Better late than never

I had another surprise this week when I got a check in the mail for my fair winnings and I got paid for an item that won Best of Show!!!  Since none of my items were in the Best of Show area and also didn't have that ribbon I called to see if it was a mistake.....

 

 

 

Well I'm happy to say that the pillow that gave me so much trouble making it won Best of Show and today I went and picked up the ribbon !!!  Quite a nice surprise !!

Autumn Tones Table Runner

Imagine my surprise this morning while looking at a Herrschner's catalog when I came across a kit for the Autumn Tones Table Runner pattern I made for Red Heart last year.

 

 

It's still available on the Red Heart website as a free download, too.

If anyone is interested in the kit I have a link to it under Joyce's Links.

Pretty cool !!



A little of this and a little of that

 

This was a day for a little bit of everything.

From helping Charlie "make hay"....

 

 

...and other things he wanted to do....

 

..then heading up to Harmony where Rick was shelling corn and hauling corn the rest of the day.

 

 

Never a dull moment around here !! 

 

Giant Gourd

 

Found this monster yesterday in my pumpkin (or should I say weed) patch !!  It's about 30" long !! and very heavy. Wish I had found it before the fair....

Fair Entries

 

Got a chance to go to The Great Frederick Fair today and check out how my entries did.....

 

Scarf....

 

Centerpiece.....

 

Towel Edging....

 

Pillow (it's upside down, tho).....

 

Photo Frame.....

 

Doily..... 

 

 

Easter Basket and Eggs....

 

Pansy Jewelry......

 

 

and purse.  They are all my original designs and I sure can't complain about these winnings !!!  Now to start thinking about next year......

Shelling Corn and other things.....

It's been a hot, dry, dusty, busy week !!!

 

We have been shelling high moisture corn for another farmer

 

Here is the unloading process at the farm.  Doesn't look like it in this picture but it's a very dusty, dirty, noisy job !!!

 

Rick ran the combine and I shuttled the 3 trucks from the fields to the farm

 

Our helper Lorn had the dirty noisy job of standing by the equipment unloading every truck all day long!!

 

We thought a few times on Thursday we were going to get rained out but all the storms went above or below us

 

By  the time the sun set we had done 12 loads that day using one trailer and 2 straight trucks

 

On Friday thankfully it was a much cooler day but no less dusty since all the rain missed us.  We were starting to see the "light at the end of the tunnel" and finished up around 3:00.

33,700 some bushels and we were done !!!  That's a lot of feed for a lot of cows !!

 

So we decided to kick back yesterday and go to the Southern Cove antique tractor show at New  Enterprise, PA.  It was beautiful and sunny when we left home but when we got to the mountains it was very cloudy and cool.

 

After an hour or so at the show the sun came threw and it was a beautiful day in that little valley.  Very  nice show with lots of good food and tractors to look at.

A great way to end a busy week.

Packed up and ready to go......

Today is the day to enter items at The Great Frederick Fair so they are all boxed up and ready to go!!I'll keep ya posted....... :)

Stacked Pumpkins Table Runner

 

Back last winter I made this Silly Stacked Pumpkins table runner.

 

 

The Coats and Clark company purchased the pattern from me and wanted it with a black border and fringe.  Really added a little something to it !!

 

 

If you would like a free download of this pattern  you can click on the link above to go to the page to get the pattern.  Hope you enjoy it !! 

 

 

http://www.redheart.com/free-patterns/stacked-pumpkin-table-runner

Pastel Pillow

Well I think I finally got the pillow to come out right.

 

Here is the front side.....

 

 

.....and here is the back. 

 

I'm a lot more pleased with this one than the first one I tried...