Welcome to Becca's Quest for Love and Country Creativity!
why: this posting features my latest rural creative spin for FQCB or FarmQuest Challenge Blog #73. The theme this time is "farmhouse in or out" so it could be outside the farmhouse on the porch or in the yard or at the mailbox, etc. Inside the farmhouse, it could be looking out the kitchen window or the upstairs bedroom window; a stack of folded laundry on the stairs waiting to be carried up; etc. I decided to do an outside the farmhouse with elements for wash day: washboard/scrub board, kettle, clothesline and pins, bucket, soap, clothes hanging from the line. For the other project, I chose another embroidery pattern from the same booklet with this time being a water pump outside.
when: FQCB #73 starts June 28, 2025 and ends on July 27, 2025
what: Project #1 = Wash Day Outdoors in the Summer
how-to notes for #1 =
1. wash day embroidery pattern + clip art images of bucket, soap = "Kount on Kappie's Book 59 A Little Country" 1985, designed by Janice Baldwin and art by Veronica Valliere
2. light ivory A2 size card base (with envelope) = pack = Crafter's Square
3. yellow and gray plaid paper = Recollections
4. light blue cardstock strip = Neenah
5. turquoise scrap strip = Recollections
6. soft yellow cardstock panel cut to same size as an index card = Neenah
7. colored pencils from a variety of sources used for embroidery pattern and 2 clip art images; colored pencil 'stripes' added on the pattern between the title and the clothesline = stash
where #1 will be linked = {will add late on June 30th due to niece's wedding to travel to on June 28-29}
1A. Girlz Creative Fun Art of Scraps; new on June 25 & still current; use at least 1 designer paper; Project #1 shows more scrap bits of the yellow-white-gray plaid paper = 2 spots on the left and 2 on the right side
link = https://girlzcreativefunartofscrap.blogspot.com/2025/06/challenge-11.html
1B. A Place to Start; still open until July 4; theme of anything goes or opt twist to recycle; both my projects are recycled/upcycled old embroidery pattern diagrams
link = https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2025/06/june-2025-anything-goes-woptional-twist.html
1C. Path of Positivity; still open; anything goes positive (not the twist)
link = https://pathofpositivitychallenge.blogspot.com/2025/06/ch-132-anything-goes-positive-with-opt.html
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what: Project #2 = the old water pump outside (some of the fancier farmhouses and even some city houses way back when, had water pumps in their kitchens; generally they would be smaller than those outside near the house and/or the barns. When my parents bought our childhood home (I was 5 1/2 years old) there were 3 water pumps/wells on the property. One near the back door, another one near a small garden patch and chicken house located on the other side of the alley and the last one was a bit further away near 3 hog houses that the previous owners left behind.
how-to notes for #2 =
21. light ivory card A2 size (with matching envelope) = pack = Crafter's Square
22. turquoise cardstock panel = Recollections
23. gray and yellow plaid paper = Recollections
24. water pump embroidery pattern = "Kount on Kappie's Book 59 A Little Country",1985, designed by Janice Baldwin and art by Veronica Valliere
25. black stamp pad = Hero Arts
26. black retractable marker pen = Zebra Clickart
27. blue, gray, yellow, 2 shades of green and 2 shades of browns colored pencils = stash (different vendors: Marvy Uchida, Crayola, Crazy Art) [text added to the pattern as well as the coloring]
where #2 will be linked = {not linking until June 30th}
2A. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends; started June 15 & open for 4 more days; theme of anything goes
link = https://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.com/2025/06/256-polkadoodles.html
2B. Kleuren met Potloden; started June 10 & still open; anything with colored pencils; Project #2 has colored pencils used on the embroidery pattern diagram: light blue sky, brown tones on the water pump, gray on the bucket; green tones on grass; brown for dirt;
link = https://kleurenmetpotloden.blogspot.com/2025/06/challenge-juni-alles-mag.html
2C. Crafty Catz; week 1 of 2; anything goes
link = https://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/2025/06/crafty-catz-challenge-697.html
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where to find FQCB #73 blog post link =
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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S
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