This quilt block shows a tall green grain silo next to a round barn like building that's orange. The entrance to the orange building is a large black archway, and there's a black window above it. There is a dark orange, same colors s the building, ring around the top of the grain silo on the left. Pieces are stitched with a black thread.

Block-A-Day 363 – The Grain Storage

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I would be so excited if I were driving along the highway sometime and looked over and saw this in a field. I’m putting it in Olsson’s field. With a family as large as theirs I’m sure someone creative made this. I imagine it on the edge of a field of sunflowers bordering corn.

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This quilt block shows a very large house against a blue background. The house is two-storied, with two peaks in the slanted roof that's coming down towards the viewer. The upper floor has six square yellow windows, each outlined by a black stitching. The lower floor has an awning coming out that's supported by white pillars. The awning and the roof are the same color dark brown. Behind the white pillars, also outlined in black, are four square yellow windows. These windows are two on each side of a round dark brown door with white stitching. It's indeed a large hosue.

Block-A-Day 360 – The Olsson Mansion

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The Olssons have always been pretty self-sufficient. Very little of what they eat doesn’t come from the farm. Sugar and coffee are two notable exceptions. Vegetables come from the garden, fruits from the orchard. Flour is milled from the wheat they grow. This way of life was paramount to Lars and Ebba. They passed the conviction to their children who in turn have instilled it in their children.

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This quilt block shows a structure, a building, with one side larger than the other. It's a squat brown building with slats of wood making up the walls. These are indicated by white stitching outlining each slat. There is a giant sliding wooden door with a rail jutting out to the larger side for it. The sliding door is a dark green, along with the roof of the shed. This is all against a light blue salmon-patternd background as usual.

Block-A-Day 356 – Mom’s Shed

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She hired a concrete guy to come and pour a pad for it. After that, a carpenter came and did the framing. At that point, she announced at Sunday dinner, “Alright everybody, don’t make any plans for next weekend. Next weekend we are going to finish my shed.”

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