The FWS Pony Club Quilt-Along Wk 37 Railroad Crossing & Homeward Bound Photo Page
 

Okay, I know some of you have these blocks done....so bring 'em here front & center!

Yes, I have done mine....[ATTACH=CONFIG]363957[/ATTACH]Railroad Crossing block going across various brands... and

Homeward bound:[ATTACH=CONFIG]363958[/ATTACH]Back in the saddle again...

QNS...your brands remind me of the one from our farm when I was a kid...T-S. I even helped put it on a few cattle and can still smell the burnt hair and hide. Great fussy cutting. Here are mine for the week.[ATTACH=CONFIG]364003[/ATTACH]

Love your squares, GG. and seeing your picture in the retreat...looked like you all had a great time. I envy you'all on your respective retreats. Guess dh is going to winter the ducks, since they are laying seven eggs every other day...so Mother Duck will need to be here for nightly tuck into their building bedding time.

QNS, I love the bright colors and fussy cutting in your blocks--always so much fun.

GGal, pretty pretty blocks. I love the dark fabric in the tiny squares of Railroad. Both blocks are lovely.

Here are mine. This is going to be a really strange quilt with the mishmash of colors/fabrics I've used.[ATTACH=CONFIG]364045[/ATTACH]

JanRN, they are excellent color and form in your two blocks. Love the 'eye' candy.

QNS--fussy cutting looks nice!!

Ggal--your choice of fabrics are great.

Jan--I always like to see what you'll come up with for quilting...I really should be doing that on my blocks.

PRETTY PRETTY PRETTY :D as usual, you all are amazing :D

Absolutely beautiful blocks this week, I have not even looked at mine yet. Hope to get to them tomorrow. These old bones are tired after my marathon sewing session on the weekend. I have sewn 183 HST for my quilt, only 657 to go:D

Wow, Mirabelle, you started with 3345 so that means you have sewn miles of seams. Very productive. Dudlb, too. This is thee 'best' of the best on QB quilting groups. Enjoying seeing everyone's products they have made.

Well, here is my Railroad Crossing block....I should have used a different shade of blue for the small squares...After seeing it put together I find it too homogenous.....My 4 yr old grandson likes the block...he ventures closer and closer to me when sewing so much that I have no elbow room...He likes the up and down machine...:)

Love the bright colors and the RR crossing, depot on the fabric...perfect fabric, perfect block one more time. It is amazing what kids remember their lifetime..the four year old may well remember your sewing his whole lifetime...and he may in turn, sew some day. Our gs is four, but I could not keep him by himself...much too active and interrupts adults too much...and is spoiled by his parents who does things his way, not their way.

Just finished my Homeward Bound block...I don't know where this flock of birds gathered from all I know is that they're flying in the same direction.....:)

Beautiful 'flock' of birds. Love the color and the block.

Thanks for the compliments...I received a package in the mail today...I wonder from who??? :)
It seems we're the only ones around today!!!

Honchey--I like your blocks.I can see why your 4yr grandson would be drawn to this one! The other one has a nice combo of fabrics.

Finally had some sewing time today and got these two finished. With DH home there doesn't seem to be enough hours in a day.
DD's quilt top is finished, DH chose the final border, we were going to go scrappy as in the original but DH decided it would be too much, he has a good eye for color and balance. DD is coming home next weekend and we are going to start piecing my top, I hope to have all the triangles sewn by them only 600 something to do:shock:

Beautiful job on half sewn triangles and borders and the blocks down on the floor which my eye cannot really see too well....looks like a bird or two...and love your PC blocks...you continue to amaze me how you make your fabric work in the different patterns...all are very nice and will make a beautiful quilt. A lot of sewing done...especially with interruptions time after time of sitting down at the sewing machine...we ladies might have experienced that ourselves!!

Anne & Mirab, beautiful blocks. Anne, I think your colors look bright and cheery. Mirab, "sigh", yours are so soft and pretty. Love the quilt top. Wow-you have been super busy!

Starch....I press them into submission...:) I starch and press my fabric for the most part stiff...I press each seam and section as i go along...After sewing 2 swctions together I press the seam flat on both sides...then press from the top(right side) butting the seam with the side of the iron both ways. then press the paper side no steam at this point...press the seam open or to the side.. whichever way it lays flatter..then flip it over and press again..then I trim the block to the size needed...I purposely leave extra seam allowance on the section's seam this way when I press there's enough fabric to open to really flatten it..I trim it after the outside edge is trimmed..

JanR...really neat blocks. Great colors and well done.
Honchey...never thought of using 4 different fabrics for the "birds". I like them? Thanks for the tips.
Mirabelle...I can't wait to see your finished PC quilt. You've been so faithful to your fabric choice so you will have such a different look. Very classy I suspect. I also am looking forward to the purple Jamestown quilt.
Yup..Iowa blue. That piece has become a favorite of mine.

Oksewglad, some places in Iowa, the deer have a disease...too thick, not enough hunting and thinning down the herds. I think they need to let homesteaders hunt more 'cause they fed them deer.

Love your blocks, Jeanie. I see that my camera is related to yours...but I am sure your blocks are straight and blocks are perfect, unlike mine. Love the color in your blocks.

I was not remarking on the unmatched, but the part the camera cut off in my picture of what I am seeing, JeanieG. You do a great job on the blocks..really...my one eye looks at things a bit off, so sorry if I gave you wrong impression of what I was seeing...rr block was cut off on my right side as I looked at the picture...like I do with my camera and my blocks.

I am told best things come in a small package...our sweet dd is 5'2". I was most always the tallest one in the crowd at 5'8" and could not hide in the crowd if I tried...when I grew up. Later I meet with taller people, and realized I could be thankful I was not six foot plus. Gran always said, " I don't care how tall you grow, just don't bend out like me!" Alas, I did after carrying three big babies...but would not trade any of the three off to gain my shape back.

I do always have problems trying to line the block up with the camera, and hold it steady, taking a big breath and holding it while I click the shutter. It is harder trying to line up everything with one eye...sitting a glass on the table can make it land on the floor...no solution to the problem. 'Tis just life.

Deer season was a very big thing at my house as a kid. That was before we had electricity so about 4:30 the keroscene lanteran would light the kitchen as Mom fixed my brothers a quick breakfast and send them off to the place they had scouted out so they could be there before that 30 minutes before sunrise when season startd. All of my brothers had their tags so it was always a contest to see who came in first with a deer. I never knew it was gamey tasting since that was our primary meat because the beef we raised went to the sale barn for a cash crop. I once thought I should keep up with them, got my gun permit and started the gun selection process. My brothers offered to let me try theirs and graciously set up a tin can on a fence post for me to shoot at. I followed all of their instructions as I confidently lifted the gun to my shoulder, sighted down the barrel, pulled the trigger and promptly sat on my keister! That was the end of my deer hunting! Ah, yes, Jeanie....memories. BTW, your blocks are gorgeous.

I've never deer hunted. I do enjoy going to the shooting range (just up the road) and doing some target practice though. I did some squirrel hunting with my dad when I was a kid.

I helped butcher many deer early in our marriage. We used to grind our own burger, cut steaks and loin. One of our favorite parts was the heart. My husband hasn't hunted the last few years, so we eat more beef now. Our two older kids took hunter's safety last fall, so they have been thinking about hunting this year. Not sure if they will or not....didn't practice much.

JeanieG you are taller than me, I am only 5 ft 2 inch and everbody towers over me:D it is so unfair as my parents were both over 5ft 10inch and two brothers over 6 ft, so what happened to me:eek:
I am still trying to get some triangles sewn, DD was coming home on the weekend but has had to cancel, so will plod along at them. I am not sure if I am going to do Bonnie's mystery (yet) as I am tossing up whether to make the New York Beauty quilt that is starting here on the 1st October, so many quilt so little time