This block shows a metal gate with metal slats across it against a blue background. The gate itself has a little latch top open and close it. Each slat is gray and outlined with a light stitching. On each side of the gate is a post with a round spherical top. On the left post is an orange-yellow bird chirping.

Block-A-Day 190 – Dang, Now I’m Hungry

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Today I continue my quest in creating and posting one block a day of the fabulous That Town And Country Quilt by the lovely Susan Claire. This is day one hundred and ninety of that project.

This block shows a metal gate with metal slats across it against a blue background. The gate itself has a little latch top open and close it. Each slat is gray and outlined with a light stitching. On each side of the gate is a post with a round spherical top. On the left post is an orange-yellow bird chirping.
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Here is another garden gate.

So different from yesterday.

I see this as a gate to a farmhouse kitchen garden.

It’s so the gardener could keep out kids playing tag or hide and seek and protect the rows and beds from the farm dogs looking to bury a treasured bone. Or to keep the hens from scratching everything up looking for bugs or even a wayward pig from uprooting and eating everything.

She can go into her garden in her big hat and gloves with a harvest basket and harvest the vegetables for her family’s table in solitude or with a small helper or two.

Picking the warm, ripe tomatoes, snap beans, and small cucumbers for pickling.

Leafy greens are in a shadier, cooler spot and haven’t yet bolted.

The melons look fabulous, and one seems especially ready for tomorrow’s lunch if she gets it on ice.

If she’s lucky enough to find a few hard green tomatoes, she can make fried green tomatoes to go with the coleslaw for supper.

Well, dang, now I’m hungry.

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Tina

Tina

Tina Holley is a third-generation ranching widow, mother, and grandmother whose family roots in Grand County date back to the 1940s. Tina wears many hats and has been sewing for over 45 years... She added another “hat” when she purchased the Fabric Nook from her kindergarten teacher in 2015. Tina is passionate about guiding customers in achieving their personal and creative goals. Her goal is to empower and help make everyone’s idea a beautiful reality about which they can feel great. She began her artistic journey as a garment maker in middle school by designing and creating her own clothes. Later on, she took apart clothes from thrift stores and put them back together to improve her construction and alteration skills. In addition to her sewing expertise, she also knits, crochets, and is an award-winning quilter.

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