Quilts, Stitches and Applefest

At long last, after making countless baby quilts, 2 big bed quilts, 1 bigger than lap size quilt, 1 90" x 90" quilt, 5 miniature quilts and counltess others, I finished a quilt for me! The original pattern was called 'Cracked Pots' (we joked that you'd have to be on crack and pot to do it). I made a few changes to the pattern - I added some solid borders around the courthouse steps (in the middle) and around the houses. I added piano keys to the top of the quilt (as it was wide enough but not quite long enough for my bed) and a solid border all the way around the quilt. It was a great challange and I'm very glad that it is finally done!


Last week Tristan was playing after church and bonked his head and ended up with 5 stitches. Two days later I was over for dinner and helping give the kids a bath, when Rachel took off the bandaid. At first Tristan was crying (more from fear thinking it may hurt) but when Hannah started wailing "Don't hurt Tistan!!!" he quickly calmed down and reassured her 'Hanny it's okay - it isn't owie". How sweet to see that tender moment when he put his own fears aside to comfort his little sister.

Tristan wanted a picture so that he could see what it looked like after the stitches were out.

Saturday was Applefest. About 12 families gathered at the Tamminga's home to wash, sort, cut, mash, mulch and press apples. There was also 17 baggies filled with apple slices for pies and 117 bags of apple sauce (as well as a large number of small and large jars).
Most of the apples were washed by Eric in the 'painting' room so there was much less time spent with hands in cold water. Here Heather, Rebekah and Jonathan are washing apples for apple sauce and pies.

The washed apples were put in these bins... many many many bins of apples. Ken set up the fork lift so that the bins were at the right height that we wouldn't have sore backs by the end of the day.


Wilma and Tamara (along with some kids) spent the whole day cutting, cooking and straining apples for sauce. I can't imagine that they'll ever want to eat apple sauce again!

It really was a great day filled with lots of laughter, hard work and good food. The weather was also beautiful again. Warm enough that we weren't freezing and cool enough that no one was too hot with all the slash pants and overalls. It only rained for a few minutes but we were able to stay nice and dry under the awning of the eating area. What a great day of fellowship. Thanks again to Jon & Kelley & Jake & Lorraine for organizing and hosting us again.

Comments

Rich and Cher said…
Jen - your quilts are gorgeous! I wish I had that in me - the only quilts I've made have been using square cloth napkins. I pick out ones I love, match them with another pattern and sew them all together. Then I sew on an oversized backing, overlap it to the front to make a border, "quilt it" (in my own way) and......ta-da - that's my quilt :) Works for us. But it just doesn't look quite as nice as yours! I'm waiting for real pics of your apartment - room to room without it being full of people :) Love ya!
Tuesday, November 02, 2010 10:17:00 am
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