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The Country Register of Indiana

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mark your calendars so that you don’t miss any of the summer fun.

Our writers penned articles on patriotism, quilting, traavel and more.

They also have prepared some great summer time recipes to use for your next family picnic or block party. Enjoy!

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AND THE GR ANDKIDS! GRANDKIDS!

Short Stories by a Mystery Book Author Feeling Blue…Red, White and Blue!

by Cathy Elliott On a quick trip to the store to buy some graduation cards, I noticed an early display of July 4th holiday-ware. How could I not? Colorful clothing, picnic items, streamers, banners and bunting, all featuring the Stars and Stripes. A cornucopia of creative whatnots reaching out to rev up my patriotic heart.

Of course, I began to plan. Now where was that recipe for “Barbara Bush’s Red, White and Blue Cobbler?”

(See recipe in this edition.) The one I - shhhh - shortcutted and made with canned cherry and blueberry pie filling?

But the dish had scored at every potluck, served up warm with vanillabean ice cream. Made one's taste buds stand at attention and salute. For the next bake, perhaps I'd tap my inner chef ’s shoulder and use fresh ingredients. A longer process, but the effort ought to result in a higher-ranking of deliciousness. Right?

I remembered our town’s tradition to set off our own fireworks. The night before the big 4th celebration in a nearby city, locals pack the stands at the fairgrounds in anticipation. The light show never fails to fill the sky with glory and uplift our spirits. As a bonus, the spectacle is easily seen from my own back yard. Just one requirement – a lawn chair.

A Navy brat, my heart has always swelled at anything that highlights our nation’s history and fight for freedom here and abroad. Knowing of my military connection and pride in my dad’s service, my friend Georgina (Geo) and I had swapped stories of our father’s military service records. Her father - an Army

veteran of WWII, Korea, and Vietnam and a Bronze Star recipient. My dad also served in WWII (a Pearl Harbor survivor) and the Korean War, and as a career Naval officer for twenty-seven years.

Geo, a master seamstress and crafter, had already created an exquisite heart with a simple anchor embroidered on one side, cut from an antique crazy quilt. After the heart was sewn, she set it aside for a while.

But once we’d chatted about our personal heroes, Geo finished it up and sent it my way. A surprise gift.

When I unwrapped the beautiful heart, tied with wide, lavender ribbon, I didn’t think of the Navy link first. Instead, I thought of Jesus as the Anchor of our hearts.

Touched, I did a little research of its meaning during Victorian times - when the quilt was made - and learned the anchor symbolized hope. According to the scripture referenced: “This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil…,” Hebrews 6:19 (NKJV) Not until I received an email from Geo, "When I saw it (the heart) again the other day, it just spoke to me of your father being in the Navy...,” did I see the rest of the significance.

On this 4th of July, I shall not only celebrate Independence Day, but also honor my dad by hanging the anchor heart in a prominent place as a tribute to those who have gone before. And as reminder to never give up hope.Thanks, Geo. Let freedom ring!

–Cathy Elliott is a full-time writer living in northern California whose mysteries reflect her personal interests of crafting and collecting. She also leads music at church and cherishes time with her grandchildren. In addition to various articles and anthology contributions, Cathy’s written ten children’s books for classroom use. Her plot-twisting works include A Vase of Mistaken Identity, Medals in the Attic, and A Stitch in Crime.

Website www.cathyelliottbooks.com

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Advertiser Index

Events Listing

Shops are listed alphabetically by location.

Cities & Shops

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Bedford ................................ 17 A Harvest of Quilts Indiana Quilt Depot Beck’s Timeless Treasures Bloomington ....................... 12 Fancy Works Simply Primitive The Tailored Fit Bremen ................................ 10 Country Quilt Creations Brownstown ......................... 16 Scrappy Patches Quilt Shop Columbus ............................ 18 A Gathering of Quilts Crawfordsville ........................ 7 Harvest Inn Interior Decor/Gifts Decatur .................................. 9 The Homeplace Ft Wayne ................................ 9 Sacred Images Georgetown ........................... 5 The Quilting Bee Greensburg .......................... 20 Tree City Stitches Greenwood ............................ 6 Back Door Quilts Kokomo ........................... 8, 24 One Stop Quilt Shop Hop Quilts Along the Wildcat Lawrenceburg ...................... 15 Tri-State Antique Market Liberty ................................. 14 Pohlar Fabrics Madison ................................. 5 Fabric Shop Marion ................................... 9 Quilters Hall of Fame Martinsville.......................... 13 Berries & Ivy Metamora ............................ 14 Music Festival Monroeville ............................ 9 Red Barn Quiltery Mooresville ............................ 7 Breezy Manor Farm

Cities & Shops

See shop & show ads for complete details.

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Nappanee ............................ 10 Amish Acres Nashville .............................. 13 The Story Inn Wishful Thinking Nineveh ............................... 13 The Farmhouse Cafe Tea Room North Vernon ...................... 18 Sharynn’s Quilt Box Plainfield ............................... 6 Porhouse Primitives Plymouth ............................. 10 Simply Thymes 2 Rome City ............................ 11 Caroline’s Cottage Cottons Rushville .............................. 21 Elizabeth’s Keepsakes In Stitches St Paul .................................. 20 Olde Barn Primitives Seymour ............................... 19 Primitive Crow Small Town Stitches Shipshewana ........................ 11 Yoder Department Store Spencer ................................ 12 Relics Antiques & More Unraveled Quilt and Fabric Store Versailles .............................. 15 The Quilter’s Nook Wabash .................................. 8 Heaven on Earth Nancy J’s Fabrics Wabash Garden Fest Washington ............................ 4 The Stitching Post

Not Classified by T own Town and Out of State Out of State ........................ 22, 23 Shop Hop ................................. 24 Tour Towns .................................. 4 Web Based ........................... 22, 23

Barbara Bush’s Red White and Blue Cobbler 1 can blueberry pie filling, 1 can cherry pie filling Place blueberry pie filling in bottom of 8 x 8-inch glass baking pan. Spread evenly and then place the cherry pie filling on top, smoothing to edges of pan. Place in 400°F oven to heat while preparing topping.

TOPPING 1 cup flour, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder, ½ teaspoon salt, 3 tablespoons shortening, ½ cup milk Mix dry ingredients and shortening until it is like fine crumbs. Stir in milk and drop by spoonfuls onto hot filling. Bake at 400°F for 25-30 minutes or until brown.

Serve topped with vanilla ice cream.

Or try this homemade recipe: BLUEBERRY FILLING ½ cup sugar, ½ tablespoon cornstarch, ½ teaspoon lemon juice, 2 cups fresh or frozen unsweetened blueberries Mix sugar and cornstarch in a saucepan and add all other ingredients. Cook until thickened. Put into 8 x 8-inch Pyrex pan and keep hot in a 250°F oven while making cherry filling.

CHERRY FILLING 1 can sour pie cherries, ½ cup + 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 ½ tablespoons cornstarch, 1/s teaspoon cinnamon, 1/8 teaspoon almond extract In a saucepan, mix dry ingredients. Gradually stir in juice from canned cherries and cook until thickened, adding cherries and flavorings at the end. Smooth cherry filling over blueberry mixture. Keep hot while making topping.

Serves 6 • © George Bush Presidential Library and Museum

July

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Tri - State Antique Market, Lawrenceburg ................................................... 15 Flea Market, Tiffin, OH .................................................................................. 23 Sidewalk & Garage Sale Townwide, Plymouth ............................................ 10 Sidewalk Sale, Downtown Decatur ................................................................ 9 Induction of Xenia Cord - Quilters Hall of Fame, Marion ........................ 9 One Stop Quilt Shop Hop, Kokomo ............................................................ 24 -10/6 Enrolled Upon the Bed - Quilters Hall of Fame, Marion .............. 9

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Amish Acres Festival, Nappanee ................................................................... 10 Tri - State Antique Market, Lawrenceburg ................................................... 15 Stamp Scrapbook Expo, Schaumburg IL ..................................................... 22 Garden Fest, Wabash ......................................................................................... 8 Flea Market, Tiffin, OH .................................................................................. 23

Day

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1 1, 2 1, 2 2 6-8 7, 8

Primitive Fall Thyme Gathering - Olde Barn Primitives, St Paul ............. 20 Flea Market, Tiffin, OH .................................................................................. 23 Music Festival, Metamora ............................................................................... 14 Tri - State Antique Market, Lawrenceburg ................................................... 15 Quilt Expo, Madison , WI .............................................................................. 22 Reap the Harvest Tour, Various Towns .......................................................... 4

September

An Unabashed Patriot I was only ten years old when World War II ended. My growing-up years consisted of buying ten or twenty-fivecent war stamps every week at school, collecting tin foil and scrap metal for the war effort, practicing air raids in school and at home, watching the most recent war news on Movie Tones at the cinema, helping to care for a large victory garden behind our house, and using ration stamps to buy sugar, gasoline, and other precious rationed products.

We ate mostly food that we grew ourselves and that my mother canned.

I remember helping my mother to color the white margarine with a capsule of yellow- colored oil; butter was less available to buy. My young life was never without honey because my father kept bees.

At some point, my mother bought composite “dog tags” for me and my younger brother to wear in case we were somehow separated from our parents.

War is so uncertain.

Although my father wanted desperately to go off to fight in the war, his expertise working in a pipe-manufacturing factory was more necessary in building planes, tanks, and ships. Several of my young drafted uncles marched off to do their patriotic duty. Uncle Merle joined the Navy and manned an important tanker ship in the south Pacific. Uncle John was state-side with the Army. Uncle Shorty survived fighting in the European theater just two weeks after the Battle of the Bulge. Uncle Bob also served in the Navy.

And, Uncle Cecil in the Army, at one time as a cook, spent time serving in Alaska.

Thank God they all returned.

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by Gayle Cranford

Everyone displayed patriotism in those days especially by flying the stars and stripes. As proud Americans fighting against the evils of fascism and the horrors of war, the citizens of the United States and their allies rose to the challenge and defeated the evil that was Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, and power-hungry Japan. Millions, both military and civilian, died before the war came to a close with the dropping of two atomic bombs in Japan.

Rejoicing filled the towns and cities of America at the news of the final days of World War II. Relief that it was over was palpable. The Allies had WON! Tears of joy flowed. Car horns and sirens blasted. Streets filled with confetti as everyone danced and sang.

No doubt, the imprint of those war years made its indelible mark on my psyche forever.

I’m not at all ashamed to shed tears and stand with my hand over my heart when the American flag passes by during a parade. My heart swells with the sounds of the Star Spangled Banner. I even cry when I observe military planes flying in formation overhead.

Consequently, I am puzzled by the overt disrespect, disdain, and hatred for my country that I witness in others.

Many are uninformed of our country’s great history and have no clue that they live in the most wonderful country in the world. I am so thankful that I am an American and an unabashed patriot.

–Gayle Cranford writes from her home in central Pennsylvania. Besides golf, she also enjoys spending time with her grandchildren, and working with her church groups.

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Ann’s Lovin’ Ewe

by Ann Stewart

Summer Vacation Summer Break! But how to spend it and is it worth the expense? A vacation is an adventure that costs time and money and yields nothing tangible. The time could be spent on yardwork or working to put more money in the bank. The money could be spent re-doing the hardwoods or finishing the basement.

And yet, a vacation is an expenditure that yields the greatest investments for the present as well as the future as you remember the past.

A suitcase full of experiences, memories, and deeper relationships are all permanent dividends that never lose value.

As a kid, I remember a 1964 purple Ford station wagon with no AC packed with 13 (6 adults) and I remember that our family took over the entire first floor of a hotel and its pool! Did I mention we saw the Grand Canyon?

And every summer we went to Grandma and Grandpa’s where we played in the barn, picked raspberries, and bicycled to Birch Bay, picnicking near a huge piece of driftwood. We spent some evenings at the local amusement park riding a Ferris wheel that spun over the bay, with my grandmother right next to us!

Now my husband and I have taken our kids camping. Once on the Appalachian Trail plagued by bears, once in the fall with frost on the ground, and once in Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons with my brother’s family which doubled our memories and solidified our relationships.

I am so glad we adventured forth for natural fun!

Sometimes we’ve gone to a local hotel for the night. What a thrill that was for our little kids to swim in the pool, make their own waffles or choose whatever cereal they wanted for breakfast. Priceless.

We have memories of landing in Orlando without telling the girls we were headed to Disney. We’ve flown to Oklahoma and Colorado and explored river rafting and hiking and getting to know our extended family.

But my favorite vacation happens each year at the same time, same place, same people. Each summer we join family at remote Priest Lake, Idaho, a lake so crisp, clear and pristine you can see to the bottom 20 feet below. A place where Internet access is limited, and television would be an intrusion. We don’t have to hustle to any landmark, museum, or show. We may waterski, hike, cook smores, play cards, float on the water, and talk and talk and talk. Over the forty years, we’ve added spouses, children, and cousins and their spouses, extending the fun, relationships, and memories. It’s been an investment of time and dollars, but the best money spent as my girls have a heart full of memories and love.

The payoffs from a family vacation are something money can’t buy. Don’t let not enough time or money or too many obligations, sports practices, or choices stop you. If you haven’t gotten away yet, take a night, or a weekend or even a week and make magic and memories with your family.

–©2018 Connect with Ann about her award-winning novel Stars in the Grass at www.AnnMarieStewart.com No reprint.

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Life on Breezy Manor Farm

by Donna Jo Copeland

Flax, Linen and Linsey Woolsey

I spin with a small group of fiber artists once a week and this spring we were invited to spin some homegrown flax. The event was the Spring Gathering in a Pioneer Village.

Last summer one of our members grew a flax patch— tall slender stalks topped with delicate blue flowers. She then pulled and bundled the stalks, “scotched” to remove the seed heads, laid the bundles out in the dew to “ret”, rot the outer husk.

Then hung in the barn to dry.

Our group then broke the outer husks off on my very old flax brake. Once the husk was off, the bundles were then drawn thru my antique hackle to separate the flax from the tow---ever hear of a flaxen haired maiden or a tow-headed boy?

Once hackled it was ready to dampen and spin.

Misting the flax helps it to spin a smooth fine yarn.

The magic happens when the flax fibers go thru the orifice on the spinning wheel. Once spun and on the bobbin it becomes linen thread!

In keeping with the pioneer spirit I had brought a loom threaded with linen thread. I had spun some of my sheep wool into a fine yarn and this was used as the weft for the weaving. This made the linsey woolsey

fabric!This fabric has its origins lost in ancient times. A good serviceable fabric.

It can be woven fine as gossamer silk or coarse for heavy coats. One of the last times this country saw a lot of linsey woolsey was in the late 1800s.

Bowing to my ancestors, I still weave linsey woolsey fabric today—usually for table linens.

There is another kind of magic when I use the old tools, feel the presence of those before my hands. I hear the echoes of their labors, the whispers of their smiles.

The contentment of keeping an old way living again.

Simple magic also happens as our small group works together, no competition, just simple work and joy. In our weekly gatherings much spinning, knitting and rug hooking gets done.

Laughter and the stories of our lives abound. And of course, we enjoy our pitchin lunches.

Photograph Legend from top to bottom:#1-Flax Brake, #2- Hackle, #3-Spinning the flax into linen thread, #4- Weaving the fabric –Donna Jo Copeland, farmeress of Breezy Manor Farm, Mooresville, IN. Where she farms with her sheep and goats and bunnies.

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Put 1 dozen eggs in a large pot, cover with cold water. Add 2 T. salt. Cover and bring to a rolling boil.

Shut off the heat and let it set for 20 minutes. Peel the eggs under cold running water.

Slice them lengthwise. Put the yolks in a mixing bowl. Mash well with a fork. Mix ½ cup water, ½ cup cider vinegar, ¼ cup sugar and about 2 T. prepared mustard. (Mom and her older sister Kate always argued about how much sugar to add, Kate preferring ½ cup sugar) Mix well and fill the egg halves. Add salt and pepper to taste. I like to sprinkle a bit of paprika over the top. Chill several hours prior to serving. from: Donna Jo Copeland, farmeress/fiber artist and owner of Breezy Manor Farm

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It’s What’s in the Corner Closet

by “Auntie Ca’h” Now left in the closet, was the last for us to spread on top of Mom’s bed. Lying on our sides, to a circle of sisterhood, the time had come to review the trinkets, and Sarah Coventry jewelry. It was peaceful, and harmonic, in choosing who wanted what. A “shoebox” remained in the corner of the closet; a notation “Give this to Carol upon my death,” the message instinctively to be returned to its original owner. It was sister #2. Me! Some old memories escape your mind; especially if it was so many years ago when I was the age of 10. Dad would always enter the Irish Sweepstakes drawing, which took place in New York City. I followed in his footsteps. Ivory Snow sponsored a contest. To enter, you would write your name and address on a postcard and mail it. Dad came home one night holding a registered letter. So reserved, he handed it to me, and I read aloud, “I was the 1st place winner” nationally. The shoebox contents was a pristine, black leather box, engraved “Tiffany’s” in gold lettering. What appeared as “gaudy” to a 10 yr. old; my Mom thought differently. What excited me was that I won 1st place. A delicate 18 karat gold leaf, lay on top of black velvet. The pin was accented with diamonds and sapphires. Enclosed, the expose of designer, number and year, accompanied by its authenticity that it was from Tiffany’s. Mom never wore it. When Antiques Roadshow came onto the television circuit, sister #3 Chrissie won the lottery for two tickets to the Roadshow held in Providence, RI. It was appraised at $1,500 with the box and value would only increase. An heirloom to be passed on to a millennium niece.

The corner closet gave a passport to view antique and folk art market, tag sales, and flea markets. I enjoy this type of browsing. It is entertainment and socializing with artists who have the same interests. Inside my “bucket list” is hopes to one day have “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”

Dad moved in with sister#5, “Terry” and

Everyone goes through it, but are we ever really ready when the actual day arrives? Mom passed away July, 1986.

Dad was lost; no one to care for, Dad was alone now. Having lived by their means, nothing of value was amongst their possessions. You could say they were “Ralph & Alice” of the “Honeymooners,” just as comfortable being apartment dwellers. I caught a glimpse of Dad weeping at the photographs of five daughters, now only four, while so surreal; staring back at him, tears running inside the dusty frames.

What was waiting to be emptied was the first task at hand. Dad needed closure, more memories than needed, behind a closed door. Such a task, to open the jammed closet door, would only have caused him more emotion, and it was time for inner space of that barricade to breathe.

Unaware of years of hoarding, tumbling bags came at us like fallen rocks.

The hours ahead were spent compiling clothes for charities. Saddened and weary; we took Dad to dinner; and then, day two, we were focused to clean the second bedroom. More clusters, more hoarding; yet neatly organized as a sewing room should be.

A quilting table flirted with Kath, the eldest, who also was talented with the art of sewing. The surprise on her face, priceless! There were piles of materials, piles of quilts, finished and unfinished, all waiting for Kath, to put her own personal touches and signature on the remnants remaining. Again, to Kath, priceless! Her first treasure found. She found another surprise; this more of antique music. An old RCA, excellent patina, record player of the 1950’s, doowop 45’s and country western albums, that we danced to so long ago. Mom played guitar, yodeled, and sang with a band. Kath was still a baby when Mom cut a 78 record, 2-sided, along with her friend, Cass. “My Kathleen” was wrote and sung by Mom. The rest of us couldn’t look at the debris as hoarding anymore.

–Auntie Ca’h, A.K.A. Carol Nixon. Non-fiction short story. ©2018

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Become Inspired

by Annice Bradley Rockwell

Decorating, Entertaining and Living in the Early American Style – Summer’s Solitude In the depth of summer comes a quiet and drawn-out lull that gives us opportunities for mindful outdoor activities that provide peace and tranquility. With our gardens at a stage where they are now relatively self-sufficient, we can take a step back and enjoy the result of our hard work. The heavier chores of late spring such as cultivating the raised beds and amending the soil have transformed into smaller tasks such as light weeding or going out to the vegetable patch at the end of a hot summer day when the air is a bit cooler to fill our antique gathering basket with fresh zucchini or heirloom tomatoes. As we work happily to bring in the beginnings of our personal harvest we often feel a deep sense of reward and begin to get excited for all that we can do with the bountiful blessings before us.

Putting By Canning or “putting by,” is one way to preserve our abundance for the seasons ahead. Gathering fresh produce from your garden such as zucchini, cucumbers and peppers for relishes and pickles or bright red juicy tomatoes to can in glass jars to be used for a homemade lasagna in the dead of winter makes for a full day of old-fashioned work. There is a simple joy found in slicing succulent cucumbers and onions from your own garden. But nothing seems sweeter than seeing your filled canning jars in an array of gorgeous

colors and textures ready to be stored in a pantry or buttery for future use. All of the growing, tending and nurturing is doubly rewarding when you taste these sublime slices of summer on a cold winter’s evening. It is a soulful reminder of the height of the year and of nature’s promise to return another summer to us.

Campfire Nights Gardening and putting by are two of summer’s soulful luxuries. Another simple blessing is a crackling fire on a midsummer’s night.

There is something primitive and magical about a campfire and it is perfect for a summer evening. The leaping flames lure us with their beauty and we are naturally drawn together in a spirit of camaraderie. Gathering around a fire whether it be with family or with friends brings a certain kind of happiness that our current age of technology could never rival.

Somehow telling stories and catching up with the ones we love around a fire makes us easily lose track of the time because we are living truly in the moment. In the heart of this summer season enjoy the slower pace of the nice, long days. Spend time experiencing summer’s simple blessings and share the lasting joy that it brings with those you hold dear.

– Annice Bradley Rockwell is an educator and owner of Pomfret Antiques in Connecticut. She is currently working on her book, New England Girl. NewEnglandGirl2012@hotmail.com

The Knitting Savant

By Andrea Springer

Pattern Protocols

The only thing that may be bigger than a knitter’s yarn stash is our pattern files.

We all have files, magazines and books filled with designs that caught our eye once upon a time. With Ravelry, Pinterest and other internet sites our ability to bookmark and store patterns became limitless, and our ability to download our current knitting fancy became as easy as a click to download. If you use a tablet or smart phone to read your patterns on pdfs – even printing to paper is optional!

I didn’t realize until recently how the sale of books and paper patterns in local yarn shops had dropped in recent years. An LYS owner remarked that their percentage of sales of individual patterns and books were much less now than when they opened over a decade ago. “Almost everyone gets their patterns online and they are either free or come directly from the designers.”

The business model has changed and with it, some knitters’ attitudes about access to and use of designs. Access to patterns and information is so abundant, it can be easy to assume that most patterns are available somewhere for free.

I stumbled across a social media thread a few weeks ago where a knitwear designer was defending the fee she charged to purchase her patterns. She outlined the hours spent in developing the design, working on the written pattern, working with test knitters to be sure the instructions were clear, having the finish piece photographed, and then designing a pleasing, easy to read, finished pattern. She was frustrated people balked

at the few dollars she asked in return for her hard work, especially when those dollars helped keep a roof over her head and food on her table.

This designer’s posts were a reminder for me. I thought about how many times I’d been inspired by a photograph of a beautiful handknitted garment, the time and energy that I invested in choosing and purchasing the perfect yarn, and then in working on the project. I wouldn’t have gotten so much enjoyment out of the project if it hadn’t been for the time and effort of the designer.

And as a small business owner, I like knowing I’m fairly compensating another business owner, the designer. Creative individuals give the world so much joy, and knitting designers are part of that tribe – they deserve to know their work is valued.

It’s easy to find free patterns online, and we can use them to stretch our knitting budget. It’s also easy to assume that designers view the work they share with us as a fun hobby – and for some, it very well could be – but for many it’s a business that helps support an individual or a family. One of the great things about knitting is the community that it builds.

Let’s make sure we continue to support pattern designers as a part of our circle.

–Andrea Springer blogs at www.knittingsavant.com where she helps folks remember that they have everything they need to be successful in knitting and in life. You can share comments with her at andrea@knittingsavant.com or follow Knitting Savant on Facebook and Twitter.

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Quilts Along the Wildcat

Kokomo Piecemakers Quilt Show

by Margo Martin

7th Biennial Quilt Show October 5 & 6, 2018 Sponsored by Kokomo Piecemakers Quilt Guild Featuring

Susan Cleveland Quilter - Quilt Designer - Author - Teacher - Inventor

KPQG 25th Anniversary Celebration “Featured Quilter” KPQG Charter Members Quilts Display 300 Member Quilts • 25th Anniversary Challenge Quilts Cancer Awareness Quilts • Bed Turnings • Vendor Mall KPQG Sale Table • Quilt Appraisals by: Donna Kooistra, AQS Certified Quilt & Textile Appraiser

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Kokomo Piecemakers Quilt Guild is celebrating their 25th Anniversary this year – plan now to attend their show.

When you attend the 7th “Quilts Along the Wildcat” quilt show presented by the Kokomo Piecemakers Quilt Guilda you will see an awesome display of quilts.

Previously celebrated in June in oddnumbered years, it will now be held in evennumbered years with this year’s show being held on October 5 & 6, 2018, at the Kokomo Event and Conference Center.

We are excited about our special guest – Susan Cleveland-quilter, quilt designer, author, teacher and inventor. Susan is enthusiastic about quilting and is an upbeat teacher. She provides well-written instructions and attends to each student with personalized coaching. Susan teaches 2 three-hour workshops, “Attic Windows” and “Piping Hot Curves-Macaroni”; a three-hour lecture/demo, “Simple Quilting with Style: alternative to free-motion quilting”; and a one-hour program, “My Eclectic Quilt Pageant”. Photo-op and book signings with Susan are available.

Janome Sewing Machines for Susan’s two workshops are provided by Guarantee Vacuum & Sewing Center, Kokomo.

For quilt show registration and detailed information, feel free to visit:

www.guaranteevac.com KPQG is celebrating its 25th Anniversary and their “featured quilter” is a quilt display of the KPQG charter members. The challenge quilt for the guild members this year is a representation of our 25th anniversary. There are quilts made to acknowledge Cancer Awareness month and there is even more. . .bed turning quilts: “Stories from the Attic” and “Sampler Quilts” to see.

All in all, there are over 300 quilts made by our guild members We are proud of all of our members who display their quilts. Some members, such as Ann Abel, Xenia Cord, Marilyn Craig, and Lana Kirtley, have won awards and recognition in various other quilt shows.

Would you like to have your quilt appraised? AQS Certified Quilt & Textile Appraiser, Donna Kooistra, will be on the premises to provide a consultation or to prepare a written appraisal.

Enjoy shopping at the show too. You will find everything you need to make a quilt. Sewing and quilting machines, too!

KPQG sale booth is a fun place to shop for that special handmade item by the quilt guild members and other items donated by quilt guild members.

We invite you to visit our KPQG blog www.KokomoPiecemakersQuiltGuildBlog.com and like us on facebook for updates.

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Red Barn Quiltery

by Jo Branham

Monroeville’s Newest Attraction

Red Barn Quiltery 15108 Lortie Rd., Monroeville, IN 46773 (260) 466-4328 ~ Mon-Fri 10-4; Sat 10-1 Closed Wed & Sun A Variety of Fabrics Wide Backing Notions • Books • Patterns Embroidery Supplies

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Just North of Decatur and Southeast of Fort Wayne you will find the beautiful town of Monroeville. It is a popular place for bicyclists traveling the Adventure Cycling Association routes.

Soon it will also be known for Monroeville’s newest attraction: Red Barn Quiltery, located just outside of town on Lortie Road.

Diane Martin’s husband built a new barn. So, that lead to: “What to do with the old one?” The answer: “Open a quilt shop, of course!”

Diane worked at Engine House Quilt Shop in Berne, Indiana for a number of years.

When that shop closed, Diane bought the entire inventory plus most of the furnishings for her shop. And so, Red Barn Quiltery was born. The new shop opened December 26, 2017.

Diane runs the 1,860 square foot shop mostly on her own. Her daughter pitches in a couple days a week and a former co-worker and friend from her Engine House days help whenever she is needed.

Diane carries most of the Marti Michell line of patterns and templates. Most quilters love Marti Michell designs because she has constructed them to get the most use of your fabric without a lot of waste that you often find with other designers.

She carries a large selection of batiks, flannels, wide backs and blenders. Most of the fabrics are bright colors. Some have a country or kid theme.

Diane also features modern styles and many new fabrics arrives all the time.

You will also find all the regular sewing and quilting notions, threads, buttons, perle cotton, batting and Quilters Select rulers.

Her pattern selection ranges from quilts and throws to purses and aprons to wall hangings from Patchabilities and Toni Whitney Designs.

Red Barn Quiltery offers a number of classes, as well as make and takes, and Open Sew Day on Tuesdays at no cost to her customers.

The classroom is set up to seat 12 sewers (or sewists, if you prefer) very comfortably.

Diane has also set up a Dude Cave (so named by her grandson) where the guys and kids can hang out and play Nintendo while waiting for Mom to finish her shopping or class.

Red Barn Quiltery participants in several shop hops and has already signed up to be in the Frosty’s Gone Quilting Shop Hop this November. The shop is also involved in quilt projects for such charities as Project Linus and Hope House.

I asked Diane what the specialty of her shop is. She said she really hasn’t decided yet; she is still feeling out her customers as to their wants and likes.

You could say, though, her specialty is customer service. She loves nothing better than fellowshipping with her customers.

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Life In Skunk Hollow

by Julie A. Druck

Not-So-Typical Travel Tips

HAPPY 4TH OF JUL Y JULY

I was recently reading through an old journal and reminiscing about a trip we took two years ago to North Carolina.

Several places were on our agenda for that trip, with Mount Airy – the real-life town that was the model for Andy Griffith’s Mayberry - being the star of the show.

We spent a wonderful day there – visiting the Andy Griffith Museum to see Andy’s gavel and badge, Barney Fife’s salt-andpepper suit, and Goober’s bronzed cap.

At Barney’s Café, we had delicious chicken and dumplings, cornbread, and the best-I’ve-evereaten baked apples.

We had our photos taken at the replicas of the Mayberry jail and service station, and peeked in the window of Floyd’s Barber Shop. We also drove down the road and walked up to an overlook to view the impressive Pilot Mountain (where the name of the show’s oft-mentioned Mount Pilot comes from). Besides “Mayberry,” we visited the North Carolina Zoo (which is the world’s largest natural habitat zoo), the 200-year-old Mill of Guilford where we bought delicious Cherry Whole Wheat Muffin Mix, and Guilford Courthouse National Military Park – the site of a little-known battle from the American Revolution.

As I paged through the entries I made of that trip, I was inspired to share some not-so-typical travel tips with you that might help to make your vacation plans just a little more memorable this summer: 1.) “Pay attention to life.” This is a quote that my father-in-law takes to heart and reminds his family of often. While traveling and touring: jot down ideas that inspire you, make notes to look up recipes for foods you taste that you want to try to duplicate at home, take the time to mentally process an experience that may be a lesson for you to take back home.

The world is one giant lesson book – be continually looking for what you can learn.

2.) Make your trip not-all-about-you.

Look for ways to bless others: leave the maid a great tip, show genuine interest in your waiter, pick up the tab for the tourists’ ice cream cones behind you in line. My husband and youngest son are especially great at this – and I’ve discovered that their generous attitude is

contagious. Make somebody’s day.

3.) Keep a journal of the trip (even if you aren’t a writer). This tip may be a little more typical but get creative with it!

A travel journal doesn’t have to be elaborate – just make a list of things you saw, ate, and experienced. It’s so much fun to re-live your adventures later by having them written down. Include places you ate, interesting facts you learned, memorable quotes you heard or read. Include unusual stuff, too: funny conversations you overhear, the names of streets that catch your fancy, a list of all the different state license plates you see. Tuck in snippets f r o m brochures, postcards f r o m attractions, labels from packaging, and ticket stubs. It’s also fun to take along a pack of colored pencils to underline things, circle reminders for home, or draw little pictures of flowers you want to identify later and hearts around the best stuff.

4.) Talk to people. Interacting with people from different cultures and settings can be fascinating and rewarding.

Take the time and initiative to engage others. Most people love to talk about themselves if given the opportunity, so ask lots of questions and be amazed by all you learn. My husband and I had a cool interaction with a National Park Ranger about her education, training, experience, and responsibilities. Listen more than you talk.

5.) If you are a tea snob, take an electric tea kettle with you. Are you laughing?? I quickly found that even if our hotel room had a mini coffee maker, the water never got hot enough to steep tea to my satisfaction. My husband graciously bought me an electric kettle in Greensboro so that my afternoon tea was reminiscent of my cup o’ tea at home. I now take my electric tea kettle with me on every summer trip (along with a box of my favorite tea). Yes, I’m serious.

Have a great summer vacation!

–Julie Druck is from York, Pennsylvania, and writes from her farm in Skunk Hollow.

She’d welcome your comments at thedrucks@netzero.com.

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A New Season Beneath The Sycamore Tree

by Kerri Habben

Seasons Beneath A Sycamore Between sips of coffee and a sheen of sweat, waiting as life flows into a watering can from the rain barrel, I breathe in the new morning air before the true heat of the day simmers in.

Sun from the east paints dapples of light across your mottled canvas of bark and wood.

I study you, my friend of some decades.

You have long been a sentry of shade.

Beneath your limbs and branches, I have walked, run, mowed, planted, and raked.

I have dreamed, smiled, ached, and wept.

I have rejoiced, mourned, and reawakened.

Always I have prayed, not to you, but to the only One who can make a tree.

Please tell me, my friend, how it is that now you wear an abundant shawl of leaves when but months ago you shimmered bare after a furious frenzy of falling leaves.

How do you know when it is time to be dormant, when it is time to come forth?

When to thrive, and when to hold on?

When to let go and when to begin once more?

I sip, sweat, and wait.

Wait, sweat, and sip as water glides from the spigot.

Upon a sudden breeze your leaves dance.

In their rustling, I feel your answer: "Trust, child, trust."

by Kerri Habben

Sometimes the sweetness of life bends you in half. In those moments you are utterly and fully alive. When you stand up again you are stronger, breathe more deeply, and experience the world with kinder eyes.

I am living through new seasons. They began in winter, shimmered into spring, and now it is summer. Summer with all of it fullness and abundance.

When we learned my mother was dying, I had just broken my right foot. I broke it in three places, and it required surgery.

The accident was a gift.

A broken foot heals.

A broken conscience might not have. My mother had truly needed more care than I could give.

She was in a nursing home until she came home five weeks later with hospice.

Friends ensured I could be with Mom part of every day and helped us in countless ways.

I had many long hours at home. I listened to the house breathe in the silence. I allowed every thought to rise from beneath the surface, and then I would release it back into the air upon a prayer.

Based upon a long-time friend’s advice, I began a difficult mental exercise. I visualized myself as best as I could after my mother died. I focused on things that

would need doing or that I may want to do. Then I would watch my future self, achieving everything regardless of the sadness in my heart. I gently forced myself to look forward to these things.

Often tears journeyed down my face.

It was never weeping. It was simply the opening of a well I know won’t run dry.

It will endlessly be a river of sorrow, joy, and gratitude flowing together.

I wrote the following poem about our sycamore tree last summer. I composed it for an Old Mountain Press anthology entitled Fly With Me. It seems both a longer and shorter time ago that these words came to me.

There was a time this past winter when walking in our backyard seemed as remote as the moon. Yet prayerfully, here I stand, pondering our sycamore tree once more.

Its’ branches seem to reach the heavens and open a portal to my mother’s precious smile.

–Kerri Habben is a writer, photographer, and crochet instructor living in Raleigh, NC. An avid crocheter and knitter, she learned these skills from her grandmother and mother. She donates many of her yarn creations to those in need. Kerry has gathered a decade of essays she is working to publish and can be reached at 913jeeves@gmail.com.

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Scrapbooking is a passion I’ve had since I was a child. I was inspired at the age of five when my great grandmother gave me a tattered scrapbook full of cards and mementos that she had saved throughout the decades. That year, I received a scrapbook as a gift. I immediately started to fill it with memories, even creating my own embellishments. I was a scrapbooker when scrapbooking wasn’t cool!

Years later, an entire scrapbooking industry was born. Stores filled with supplies and paper popped up everywhere. Home parties, where women got together to try new tools and ideas, were held nightly.

Weekend Crops became modern day quilting bees.

Paper crafting allowed us to be social as we archived our family history. It also gave us ample opportunity to acquire supplies—lots of supplies. As a fellow scrapbooker and professional organizer, I have seen how these collections actually inhibit the creative process.

Here are a few tips to help get the crafting clutter corralled: 1) Designate your space for crafting.

Unfortunately, it seems like the craft room becomes the catch-all room. Not only does this create a mess, it also stops the creative juices from flowing. Banish

everything from the area that is not craft related. Everything.

2) Purge! It is time to get real with yourself. The bubblegum ball paper you bought 20 years ago is not likely to be used at this point. Just like fashion, styles change and so do your creative inspirations. Release items that no longer suit your needs. If you have duplicate tools, create a portable carryall that can be used when scrapping away from home and get rid of the rest. Be ruthless. You’ve got this!

3) Create a flow.

Just like a kitchen, your craft space needs to make sense as you use it. Keep your tools within hands reach, either in drawers or a desktop caddy.

Create storage areas.

That old dresser in the garage would be great drawer storage after it gets a bright coat of fresh paint.

To make the closet crafter-friendly, build shelves or line it with a shelving unit or bookcases. Take advantage of as much vertical space as possible, both in the closet and on your walls.

4) Sort and store. There are many ways I help my clients store their supplies and none of them is necessarily better than the other. The market is filled with craft storage solutions. Find what works best for you. Inexpensive plastic shoebox containers with snap on lids are ideal for

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5) Surround yourself with things you love. This is your studio. Your she-cave.

Your haven. This is the space where you will create magic. Make it your own! Now that you have organized your supplies, sprinkle your space with items that make you smile—the clay pot your first grader made, your favorite childhood toy, your granddaughters' framed artwork. Not only will they make you happy, they will give inspiration as well.

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Several children lived on our short street in a small town in western Pennsylvania. I lived there from the ages of six to eighteen at which time I went off to college. We children never lacked for friends or cousins with whom to play or explore. The lazy hazy days of summer were treasures, more easily appreciated as memories.

A large field at the end of our street provided the perfect safe spot for interested friends to meet for a game of ball. Usually, the sidewalks were covered with chalk hop scotch games. Our big front yard maple tree was the perfect place for creating â&#x20AC;&#x153;roads and housesâ&#x20AC;? in the root and dirt base, giving us hours of creative play. My father had built a grape arbor in the backyard, our â&#x20AC;&#x153;houseâ&#x20AC;? in which to lay old carpets, hang curtains, and to pretend to be grown-up. Nearby, Grandpa Roberts owned a chicken coop behind his house that, instead of chickens, was filled with all kinds of old treasures that whetted our imaginations. We friends and cousins never lacked for opportunities or venues in which to experience creative play on Fourteenth Street.

I remember other summer activities there. Nearly all of us had bicycles that enabled us to explore other nearby neighborhoods. Occasionally, I would dress Fluffy, our cat, in doll clothes and wheel her around in my bicycle basket.

One time, while straddling the back wheel on a friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bicycle, I accidentally caught my foot and leg in the spokes. Skinned knees and shins abounded.

Being the first grandchild afforded me much attention from aunts, uncles, and grandparents. Aunts Kathaleen and Shirley, just a few years older than I, spent hours dressing me up and applying makeup. Shirley, five years my senior, and I loved to spread out our paper dolls on the carpet, especially when my mother would bring me a new paper doll packet from her shopping excursion to downtown Sharon. Often, I would draw and cut out my own paper couture creations, complete with tabs with which to attach them to the paper dolls. A few years later, I received a 3-D precursor of Barbie with detachable arms and I graduated to making fabric clothes for

by Gayle Cranford her.

Many balmy days, some of us would spread an old quilt or blanket between our homes on the grass on which to play board games or sew crude doll clothes.

Nearby rambling roses provided red petals that we wet and placed on our fingernails. We even had fun stamping on and popping white berry-like pods on our neighborsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; front shrubs.

Because Grandpa behind us, Uncle Jay next door, and my father all kept bees, summer play always meant that someone would invariably get stung, especially by stepping on honey bees in the clover growing in our yards.

Cousin Gene suffered a sting on one nostril. I was stung on my elbow producing a rash of hives. Another sting between my eyes obviously closed both eyes for awhile.

But, we also loved to catch bees in hollyhock blossoms and always had honey in the comb available to spread on our morning toast.

Another silly game we neighborhood kids played was to sit on the front sidewalk step of our neighbors a short block away on Ridge Avenue, a busier thoroughfare. We each chose a color and counted to see how many cars of â&#x20AC;&#x153;ourâ&#x20AC;? colors we each would see passing up or down the street.

We became so absorbed in the game that, once, my father called Dave and me to dinner, but we were too engrossed in counting cars that we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hear him.

Frightened for our safety, when Dad found us, he spanked me the entire way back to the house. Spankings were so rare that this one was etched in my brain forever. As I remember, David received a few more spankings in his growing up time than did I. One, in particular, was when he wandered off from a job helping our father lay cement blocks under the back porch.

Those wonderful times of my childhood days in the 1940s and 50s have provided me with the glorious gift of memories in my declining years. I am so grateful. â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Gayle Cranford writes from her home in central Pennsylvania. Her age often surprises new friends because her family and friends often compares her to the Energizer Bunny.

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by Jeff Cappis

“Are you sure you can handle this?” I asked Mr. Andolini. A kindly looking man, he’s a little over 80 and getting hard of hearing, so I spoke a little louder and leaned towards him when I asked.

“Get outa my face!” he barked. (I said he was a kindly looking man, but blunt as a head force trauma). “You think I can’t keep up with you kids?” (We’re all pushing 60). “Get bent! I’ll show you what a little age can do for ya!”

Then he began to cough and had to sit down.

It was a beautiful summer day and we were getting ready for the annual neighborhood marathon. Yep, the neighborhood marathon. It was a tradition started a few years ago as a way to show our wives that we weren’t getting lazy and out of shape. We came up with that idea one day while sitting around drinking beer. Nobody had actually run it yet. The first few years we drank beer and discussed the rules. Last year we almost ran it, but some one put the beer at the starting line instead of the finish line. This year it looked like we were actually going to run it!

The beer was on ice at the finish line and the first person to break the ribbon got to drink his fill. All you had to do was run the distance of the 1 mile winding gravel road to the finish line. Actually, it’s a nice route down the tree lined road, winding around a farmer’s field and even crossing a small creek.

There were four of us ready to run for the beer cup. Myself, Mr. Andolini, Renee (the six-foot-six retired air force pilot), and my neighbor Tom. Tom loves beer.

Tom dreams about beer. Tom keeps an emergency stash in case there’s a beer shortage. He’s a stocky, muscular man with a big mustache, usually with a beer in his hand.

So, we were ready to run. To start the race, Mr. Andolini’s wife, Mrs. Andolini was to fire her shotgun in the air. Yes, hunched over, kindly looking, 80 year old Mrs. Andolini. “Alright losers,” she said in a creaky voice, “I’ll count to three.”

With that, Mr. Andolini began his slow run down the road and around the first corner. Oh sure, Mr. and Mrs. Andolini were honest looking people. “One,” Mrs. Andolini said as she pointed her gun in the air. “Two.” The three of us prepared to run. “Three!”

Mrs. Andolini fired her gun in the air.

A wasp nest came down on Renee. Tom and I just started running to avoid the wasps. So did Renee, but in the wrong direction. Into a tree. As we were both looking back at this, Tom turned to me and said, “That beer is mine!” That kind of got my ire up.

We ran passed the first bend in the road.

No sign of Andolini up ahead. Tom was getting a lead on me.

My legs were cramping and my heart wasn’t quite used to pumping that hard but Tom was so cocky about it, I had to press on.

The second turn in the road. Still no Andolini ahead. Tom was getting a little distance on me now and my feet were beginning to feel heavy. I noticed a few buzzards circling overhead. Tom looked back and gave me a cocky smile.

“I’ll be waiting for you at the finish line!” Then he tripped on a rock and fell head first into a muddy drainage ditch.

This disturbed a bunch of ducks having a drink there, and they began pecking at him.

That was it. If I could catch Andolini, the race would be mine. I ignored the pain in my side and all the wheezing. If I could just pass Andolini, I could probably walk to the finish line. Next bend in the road.

Still no sign of him. By now my right foot began to drag.

I made it to the bridge that crosses the creek. There was no way I could stop now.

I glanced back. No one. As I got to the last bend in the road I expected to see Andolini. Still, he wasn’t there! I could see the finish line and even the coolers full of beer.

My right leg picked that moment to go numb and I dropped to the ground. It took all my energy, but I crawled. I crawled until my body had nothing left in the tank and I stopped.

Looking ahead through my blurry eyes, I saw Mr. Andolini pop out onto the road from the bushes and cross the finish line.

Then he kept on running! It seems Mr. Andolini had decided to cheat and take a leisurely short cut through the pasture when he attracted a small pack of coyotes.

I guess Andolini could run after all.

The last thing I saw before I passed out was a pile of beer going warm under the hot summer sun. Showed our wives.

I don’t even like beer.

Saving the Planet

Stories of a Farm Wife

by Tammy Page

The Farm Girl

I didn’t grow up on a farm like my husband did. Instead, I was raised until the age of eleven in the city surrounded by close neighbors, fenced-in yards and lots of traffic. At age eleven, my parents moved our family to the suburbs and I got a little taste of the country life.

Our closest neighbor was ¼ mile away and the pace of life was much slower and quieter.

Wanting even more peace and quiet we then moved to ten acres two counties away. This is where I learned about following tractors at a slow pace as they traveled from field to field, growing a large vegetable garden, raising baby chicks and ducks and letting the dogs run free through the woods and creek.

The people were different too. They waved hello whether they knew you or not. They helped plow out the snowy roads when the county highway crew was slow to get there. The people I met made me feel welcome as I started my 9th grade year of high school. There were the usual cliques of jocks, brains and farm boys but most of the time everyone felt free to join any one of the groups.

This is where I met some lifelong friends with whom we still enjoy spending time and taking vacations together. We have raised our children together, leaned on each other in rough times and have established trust as if we were family.

My most valued relationship began there too where I fell in love with a tried and true farm boy. We shared a class together. Believe it or not, it was a chorus class. I loved to sing and had always been involved in music. On the other hand, Bud had not been much of a singer but after being in Spanish class for two days, he decided it was going to take a lot of work and studying and dropped the class. The only class available was chorus. He told me he noticed me the first day of class as I walked in front of the class and never stopped looking.

Just this past June, we celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary.

You don’t have to grow up on a farm to be a “farm girl.”

-Tammy page lives with her family on a working farm in central Indiana. She enjoys collecting items remember from her youth, cooking and decorating her home.

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Round Up a Western Teatime!

Although I grew up on a dairy farm, I’ve never been a cowgirl. But that didn’t stop me from corralling some of my family for a tea party with a Western flair. So while the weather is still warm, let’s lasso some summer-sizzlin’ fun. Here are a few ideas: Guests: Howdy, Pardners Start by rounding up some wannabe cowgirls and cowboys of any age for an outdoor teatime. I invited my son and his wife with their three children aged seven to fourteen.

Keep the decorations colorful and simple. How about various colors of bandanas and cowboy hats? You could even provide kerchiefs for guests to wear at the party and take home afterwards.

If you like, add a crafty no-sew denim project to your table decor. All you need are worn-out blue jeans. Cut around the back pockets of the jeans. This will give you two layers of fabric—the pocket and the jean fabric. Wash the pockets. The frayed edges add to their appeal. Leave the pockets plain or decorate them with buttons, charms, or fabric paint. Set one at each place setting as a coaster for tea.

Or better yet, fill the pockets with silverware (plastic is fine) and napkins. Red plaid paper napkins or colorful handkerchiefs would look cheerful.

If possible, serve your teatime on your deck or outdoors. Use casual dishes or paper plates and pint jars for glasses.

Grub: Rustle Up Delicious Vittles Plan a tasty menu with generous portions. Tiny tidbits don’t fit a Western cowboy theme.

Here are some menu ideas: Saucy Sausage: Select a fully cooked sausage ring such as kielbasa. Cut it into bite-sized chunks and simmer them in your favorite barbecue sauce. Serve with toothpicks.

Pasta Salad: Cook wagon-wheel-shaped pasta. Add favorite chopped veggies along with olives, salami, and cheese. Drizzle with Italian dressing, and refrigerate the salad to blend flavors before serving.

Biscuits: Serve large grand biscuits that come in a tube. Or make homemade buttermilk biscuits. The key is to cut them cowboy sized—about 3 inches in diameter. My favorite recipe is made with 2 cups flour, 1 tablespoon sugar, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 tsp. soda. Next, cut in 1/2 cup shortening and mix in 3/4 cup buttermilk. Knead the dough lightly, roll it out, and cut it with a 3-inch cutter or glass. Bake the biscuits at 450 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes. Serve them warm with butter, honey, and strawberry jam.

Cowboy Caviar and Tortilla Chips: A new recipe to me, this is simple to make with a can of black beans or black-eyed peas and shoepeg corn (small, sweet kernels of white corn that come in cans or frozen).

Drain the cans. Add two chopped tomatoes, sliced green onion, diced red or green pepper, and chopped cilantro to taste. Add an oiland-vinegar dressing made with 1/2 cup olive oil, 1/4 cup red wine vinegar, 1 clove minced garlic, 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin, and salt and black pepper to taste.

The cumin and cilantro give this caviar a distinctive and delicious flavor. Just before serving, add chopped avocado if desired.

I made individual servings by layering some of the caviar in small jelly-sized jars, alternating black beans, corn, green onions, and tomatoes. Next, I poured in the dressing, added a lid, and refrigerated the caviar to let the flavors blend. I spooned the rest of the caviar with dressing into a small bowl and refrigerated it for several hours. Later, I served it surrounded with chips to resemble a cowboy hat with the chips as a brim.

Easy-Brew Iced Tea: Make several quarts of iced tea or as needed for the size of your group. Place 4 teabags in each quart jar of cold water and refrigerate it for several hours. While the tea steeps, make lemonade ice cubes by pouring lemonade into ice cube trays or mini muffin tins and freezing. When serving the tea, remove the teabags, place two lemonade

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“Easy” Eating

“Summertime, and the livin’ is easy,” composer George Gershwin observed some 80 years ago. Fast-forward to summertime 2018, pull some shrimp out of the freezer and use shrimp-themed recipes to confirm that summertime eatin’ can be easy, too. Shrimp in their fresh or frozen forms are readily available year-round, but they seem like warmweather food when they’re not breaded and deep-fried.

Utilizing pre-cooked cocktail shrimp, Marinated Shrimp is an easy dish to assemble. Offer it as an appetizer at your next backyard gathering, or discard the lemon slices and serve the shrimp, onions, peppers, capers and dressing over a bed of garden-fresh greens. Add some sliced avocado and a sprinkling of feta cheese, and salad never tasted so good!

Shrimp Creole is not quite as easy to make, but it is exceptionally “easy” to eat.

Packed with shrimp and seasonal vegetables, this classic dish is delicious as well as elegant. If needed, the base may be cooked a day or two in advance and then stored in the refrigerator. It also freezes well. For serving, simply heat the base to boiling and add raw shrimp as detailed in the recipe. What could be easier on your summer schedule than a fabulous make-ahead dish?

Marinated Shrimp 2 pounds frozen jumbo shrimp (pre-cooked, peeled and de-veined with tails intact) 1 white onion, peeled and thinly sliced 2 medium lemons, thinly sliced ½ cup sliced, drained “pepperoncini” deli-style peppers ¼ cup drained capers 1 cup Italian dressing 1 tablespoon prepared horseradish ½ teaspoon celery seed Thaw shrimp in refrigerator according to package instructions. (This may take overnight.) Pat shrimp dry. Place single layer of shrimp in bottom of 9- by 13-inch dish. Cover with half of onions, lemon slices, peppers and capers. Repeat layer. In separate bowl, whisk together dressing, horseradish and celery seed. Pour dressing over shrimp. Refrigerate 8 to 10 hours, stirring once after 4 to 5 hours.

Transfer to a bowl for serving, if desired. Makes 8 servings.

by Janette Hess Shrimp Creole

2 pounds shell-on frozen raw shrimp, medium or large size ½ cup vegetable oil ½ cup flour 1 large onion, chopped 1 large bell pepper (red or green), seeded and chopped 1½ cups chopped celery 2 to 3 cloves garlic, minced 2 cups fresh, peeled, chopped tomato 1 6-ounce can tomato paste 3½ cups chicken broth 2 bay leaves 1 teaspoon Creole seasoning* ½ teaspoon dried thyme ¼ teaspoon black pepper 3 tablespoons fresh chopped parsley OR 1 tablespoon dried parsley Several dashes of hot pepper sauce, plus more for serving 8 to 10 servings steamed rice Thaw shrimp according to package instructions. Peel, de-vein and remove tails. Refrigerate while preparing base. To make base, heat oil in heavy soup pot or Dutch oven.

Add flour. Reduce heat to medium low. Cook and stir for approximately 15 minutes, or until mixture is a rich caramel color. Adjust heat as needed to keep mixture from browning too slowly or too quickly. Add onion, bell pepper and celery. Simmer 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add garlic and continue cooking and stirring an additional 5 minutes. Add chopped tomatoes, tomato paste, chicken broth and all seasonings except parsley and hot pepper sauce.

Simmer on very low heat for 35 to 40 minutes. Just before serving, remove bay leaves and add parsley.

Bring mixture to boil and add raw shrimp. Cook just until shrimp are opaque. Remove from heat and add several dashes of hot pepper sauce.

Serve over steamed rice. Makes 8 to 10 generous servings. *If Creole seasoning is not available, substitute several dashes of Worcestershire sauce.

–A trained journalist, Janette Hess focuses her writing on interesting foods. She is a Master Food Volunteer with her local Extension service and enjoys collecting, testing and sharing recipes.

cubes into each chilled pint jar, and fill with cowboy advice, such as, “The quickthem with tea. est way to double your money is to fold Cowboy Ice Cream Sandwiches: Cowit over and put it back into your pocket.” boy Cookies with ice cream between two Send guests home with some trail mix of them make a delicious ice cream sandor a few cowboy cookies, without ice wich. (See recipe.) cream, placed in a baggie and tied with Add chunks of watermelon and fresh raffia. Although the party is over, I’m sure veggies to the menu for a hearty, delicious you and your guests will remember the teatime. grub and grins you shared for a long time.

Grins: Laughter and Fun I first used this Western tea theme for You may want to horse around by hava Memorial Day party. But it could be ing guests share a favorite adventure they used for Father’s Day, Fourth of July, have experienced with or without a horse.

Veteran’s Day, Labor Day or any summer Or fill a basket with sayings or verses from or patriotic event. I hope you’ll join me Proverbs. Pass the basket around and let to round up some Western fun. Giddyguests select a saying to read or they may up! share one of their own. I found websites –Lydia E. Harris wrote the book Preparing My Heart for Grandparenting. She holds a master’s degree in home economics

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Cowboy-Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches Ingredients: 1 tsp. baking soda 1 cup butter, softened 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1 cup granulated sugar 1 cup brown sugar, packed 1/4 tsp. salt 2 cups rolled oats (1/2 quick-cooking - 1/2 old-fashioned) 2 eggs 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla Ice cream (vanilla or favorite flavor) 2 cups flour Directions: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease the baking sheet or cover it with parchment paper.

Cream together the butter and sugars. Mix in eggs and vanilla.

In a separate bowl, combine the flour, soda, baking powder, and salt. Mix dry ingredients into the creamed mixture until combined.

Stir in the oatmeal. Then add the chips.

Roll the dough into walnut-sized balls and place them on the cookie sheet.

Dip the bottom of a glass (one with a flat bottom) into sugar. Then use it to flatten the cookies. Dip the glass into sugar each time before flattening the cookies.

Bake 8 to 10 minutes, or until light brown around the edges. Cool the cookies slightly before removing them from the baking sheet.

Prepare the ice cream. For each cookie sandwich you’ll need 1/4 cup ice cream. Place the ice cream between two pieces of wax paper and flatten it. Freeze the ice cream until you are ready to serve it.

Place one ice cream circle between two cookies. Eat them or freeze until ready to eat.

Recipe makes about 3 dozen 3-inch cookies or 18 ice cream sandwiches.

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The show features approximately 150 quilts and quilted items made by our local guild members during 2016-2018. The show will also feature quilts made in a fabric challenge using the given fabric in a small quilt, or instead, we could choose to do a crazy quilt. Also, we will display quilts made in workshops, charity donation quilts which will be distributed among area nursing homes, women’s shelter, child protective services, and pregnancy center. Our presidents challenge this year is to make something using a technique you have never used before. It will be a real challenge since most quilters have done all techniques at some time in their quilting years! The show will also feature one of our long time members

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-Along with summer time comes high humidity.

High humidity can cause a lot of problems with the plants in your garden and around your house. One of the simple things you can do is don't water just before dark. Make sure your plants are nice and dry when you tuck them in for the night and you can cut down of the chance fungus being a problem.

-One of the more common fungi that I get asked about a lot is powdery mildew.

This appears as a white film on the leaves of ornamental plants. Dogwoods and Purple Sandcherry are often the victim of powdery mildew. Powdery mildew isn't extremely harmful to the plants, it's just that the foliage is damaged, and little growing takes place once it sets in. Your local garden center will have a general fungicide you can spray if you'd like to try and control it. Usually once the plant defoliates in the fall the plant is back to normal.

-If you have Perennial Rye Grass in your lawn, and you probably do if you're in the north, you must be careful not to leave your grass wet at night. There is a fungus known as Pythium Blight that appears in very humid conditions. This fungus attacks and kills perennial rye grasses.

Here in the north most of our lawns are a blend of fescues, perennial ryes, and Kentucky Blue Grass.

-If you have problems with pythium blight you will lose the perennial rye grass in large areas of your lawn, and even though the other grasses will still be there and fill in, your lawn will have areas that are much darker green than the rest of the lawn because you will then have concentrations of Kentucky Blue grass.

You can see this fungus in the early morning. It looks like white cotton candy laying on top of your lawn. It usually appears along walks and driveways where the soil is the wet if you have been watering. To prevent pythium blight water as early in the day as possible.

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-Another nasty little blight that likes summer time is Fire Blight. Fire Blight attacks ornamentals, especially Apple trees, Crabapple trees, Cotoneasters, and Pyracantha. You know you have Fire Blight when a branch on one of your plants dies and turns almost red. The leaves usually hang on but turn reddish brown. The damage usually starts out near the end of the branch and works it's way toward the main stem of the plant.

There is little you can do except prune out the affected branch, cutting it as far back as possible.

Fire Blight is very contagious to plants so you should burn the branches you prune out. You should also dip or wash your pruning shears in rubbing alcohol after each cut to keep from spreading this deadly fungus.

-Unfortunately, I've got one more summer time culprit to warn you about.

It's a handy little fungus that grows in mulch. Actually there are all kinds of fungi that tend to grow in mulches, and most of them are really disgusting looking. But this little gem is unique in the fact that as it grows it tends to swell.

Then somehow it manages to explode, and it will spatter your house with tiny brown specs. The experts have appropriately named this one “Shotgun Fungus.”. Isn't that a cute name?

These tiny little brown specs will fly as high as eight feet into the air, and once they stick to your house or windows, they stick like glue. I know that right now there are people hollering across the house at their spouse, “Hey, remember those brown specs all over the house? I know what they are. It's from the mulch!” Tell me I'm wrong, but I know I'm not.

A lot of people are victims of this nasty little fungus, but they don't know it. All they know is that there are tiny brown specs on the house that look like paint.

So far they have blamed everything from spiders to aliens.

There's not a lot you can do to prevent this fungus. I have found that if you keep the mulch loose so air can circulate it is less likely to grow fungi. Don't just keep adding layer after layer to the mulch around your house. You should skip at least every other year and just loosen the mulch you already have down. If you loosen it and then rake it flat it will look like you've just mulched. Mulch is great, just don't let it get packed down hard.

Loosen it up at least once a year. © Mike McGroarty www.freeplants.com

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Book Review Kissed Quilts

Flying Into Summer Do you ever have an idea and then nothing comes of it?

Several years ago, I had an idea that was just that—an idea. Then an opportunity came up that a friend was willing to create the idea into a quilt. When it got finished, I had moved on to other projects and the quilt top just sat, waiting for me to give it some attention and quilt it.

Last year, I made a decision to consider new research alleging that H a s h i m o t o ’s Hypothyroidism can be put into remission with changes to diet by removing foods that you are sensitive to and allowing your gut to heal.

Thyroid disease in general is identified with a butterfly since the thyroid looks like a small butterfly.

Then a new fabric collection coming out from Island Batik—Soul Song—was designed and I was asked by the designer, Jayme Crowe of Bella Nonna Design Studio, to use that idea from a few years ago and create a quilt with a similar concept. They both use her Boondoggle Rulers.

Here is my original concept and the original quilt that both show Kaffe Fassett Fabrics.

“Quilts Make a Family”

by Marlene Oddie

The real one will be finished up in May. “Spirit Butterfly,” using the Soul Song collection, is being released at Spring Quilt Market.

Patterns will be available as fabrics ship.

This quilt measures about 75” x 94”. The possibilities are endless including to use scraps, various colors, make it more real life, or symmetrical. Check my social media for more photo details.

While I tend to not be a patient person, sometimes it is worth letting everything work out like it is intended. I want to bring awareness to autoimmune diseases and how you can take control of your health if you’re willing to make lifestyle changes and feel better! I love feeling so much better!

How about putting together your own Spirit Butterfly and fly freely into summer?

–Marlene Oddie enjoys long-arm quilting on her Gammill Optimum Plus, but especially enjoys designing quilts and assisting in the creation of a meaningful treasure for the recipient. Follow Marlene’s adventures via http:// www.facebook.com/ kissedquilts and her blog at http:// kissedquilts.blogspot.com.

Author Arlene Sachitano has just released the eleventh mystery in her Harriet Truman/Loose Threads series.

Make a Family takes on the issue of older foster children.

Carla Salter, the youngest Loose Threads member, asks Harriet Truman and the rest of the group if they would be willing to make quilts for a group of older foster kids who are getting close to aging out of the system. Carla's been working with them as part of a class she’s taking.

The quilters agree, only to find out they aren’t the only people interested in helping the kids. A reality television show would like to search for DNA relatives for the children and film any reunions they can create. In addition to making quilts, the quilters are teaching the kids how to do mending and other life skills that will be useful when they age out of the system. When the TV people discover this, they ask to film the activity at Harriet’s studio.

The kids' foster father is not pleased with the television people and believes they are taking advantage of vulnerable children. Harriet suspects his dislike stems from a possible loss of income for him if the kids find family.

When a murder disrupts the children’s living situation, the Loose Threads step in as emergency foster parents, further involving themselves in a puzzling situation. The DNA relatives start showing up and Harriet is suspicious since they all seem to be older men.

Another person suspects them as well and is found face down in the Strait of Juan de Fuca for their trouble.

Everyone seems to have an agenda when it comes to the foster kids, but do any of them benefit the children?

Quilts Make a Family is available as a paperback print book through amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com or as an e-book through Kindle, Nook and other popular formats. ISBN: 9781612713809 (eBook), 978-1612713793 -A quilter herself, Arlene Sachitano started life as a military brat. Her dad retired and moved the family to the Pacific Northwest where she still lives. She started knitting, writing and sewing at a young age and still does all three. Arlene spends her days writing her novels, babysitting her grandchildren, quilting, knitting and promoting her books.

She is active in the Harriet Vane Chapter of Sisters in Crime in Portland, Oregon.

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The Collectors Corner

by Valerie Burner

Wonderfully Whimsical Gingham Is Enjoying a Fashion Resurgence

Gingham. A lightweight plain-woven cloth, typically checked in white and a bold color.

There is an ongoing debate on where the name for this classic fabric originated. It could be Malaysian, French or English via Dutch but, suffice it to say, pretty much everyone loves this classic checkered patterned fabric.

Used for over 400 years, there is no right or wrong side to this fabric that has been made into just about everything you can imagine. Everyone remembers Dorothy’s blue gingham dress in The Wizard of Oz. Bridget Bardot famously got married in a pink gingham wedding dress made by couturier Jacques Esterel. Even the dashing Sean Connery as James Bond in Thunderball wore a pink gingham shirt with matching trunks. Today, gingham is enjoying fashion resurgence with retro style being so popular.

I would venture to guess that my fondness for gingham comes from a pink gingham outfit my mother made for me when I was in first grade along with a pink gingham swimsuit about the same time.

Today, in a vintage suitcase, I keep my collection of gingham aprons—one for every day of the month and, well, a few extras, truth be told.

Gingham has always been a very economical fabric and perhaps this is why it became so popular for aprons in the 1930s through the early 1960s. Employing embroidery known as Depression Lace

was a way for women to create a more expensive look when creating items out of gingham and embroidery floss and pearl cotton. Other names for the embroidery are Amish Lace, Hoover Lace, Hoover Star embroidery, Gingham Lace, Chinese Pinwheel, Tic Tac Toe, Mountain Lace, Gingham Tracks, Chicken Scratch, and Snowflake Lace.

Smocking is also found more often just on pockets but occasionally up by the waistband. Every so often, a gingham apron adorned with rick rack and/or simple lace trims pops up. Ladies were ingenious and thrifty using every little scrap and turning those mere inches of rick rack into decorative flowers on their aprons. And then there are the aprons where some spent hours pulling the threads to create the drawn thread work that is beautiful and delicate.

The shapes of these aprons are as varied as the women who made them— from simple straight forward with gathering at the waist to box pleats with straight hems to the stair step hem lines that make the gingham apron something extra special. The pockets are sometimes fancy, sometimes plain, sometimes square, sometimes heart shaped but always present and purposeful.

I love finding gingham aprons while out treasure hunting. They turn up unexpectedly. Each is handmade and one of a kind and must come home, get carefully laundered, ironed, folded and

put in my suitcase. I can honestly say I’ve never paid more than $7 for one of these, making it one of those collections that, while not necessarily valuable monetarily, it does make me happy and that’s simple bliss.

For me, part of the fun of collecting is learning about the newest treasure and also incorporating it into my every day living. The different embroidery used on the aprons has inspired me to pick up the needle again and try some of the Chicken Scratch stitching. I spied a Christmas tree, a heart and a southern bell while perusing Pinterest and know that this is in my near crafting future as the summer heat wears on. An unexpected bonus that has come from my apron collecting is working with this fabric that is older than the USA, having been inspired by women who took time from their daily chores to make themselves something pretty out of humble gingham and embroidery floss and maybe a few ends of rick rack, and learning new stitches—all connecting me to the past.

Every once in a while, I get them out to wear and find myself drawn to the pink and white check with the kittenembroidered pockets. It’s seen better days, has been repaired and has some spots but it is so charming. Another of my favorites is purple gingham with a stair step hemline and smocking. There was no way this one was not coming to my house.

Then there’s an almost turquoise blue one

that has one of my favorite color combinations of red and turquoise.

Another favorite color combination is pink and green, which, combined with the drawn thread work, puts that one in my growing pile of favorites. Then there is the grey one, not very flashy, actually quite dull, but if you look closely up by the waistline, you will find the tiniest of pleating and charming little baskets with embroidered flowers. I also have a few that are child-sized. I can just imagine mom and daughter in their matching aprons making bread. Mom might have even taught her daughter how to do the Depression Lace stitches.

It’s these little personal details that keep me on the hunt. I really can’t say I have a single favorite gingham apron and am hard pressed to pick out my top dozen. Thank goodness the suitcase is forgiving—there is always room for one more.

Let a little whimsy enter your home and surround yourself with the things you love. Happy collecting!

-Valerie Burner married into a family of collectors over 25 years ago. The first piece she and her husband purchased together was a drop leaf table that has had many uses over the years. Their current collections include pink depression glass, vintage Santa Clauses and Christmas, Snoopy, and, of course, teddy bears. They have owned Bears & More in the historic Catlin Court district of Downtown Glendale, AZ, for over 25 years. You can contact Valerie at bearsmore@aol.com.

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by Barbara Conquest

The Country Register is the best timely, reliable, and widely accessible source of Quilt Shop Info

Reap Big Rewards from Your Garden Get active outdoors with a hobby more satisfying than binge-watching another television series. As a pastime, gardening can help you eat delicious, more flavorful food while transforming your patio or yard into a colorful hangout for butterflies and bees.

Many people don't realize how easy it is to have a fresh supply of crisp veggies, fragrant herbs or fresh-grown flowers. Whether you have a balcony, rooftop or patio, gardening is a hobby that quite literally allows you to harvest big rewards.

One of the most exciting parts of gardening is deciding what to grow.

With thousands of plants to choose from - flowers, vegetables and herbs - a small pot of soil can be a canvas for creativity.

To find the most popular flowers and plants this year, we checked in with Ball Horticultural Company, a global leader on all things gardening, to see what the top trends are in 2018.

Strong and Colorful When spring arrives, we all crave color and warmth to celebrate the end of winter. To get that wow factor - and get it fast - try planting flowers that grow and fill in quickly and thrive in extremes. The Megawatt Begonia brings magnetic color even in shaded spaces. It's also a low-maintenance option if you're new to gardening. Likewise, the Echinacea Sombrero Sangrita is a perennial flower that returns each year with stunning red blossoms.

For Foodies Who Want to Show Off Every chef knows the secret to tasty cooking is great ingredients. For many

gardeners, the truly magical combination is finding that edible veggie that looks as good as it tastes. Take 2 Combos combine two sweet pepper plants with a touch of heat and beautiful orange and yellow fruit. There's also a combo of a slicer and cherry tomato perfect for small spaces and for snacking and cooking. Speaking of peppers, a new, attractive variety is Candy Cane Red Pepper. It has green fruit striping that ripens to red and offers up crisp, sweet flavors, much like a candy cane!

A Refuge for Bees, Butterflies and Beyond There are dozens of reasons people choose to garden: fresh food, interior and exterior decoration, relaxation, stress reduction and more. One emerging trend is that people want to make their garden a destination for pollinators like bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. A few captivating flowers that attract these beautiful and helpful creatures are: • Lucky Star Pentas - Provide butterflies summer flower clusters in eye-catching colors • Copper Prince Ornamental Millet This thriller makes a dramatic statement with foxtail plumes that birds feast upon • SuperBlue Lavender - A deeply colorful and fragrant bee magnet Gardening helps you relax and decompress. What's more, there is a huge amount of satisfaction involved in seeing your vegetables and flowers grow.

Follow these trends and watch your plants blossom and beautify your home and yard. After all, we could all use a little more color in our lives.

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It’s Row By Row time again! On your marks, get set… cue the music! Check the ads in The Country Register for participants in the 2018 Row by Row Experience, make your list of shops, line up your friends for a road trip and shop!

Oh, wait just a minute.

Before you start off with enthusiasm and high expectations, take a quick look at a few lessons I’ve learned lately about the hunt for fabric and traditional search methods.

Lesson One: Stores’ websites are not always accurate.

We recently spent two weeks traveling.

Although not in desperate need of more fabric, I never miss a chance to explore areas and shops new to me on the principle that quilting treasures are somewhere out there, and if I don’t look I won’t find them. At the first opportunity I googled the name of an outstanding quilt shop I had visited some years ago which had wonderful locallymade quilts for sale as well as an extensive selection of high-quality fabrics – in other words, a quilter’s dream. Google said the shop was still there – same name, same town, still listed as a quilt shop. After an hour’s drive, full of anticipation, we found the shop. It was now an upscale clothing shop with not a quilt in sight. We were very disappointed.

Lesson Two: Websites are not always taken down when no longer valid.

A few days later we searched for hours in another larger town for a quilt shop listed on line. When we finally gave up looking and inquired about its location from a resident of the town, we were told it had been closed for over a year. The website had not been taken down

Lesson Three: Online information is not always complete.

Another day, June 9 to be exact, after a half-hour drive we arrived at an out-ofthe-way shop only to find a sign on the door that said, OPEN JUNE 15 TO SEPTEMBER 30. We were not completely surprised, because we were in a bit of a “touristy” area, but we would have appreciated having had that information earlier.

Lesson Four: – Which should really be lesson # One! The Country Register is always timely, reliable, and widely accessible, and therefore an excellent source of information.

We belatedly concluded that The Country Register is by far the most reliable source of up-to-date information. The Country Register is published every second month, it is always current (closed businesses will not be advertising and included information is accurate) and it is widely available, allowing the quilter to do some research before traveling. Many editions are even on line.

On a more positive note, by picking up the local Country Register later, we discovered other great shops, including a chain new to us. One shop was even running a sale and I was able to buy some quality batiks there.

Lesson Five: Be persistent.

Don’t let a few unsatisfactory experiences be discouraging and ALWAYS make a point to pick up the latest edition of The Register.

There’s always more fabric to find, more great shop owners to befriend and then comes the fun – quilting!

–© Barbara Conquest writes her column from Blue Sky Quilting in Tofield, AB.

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