Posted By drsao on March 19, 2009
While I was dropping off my quilts for Sara to quilt for me, I discovered that Karen Du Mont was also dropping off her newly created quilt – HIP CHICKS. Oh, is it ever cute!!!! The pattern will be published in April. I am going to have to get this pattern. LOVE LOVE LOVE these hip chicks!!! It reminds me of my “first pet – CHICKIE JACK.” I love the fabrics that she used too – and aren’t those rick rack legs just charming?!
I got so excited that I had to run out to my car – in the rain – to get my camera – and NO, I don’t ALWAYS carry my camera with me wherever I go – it just SEEMS like I do! (Watch for the HIP CHICKS QUILT pattern at www.kariepatch.com in April.)
Karen DuMont's HIP CHICKS
And LOOK at Karen’s DOLLY CLAIRE QUILT that Sara just finished quilting (named after her grandangel Claire – isn’t that sweet!) This DOLLY CLAIRE QUILT pattern is already available – check out Karen’s website!!!
www.kariepatch.com On Karen’s website you can see the DOLLY CLAIRE QUILT in alternate colors. I just love these whimsical flowers!!!
Karen DuMont's DOLLY CLAIRE QUILT
The back of the quilt is striking too!!!!
Back of Karen DuMont's Dolly Claire Quilt
Karen is teaching a class in machine applique for the Country Piecemaker’s Quilt Guild on April 15!
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Posted By drsao on March 19, 2009
I just dropped off six quilts at Sara’s Quilting Cottage – that is the name that I have given her very cute and cozy quilting place! Isn’t that the BEST FEELING EVER – to get something made and ready to be quilted. I am thankful that Sara didn’t faint or throw me out when I walked in with my arms full of work for HER to do!
Wanna see what I left?
OK….I have pictures of five of them.
sao's FAIRY STARS QUILT
I didn’t take a picture of the second FAIRY QUILT that I made – I named it SISTER FAIRIES. I will put a picture on my blog when it is finished!
The 3rd quilt that I left for Sara is my SCRAPPY SPLIT NINE-PATCH QUILT……this is the outcome of a YAHOO online block exchange that I participated in last year.
sao's SCRAPPY SPLIT NINE-PATCH Quilt
I also left 3 baby quilts for our Country Piecemaker’s ICU Baby Quilt program.
sao's LITTLE BEAR BLUE
sao's LITTLE BEAR PINK
sao's SNUGGLE KITTIES
I just wanted to CELEBRATE NATIONAL QUILT DAY a day or so early – 6 quilts out of my project boxes….YEAH!!!!!
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Posted By drsao on March 18, 2009
Now, let me ask you – doesn’t having a RUN AWAY FROM HOME DAY sound like fun? Sure it does and that is just what Catherine, Margaret and I did today and you will NEVER guess where we ran away to. OK – I will tell you – STUARTS DRAFT, VA. Doesn’t it make you WONDER how a town got named like that – unless you already know and then of course you wouldn’t wonder. 🙂
VALLEY FABRICS in Stuarts Draft, VA had a 50% off fabric sale (because they are moving nearby – yes they will still be in Stuarts Draft, VA but up the road a bit – or down the road a bit depending on which direction from which you are originating.)
We ended our day at the Cracker Barrel where I had a new item on the menu – a vegetable skillet with eggs on top. It was very pretty! Oh yes, at the Cracker Barrel I won a PRETEND GAME OF CHECKERS with Margaret and we they all tried on Easter Bunny hats – it was Catherine’s idea – just for the record. :):) No we didn’t buy the hats.
It was a BEAUTIFUL sunshiney day – perfect weather for a RUN AWAY FROM HOME DAY. I hope you enjoy the pictures.
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Our Mission – Valley Fabrics
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Margaret and Catherine
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Me
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I liked the wallpaper in the hallway…:)
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Looks like Catherine had LOTS of fun!
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Beautiful Countryside
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Time to eat
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I won!
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UNKNOWN PERSON
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Catherine Bunny
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Margaret Bunny
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sao’s lunch
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AND IN CASE YOU AERE DYING TO KNOW – I GOOGLED STUARTS DRAFT How We Got Our Name
Stuarts Draft, one of Augusta county’s oldest settlements, derives its name from the son of a British fugitive and a local geographic feature.Stuart was the family name of the offspring of a Scottish dessident who came to settle the area in the 1730’s after fleeing religious persecution in Britain.
Archibald Stuart was a Scotch Presbyterian living in Ireland with an Irish wife in the 1720’s during the reign of King James I, a Catholic who took part in a movement to fight religious persecution in 1725.
Ironically, he was persecuted by the royal government for this act and fled Britain for the American Colonies, leaving his family in Ireland.
Settling in western Pennsylvania, Stuart found safe haven. When a general amnesty was declared for fugitives like Stuart seven years later in 1732, he sent for his family to join him in the new world.
Promises of protection from Indian reais on the frontier by Virginia Governor William Gooch drew settlers like Stuart to Augusta County, which was created by an act of the Colony’s House of Burgesses in 1738, the same year Stuart arrived in the area.
Two years earlier, William Beverley, one of the county’s founders, received a patent from Gooch for 118,491 acres in what had been part of Orange County and became Augusta County.
Beverly sold parcels of his land to settlers like the Stuart family, which bought several hundred acres from him in the Stuarts Draft area, about three miles east of Tinkling Spring Presbyterian Church near the intersection of U.S. 340 and Northgate Avenue in what is now southwest Waynesboro. He helped build Tinkling Spring Presbyterian’s first meeting house in 1744.
Records in the Augusta County Courthouse indicate Thomas Stuart, Archibald’s son obtained a deed for 353 acres in the Stuarts Draft in 1749. He is acknowledged as Stuarts Draft’s founder.
The name Stuarts Draft was first used nearly 100 years later in 1837, when a post office opened.
The origin of the term Draft is disputed. Some authorities say the word describes the wide, flat plain adjacent to the South River, where several industries are now are located, others say it refers to the narrow valley just north of the village and others say it is because of the constant breeze blowing through the area.
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