It's A Flimsy! Dakota Farmer

It's a flimsy!

Dakota Farmer

64 x 80

Why is it called Dakota Farmer?

That's what Bonnie Hunter called it in her Addicted to Scraps column in the November/December 2013 issue of Quiltmaker.  Bonnie Hunter used 2 inch (unfinished) HSTs to make her blocks but I used 2.5 inch HSTs because that's what I had on hand. 

I started making blocks as a Rainbow Scrap Challenge project back in January 2020 and it is one of the last quilts to come out of my 2.5 inch scrap box. 

I just sewed blocks together randomly. And, gosh, that was a lot of points to match up! Well, actually, not all of them actually match up but that will be our little secret. 

This completes my OMG (One Monthly Goal) for January. However, I'm continuing on to complete more quilt tops. I just wanted to get that goal of "at least one" out of the way. 

We've had lots of snow (9 inches, I think) and even more ice on top of the snow so it was a dangerous walk outside to take pictures. I couldn't take my usual clothesline photos because all of the clothespins and the clothesline were encased in ice.  So I posed my flimsy on the old Concord grape vine trellis. (There are no grapes on this trellis anymore. When my father- in- law moved in with us long ago he thought he would do us a favor and prune the vines and he pruned a little too much, bless his heart). 

Everything here is coated in hoarfrost and it is actually very beautiful - a winter wonderland.  When the sun shines everything glistens like jewels.  But the sun has not been shining much. 

Early this morning when the moon was still high in the sky and the sun was rising everything white glowed pink. 

I was hoping to get a good picture of the sun rising across the road but my timing was a little off. 

 Ok. Well, back to the warm sewing room....