The Pecan Tree did not Lie

When we first moved here we planted a Pecan tree in the front yard.
My Mom told me that you could tell when winter was over when the Pecan tree budded out.
It hasn't yet.

Yesterday it was 87.3°F at 17:12

Today it's drizzling at 11:32am and 34.6°F

There are freeze warnings out for some of the counties near here in:
Cooke, Grayson, Jack, Montague, Palo Pinto, Wise



I'm in Tarrant.

Take Flight Quilt -- flying geese block

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Quilt Size: 76" x 81"

• 2 Packs of 5" Squares
• 3 3/4 yds. Background Fabric
• 1 1/2 yds. of Border Fabric (cut to make 6" border)
• 2 1/2 yds. of Backing



Layer a 5" square and a 5" background fabric square right sides together and sew around all the outside edges. Cut diagonally from the corners. = 4 half square triangle squares. 'Square up' these to 3". Sew these together to make the geese. = 2 geese. Sew 4 geese in a row.
You need 3 geese assemblies per row.

Cut Background fabric same width as the geese blocks (5 1/2"). and 12 1/2" long.
You need 3 background fabric lengths per row.

Sew alternately; geese unit and background fabric unit. Then sew the 2 ends together into a loop.
Fold lengthwise randomly and cut on fold in one of the background units. Do this for all the rows at various places. Leave 4 of the rows as originally done without sewing into a loop.
Sew 3 of the rows with the background fabric unit to the other end of the row.
Arrange so the geese strips all point the same direction and sew rows together.

Sew border.

Sew 14 rows.

Dutchman's Puzzle Quilt

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74" x 92"

1 Pack of 10" Squares (42x) Print
1 Pack of 10" Squares (42x) Solid
1/4 yds. of Cornerstones (2 1/2" squares)
2 yds. of Sashing (2 1/2" wide)
1 1/4 yds. of Border (4" wide border)

Layer 2 Fabric and Background fabric 10" squares right sides together. Draw lines diagonally from corners and sew 1/4" either of these 2 lines. Cut from middle of sewn block sides (in half and half again) into quarters and then cut along drawn lines from corner to corner. = 8 half square triangle squares.

Sew the half square triangles into geese. = 4 geese units.

Sew 2 geese together to make a geese unit. Arrange all 4 units so the colors are in the same color order for the block and make a pinwheel.


Cut 2 1/2" sashing to the length of the sides of the block. Sew to one block side and then sew to the next block and so on into a row (4 blocks wide).

Sew sashing strips to cornerstones in a row and then sew to 4 block unit row.
Repeat construction of block rows with sashing strip rows ( 5 rows of blocks and sashing)