Mother Goose Quiltie Pattern #19 Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater, Had a wife and couldn’t keep her; Put her in a pumpkin shell And there he kept her very well. Perhaps you never knew before how Peter Peter kept his wife in a pumpkin. Pumpkins aren’t big enough for houses, but this was a very…
Month: September 2015
Mother Goose Quiltie Pattern #18 — The Queen of Hearts
Mother Goose Quiltie Pattern #18 The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer’s day; The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them all away. You would think any one would be good to the Queen of Hearts, she is so pretty and sweet. But the tarts that…
Mother Goose Quiltie Pattern #17 — Little Boy Blue
Mother Goose Quiltie Pattern #17 Little Boy Blue, Come blow your horn. The sheep’s in the meadow, The cow’s in the corn. And first thing you know, the cow and the sheep will be marching all over this quilt, and then how will it look? But there, Little Boy Blue is blowing his horn,…
Mother Goose Quiltie Pattern #16 — Rock-a-Bye Baby
When I was little and sang this song to my baby brother, I imagined the cradle was hung on a very low branch, just inches above the ground (ignoring the words “tree top”), because otherwise the baby was going to be horribly injured. Wikipedia’s explanations were not entirely satisfying. Mother Goose Quiltie Pattern #16 Rock-a-bye…