Drum Roll Please . . . A Completed Quilt!

This is what I have been working on for the past few weeks. GORF 2

I could not post or boast about it . . . 

. . .  until it was gifted to our friends for their farm wedding

The bride and her posse showed up in grand style

The guys wore green

 The girls wore purple

  The bride's tractor is red and the groom's is green.

 I got to drive the team . . . Penny and Tammy were very cooperative for this first timer.

  My husband insisted that I could and should put the invitation photos on the quilt.

Steep learning curve but I got it now.

 He designed the layout.

I did an edge to edge on the longarm that I rented time on last month 

and had this whole thing quilted and bound 2 weeks in advance. 

Blessings,
Chris

View From My Green Tractor

Here on the Farm I do other things besides quilting. This is a real working dairy farm and even though I am retired, I still get to drive tractors once in a while. I was tedding hay last week and as I was driving round in circles and back and forth, I was flooded with memories and mentally wrote a couple of books as I reflected on my 45 years living and working on this farm. Now I was born and raised on a dairy farm and married a dairy farmer and officially milked cows full time for 18 years, but I had to retire from doing all that because of osteoarthritis and lower back issues. Driving tractor is something that I can still do.

View from my Green Tractor

 My Sweet Husband cutting hay with the other Green Tractor

The Other Green Tractor

 The darker green is the fresh cut hay. 

The lighter green is the hay cut the day before that I was tedding. 

What is tedding? Basically turning over and fluffing up the hay so it will dry faster.

One of the Hay Fields

 Getting instructions about speed and technique before I start.

My Sweetie

 He called the local John Deere dealership and told them 

that his wife broke 2 teeth.

Our Mechanics

 I got to quilt the rest of the day.

Our 1840's Farm House

Blessings,
Chris