Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

Here is the end of the months tally and I wish I could say it was more than I'm going to share. But to make it look like I did a lot I'm putting together my color RSC13, NewFO and confessions of my Git-R-Done for this month and what I'll make next list ,  For the color this month which was purple I use 2 1/2 strips that I had left over.  So I have 2 child quilts to donate. I decided that is what I was going to make each month with this challenge.  This is how far I have gotten with last months color pink. It will look like this one that I found online. My NewFO for this month is the Granny Square Quilt from the class last week. As you can see it will be two separate quilts. 30's reproductions 1800's reproductions                 Now confession time of the four on my list for Git-R-Done,  not one got finished. I really don't know what has happened. So guess what. I'm j...

Well she is still on the nest and the vaginal prolapse went back inside so that is good. I always worry about infections with prolapses  But "the Man of the Place went by the vet on the way home last night and we gave her shots last night to help relax the muscles and for infection. Then this morning we gave her Oxytocin  to induce labor, if she not already, which I thought she was. Seeing how there was no calf this morning she might not of been in labor like I thought. So now with the shot it will take 12 - 24 hours before she will birth. She is 10 years old and an experienced mom that I'm not expecting problems but you never know.  So I'll stay home and keep an eye on her, so stitch group this afternoon is out of the question now. I'll try to finish the sashing on the 30's quilt and I have started this months baby quilt for he guild. Which is this weekend. I did it in pink which was last months color for http://superscrappy.blogspot.c...

That's me right now, my cow Snicker is due anytime so I have been checking on her throughout the day waiting. I looked out in the pasture a little while ago and notice she was laying which is not uncommon but she was showing signs of prolapsing , you can go there for more info. So "the Man of the Place will be home soon to help out with the birth.  I am so worried about her, she is not a spring chicken. I'll be back later with an update                                                           

Howdy all I always like mornings and Mondays because it like a fresh start to your day and week. This Monday is starting off different though, "The Man of the Place" has caught a cold and is home sick today which means my day will not run as usual.   There has and will be a lot of this going on today but I will try to get a little sewing in done after I go run so errands this morning.  (medicine, etc. run) But this will be up on my wall begging for me to finish when I get back. The rows are not in exact order but I hope you can get the idea. There is still a large applique center row that I need to get prepared for appliqueing.  Now if you remember I had up on the wall last week the Sisters in Scripture blocks and no I did not do a thing to that one. Now I know why that one has been in the UFO pile. I just can not get motivated to finish it, I like it and have the first one finish but just find it hard on this one. It will get done. ...

It has been a while since I have taken a class at the quilt store. I don't know why I waited so long, they are so much fun and I always learn something.The quilt we are making is this Granny Square, which was a pattern that was in American Patchwork and Quilting magazine some years back. I went looking for my magazine copy but couldn't locate it. Gee I wonder why!!  The instructor for our class is a friend of mine and she is such an excellent teacher, Sharon. That light square in the upper right side is an alternative color way, done in reproductions 30's.  After some verbal instructions we are off and running, busy bees we were.   Don't you love that quilt behind Mary, that is another one of Sharon's quilts. Method used was strip piecing and the hardest part is keeping them in order.  So this my attempt at making the block and that is all I did today was just made one. I decided that I wasn't ...

Here it is Thursday, and my goal for the week was to work on my Sisters and Scriptures quilt top. But have I!  No!  What I've done is clean house, laundry, putt around and did everything but take a single stitch on that quilt . I did make some spool pin doilies .  What I did work on was one of my Get-R-Gone for this month and that was my 30's row quilt. I'm working on one of the rows that has four panels of appliqued flowers and leaves.    I had planned to have those ready to take with me to McAllen Texas last week, but I did not get them done like I was hoping. So now I feel pressured for time and I decided that I would do machine appliqué  instead of hand appliqué. It saves me some time doing it this way. The method I use is what I call needle turned appliqué on your machine . I have posted about this once before and I have it in my tutorial section at the top, just pushed the tutorial tab and there's a ...

It's snowing here and I know some of you are tired of snow but here we will take the moisture any way we can get it. Plus it just gives me a reason to stay in and work on some of my projects. In this picture I'm not sure if you can make it out but in the background there are some wild turkeys that hang around the house sometime, just  chilling This project I'm working on is Spool Pin Doilies.   I had never heard of them before until Bonnie Hunter had mentioned it on her blog . She a had a viewer send her one for her sewing machine along with a pattern. I did not like the pattern but loved the idea so I decided to make up my own version. I wanted a more simple, smaller and fuller doily. So I tried different thread sizes to get one that I like. (From left to right) I tried sock yarn, which I'll redo because I think I like that look. Heavy weight crochet thread, nope too big Bamboo yarn, I like it. Looks good on my Kenmore. Pearl c...