Barrel racing

[heppnerguy]

My granddaughter sent me a text asking me to cut her a barrel racer. Her 5 year ole daughter has 2 of her own horses and have been barrel racing on her own for several months already, She just had her 5th birthday a couple of month ago. So here is the one I cut for her and I will have it ready to send to her by Monday. I hope she likes it as it is a really interesting pattern and I have no idea who the pattern maker is.

Dick

heppnerguy

[Wichman]

I found this post, which lists the artists name

 

https://www.scrollsawvillage.com/forums/topic/46897-barrel-racer/#comment-497857

[daveww1]

awesome job

[jerry walters]

That is really nice Dick.  I'm sure your granddaughter will be very pleased with it.  In my younger years my wife and I would attend the National Western Stock show, and the crowd would really cheer on the barrel racers.  Was always exciting. 

Jerry

[rjweb]

Nice, excellent cutting, RJ

[Scrappile]

Oh, no doubt, she may not like it she will love it!

[barb.j.enders]

Another fabulous gift from Great - great grandfather.

[heppnerguy]

On 10/24/2025 at 10:59 PM, Wichman said:

I found this post, which lists the artists name

 

https://www.scrollsawvillage.com/forums/topic/46897-barrel-racer/#comment-497857

Thank you very much. I will try to get ahold of her and see if she needs money for the pattern. 

Dick

heppnerguy

[heppnerguy]

On 10/25/2025 at 6:54 AM, jerry walters said:

That is really nice Dick.  I'm sure your granddaughter will be very pleased with it.  In my younger years my wife and I would attend the National Western Stock show, and the crowd would really cheer on the barrel racers.  Was always exciting. 

Jerry

 Thank you so much for the nice compliment. A couple of members found the pattern maker and I am going to attempt to contact her and see if she wants money to share her pattern.  I sure enjoy the barrel racers at the fairs and I am absolutely blown away that my great grander was barrel racing before she was 5 years old and she did a fabulous job at it too. She went hard and fast.

Dick

heppnerguy

[heppnerguy]

On 10/25/2025 at 8:48 AM, rjweb said:

Nice, excellent cutting, RJ

Thank you once more for your nice pat on my back. I am not certain how much longer I will continue to try and cut things as I am getting pretty elderly and I noticed I am unable to stay in my shop nearly as long as I used to.

Dick

heppnerguy

[heppnerguy]

On 10/25/2025 at 11:55 AM, Scrappile said:

Oh, no doubt, she may not like it she will love it!

I am in hopes that she does at least like it. She sent me a photo of another pattern but I did not think it was very cuttable and I worked several hours try to make it where I could cut it but after over 5 hours on Inkscape I finally reach a point to where I thought I could cut it and when I printed it out, I discovered that it would still need to be printed quite large to do so. That was when I started looking of another pattern and found this one and just too a step at it instead

Dick

heppnerguy

[heppnerguy]

9 hours ago, barb.j.enders said:

Another fabulous gift from Great - great grandfather.

Actually it is really not for her but she wants it so she can give it to a friend of hers. So once again, I do hope she likes it enough that she will not be unhappy with it and still think it is good enough to gift it. I enjoy you fun reply though, Thank you so much

Dick

heppnerguy

 

[Wichman]

An update on the pattern.

I've been limping along on my phone for three days, had to replace the battery on the laptop.

I've found the commercial outlet for the pattern here: https://woodenteddybear.com/products/gsa186-barrel-racer 

The designer of the pattern is  GSA - OLD GRIZ ;  Made from artwork by Julie Popowicz with permission.

Wichita

[Denny Knappen]

A very bice project and framed too!

[Roberta Moreton]

We recently went to a Rodeo. They had barrel races. 
Your great granddaughter is 5 (five) years old?  
great cutting!

Edited October 29, 2025 by Roberta Moreton

[heppnerguy]

On 10/28/2025 at 8:12 AM, Denny Knappen said:

A very bice project and framed too!

I have more recently decided to make frames for the majority of my scrolling unless I think a particular project does not call for the need of one. 

Thank you for your nice comment

Dick

heppnerguy

[heppnerguy]

On 10/29/2025 at 9:57 AM, Roberta Moreton said:

We recently went to a Rodeo. They had barrel races. 
Your great granddaughter is 5 (five) years old?  
great cutting!

She has been riding horses since she was 2 years old and started barrel racing at 4 1/2 years old. She rides her own horses with her family as they tend their cows or just ride for pleasure. She is truly an amazing little girl. Her mother is the same way, she started riding at a very young age too.

Dick

heppnerguy