check out my Etsy shop. Keep watching for new listings and thanks for taking the time to look!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! This postcard was sent in 1912 to Miss Verna Hamilton, Hamburg Iowa....from Marguerite. I just love old postcards.

I am thankful for being raised on the farm...it was a great place to grow up. This is my dad and uncle Truman, probably in the mid thirties, in the front yard of my grandma's house. My grandma always used to make homemade noodles for our family get togethers, so that's what I'm taking to our family dinner tomorrow.

Sneak peek at my new Etsy shop!

Click on this link:thefarmersdotter to see my things for sale on Etsy! It's not quite the way I want it yet, but guess I'll let you all take a sneak peek. This 17" X 21" doll quilt kit, and/or pattern is one of the things I have listed. Please take a look and let me know what you think... thanks for taking the time to look! I'll make a more permanent link later, hopefully.

Rednesday!

Linking to Rednesday at: suelovescherries.blogspot.com. I just love old quilts, polka dots and red too! I'm thinking of trying to have linking party with anything antique quilt related or vintage polka dots, preferably in quilts, but anything antique would be great too. Anybody interested? I've never done my own linking party before...so if anyone has any suggestions, let me know.

I took this picture of an antique quilt somewhere in my travels and I'm not really sure where...probably in an antique store in Missouri. I love the red and white, and the ties in green make it look so Christmasy. I quite often take pictures of old quilts, thinking I might later make one similar to it. This one would be pretty easy to duplicate, with all the great reproductions.

Take your time Tuesday

As I sit here writing this blog I see a deer walking at the back of our little timber. All the leaves are off of the trees now, so I'm seeing them more often. Always fun to enjoy nature.

Today I'm linking to a new blog that I just found: sohappy. I found her through another new blog: quiltsalott.blogspot.com/. It's always fun to see what others are working on!

The photo above is one of my hand-made, recycled projects...I love to reduce, reuse and recycle! I made this from an antique arm-chair cover...like I was ever going to use that! I've also used old doilies and parts of cutter quilts. If you're interested in making one or need some supplies for it, email me...I love to get personal emails! farmersdotter@frontiernet.net

Invite to quilt club or later

7 twin-sized beds for guests. 2 1/2 bathrooms. Lots of quilts and fun things to look at!

I'm having my quilt club meeting tonight here at my house. We have about 20 members and usually have between 5-10 show up. Just wanted to send any of you within driving distance a special invitation...know this is the last minute, but guess that's the way I work sometimes! I would love to have you and some of your friends come and visit sometime. I'm thinking if I could get any of you to come here, you might just love it enough to come and stay! If it doesn't work out tonight, almost anytime in the next few weeks would be great! (Gonna go south after Christmas for a few weeks) Pardon the expression, but I like to kill 2 or 3 birds with one stone, meaning I like to clean the house once and make it do for 2 or 3 things! Let me know if you're interested! 712-523-3508 or farmersdotter@frontiernet.net
Beds are available if anyone wants to spend the night tonight!

More Corduroy!

I am a cosmetologist part time and this is a picture of my shop...I am a lucky girl again.


#1 lucky: This antique barber chair and barber back-bar was my hubby's grandfather (Glen)and great grandfather (Ed) Lock's. When we moved to this home and I had more room, I was able to buy these from my hubby's grandpa. I love to collect almost anything old, so it's great to have such a piece of history as this.


#2 lucky today! One of my customers this morning came bearing me a wonderful gift....a couple boxes of fabrics!! Woohoo! Can't get much better than that. People are so good to me! Thanks Mel for the goodies! He loves to go to auctions. Below is the 1st box. Shamrocks for a lucky girl!

Next box of assorted squares and 4 patches...maybe 50's era? I need someone to come visit me and sort through my stash and get it organized in era's.

#3 lucky: MORE corduroy on 11-11-11. How cool is that! Sometimes things just happen for a reason , don't they?

I'd be willing to swap some of this corduroy with some of you if you'd like...email me and we'll see what we can work out. There's about 2 yards of it.

Make sure and check out my other corduroy posts!

More Corduroy for 11-11-11

Here's another unfinished project at my house. I picked it up at a garage sale a few years ago and maybe someday I'll get crazy enough to finish this Crazy quilt!....or it may go to Etsy or Ebay some day!


Click here: niftyquilts.blogspot.com/
to see lots of other examples of fun corduroy quilts.





Corduroy AND polka dots...gotta love it!

Happy 11-11-11 and Corduroy Day!

OOPS! Our grand-dog liked this quilt too!

Click here: http://niftyquilts.blogspot.com/ to see the Corduroy Appreciation Day quilts on display for 11-11-11. She has such a great blog and always has so many fun quilts to show...and she just started quilting in about 2005! Here are my corduroy quilts and stories....

I made this simple corduroy quilt about 10 years ago for my son and his future wife...she liked purple and I thought it would keep them nice and warm. I used the brick pattern because it's easy and fast. It was one of my 1st attempts at machine quilting. I went to get it today and was told not to keep it too long, as it's one they use in the winter months to keep warm, so it's nice to know they like it, but our grand-dog also liked it! In the picture above you can see one of the 3 chewed places along the edges that I'll try to repair. How many of you have similiar stories?

I'll show another corduroy unfinished quilt in another blog post. I'm having trouble getting the pictures in the right spot!

Updates and a finish

Update on our niece: she has been moved to Immanuel hospital in north Omaha, Nebraska, for rehab. Physically, she is getting along pretty good..she had a concussion from a bad gash on her head that required 5 staples and was in intensive care for a day and a half, but otherwise she has very few injuries. She's very sore all over and wants to sleep most of the time. She seems to know everyone, but her memory is very foggy, so they hope to help with that. I'm also hoping they give her therapy to deal with the loss of her 3 friends. That will be as hard for her as anything. Thanks to all of you for your concern and prayers. It's been a rough few days.

Update on the "boys": Kruz is 9 days old today, he has been jaundice and laying on a light at home most of the time, but had to go back in the hospital for a day and night. Kooper is a good big brother and lots of help to mom and dad. I think we get to watch him tomorrow night...Daddy wants to go to the football playoff game here at Bedford. Go Dawgs! Football is quite a tradition here! Picture below: Kooper as a scarecrow...I helped Tara make the hats. She does a great job with costumes. Kruz is a little football player.I finished this lap-sized comforter today. It's made from wool and wool blends from my stash. I just pulled the backing around and machine stitched it to the front for the binding. This comforter is MINE! I plan on snuggling under it watching TV and using it on my side of the bed, since my hubby is not as cold blooded as me! The cold has begun here in Iowa, yesterdays high was about 40...burr!

Need Prayers!

We were awakened last night at 3:35...it was my hubby's brother Donnie, and his oldest girl, Samantha had been in a bad accident. What a terrible feeling. My hubby took off to meet up with his brother and take him to Omaha where they life-flighted Sam. She has a severe head injury and has been on a ventilator, but I think they're about ready to take it out. Hopefully she will be OK. The sad thing is there were 3 others who didn't make it. Please say a little prayer for all involved. We went through this with another niece almost 7 years ago...you never forget the pain and sorrow of loosing a loved one so suddenly. For more details of the accident go tohttp://www.kma960.com/. Thank you for your prayers.

New baby!

New baby grandson, Kruz Dean was born October 25th at 4:33 P.M. He weighed 8 pounds even and was 21 and 1/2 inches long, with lots of dark hair. Mommy and baby are doing fine. Big brother Kooper Dane is very proud and wants to hold him himself! I tried so hard to get a good picture and then I couldn't seem to be able to get it cropped right! Will try again later. We had Kooper the last two nights. Grandma and Grandpa are very proud also, but ready for a good nights sleep tonight! More later!