A Prairie Home Companion

Matt and I went to see A Prairie Home Companion live at Elliot Hall of Music on Purdue’s campus over the weekend.  We had a pretty good time.  I got to go to Von’s before the show, and what could be better than seeing the Purdue Varsity Glee Club and Old Crow Medicine Show preform…

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(Not) Purdue Quilt Top Finished!

I’m super excited that I’ve got the quilt top for my little sister Samantha done!  As you may recall, she wanted a “Purdue quilt, that wasn’t really a Purdue quilt.” My solution? Use Purdue colors in a fun scrappy pattern. I ended up using the Squares & Strips quilt top tutorial from Cluck, Cluck, Sew!…

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(Not) Purdue Quilt Update

As you know from my previous post, I’m working on a quilt for my sister Samantha.  I’m super excited about how the quilt is coming along, and I’m even starting to like the colors.  Not that I don’t like black and gold – I am a Purdue Alum myself.  Boiler Up!  I just wasn’t sure…

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The (Not Quite) Purdue Quilt

Ever since I told my youngest sister, Samantha, that I was making Kayla a quilt for her wedding, Samantha has wanted me to make her one.  And now that I’ve used up a good portion of my scrap fabric and smaller stash pieces with the crazy quilt, the baby quilt for Lukas, the School Days…

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Trip to SIPAC

This weekend was the Indiana Farm Bureau District #9 Annual Meeting at the Southern Indiana Purdue Agricultural Center, henceforth to be known as the meeting at SIPAC.  It wasn’t much of a meeting, mostly it was a tour of the SIPAC facilities.  I learned a lot, and it was a pretty fun trip.  I went…

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