I hear they had a bumper crop of rattlesnakes in Texas. I think they race the snakes and eat rattlesnake meat there, SBG. I think a lot of them are used in different snake farms for their venom which is collected by 'milking' the snakes. Or that is what I have read about it and heard about it.

Dh cousin is coming with his wife to play cards today, so I have to get busy in the kitchen. No sewing today. It snowed about 1 to 3 inches last night. Big storm. It will all be gone by Wednesday or before. Have a good day.

Rattlesnakes... YUCK! We have them here too, supposedly, but I have never seen one in our area (thankfully!).

Funny, but I just made a Texas themed quick strippie lap quilt for donation, and I used some of the rattlesnake fabric you sent me, QNS, as trim and binding! Take a look...

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I hear it tastes like chicken.....we have timber rattles here, but few and far between, so I hear.

Nice job SBG...those strippy quilts turn out nice. I brought home fabric for the twins quilts...a forest friends type fabric, called Woodie Winterland. One piece has some cute owls on it. Have a plan for two similar, yet different quilts. This is one of the fabrics.http://www.lcfabrics.co.uk/wp-conten...er-150x150.jpg

It is! I'm quilting two more of them today. Super fast. It's called Quick Strippy and the pattern is free at www.MaryQuilts.com , if you need one. Makes a lap sized quilt.

OK, I love that fabric with bears and foxes. So cute.

They do catch rattle snakes & milk 'em for the venom. That is used to make anti-venom. There is also a gun & knife show. Then there are a ton of vendors, & a gigantic flea market.
http://www.rattlesnakeroundup.net/calendar-of-events1.html

SBG, I called that piece 'honeycomb' for a bee hive; funny how we each relate to the various fabric pieces. Great job.

No doubts, OK you will turn out two great twin bed quilts.

Three more blocks and I can finish my king size Crazy Flying Geese quilt. Have the borders ready to cut and sew on it, too. Binding almost ready for the Pony Club quilt, I will finish that one. The an equal say on two other quilts to finish, the last LAH one we did Farmer's Wife 1930 and one a friend brought up from Southern Mo., ...then I might do a couple of the kits I have on hand. Auditioning some dark cranberry fabric and a pink cranberry with silver leaf outlines in it and some purple in my fabric/guest room. :sew::sew: DH's cousin and wife stayed last night and we played more cards this morning before they left. It was all fun and we both enjoyed their visit.

Busy week coming up; that means we will stay out of any trouble, I hope..LOL!:o

Here's a picture of the quilt I made for my son for his birthday. This shows it washed and dried-- so 'in use.' :-) It's 64" x 80". My quilt is the same D4P pattern in 30's reproduction prints, but 10 x 10 blocks, 80" x 80" and no border. I still have some 30's fabric left, but not much! :-) I ended up liking his better than mine because of the border. It added a nice touch. (I decided to post this picture in the 'Pictures' thread too. I think it's the first time I posted in that thread...)

That's a wonderful quilt, Givio. The border is really cool.

I really like the soft rainbow effect, givio.