The 2018 Prairie Moon Ranch Cowboy Christmas Stocking is here!!! Woohoo! This year’s cowboy boot stocking is the 11th annual (already?!), and it’s called “Gypsy Cowgirl”. I especially love it because it’s red! I was ready for another red stocking! This stocking may also be the easiest one yet, because I’ve taken out all the […]
4 Comments. Continue Reading...We’re past Hump Day already, and I don’t feel like I’ve done one single productive thing yet this week. Fortunately, I was at my guild’s spring retreat last weekend at Sew Sweet Quilt Shop’s fabulous retreat center, where I did move a few projects forward with some uninterrupted sewing time. We got to watch the […]
9 Comments. Continue Reading...It’s been awhile since I published a ranch update. Lots of folks have been asking for goat news, so I figured I’d better get to writing! Have I ever mentioned how much I hate winter? It just makes everything so much harder. Back in the fall, I started keeping an eye on my goats, thinking they […]
5 Comments. Continue Reading...It’s here! The 10th Annual Prairie Moon Ranch Cowboy Christmas Stocking pattern! This year’s stocking is called “Straight Arrow”. While I made mine in gray and blue, you can always choose your favorite color combo. You can also make it without the embroidery, if you aren’t a fan of so much hand stitching. Straight Arrow […]
4 Comments. Continue Reading...The new Block-of-the-Month quilts are ready at Sew Sweet Quilt Shop, and signups are happening NOW for their 2017-2018 “It Takes Five!” Saturday Sampler Club! This year’s quilts are called the “Sew Sweet Samplers”, named after the shop itself. As usual, we’ve done a traditional version: And a modern version: You can sign up for […]
1 Comment. Continue Reading...After pretty much ignoring my blogs for the entire summer, I think I’ll fill you in on a little of what’s been going on around here. I’ll try to keep it short, and tell you all the other stuff later. Thank you to everyone who’s been checking in with me, wondering if anything is wrong. […]
14 Comments. Continue Reading...This year’s Sew Sweet Saturday Sampler Club Block-of-the-Month is happening now! I’ve been working really hard on these three quilts and the pattern booklet for them, and tomorrow is the big day! Sew Sweet Quilt Shop is presenting these quilts as their annual Saturday Sampler Block-of-the-Month, and the first installment happens at tomorrow’s event at […]
7 Comments. Continue Reading...We’ve had a most wonderful break in the cold weather the last week or so, and that means we’ve been doing as much as possible outdoors. Winter is so hard on things. Freezing, thawing, getting wet, wind, mud, snow, ice, and hard ground — it just makes everything more difficult. So we do as little […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...I’m not a New Year’s Resolution maker. But I set goals for myself all year round. Some are monthly, some are weekly — heck, some of them are daily (“just get through the day”)! As part of my starting fresh with a new year, I go over my goals from the last year to see […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...They’re here! — The Three Witches: This is the larger version of the smaller quilt I showed back in July HERE. Based on the three witches from Shakespeare’s play, “Macbeth”, this larger version features lots more embroidery with more coloring. It features each witch individually, and also the group together. Don’t they look conniving? There are […]
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