Mountain Homeplace...part 1

Friday, Richard surprised me with a little day trip!  BTW...this post does have some antique quilts in it.  :)  I thought we were going to get some plants for the garden and we did but we made a pitstop first.  Richard and I got married at a little historical place here in KY that is not too far from where we live now, about 40 minutes actually.  It is called Mountain Homeplace.  We got married in the yard of this historical home 14 yrs ago. 

 Here is a photo of us on that day...

 I took many photos today so I will have to break them up into a few different posts.  I hope you enjoy them and they do have quilts in a few of the buildings.  :)  This is another photo of the house with the barn in the background. 

 Hunter standing in front of the house.  We were married in the side yard.  Hunter had never been here and Richard and I had not been back since the wedding.  We were actually the first couple to ever be married there.  Now the guy said that they have 20+ weddings a year. 

 Another view of the outside...

 Inside the house is some wonderful antique furniture and some quilts. 

 A beautiful quilt on one of the beds...

 The fireplace...

 I just loved this quilt...

 Another one....

 The old stove in the kitchen...

 They also had a loom set up in one of the rooms. 

 I had such a wonderful day and did not even know where we were going until we pulled in.  That made it more special.  

Much more to come....I have more quilt photos, animals, the old Church and much more. 

Prepping Hexies!

 I've been prepping a bunch of hexies.  This is what I have been doing for the past few days while spending some time on the couch.   Most of these are thread basted but the past few days I have been glue basting them.  The glue basting goes much faster.  Sadly I have several different hexie and EPP projects going at the same time. 

 Today is Award's Day at Hunter's school so I will be going to that.  Love my boy and so proud of him.  Things like this are very important to Hunter so I try my best to be there.  

I know this is a short little post but I will leave you with a photo of Leo!  :)

Debating...

I pieced one more star.  I'm still not sure how far that I will go with these.  Maybe a table runner or a lap quilt. 

Here are two stars that I made from the same fabric.  They look totally different.  That is one thing that I like about fussy cutting them.

I'm thinking that I may need to take a break from my hexies for a week or two.  I'm debating on how that I want to finish it and that got me stressed out.  LOL!  I have most of the sections peiced and now they just need to be sewn together.  It's the edges that I'm not sure about.  I'm not sure if I want the sides straight and the top and bottom shaped like the hexies.  I don't even know if I want to hand quilt it or machine quilt it.  I will figure it out, I'm sure but right now I just need to walk away from it.  

I worked on a few Windmills also.   It felt good to get back to these. 

I ended up piecing 18 more of them. 

Adding 18 more of them now takes me to a total of 126!  Sounds like a lot but I actually need 402 more of them!!!  For what I have planned I need 528 of them. 

I also pieced a few more of these tiny 4 patches.  They finish at 2".  I have 100 of them done and I guess I will work on these on and off for a bit or just use them as a leader/end project.  These are for a long term project and I need a million more of them. 

So it's Memorial Day weekend, I know a lot of people have cookouts and such but we are not doing anything really.  Richard and Andrew are working all weekend.  Hunter has a friend staying over and I'm just hanging out.  LOL!