Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

I can't believe last week slipped by me and I did not update my weekly goal. Well two weeks ago I had the task of going through my cookbooks and thinning them out. I figure about a third of them are going to go into a yard sale. Before                                                   After And these are the ones that are going to sell. Now for what I planned on working on. I started this list last week with the hope of getting all this done by today but I had high hopes "again"! The is my list 1. Fix hose with Gorilla tape   done and didn't work 2. Replant Swiss Chard (need to wait till Aug) 3. Lay soaker hoses 4. Fix the leaks in the a couple of soaker hoses 5. Pull cauliflower plants  done 6. Harvest cabbage 7. Tie and stake tomatoes   done 8. Fix support for  cucumbers 9. Mulch sweet potatoes 10. Weed blueberries and bean  beds  partially done 11. Clean out last 2 beds for fall crops   done 12. Try a natural grass

I have to admit, nothing has changed on my wall this past week. But if you look around my sewing room you would've thought I had been very busy and have something to show for it. My room is very disorganize even when it's not messy. Just too much in a small room. I think this expresses it all. I have been prepping blocks (37) for my Pea Ridge Lily quilt. And I did applique the center on the compass and the background piece that will become the ring around the compass. I now need it make 1/4 circles (32) to go on the ring  This is a BOM at  Esther's Blog And the second month is here so once I get those circles appliqued on then I will get started on working on this part. I will change the colors though. I'm going scrappy so it won't quite be so uninformed.  Looks like I'll be busy. Like I'm not already.

It has been a very busy week here on the farm. The garden is starting to produce and plus been busy preparing the boxes for the fall garden. The chickens are busy trying to keep cool from the heat and so have I. Except for what chores I do in the morning I stay in the house the rest of the time, so I did not take as many pictures as I should of. I hope you do enjoy the ones I did take.

It has been a few weeks since I have wrote about what I am reading and/or listening to.  I am still reading Joan Dye Gussow book "Growing Older". I can read at night but then I'll fall asleep reading so I'm getting through it very slowly. I just started listening to  Book Description From Amazon Release date: April 3, 2012 For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Laurie R. King, and Anne Perry, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary captures the drama of an era of unprecedented challenge—and the greatness that rose to meet it. London, 1940. Winston Churchill has just been sworn in, war rages across the Channel, and the threat of a Blitz looms larger by the day. But none of this deters Maggie Hope. She graduated at the top of her college class and possesses all the skills of the finest minds in British intelligence, but her gender qualifies her only to be the newest typist at No. 10 Downing Street. Her indefatigable spirit and remarkable gifts for codebreaking

Today is the 30's club at Sager Creek Quilt Shop and the ladies decided they want to have a tea social. So we all wore hats and were encouraged to bring something from the 30's. I bought my enamel tea pot and kettle collection. You know a tea is not proper without scones, so I searched the internet and ended up going to one of my favorite baking resource and that was King Arthur Flour website. So all the credit goes to them and there many more recipes to check out  king arthur flour . Here is their  recipe Here's your basic "start here" scone recipe. While this simple vanilla scone is delicious as is, it's also the perfect vehicle for your favorite add-ins; we happen to love dried cranberries and walnuts. Though chocolate chips are tempting, too! Our guarantee:  These tender scones will have a dark-gold outer crust, and a light-gold, moist inner crumb. They'll taste mildly of butter and vanilla.  Volume    Ounces  

Today and probably the rest of the month will be my tiny Lemoyne stars up on my wall. This is one of my Git-R-Done for this month They are small Finish size will be 3 inches. They are not that hard because I am using Deb Tucker's Rapid Fire Lemoyne Star Tool. Here is a link to a YOUTube video of this tool Once you try this you realize how easy it is to do such a difficult block. Neat thing about it is that you use strips instead of templete of diamonds and squares. And there is no Y-seams. Which is a good thing because I want to make a reproduction of this antique quilt. Now my stars will be 3" but on this antique quilt which was probably sewn by hand, the stars if I remember correctly were around 2 or 2 1/2 finished stars and there are 275 stars. Now see why I'm loving this tool. Now an update on my Love Entwined  I have the compass made and need to add the inter center circle plus the outside ring. The fabric in

I love Sundays, it's the day of the week that is devoted to rest and reflection. So I try my best to fulfill those things and find great satisfaction. I believe my stitching is not considered work, I find handwork very relaxing. I love making something so beautiful and useful with my hands and working on this quilt will fit those criteria. I'm piecing the center by hand, had thought about paper piecing but I don't do it enough to feel comfortable doing it. So I photocopied the pieces onto some freezer paper, then pressed onto the wrong side of my fabrics. Trace the outline of the pattern so I have a guideline to stitch by. Seeing how the pieces are all straight edges I used my ruler and rotary cutter to trim them down. I trim to under a 1/4 by not quite a 1/8 inch. The directions with the pattern are excellent and the suggestion to leave the paper on until time to stitch is an wonderful idea. You never know if an accident could happen. 

June 30 - July 6 It was such a very nice week, weather wise. I was very busy out in the garden so much of what I have to show is from there.  Hope your week was as pleasant as mine was.