This quilt block shows a black and white dog against a light blue salmon-patterned background. The dog is made up of a cut out piece of black fabric, with a white stripe of fabric descending from her head and making up her muzzle. The dog is sitting and looking towards us. On each side of the head, with the stitching you can see two ears, and with a little pen you can see the two black eyes.

Block-A-Day 358 – Maggie The Dog

Tina December 24, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

And as I drove the tractor and baler over the windrows of hay the mice would run out to get away. She would scoop up as many as possible and just swallow them right down. She never got sick from it and she’d keep it up all day.

This quilt block shows a big gray barrel with water inside it. The gray fabric is decorated with a thin black stitching and white pen to show the structure of the indentations of the metal barrel. Inside the barrel, at the top is blue fabric with pen on it to show the water moving. On the side of the barrel is a black bird with an orange beak and yellow feet. There is white pen to show the bird's features.

Block-A-Day 357 – The Galvanized Tank

Tina December 23, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

When you have a pig roast at your house you can ice the pig in it before you roast it and then wash it out well and fill it with ice, soda, water, and beer. A smaller tank will hold ice and a keg.

This quilt block shows a door, or a panel of wall that would be next to a door, with some pegs for hanging things. The pegs can't be seen because a large brimmed hat made out of black fabric and a cloak made out of a dark green fabric are hanging from the wall. Next to the wall on the bottom right are two gray boots. Everything is outlined in a bright yellow stitching.

Block-A-Day 349 – Tools Of The Trade

Tina December 15, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

Here’s the rest of the gear the “barn-mucker” needs to muck out the barn. Rubber boots (some of them come insulated), a coat if it’s cold, and a hat to keep the sweat off your brow. It’s a dirty job but somebody’s gotta do it.

This quilt block shows a simple deep orange barn. It's very tall and has a tall and wide black opening for the entrance. The loft has an opening as well like a black window. The angular roof is also black.

Block-A-Day 347 – The Hay Barn

Tina December 13, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

For those of you who are not familiar with a bale wagon, it is a piece of equipment that is self-propelled or powered by a tractor to go out in the field after the hay has been baled into small bales and pick them up.

This block shows a detailed red tractor. This tractor has a red chassis. There is a seat with a starting wheel that is penned in white. The innards of the tractor are shown in the body of the tractor with black and white pen markings. There is a big wheel on the back end that is black, red, and silver on the large axle. There is a smaller wheel up front. The wheels have a white stitching outlining them. There is a smoke stack coming out of the chassis which has black pen on the top and little clouds coming out.

Block-A-Day 339 – The Massey-Ferguson

Tina December 5, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

It doesn’t have power steering or power brakes and just nearly bounces the sense out of you when you have to use it. We use it to spread manure and drag fields now. I will be really sad when his time is over on the farm.

This quilt block shows two young Suffolk lambs against a light salmon-patterned blue background. The lambs themselves are made up of shaped black pieces of fabric, like silhouettes. One is shaped in such a way that it is standing and taking a step, while the other is laying down with its legs folded underneath itself. The black pieces of fabric (and the ears and other details) are outlined with a very small orange fabric stitching.

Block-A-Day 335 – The Bottle Lambs

Tina December 1, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

I am convinced that bottle babies played a role in the romance and ultimate marriage of my oldest son. During their early courting days, they came to the house and it was time to feed the babies. I asked them to do it for me.

This quilt block shows two sheep from the front. One sheep is much larger than the other, and is the mama sheep to the lamb. Each sheep is a piece of white fabric with a black triangular face near the upper middle. The bodies and ears are outlined with a brown threaded stitching. Each sheep also has four black pieces of fabric indicating their short legs.

Block-A-Day 334 – Daisy And Sweet Pea

Tina November 30, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

This block reminded me of something that happened with our sheep many years ago. Everyone came in from the field. However, one mother came in with one lamb and was baa-ling her head off.

This quilt block shows a majestic wether goat standing on a mound of grass. The mound is a dark green fabric with no stitching. On top of the mound is a tan fabric in the shape of a goat. The back legs are shaded in with pen. The goat's head is outlined with stitching and with brown pen. The horns are a black fabric with some white stitching on them.

Block-A-Day 329 – The Wether Goat

Tina November 25, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

A wether goat (castrated male) can be a good pet. They can learn to pull a small cart and my father always had a wether goat with his stud horses. Something about that relationship makes the stud calmer and easier to manage.

This quilt block shows the outline of a horse in black against a light blue salmon-patterned background. The silhouette has one pen marking on it to show an eye in white. It is outlined by a light brown stitch. You can see the neck, the head, the ears, the tail, and the legs in detail throughout the silhouette.

Block-A-Day 323 – The Majesty Of The Horse

Tina November 19, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

I was dreadfully allergic when I was a girl and the drugs we have now we didn’t have then so it wasn’t meant to be. However, I have some fun facts for you about horses:

This quilt block is a corner block. There is a patch of grass in the bottom right corner, stretching from the bottom left corner to the top right corner. It has a green bold stitching across its top. There are two chickens on the grass, one a brown patch of fabric, and one a black patch of fabric. The black patch is larger than the brown patch, and is the rooster. There are pen markings on each patch to indicate feathers and a wing. The brown patch is a hen that is looking back at the rooster.

Block-A-Day 320 – The Rooster

Tina November 16, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

I think roosters can be beautiful creatures. They can also be mean, aggressive, and hard on the hens. We don’t have roosters at Sisu Farm. That means, of course, that we don’t have fertilized eggs.