Threads Across Nebraska

Today I deliver my doll beds and other miniature quilts to Grand Island for the Threads Across Nebraska show and vendor mall.  I was so pleased to be asked to display my little quilts at this show.  I'm not sure how much room there will be but am taking them all along so we can figure out where the different doll beds will fit.  A curio cabinet will be delivered from one of the furniture stores for displaying my doll beds.  This makes me feel pretty good about displaying them with so much foot traffic by - more secure than sitting on a table.

I had some of the write-ups done in the past when I displayed my doll beds at museums in Lexington and Aurora, NE.  I have re-written the descriptions some and some I had to write up since they are new since then.  I could keep re-writing them but guess I had just better stop and call it good. 

Here is a article that was in Monday's Omaha World Herald newspaper about Threads.

No photos today...sorry.

Lynn

More Machine Quilting

 

I quilted the stems an leaves with the variegated green rayon thread. Like it too and am not worrying about the raw edges. Stitch by stitch I am getting it quilted.

My time is short due to PT, babysitting my grandsons and harvest.  I am not driving the tractor/grain cart yet but do have to fix food for the guys in the field.  They work late late so need to have something to eat in the evening.  Sometimes they work until 10:00 pm.

Little Autumn Mums

Started quilting on the Little Autumn Mums quilt. I am taking it slow and really enjoying the process. Most times I am in such a hurry to quilt something to see how it is going to look. I get tired and sometimes hurry a quilting design. This time I have not had large blocks of time so quilt a little when I have a chance.

I I used the Rayon thread on the flower petals and the centers of the three mums. I did have to lower the tension quite a bit on the top Rayon thread and tightened the bobbin thread a little too. I am using Bottom Line for the bottom thread on this quilt. I used a topsitich needle and it all seemed to work fine. Really like the shine the thread has. Now to think of what I want to quilt on the other areas of the quilt.

Stay tuned for more quilting.
Lynn

Harvest

Harvest has started here now. John is combining corn just east of our house. He tried cutting some soybeans but the moisture content was too high so went back to corn.  I stepped out of my front door and snapped these photos. You can see the horses in the pasture just beyond the lot fences then the cornfield in this first photo.

You can see the combine emptying the corn onto the grain cart in the first photo and the second photo shows the tractor and grain cart going to the truck where the corn will be augered into it.

So far I have not even tried to drive the grain cart. Not sure when I will try. So far John has not needed me which is OK by me. I am not looking forward to doing it this year anyway.

Happy Harvest
Lynn