The Rancher's Wife finally Found Time to Stitch Some Quilt Along Blocks

Last week was a too many trips to town week, but the reasons for going have been for fun. I had to make one day an errand day, but the rest of the trips were for a Safari Club Banquet, and a wedding which had me making an extra trip a day earlier in order to help prepare all the food. I think I made 100 jalapeno poppers and peeled about 200 shrimp. Needless to say, with the green chile chicken enchiladas, red beef enchiladas, pork tacos, and everything else that a sweet daughter, who is expecting, put together, we had enough food to feed people for a  month. :)

The happy couple is now headed to happily ever after and I am NOT going back to town for as long as I can manage.

I am woefully behind on John'aLee's Rancher's Daughter Quilt Along. I think they are on block 7...or possibly 8 and I hadn't even chosen a color scheme. Then I spied a pile. This pile:

I won this very generous collection from Kelly over at Charming Chatter in 2011. It's Wuthering Heights from Moda and I thought it would be just the ticket for this quilt along.

It takes me a coon's age to decide on fabrics for each part of the blocks, but I'm thinking these all came together in a collection so everything will play nicely in the blocks.

So I have managed to piece together block 1:

  Block 2 - which for some reason looks quite twisted. It really isn't. I think it is being poked in the back by an unruly bit of hay, and an uncooperative wind. I kind of look like that too after one of our windy days:

Block 3

and Block 4:

 I am really enjoying these sweet fabrics and their pretty colors and John'aLee is putting together some darling blocks that are a joy to piece.

However, I have heard that the next blocks will be a challenge. Taking a deep breath...and making sure I still have that emergency supply of chocolate.