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** Hometown Charms! Block #5 **
I really want a parade or a festival now!
*** Sloan Zone Ambassador team *** with their Holidays!
Laura - Santa and Mrs Claus being pulled by a horse drawn sleigh is always a hit
Kendall- The Lilac Festival, established in 1951, occurs every October long weekend. The festival, one of Australia’s longest running, welcomes a myriad of food, flowers, festival markets, music, and heritage celebrations to Goulburn. A traditional shop-front competition runs that sees the main street dotted with lilac windows while the central Belmore Park is green, blossoming and air abuzz with the sounds of live music in the rotunda and the annual Joyland carnival. There is a huge parade along the main street. In years past the parade entries were beatiful! It all finished with The crowning of the Lilac Queen and a massive fire work display. Good times.
Kathy - Fireworks displays done by the city, and parades for every holiday
Melissa - Hometown Holidays: When school was out for christmas a few days before the holiday they would show a christmas movie in the auditorium for free. All the kids would come and it was free. Upon leaving the movie we were told boys out the left door and girls out the right door. As we left each child was given a wrapped christmas present. I got a 3ft. tall doll. Such great memories. I believe the organization was the Masons and the Eastern Star
Barbara - Wildlights at the Columbus Zoo. We would make several big thermos of hot chocolate, take bags of marshmallows, and lots of homemade cookies and spend several hours walking around the zoo looking at all the beautiful light displays and any animals that were still out and could be seen.
Suzanne - In Wingdale the fire department drives Santa Claus and an eve or two around on all the roads and gives candy canes and a small trinket to kids who come out to greet the truck. Lights and horns going the whole way. The next town over has a house that holds the world record for lighting displays. I have not seen it in person in a few years. It is very hard to get to see it. There are lines for miles every night during the season. (Ill see if I can find a link if you need it)
Lyleen - Here in Durham there is the lighting of the Lucky Strike water tower at the American Tobacco Campus. The schools send choruses and bands to perform. It is very fun. Also WRAL will light their 300 ft transmission tower. Duke Chappel has a mulit-choral performance of Handel's Messiah. There are many other celebrations for the holiday season.
With Week #4 we have options! This week and question on some blocks popped up which reminded me of a sew along we did a few years back. They are all 12" finished blocks which are great options if you want to swap blocks for any of the 12" finished in this project.
Our Ambassador Team also shares their memories today, can you relate to any of them?
...Let's get to it!
Hometown Charms Block #4 - PATTERN AFTER THE HOMETOWN note
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** Hometown Charms! Block #4 **
Where do your hangout in your town? A deli, coffee shop, Ice-cream stand, the bowling alley, maybe.. the beach or a Marina? Share about current or childhood hangouts when you share your block.
I can't decide which sailboat I like best! let me know your fav!
*** Sloan Zone Ambassador team *** with their Hangouts!
Carrie F – my hometown memories are the pool, the library, and the pizza place. I'd send my kids to walk by themselves to the town pool while I cleaned the house and would meet up with them later....it's exactly what my own mother did 20 some years earlier. Same with the library. We all love the library. My sons ,as I was, were free-range kids...I'm sure parents can't do that now. When I didn't feel like cooking we sat in the hot, steamy pizza place and ate the extra cheesy pizza.
Bobbie - Frozen custard stand. Its the local 'bar' for families... baseball teams, scouts etc !!! Custard is like ice cream just different. Hot summer evenings.. lines of folks standing outside as they wait their turn... feels like Mayberry or the Sound of Music.
Carrie G - When I was in these schools, and now my kids are, after plays and concerts we'd all gather at a local ice cream shop to continue the celebration and catch up. Kids sat with kids and parents with parents. Loads of laughter and stories. Love that I did this as a kid, and now my own are too.
Lyleen - In the summer we would hang out at the beach whenever possible. We also spent a lot of time at each other's homes with occasional visits to Pizza Hut or Wendys.
Dorris - I lived too far out in the country to be able to "hang out" in town, but I did enjoy going to the high school basketball games and high school football games once I was old enough to drive. I always took my two younger brothers with me, but they went their way and I went mine once we were there.
Suzanne - Our road ended just past the next house after mine. There was a Y intersection there where the entrance to two abandoned camps where. There was a fence on one and that was the perfect backstop for a wiffleball diamond. That is where the neighborhood kids hung out. All six of us.
Kendall - The place to be on a Friday night or Saturday was the Roller Rink/Bowling Alley and entertainment centre. As a teenager my friends and I could always be found either bowling or skating.
Barbara - During the summer the “hangout” was the local pool. Everyone was there from open to close as often as possible!
Melissa -The local hang out in Wellington was the parking lot in the town square. All the teens would park their cars and chat and cruise through town. In the winter we had a hill for sledding and kids from all over town would sled all day long. On Sat. it was the local roller rink located in the beautiful town hall. After the H.S. basketball games there was always a sock hop held in the gym. Such a fun place to grow up. We had a city pool and a state park to swim at and gather.
::The 2 photos above are from Gina! She quilted the main project for the Fat Qaurter shop. then she make a table runner version from the spooky box pattern (in different fabric) Watch at her Youtube channel and be sure to subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuA7ttzihgA&t=299s
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I stitched one on the same 14ct that I did the Boo Crew on. I used a little left over piece.
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