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

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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 green shed with an open front opening. It's very wide and covers the whole lower part of the block. Inside the shed is equipment drawn with colored pens. There's a side-by-side, a tractor, a manure spreader, and a bale wagon. The manure spreader is a blue-green, the bale wagon is yellow, and the others are red.

Block-A-Day 353 – The Equipment Shed

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In this shed, we have a side-by-side, a tractor, a manure spreader, and a bale wagon. Don’t know where their baler is but I’m sure it’s in there somewhere. Scott used to clean and grease all the stuff before it went into the shed.

This quilt block shows a border colie facing to the left. It's front paws are spread out and it's head is down like it's going to play. The tongue is hanging out of the mouth. The patterns on the dog match the black and white patterns of most border collies. This is done with a piece of black fabric and a piece of white fabric underneath. It really is quite an accurate border coolie, with tiny stitching outlining everything.

Block-A-Day 338 – Kelly The Wonder Dog

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She would turn her tail and go home. Scott would be so mad, he’d follow her back to the house and carry her back to the field. They’d begin again only to repeat this performance several more times a day. She finally won. He stopped cursing at her.

This quilt block is a corner block, meaning that it's oriented to one corner as the "bottom" of the block. This one is in the bottom right corner. There is a patch of dark green grass (fabric) in the bottom right, and standing on it is a pretty good sized fox. The fox is made up of a darker orange fabric and white fabric for its underbelly and tip of the tail. There is an almost black fabric for the foxglove paws. Details on the face, such as the ears and the eye have been drawn in with pen. This fox is in mid-step as it prowls for its prey.

Block-A-Day 337 – The Fox

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They prefer to be solitary when they are not raising young. If you have a fox den very close to you, you will probably know because foxes are smelly! They are also very playful, they have been known to steal golf balls from golf courses to play with them.

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

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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

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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 brown building made out of wooden slats. The slats are shown with yellow stitching. There is a door on the left side that is a very dark brown color. The roof is the same color and is slanted, with the top point of the roof to the right (the left side is longer than the right side). This is against a salmon-patterned blue background.

Block-A-Day 331 – The Little Barn

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At the time my bedroom wasn’t finished and I admit to a little jealousy when the barn was finished better than the bedroom. We had just started raising sheep with a very small flock of ewes and a ram. Oh, we were excited.

This quilt block shows a house in front of a mountain range. The mountain range is a dark brown with a light brown outline stitching. The house itself looks like two barns attached to each other in the middle. It is a tan brown and has pen markings on it to indicate the metal roof, garage doors, windows and porch. There is a teal and light blue diamond shaped sign above the garage doors on the right. The ground the house is on is a polka-dotted duo-tone fabric that is a shade of brown of dirt. The sky is a light blue salmon patterned background.

Block-A-Day 312 – The House That Scott Built

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It’s a big log house. He dug the hole and after the basement was poured I painted tar on the outside. We raised and set the logs and beams ourselves with nothing more than a block and tackle.

This quilt block shows a large dark gray building that takes up most of the block. The roof is the darkest gray and is square and flat. Underneath that is a very big sign that's yellow. It reads,

Block-A-Day 276 – Scott’s Water Plant

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There was an auto-dialer that would call our house if any sensor twitched when he wasn’t there. Then the phone would ring next to our bed and he would get up, get dressed and go to the plant to soothe whatever had ruffled its feathers.

This quilt block shows a building with a bumpy roofline. Underneath the wavey roofline is actual waves made out of blue fabric. The building itself is completely black, except for the windows, sign, and door. The sign under the blue waves is turquoise with blue letters written in pen,

Block-A-Day 270 – The River Run Pool

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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 Mayfield. This is day two hundred and seventy of that project. River Run has a very nice pool. There is a hot tub and a wide concrete apron with tables and chairs. I love being in …