Trip To Kentucky

I mentioned the other day that my husband and I made a trip to Kentucky for the 2006 Streetrod Nationals held at the Kentucky State Fairgrounds just outside of the Louisville Airport. My father-in-law has been to this show every year since it started with his beautiful 1931 Ford Model A Roadster. He was receiving an award for "every year" attendance and wanted Scott and I to be there.



You can see him standing behind his car.

At this show, with the exception of a few specialty vehicles, all cars had to be 1948 and older so I wasn't stuck looking at Cameros and Corvettes! These were all really old, beautifully restored cars.





I won't bore you with the 50 car photos that Scott took but if you're interested in seeing some of the car pictures, you can visit my Flickr site to see more of them.

Kentucky is one of the most beautiful states I've been to! While there, we did a bit of sightseeing. This is the result of one of my navigating errors! Abraham Lincoln's Birthplace, just outside of Bardstown. No, Pam doesn't know North from South! But this mistake turned out to be a good one!





We also visited the "My Old Kentucky Home" state park, also in Bardstown. This house belonged to the cousin of 1800's American composer, Stephen Foster. While visiting his cousin, he wrote the American classic song, "My Old Kentucky Home" which is now the state song of Kentucky.



We arrived here a bit late and found that the buildings were closed for the day but we were able to walk the grounds and see the house up close.

This a very rare photo of me standing by the front door. I usually avoid having my picture taken but Scott wanted me there to show how large the front door is.



I'm wondering if I have any readers from Kentucky or anywhere in the southern states who can tell me what this is. It's some sort of fruit or nut growing on a tree at the "My Old Kentucky Home" state park. Being that we're from northern Illinois, we don't recognize it and Scott and I are just beside ourselves trying to find out what this is:



As I said, Kentucky is beautiful! The people are wonderful and just as friendly as can be! I really loved it there!

Tomorrow, I'll share photos of the unbelieveably huge fabric store that we stopped in down in Paducah, Kentucky! In the meantime, there's alot more photos over at my Flickr site including another photo of me if you'd like to see them.

100 Details In 100 Days - Day 56

Ellas Floral And Lattice
Originally uploaded by Kitty And Me.

Today's detail is another of Ella's original patterns. If you're wondering who Ella is, see my post from yesterday (Day 55).

I'll have some of my Kentucky photos for you later today. I'm having a terrible time getting into my blogger account today. Am doing this post through Flickr so I hope it goes through.

New Projects

I started this little project last night. The design is from one of my vintage transfers. I think it's from a Superior Transfer design. Anyway, I'm using Overdyed Floss from Needle Necessitities. I have so many threads, I forget sometimes what I have! These are beautiful hand dyed varigated threads.

I did just a bit of crayon tinting on the basket.



And this will be my Halloween #3 block. Another 5 inch block which I'll make into a doorknocker for my Etsy Boutique.



Tomorrow, I'll have some photos from our trip to Kentucky!

100 Details In 100 Days - Day 55

Yesterday, I mentioned that my husband and I went to an antique flea market in Wisconsin and I hit the transfer jackpot!

Well, I came across a large ziplock bag full of what I thought was misc. iron-on transfers. They were simply marked, "embroidery patterns" and at only $3.00 for the whole bagful, I didn't care of there were any duplicates to what I already have. I didn't look through them, I just handed the dealer my $3.00 and went on my merry way.

When I got home and sat down with my goodies, what I found in this bag was what I believe are all original hand drawn patterns. All done in pencil on either tissue paper and brown paper bags. The variety is amazing and most of them are signed, "Ella".

I thought it would be fun to share a few of them with you so today's detail is one of Ella's patterns. If you would like to see what outline embroidery looks like on a crazyquilt block, visit Karen South's blog. Be sure to scroll all the way down because she has several photos with beautiful embroidery and much of it outline work.

Click on any of my photos to go to my Flickr page where can download a larger version of any of my 100 Days patterns.

Halloween Block #2 Complete

Halloween 2
Originally uploaded by Kitty And Me.

I finished this piece yesterday afternoon while watching a 2 hour show about Moonshiners and Rumrunners on The History Channel. Facinating!

Anyway, I'll be starting on #3 in the next day or so. I'd like to stitch one of my vintage transfer designs first and I'm just itching to stitch one of Gina's peacocks! Sure wish I didn't have to sleep!