The State of Missouri Quilt Pattern Block

This is my State of Missouri’s Quilt Pattern Block. Have fun with color on this block, try two colors in the color pinwheel. Change the four-patch to each square being a different color.

The finished quilt block is fourteen inches by fourteen inches.

Book Three of US State Quilt Block Pattern by The Quilt Ladies

First 10 State Quilt Block Patterns

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado,
Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia

Second 10 State Quilt Block Patterns

Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland

Third 10 State Quilt Block Patterns

Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi,
Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada,
New Hampshire, New Jersey

Fourth 10 State Quilt Block Patterns

New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota,
Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina

Fifth 10 State Quilt Block Patterns

South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont,
Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

Beth

How to Survive Retirement my new book

The Quilt Ladies ONLY on Kindle and NOOK

The Quilt Ladies Quilt Pattern Etsy Shop HERE for YOU

Super Bowl Food and Memories from LONG Ago !

We have been working on a house rearrange and I found my Mom’s box of recipes at the bottom of a drawer. I love seeing her and my Grandmother’s handwriting.

Mom’s Orange Slush and it’s FANTASTIC ! I remember a HOT summer and my cousin Norma and I sitting on a beach with our kids running all around, playing in the water and the two of us having Slushes and a BALL with four little boys. Husband’s were cooking, and bring us drinks, it’s was one of my favorite times at my folk’s cabin.

This hot cheese dip is the one we all make, Mom would always say, “Just eat it, DON’T look at it, it tastes so much better than it looks !” We all would wait for her to say it every time.

This is my Grandma Glade’s recipe and that first ingredient is LARD ! ONE of the best cakes ever, with LARD. Grandma didn’t measure anything, it was a palm of LARD !

Have a fun super bowl

Beth

How to Survive Retirement my new book

The Quilt Ladies ONLY on Kindle and NOOK

The Quilt Ladies Quilt Pattern Etsy Shop HERE for YOU

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A Few of my Favorite State Quilt Pattern Blocks

Here are a couple of my state quilt pattern blocks that by the numbers they are YOUR favorites too !

Check out my Etsy Shop of all My Quilt Patterns

Rhode Island

Virginia

Montana

First 10 State Quilt Block Patterns

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado,
Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia

Second 10 State Quilt Block Patterns

Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland

Third 10 State Quilt Block Patterns

Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi,
Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada,
New Hampshire, New Jersey

Fourth 10 State Quilt Block Patterns

New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota,
Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina

Fifth 10 State Quilt Block Patterns

South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont,
Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

Beth Ann

How to Survive Retirement my new book

The Quilt Ladies Quilt Pattern Etsy Shop HERE for YOU

Put on Some RED Lipstick and Let’s Quilt

My Quilt Pattern, Put on Some RED Lipstick and Let’s Quilt is an eBook ready for YOU !

The quilt has a finished size of fifty-four inches by seventy-four inches (54″x74″) HERE for YOU at a great price

Beth

How to Survive Retirement my new book

The Quilt Ladies ONLY on Kindle and NOOK

The Quilt Ladies Quilt Pattern Etsy Shop HERE for YOU

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Making Homemade Brownies – The Quilt Ladies

Today is National Chocolate Cake day and let’s say…my cakes aren’t what I would call the best. BUT my brownie’s are! Or Hershey’s are!

Hershey Brownie Recipe You know when you pull out the Hershey Cocoa, the recipe is going to be perfect. HERE’S their website

1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine (Use butter)
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 eggs
¾ cup HERSHEY’S Cocoa or HERSHEY’S SPECIAL DARK Cocoa
1 cup all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Heat oven to 350°F. Grease 13x9x2-inch baking pan.

Place butter in large microwave-safe bowl. Microwave at MEDIUM (50%) 2 to 2-1/2 minutes or until melted. Stir in sugar and vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well with spoon after each addition. Add cocoa; beat until well blended. Add flour, baking powder and salt; beat well. Stir in nuts, if desired. Pour batter into prepared pan.

Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from sides of the pan. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Frost if desired. Cut into bars. About 36 brownies.

CHOCOLATE FUDGE FROSTING

1/3 cup butter or margarine
2/3 cup HERSHEY’S Cocoa
2-2/3 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Melt butter in small saucepan over low heat; add cocoa, stirring constantly until smooth.(Mixture will be very thick.) Remove from heat; pour into medium bowl. Cool slightly.

Add powdered sugar alternately with milk and vanilla, beating to spreading consistency. About 2 cups frosting.

THEY are PERFECT ! !

Beth

How to Survive Retirement my new book

The Quilt Ladies ONLY on Kindle and NOOK

The Quilt Ladies Quilt Pattern Etsy Shop HERE for YOU

This post may contain affiliate links. I will receive a few cents if you click to their site and purchase

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My State of South Dakota Quilt Pattern Block for YOU !

Let’s make a Quilt Block TODAY. This is my South Dakota State Quilt Patten Block. Finished size is fourteen inches by fourteen inches. See my Etsy Shop for quilt block HERE

Fifth 10 State Quilt Block Patterns

South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
ALL HERE for YOU

Beth Ann

How to Survive Retirement my new book

The Quilt Ladies ONLY on Kindle and NOOK

The Quilt Ladies Quilt Pattern Etsy Shop HERE for YOU

Back into the Swing of Things – Write it Wednesday

We have been traveling a bit and it’s funny to me how we can’t wait to leave home and then we can’t wait to get home. It’s probably a good thing, but we did have a good time and I had a great birthday. I added 3 more days to my vacation, or I WAS home….which I have to say is self-care on my part. Self-care has so many definitions in my dictionary these days.

The coming back to reality is always a bit of a struggle for me. I’m a parent again to my 90-year-old mother and it’s crazy that not ONE problem when I’m gone BUT when she knows I’m home, problems.

But…as usual, she had the last word. I arrived to see her on Monday, I signed in at 2:10, found her leaving the MLK Celebration, she wanted to go to her room.

As we rolled her through the dining room she saw an aide she likes and Mom said, “I want my shower. “

The aide looked at me and said, “But your family is here?”

My Mom said, “I don’t care, I want my shower.”

The aide said, “When?” Mom, “3:00”

So all those important things I had to come to do…..which I don’t have a clue about what they are… just not as important. It was her self-care time??? Seems that Apple didn’t fall far from the tree, HA

AND YES ! this is how lazy I have become! DELIVERED to my DOOR!

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Thank you for supporting my Etsy shop and my Books on Kindle and Nook, nothing is possible without your purchases, Thank You, Beth

How to Survive Retirement my new book

The Quilt Ladies ONLY on Kindle and NOOK

The Quilt Ladies Quilt Pattern Etsy Shop HERE for YOU

This post may contain affiliate links. I will receive a few cents if you click to their site and purchase

My State of Oregon Quilt Pattern Block – The Quilt Ladies

My State of Oregon Quilt Pattern Block. The quilt block has a finished size of fourteen inches by fourteen inches.

Oregon State Quilt Block Pattern NOW available

Fourth 10 State Quilt Block Patterns

New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina
ALL AVAILABLE NOW

Beth Ann

How to Survive Retirement my new book

on Kindle and NOW in Print

The Quilt Ladies ONLY on Kindle and NOOK

The Quilt Ladies Quilt Pattern Etsy Shop HERE for YOU

Today is My Birthday

I’m writing this a few days before my 61st Birthday, as I hope to be sitting on a beach, in the sun, with a drink!

Photo by Beth Ann Strub

Having a great 60th year has just set me up for more and more, better and better. I’m diving into a new art medium, taking more pictures, trying to get my quilt patterns into printed books, writing a list book and outlined my first novel (which will probably be years in the making, but what fun.)

Good Morning from the beach in Florida — Endless Ways to Go Today

So here goes another year in a life, MINE

Beth

How to Survive Retirement my new book

on Kindle and NOW in Print

The Quilt Ladies ONLY on Kindle and NOOK

The Quilt Ladies Quilt Pattern Etsy Shop HERE for YOU

The State of Idaho Quilt Pattern of the Week – The Quilt Ladies

The State of Idaho is this weeks quilt pattern block for you to make. Finished size is fourteen inches by fourteen inches.

This quilt block is my twist on a log cabin block, have fun and play with color. NOW available HERE

Second 10 State Quilt Block Patterns
Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland

Beth Ann

How to Survive Retirement my new book on KINDLE

How to Survive Retirement my new book in PRINT

The Quilt Ladies ONLY on Kindle and NOOK

The Quilt Ladies Quilt Pattern Etsy Shop HERE for YOU

This is my State of Missouri’s Quilt Pattern Block. Have fun with color on this block, try two colors in the color pinwheel. Change the four-patch to each square being a different color.

The finished quilt block is fourteen inches by fourteen inches.

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia

Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland

Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey

New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina

South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

Beth

We have been working on a house rearrange and I found my Mom’s box of recipes at the bottom of a drawer. I love seeing her and my Grandmother’s handwriting.

This hot cheese dip is the one we all make, Mom would always say, “Just eat it, DON’T look at it, it tastes so much better than it looks !” We all would wait for her to say it every time.

This is my Grandma Glade’s recipe and that first ingredient is LARD ! ONE of the best cakes ever, with LARD. Grandma didn’t measure anything, it was a palm of LARD !

Have a fun super bowl

Beth

Here are a couple of my state quilt pattern blocks that by the numbers they are YOUR favorites too !

Rhode Island

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia

Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland

Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey

New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina

South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

My Quilt Pattern, Put on Some RED Lipstick and Let’s Quilt is an eBook ready for YOU !

Beth

Today is National Chocolate Cake day and let’s say…my cakes aren’t what I would call the best. BUT my brownie’s are! Or Hershey’s are!

Hershey Brownie Recipe You know when you pull out the Hershey Cocoa, the recipe is going to be perfect. HERE’S their website

1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine (Use butter) 2 cups sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 4 eggs ¾ cup HERSHEY’S Cocoa or HERSHEY’S SPECIAL DARK Cocoa 1 cup all-purpose flour ½ teaspoon baking powder ¼ teaspoon salt 1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from sides of the pan. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Frost if desired. Cut into bars. About 36 brownies.

Beth

Let’s make a Quilt Block TODAY. This is my South Dakota State Quilt Patten Block. Finished size is fourteen inches by fourteen inches. See my Etsy Shop for quilt block HERE

Fifth 10 State Quilt Block Patterns South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming ALL HERE for YOU

Beth Ann

The coming back to reality is always a bit of a struggle for me. I’m a parent again to my 90-year-old mother and it’s crazy that not ONE problem when I’m gone BUT when she knows I’m home, problems.

But…as usual, she had the last word. I arrived to see her on Monday, I signed in at 2:10, found her leaving the MLK Celebration, she wanted to go to her room.

So all those important things I had to come to do…..which I don’t have a clue about what they are… just not as important. It was her self-care time??? Seems that Apple didn’t fall far from the tree, HA

AND YES ! this is how lazy I have become! DELIVERED to my DOOR!

My State of Oregon Quilt Pattern Block. The quilt block has a finished size of fourteen inches by fourteen inches.

Beth Ann

I’m writing this a few days before my 61st Birthday, as I hope to be sitting on a beach, in the sun, with a drink!

So here goes another year in a life, MINE

Beth

The State of Idaho is this weeks quilt pattern block for you to make. Finished size is fourteen inches by fourteen inches.

This quilt block is my twist on a log cabin block, have fun and play with color. NOW available HERE

Second 10 State Quilt Block Patterns Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland

Beth Ann

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado,
Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia

Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland

Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi,
Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada,
New Hampshire, New Jersey

New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota,
Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina

South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont,
Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado,
Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia

Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland

Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi,
Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada,
New Hampshire, New Jersey

New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota,
Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina

South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont,
Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine (Use butter)
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 eggs
¾ cup HERSHEY’S Cocoa or HERSHEY’S SPECIAL DARK Cocoa
1 cup all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Fifth 10 State Quilt Block Patterns

South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
ALL HERE for YOU

Second 10 State Quilt Block Patterns
Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland