Pelican Piecemakers Quilt Guild

The guild I belong to has finally finished the quilt that will be auctioned off in December.  They have been selling tickets to it all year and it is just beautiful.

These pictures do not do it justice at all.  It was all had quilted by some of our senior members.  You can't see the detail in these but all along the brown border they have quilted in gold maple leaves.  The quilting is different in each area.  They started on this in Spring and work on it only on Wednesdays when we meet.  It is such a great work of art.  I tried hand quilting with them last week on our new quilt to raffle off later and believe me it is hard! I did the rocking motion but the stitches were too big and started over a couple time.  The needle alone was so tiny I couldn't even thread it.  I did do about six stitches they approved of but this is going to take much practice and bandaids for the fingers. I used a thimball for pushing but the other fingers were a mess too!

Taming a wild kitten

This adorable kitten was born under the house.  I have been feeding it and mommy when she shows up.  It seems that her /his mothers pattern is to be gone for a day or two and then come back.  I am now able to pet this little guy and he just purrs like crazy.  I think he is lonesome.  He knows we have dogs on the deck so if they are around he doesn't come on the porch.  Any ideas out there for a name?  I don't know if it is male or female.  He reminds me of my very first pet when I was a little girl, only that one was a purebred pursian and this is not.  I just have become so attached to it. 

November Chicks Meeting

We had a great meeting and planned the 2 families that we are giving a Thanksgiving meal to from Hospice so it will be their love ones last Thanksgiving. 
We are making it special.  Fancy tablecloths , candles and the meal all ready to eat so they wont have do anything.  They can keep the tablecloths, napkins and candles. It always feels so good to help others. We also planned some things we could do for the community and our Christmas family we will adopt and give tree,decorations and then come back with the dinner and gifts.  We did this last year and it was wonderful.

We had 4 birthdays this month and celebrated with our hostess who is also our mother Hen serving us a delicious White Chilli Chicken Soup.  There were breads, muffins and lots of desserts.  We also had show and tell where chicks show off any projects they have finished.  I showed my quilt.  First one completely done that will go to my daughter for Christmas. I am making large shams for it also.  One of our new gals Judy came and showed us some great decorations she made that are stoneware.  She is very talented.  There are 2 of our 4 birthday gals.  Jane got a new apron and Robin.  Happy Birthday gals.  Sorry I didn't get a good pic of Gail and Andrea.  We had 15 at our meeting this past Saturday.  Our group is now at 17 and we are growing.  What a wonderful bunch we have.

Chicks Birthdays

Sunday afternoon two of our Klamath Falls Charming Chicks had a birthday celebration and we honored them with a party at Susans house.  She had made a delicious homemade soup with potato and corn and lots of goodies.  We all asked for the recipe and she said she would tell us what she put in but doesn't remember the amounts.  Thank you Susan it was great!  The girls each got a cake , one spice and one Chocalate and many gifts to open.  We had a great time visiting and planning our winter projects such as a Thanksgiving give away food basket and adopting a family for our Christmas Give a way.  This is all done through the Salvation Army and we givers remain anominus( I know thats not spelled right).  We are having 4 birthdays next month so I am doing homemade as I can't afford 4 in one month.  Best gifts are always homemade, they show the love.  We always have alot of pictures at each event and I dont remember seeing one person with a camera this Sunday.  How did that happen?

Monday I took my last class on Quilters Acadamy Sophmore year.  Now I am ready to tackle putting blocks on a diagonal point.  It looks harder than it is and your finished quilts look so nice.

Last week I stayed with a friend who had just been released from the hospital.  He had 4 stints put in his heart and is recovering  nicely.  This week I am at Chick Cheryl's housitting.  Her dog Buster is alot of company.  Cheryl has a blog This Hen's a Cookin . 

Well I will be back in a week or so and hopefully have pictures for my blog.

Fantastic Saturday

Saturday morning our local women from our church (BBC) went to the fall womens rally in Alturas, Calif.   It was a wonderful day!  There was singing and a testamony by Connie Hays.  She was great!  The entire church was decorated in western style with hay bales, saddles and lots of hats around.  The centerpieces on the tables were straw hats with sunflowers on them.  We had a great lunch and snacks.  The key speaker was Kim Meeder.  Together with her husband they operate a horse rescue that is all run on donations.  They take in neglected , abused and abandon horses and restore their frail bodies into healthy animals again.  They also have paired this rescue up with children who have also been neglected, or abused, or abanded.  Sound similar?  All free of Charge!!!   What a wonderful ministry.  Kim has spoken in front of the Senate in Washington D.C. and won the Jacquelinen Kennedy Onassis Award for community service.  She has been offered millions of dollars by top sponsers if she would just not include the religious part of her ministry.  Her answer was thanks but no thanks.  They have met their need each year with more than enough to finance the operation.  One donar is giving the ranch 350 tons of hay yearly.  How nice. 
Then after we arrived home we had just enough time to change and feed the animals and back to town for the Patty Lovelace concert.  A wonderful Chick friend had tickets and gave them to us.  What a treat.  We had 2nd row seats and the concert was great.  Patty was out of commision for a while as she had throat surgery and now she sounds better than ever.  What a great day for us.

Fall is a great time of year !

Hi gang,
Sorry I haven't been on here lately to tell you of all that is going on in my life, Camera charger won't work and so no pics for a while.  I have been very busy taking another quilters acadamy Class 2 in Merrill.  Today we bring in our blocks and learn how to set on point instead of just straight rows.  This makes your quilt much bigger without having to make more blocks.  I have 3 quilt tops done and I am working on one now for my oldest son.  This is all in blues(his favorite color) and it is the starflower pattern.  Will put them on here when I get a camera. 
Miss all the chicks, haven't seen any since the Luau, and not having a meeting untill October sometime.
Mary and I rode over to Rogue Valley and went through a cute town called
Shady Cove and I would like to go back again and check it out some more.
Last weekend we went to Mt. Lakes Bible Camp which is off Varney Creek Road just a little after the Rocky Point cutoff.  Our church owns the year round camp and they had their 50th birthday celebration.  It was just so beautiful up there.  They served ordeuvres, and then a wonderful luch. Later the original men (only 2 left) told some interesting facts about the camp.  We saw a video history of the camp as well.  Next summer I will volunteer there.
Our baby calve we raised since they were 3 days old are now steaks someplace. bo hoo.  They weighed almost 800 pounds each and brought a good price at the auction but it was hard to let them go.  If you have an entire herd thats one thing but when you get attached to animals it is hard.
Mary was busy canning, she put up pickles, dilly beans and pickled okra. 
We have some baby kittens (2) under the deck that are just as wild as can be.  I have been taking food to them and if I am perfectly still they will come out and eat in front of me.  Once in a while mama cat shows up and we feed her too.  Last winter was the first year Mary said there were no mice problems so we want to keep the cats living under the house, even though the dogs would love to chase them away.  They can't stand it when we keep them locked on the deck and are feeding the kittens.
Well, thats about it for now.  I will update again soon.

Farmgirls Luau

Oh do we know how to have fun or what?  Farmgirl Gail hosted a wonderful Luau at her home in Bonanza, Oregon.  It was an overnight campout.  There was a fifth whell , a motorhome, an adorable deco small camper, and a tent. Some gals brought a truck with camper and one gal slept in the back of her truck with a shell over it.  We had fun the moment we arrived.  We dressed Hawaiian and first off we were given sandals to decorate with flowers and hot glue gun and decorateive jewely, we received a lei and went to the tiki bar for refreshments from a victorian ice tea, all kinds of cool drinks or even an alcholic beverage.  Everything was decorated to the max as if we were in the Tropics.  We all brought Hawaiian themed foods and had a great dinner.  Hawaiian Pork, bbg Hawaiian chicken, a spinach and fruit salad, cocunut shrimp, hawaiian fruit bars, rolls, chips and homemade salsa of differnt kinds, also homemade chips, a carrot salad, a green salad, a wonderful hawaiian corn chowder,and then we had all the deserts and blended fruit toppings (she called it bounced fruit ) pineapple upside down cake, buttermilk cake( yummy) homebaked breads of all kinds, blueberry, lemon, and cranberry, and I know I forgot alot of things but it was scrumptious!!!  We played games and even tried to hula hoop.  Our hostess gave prizes for winners of games and such and with our sandals we got pina colad flavored shower gels.  It was a fabulous weekend and on Sunday morning we had a  great breakfast of Kona coffe, juice, bacon, eggs(fresh  that is ) and breads and fruit.  We talked and got to know and learn more about one another and can't wait for the one will do next summer.  Check out our pics.  I can't explain the toilet paper game because I start laughing so hard which is what we were all doing during the game.