I'm Ned and I live in Southeast Alaska,on Prince Of Wales Island.I might even be geographically a little bit south of you,GERDA.I did sew a button on once,but I prefer gardening.Thank you for the great welcome.I've looked at a couple quilts,but with my dialup internet,I have to have a lot of time to look at many pics.

Hi everyone,
I'm Jill. I'm a-want-be. I live in Indianapolis, In and I landscape with native plants, hence the name.
Thanks for the warm welcomes.

Hello y'all

I'm Dori and i live in Washington on the lovely Puget Sound. I'm an avid gardener, but back before i went to work full time, i used to really enjoy doing needlework, crochet, and sewing. I made alot of my own clothes and modified the fit of alot of my store bought clothes, but my machine hasn't been out of my closet in quite a while.

I'm a night owl, i work swingshift (4 til 12 midnight) and i only intellectually understand morning. When i have a white night (can't sleep) i sometimes see the sun come up, but to deliberately wake up for it? Probably not.

I have 2 grandkids, Kyle and Jacktiger, and two rotten kittens, Buddy and Betty. The 4 of them keep me on my toes.

I just recently moved from one garden to another when we sold our two story house and moved into a rambler, so i am doing alot of gardening from scratch, but i just love it. I brought a couple hundred plants from my old garden to my new one, and a bunch of them are still in pots in the flower beds.

I also play with indoor plants, and DB is turning me into an AV fan, so i think i need a garden window for the AV babies. I'm getting the fever kinda bad, i've been pinching leaves off of AV's in doctors offices, restaraunts, The Home Depot. . . . .bad Dori!

I appreciate the warm welcome y'all have given us. Have a great day! Huggies winkies!

No. DB Felicia, a skidsteer is like a Bobcat - mini bulldozer kind of thing for moving dirt and gravel around. We bought 3 acres 15 months ago, all trees, and had a building site cleared. But since we wanted to do most of the work ourselves, we bought this thing for backfilling, levelling piles of dirt, and making a driveway. He has also used it to clear snow - he has a blast with it! We will be using it to spread black dirt so we can seed grass, and there is a huge pile of pushed over trees that need to be cut into firewood, so the machine will come in handy pulling them off/out of the pile.
DH does not like rodeo - now, me, I like to watch rodeo, also hockey! Go, Oilers!!!

Ned, I'm in zone 3 for planting. You know, you could plant plants in a quilt block pattern if you were so inclined!! I might just try that this summer with petunias or pansies or something.

Gerda

LOLOL...well........ I see MM finally lit into the right board...but wrong pew. Somehow I don't see him in the quilt thread, but I'm sure he could hold his own in here...lolol

Gerda..
Ok...got the skidsteer thing...lol My son is a team roper and they have some mechanical steer now and I wondered if that was what you were referring to??..lol

Ok... off to the lower 40 to see what kind of trouble the cyber fam is stirring up...lol

Hugs to all........

poof*

This message has been edited. Last edited by: *Dirt Ball* Felicia,

Gerda-The maps say I'm in zone 6/7-right on the line.But I've had plants winter kill that should be OK to zone 5 or 6.I think it's not so much how cold it gets,but how long it stays there.Mostly our winters are cold & rainy,with some wet snow occasionally.

Native Girl-

Indianapolis? Well, howdy, Hoosier! I graduated from Warren Central, but I am not telling you what year! LOL

Most of my friends and I had spring, summer, or fall birthdays. We used to get a birthday cake and have a midnight celebration on the memorials along Meridian. We got to know the guards pretty well, and they always appreciated having a treat to go with their coffee.

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Originally posted by Gerda:
... You know, you could plant plants in a quilt block pattern if you were so inclined!! I might just try that this summer with petunias or pansies or something.

Gerda

Gerda, this idea makes my day!

I have seen photos of "quilt gardens" in NC and IN:
http://www.amishcountry.org/QuiltGardens
but never the real thing.

That would be so nice. Hmmm ... wonder if I could manage a small one in my tiny garden patch? I plant annuals every year anyway.

Hmmmm ... I like this idea ... <3 Pat

Hey..Hey..

I was surfing patterns today, and found this fun quilt thread called "Show and Tell". It's just normal people posting their finished projects. I LOVE to ck out what other people are doing.

I got my mystery block pattern from the q-shop today. It's called Tennessee Waltz. Looks fun, and when mixed with the snowball block it really comes to life in pattern!

Here you go: Show N' Tell Quilt Projects

So Felicia... so is the Tennessee Waltz a "known" pattern that I can look up online to see what it looks like or is your class making these names up? Sorry if that's a dumb question LOL, but I know you'll answer it anyway! Have I told you yet today that I'm so BORED?!