Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

Yeah!!!! It's done.  I have the border on and as you can tell it looks good. I might have to tweak it a little bit in some of the white pieces, there seem to be a little extra fabric that gives a ripple effect but other than that it looks great.   And as you can tell Buddy cannot wait to initiate the quilt top.  The corners went together fairly easy, a lot easier than I thought. I did not have to redo any of the corners. Lays perfectly flat with no puckers. I'm going to hand quilt this one and in the book it gives you the design for hand quilting. So the next thing will be after that the binding and I'm a little nervous about the binding. Going to be tricky with all those curves and points. The book is called Fancy to Frugal. When I sew I listen to books and Judy at  patchwork times     has now started on Tuesday what is it you're reading, I want to share what I am listening to right now. I also have shar...

 I had this on my Get it Done list for this month and it is the last one I need to finish. All I need to do to finish this top is put the last border on. Have every piece cut and ready to be sewn together. Now I'm putting it up on the wall to see where it is I think the best choice of the color wedges might go. I'll let you know how these corners go together. I'm getting excited over the fact that I will have 3  quilt tops off my list  after I get this one done. I've been thinking about what I want on next month's list, it not far to the 1st, Friday. I hope to also if time allows and that is to sew on the binding to the boys quilts. I picked them up last week and they are trimmed and ready to sew..

I was sitting here thinking about what I accomplished this weekend but then thinking about all I need to do before the 'little dudes" and their mothers get here. I am now counting the days. This will be the first time '" the man of the place" will have seen the boys. I helped feed the cows again yesterday and enjoy it just as much as I did last weekend. We have some new babies born this past week, including Cherry had her calf, a little boy. I did not see one eagle out there this time, I do not know how far their territory is but I know they are around. I was out in one of the pastures and notice this Sycamore tree. Looks like 5 trees in one. I have a thing for this tree, when I was a child growing up in Sacramento, there in downtown are all these trees along the sides of the streets. I have such fond memories of these trees and how big they were and the smell of them in the fall time. These trees can live a very long ti...

Have you ever had heel pain, I am going through that right now. It's called plantar fasciitis.  Most people with plantar fasciitis have pain when they take their first steps after they get out of bed or sit for a long time. That is what happens to me. You may have less stiffness and pain after you take a few steps. But your foot may hurt more as the day goes on. It may hurt the most when you climb stairs or after you stand for a long time. And boy does it with me. I know part of the reason why I have a re-occurrence of it is because of standing on a hard floor bare footed. When I'm home I go around bare footed or just with socks on.  So I decided that it's not going away that I needed to find out what I could do on my own to help it go away. What I found out is the sooner you start taking care of the pain the better, not to wait, now I know that. It is said it will take longer to heal the longer you let it go on.  The things suggested to cure it i...

YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's Done Well I did it, and I was worried that I wouldn't be able to get it done today like I wanted. You see I spent the day with my sister and parents and wasn't able to start putting the blocks together until  5:00 pm. I'm not sure yet if I'm going to put a border on it or not. Have thought about blue ( it's my favorite color ) but I will dwell on that for a while. I like the way it looks now. My cat Pete likes it too. I bet it wasn't more than a minute or two and he was on it. Lets put it this way, I was able to get a few pi ctures of the quilt without him. Like I've said before, there is something about quilts and cats. Now I can cross another one off the list.

I meant to get this posted yesterday but I ended up sewing most of day on Easy Street and then what time I wasn't sewing I had get to the quilt shop to drop off the quilts for the boys to be done, that way I can have them ready when they get here next week. I am getting so excited, it has been three months since I've seen the  "little dudes". Before and what a mess. I finished the food pantry and it looks good.  I mounted the lights and it helps even though they're not as bright as I would like. Also installed the pull out shelf. Now I want to redo my kitchen cabinets with pull out shelves (someday). So here is the before and after pics. Before                                          After Love this Now for week 3 goal, I decided instead of trying to clean something else out I really need to get out the seed catalogs I've been receiving an...

 I had wanted to get my Easy Street finished today but it wasn't to be.  I have 11 blocks to go and then of course there's putting it together. So there is tomorrow, no obligations or appointments. You know what that means. It possibly might get done and I can cross that one off my  Git-R-Done list.  Today when I went out to gather the eggs, this is where I found some. I have some square bales of straw inside the hen house so when I need to clean out their nesting boxes it's handy. The girls decided that they thought it was handy too.

I had planned that this past weekend would be like most weekends and that is "The Man of the Place" would be tending the cows and I would be home doing my chores and maybe some sewing. I had plans to try to finish up my Easy Street. But this weekend was going to be different, seeing how my father-in-law was not going to be able to help with the feeding of the cows. That meant I get to help, it's been awhile and I have to admit I have missed it.  My job is to drive the feed truck, that is loaded with 3 bales of hay, drive out to the pasture where needed and put the hay out to the cows.    Here they come, its funny about cows most of the time they will walk single file to where they are going and if one of the cows stop all the ones behind that cow stop too. No one will go around, they will just stand there and wait.   Someone is trying to sneak a nibble of hay, one of my jobs is to try to keep them off the bales.   I get 3 bales on the truck ...