HOW CUTE! my favorite is cross stitch but would love to start making fun quilting projects. Thanks for the giveaway! Blessings to all!

I like to crochet or do applique on quilt patterns. I love doing things with my hands, sewing or crocheting or quilting.
Idle hands, devil’s workshop……….

I like to knit & crochet. I’ve also been sewing since i was 12 or so.

I love hand embroidery and cross stitch.

I love to make pretty embroidery on pillowcases and give to my friends. I used to crochet doilies and throws. My sister-in-law asked me to make a pretty throw cover out of the granny square pattern which turned out very well.

currently i do not do much hand stitching. i dream of getting back to it and small quilting is one thing i think of.

I have made some of your patterns and they are so easy to understand. I enjoy making small projects the most.

I have made 3 queen sized quilts, several lap quilts that I gave away, and now I sew with a group of ladies from a local church. We sew tote bags, dresses and shorts for Nicaragua missions, adult bibs, capes and lap robes for the nursing homes, baby blankets and bibs for a local pregnancy agency for unwed mothers, pillows for the hospital and other items.

I love the Patch Abilities kits. I have finished a couple of the kits; Butterfly house, XMas Stocking, Thanksgiving turkey, etc. I love to quilt and do some cross stitch projects. I am currently sewing up some aprons for my sisters and I to wear when we are quilting. Thanks!

I recently experimented with punch needle embroidery and throughly enjoyed it…I would love to expand my horizons to mini quilting next!

My current favorite past time is cross-stitching. Love the relaxation of it and seeing the finished project come to life.

I love to quilt, cross-stitch, crochet and sew aprons! I always have many projects going at one time!

I have done everything in stitching over the years but now do quilting. Love to applique using cotton and wool. Love your designs that they are happy and doable in a short period of time.

My favorite stitching pastimes are embroidery and crewel. I just love slowly “painting” a picture with thread like you can with these wonderful art forms.

Loved embroidering when I was a kid and keep coming back to it again and again over the years. Shortly after I was married (way back in 1968) I embroidered a tiger tiger face in a ring of flowers from a kit I bought at Sears. Was probably a real spurge back then, but it’s still hanging on my wall!

EVERYTHING I can learn. I hand knit scarves, create repurposed jean gifts, working on crochet to make a rug and sewing and I cross stitch whenever I can.
Most go as gifts but I do sell some too!
A customer sent me a box of jeans and sweatshirts from her deceased husband and I pieced them together to make her a lap quilt with a sweatshirt pocket lining so she could put her hands in it.
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I love making little girls fancy church dresses! When my daughters were little I LOVED the expensive stuff so I just learned to sew it. I would go through the remnants and get the five for a dollar patterns and we looked like a million bucks. Those patterns taught me to sew and didn’t require a lot of tailoring the way womens patterns do.

I really enjoy hand sewing, because you can take it with you to appointments and sports events. I LOVE quilting! Thanks for all you do for us!

These mini quilts look adorable. I love to knit and spin. Right now I am knitting doll dresses for my grand-daughters

I just sewed an Annie Oakley outfit for my 9 year old granddaughter and I have sewn quilts for 5 of my six grandchildren. I started out finishing the first one soon after their birth. I have one left to quilt for my almost 5 year old grandson. My daughter designed it and it is animals gathering wood for a camp fire to roast acorns. I better get busy!

I make prayer lap quilts and I always love doing the satin stitch and French knots for flowers

Congrats to Brenda! I’d love to see your new bag in action if you get a chance! You can email me through my Etsy shop! Happy Line Drying!

I am born & bred farm girl, e.g. my farm heritage goes back to Denmark on my dad’s side. I am oldest of 8 kids who worked the family farm in southcentral Idaho. I still live in the same county with my husband (an Indiana farm kid) and we own 97 acres of lava rock interspersed with sand & loam. Mostly I garden, in raised beds due to lava bed beneath. It is so satisfying to eat a meal that is mostly home grown, organically of course. Our load of compost from local dairies is coming soon. I love to plan my vegie garden on paper first, then use it for reference during the season. We also plant food & cover crops for wildlife (deer, pheasants, waterfowl, etc.), cooperating with Idaho Fish and Game and US Fish and Wildlife Service. Yay, farming!!

I am a true FarmGirl…. I live on a beef cattle farm with my husband. We have Angus beef cattle. I love gardening. I also bottle raised a premature calf that only weighed 25 lbs when born, (considering other baby calfs weigh approximately 90lbs when born). It was a lot of hard and work and sometimes heartaches when I thought she wasn’t going to make it… Thank God she did. She now will be four years old in June and had a baby bull of her own. Needless to say she is the queen of the barnyard. Her name is Summer Girl… and she will never be sold or ate! I also grow Atlantic Giant Pumpkins. That can be quite a challenge as there is so many obstacles to overcome that someone would never think of until they try it their self. This year I reached my best personal goal of 1,026.5 lbs… I am looking forward to pumpkin season starting up in April… I give my husband a hand with tagging, shots and banding, and weighing our baby calves when they are born. I also give him a hand with haying. My job is raking and putting the hay in wind rows. I truly love being a Farm Girl…

We live in a country suburban atmosphere. I enjoy getting my raised beds ready for planting my veggie garden. My 8 yr. old granddaughter also enjoys helping Nana with planning and planting. Watching the seeds grow in their different stages. I have been doing this for many years with my granddaughter. It’s a great learning experience for us. I also have fruit trees that bear us fruit. Love the idea that might near all our fruit and veggies are homegrown and pesticide free/organic. My children live close by and I share my harvesting with them. I live in TX. so I can plant almost year round and what I don’t share I can.

I plant a small garden 🙂

I shovel manure everyday I call it my Glamour Work I would rather clean the barn or the chicken coop than my house😀

I raised 3 kids to love the farm life. My dh died when they were teens. Because of the aftermath, I couldn’t give them much except some old buildings , and the love of a farm life. Today as young adults, all three have soil in their veins, and are actively involved in various agricultural endeavors. I cant even explain how happy i am to see my son rubbing the soil between his fingers, anothet son whose smile you cant wipe off his face, all because he gets to run a combine, or my dd who is learning so much about vegtables. I did it and I am proud of myself…..

What makes me a farmgirl: I wear my Muck boots with dresses, I long for nice days so that I can dry our clothes outside in the fresh air, my counters are frequently filled with bubbly fermentation experiments, we’re in the process of purchasing land to urban farm on, and despite having no yard temporarily.. I was determined to have a garden so we have a concrete driveway with a gigantic rolling raised bed! I cannot wait to have my chickies, goats and milk cow next year!

I am country at heart. Been canning for 47 years, make my own soaps, lotions, and working hard at detoxing all I can. Would love to know what the best kettles are that are safe. (?), anyone done the research?

Farm girl at heart. I’m in the big city have always grown something even whrn I didn’t have a yard, a porch would do. No porch a windowsill! Now I’m lucky enough to have a garden plot at a community garden and even get to visit and feed the chickens in another. It’s just peace.

I live on twelve acres in Kentucky, have five beautiful egg laying chickens whom I call the girls, no roosters, there is a sign on the door of their coop that reads “No Boys Allowed”. I tell my husband every chance I get that my next husband is going to let me have a tractor, that’s probably not going to happen considering I turned sixty eight today and have been married to him fifty one of those years. I love the smell of freshly turned fields, new mowed hay and the sound of the deep creek that surrounds my place running over the rocks. Everything country is me!

As far back as I remember, growing up in San Francisco, all I wanted was to live on a ranch. I was a horse crazy little girl. All my dreams eventually came true and although I no longer have my own horses, I still live the farm life. I’ve been gardening for many years and now at age 74, after moving to a small house, am about to build myself some raised beds so I can at least grow my own veggies. I believe you are born with this desire to love and care for the land.

I left suburbia and got some chickens!

I was raised on a dairy farm, the dairy is gone, but our family still owns the land. Growing up, My mom and I had a 7 acre garden (I thought it was 5 acres, until last year when my brothers set me straight!) To this day I have always had a garden, whether it was pots on an apartment balcony or a garden spot in the corner of the lot. Now I have a combination of a raised bed (hoping for an additional one this year), ground planting and container plantings. Just today I started my onion and shallot seeds inside. I can’t wait to get started in the garden each year, half wishing it was still my “7 acre patch”, but knowing that at my age now, I probably better stick to my back yard!

Growing up farm country girl, I sometimes took for granted the joy of it. The hard work ethics have carried me into adulthood. I love going home to my mother’s true farm, helping her with things I didn’t enjoy as much but knew had to be done as a child. I CHERISH THEM NOW. I still sew and make homemade crafts, I love canning and calling Mama for advice when I’m trying something new. I garden on a smaller scale. Love homegrown vegetables. At the moment starting to make homemade soap. I’m looking forward to retirement so I can go back to my roots and teach my grandchildren the BLESSINGS of farming. I AM KICKING MY SHOES OFF ALL DAY LONG GOING BAREFOOT WHEN EVER POSSIBLE!

I grew up on a farm, I learned so much about gardening and my Mom’s deep love for the flowers she planted at the edge of her garden every year! I do the same in memory of her!

I’m a small town country girl. I plant a large vegetable garden every year that I plan during the winter months and when summer comes that’s where I spend most of my free time. I also raise chickens as a hobby.

I was born a farm girl on my parents 120 acre ranch in Missouri . . . and then I grew up to integrate farming into my life with my little 2 acre hobby homestead. I have a breed conservancy project going with my meat rabbits, and I also raise chickens and dairy goats. I love being a farm girl!

A toolkit for women farmers ~ now that’s the kind of book that belongs tucked into a girl’s bag and carried everywhere!

I have had a small farm for forty years now with chickens and a VERY large veggie garden. We raise most of our own vegetables for the year and give the extras to the local soup kitchen and food bank. It’s a lot of work, but it gives me a great deal of joy as well.

I was not raised on a farm, but my grandparents owned one and I lived only 3 miles from them. I loved to go to the farm and check everything out. My grandfather taught me to drive his tractor, ride the combine & hay wagon. He shared with me how the soybeans and wheat grew, what the farm needed to sustain itself. I also love the barn and especially the pigs. Chickens and I did not get along, especially my grandmother’s prize rooster. He attacked me many times before grandma rescued me by ringing his neck when she caught him jumping on my neck! I even raised a couple of ducks. Farming to me also is about the picnics, family dinners, fresh veggies & fruits, and sitting in grandma’s favorite apple tree–when I didn’t get caught! I learned many lessons on my grandparents farm for which I truly am glad. My hubby was raised on a couple farms, too. We have 40 acres and do a garden, apple orchards, rhubarb & asparagus. And then on the back of the place is where my glamper sits and I enjoy going to each each day. Life is good! A farmgirl even if only in small ways and big dreams!

My family tries to live self-sustaining! We raise our own Beef, Chicken, Pork. We grow all our own vegetables. My dad has honeybees and we also have many different apple, pear and peach trees. For many years I raised my own calfs and sold them to earn money. Although I live at home right now, I plan to do all these things when I have a home of my own. Plus more!! Hopefully that will include owning a milk cow!

I grew up on a farm. A chicken farm. My dad was great at what he did raising those chickens. We never had problems with people knowing there was a chicken around because he kept the coops clean and we had many happy, healthy hens for all those years. He is 90 now and lives with us. I glean much from him about taking care of our hens and about gardening. We always had a big garden and with free fertilizer right in the hen house. 😊 I enjoy learning all I can about gardening. I feel like I am getting part of my childhood back as I was the baby of my family and I was born later in my parents life. I enjoy all the memories we are making now as well as the ones from my childhood. I have always considered myself a farmgirl.

When I was a girl I lived on a farm with my parents and 2 brothers in New York State. My grandmother had owned the land and sold it to my mother. Later on after we moved out west to Arizona, my uncle lived on the farm but didn’t pay the taxes so it was lost back to the state. I remember so many good things about our farm. I had chickens and a calf and dogs and kittens, a snow fort in the winter, woods to roam in the summer, bath-time in a metal tub with rainwater from the barrel outside our modest little house. We had a cellar with a trap door in the living room floor and stairs into the cellar where we had shelves of home grown canned foods. Simple everyday life. Nowadays I keep a flower garden, strawberry patch, and grow tomatoes and peppers in our front yard and we have a few raspberry and blackberry bushes that were given to us by a neighbor. Back yard is our dogs patch. I came across your magazine about a year ago, subscribed and read them front to back and over and over. I will renew my subscription this month. Have purchased a few things from your magazine and those who you advertise there. I hope to have chickens, but my son says no to the backyard cow. I am 71 and enjoying every minute of life.

I am a farm girl at heart! My mom was raised on a farm and as a young girl, I loved visiting my grandparents and spending time in their garden eating ground cherries and being out in nature! Although my dad was raised a city boy, he was the one who planted a vegetable garden, raised a goat and chickens and learned all he could about being a farmer when I was a child. Now, my husband and I own a small property by a river. I grow vegetables, including corn, herbs, and fruit. I have 2 concord grapevines. I have learned how to make grape jam, can, pickle, store and preserve the harvest. I would love to be a full-fledged farm with a cow, goats, and chickens (my neighbors chickens visit me on a regular basis)! Each year I am learning more about homesteading. I even made cold frames to extend the growing season! Each year my garden gets bigger and bigger! I would love a copy of Soil Sisters!

I live on a small homestead in Southwest MS, a recently retired determined to raise Boer goats and heritage poultry. I could glean useful information from this book!

we grow our own food and canning too. This is a book I would love to own and keep. I read a lot on farming for information and try to stay up to date on what other people share in farming