It was all Carol's fault.....

And the winner is.....Anna!

I did the drawing in a very unscientific way.

I let the cat choose!

She likes to knock over glasses and cups. So I put all the names in a glass. She came over to investigate and promptly knocked it over. She looked at the three scrunched papers that fell out, but seemed to lose interest. 

I guess she thought her job was done. But NO! So I took the three papers and tossed them. That got her attention again. She went over and batted at one, and it was Anna.

Second place goes to Glenda!

So many people liked the cows, I decided to have a runner up for a small chunk of fabric!

This is Carol. She belongs to Crispy. We are babysitting her for a few months. Crispy is done with school, has a job, and will be moving into a smaller apartment. Then Carol will go live with him again. 

We have her because his roommates were getting tired of having their glasses knocked over! 

I was sewing on a hanging sleeve yesterday. The quilts from last years block exchange will be showing at the Minnesota Quilt Show in a few weeks. The Minnesota guild had come to Blue Earth for a meeting and saw the block exchange quilts and loved them. So we agreed to make an extra block that would become the raffle quilt for this years show. Mike put it together and Jan quilted it. That is pretty exciting stuff for the Blue Earth Valley Quilters!!!

[see the quilt here!] 

The BEVQ also has a small group started up. We are doing Gypsy Wife. Each month we do a small part of it. We started with 2 blocks and then did some of the filler blocks for month two.

Here is what I have so far. I am using old and new country/farm/tractor fabric.

Then Julie Sefton talked about a medallion quilt along. I will link to her post about it, which has all the links there. 

See what I am talking about [HERE}

I read this and thought the last thing I need is another long term project.

The first round is "basket"

So I went simple....instead of a BASKET center, I found a picture of a basket on some fabric and built a barn around it.

This is my version of "basket". It is just a little thing. I have no idea if I will continue with the medallion quilt, but I do have a start!