My House Quilt - Red Barn Block

This is a block from my House Block Bee Quilt - a cheery quilt that hangs in my classroom.

I participated in the on-line House Block Bee with eleven other quilters. We were each assigned a month by our queen bee. Before the first of my assigned month, I mailed out fabrics to the others to be used to make a house block for me. I purchased the blue fabric for the sky and the green fabric for the grass. I sent each person a couple of owls and a couple of children to be included in their block. Then I looked through my stash and included scraps to be used for houses, trees, etc. Each quilter could also add their own fabric, if they wished.

Being a farmer's daughter and granddaughter, I love having a barn block in my House Quilt!  

 

My Parents with Two of My Sons Around 27 Years Ago

The Cow

The friendly cow all red and white,

   I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might,
   To eat with apple-tart.

 

She wanders lowing here and there,

   And yet she cannot stray,

All in the pleasant open air,

   The pleasant light of day;

 

And blown by all the winds that pass

   And wet with all the showers,

She walks among the meadow grass

   And eats the meadow flowers.

 

            from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

 

My Paternal Grandmother, 1950

 

The Pasture

 

I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;

I'll only stop to rake the leaves away

(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):

I sha'n't be gone long. - You come too.

 

I'm going out to fetch the little calf

That's standing by the mother.  It's so young,

It totters when she licks it with her tongue.

I sha'n't be gone long.  You come too.

 

          by Robert Frost 

 

 

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