Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

I've been planning to knit "the little dudes" some slippers and trying to figure out how to make the pattern I use look like Thomas the train. The boys love their trains. Then I came across this pattern on Ravelry.   Thomas the Train Slippers They are cute, not knitted but crochet, which is fine cause I know how.  In my stash there is all the colors needed.  I haven't started them yet, just found the pattern but sure hope they turn out as cute as the ones in the picture. What I have been listening to is book 2 of the Outlander Series written by   Diana Gabaldon I'm not one for Historical Romance books but I have enjoyed this one. Being one who doesn't read those type of books, I'm not sure if it is consider a true romance, all I know is there is more seductive parts than I'm normally read. Its the body of the rest of her work that keeps me fascinated. I love history and there is plenty of details that I

It's a very cold day again here in northeast Oklahoma. So most of my day will be at sewing. I'm working on, which I didn't think I would start, Bonnie Hunter's new mystery quilt.  Right now I'm working on the half square triangles which you need 280 of . Then I will start sewing units together and should have that done with no problems today.  Ree Drummonds picture  I think for dinner I'm going to make hamburger soup. It's a Ree Drummond  (fellow Oklahoman) recipe over on Pioneer Woman's website. I've made it before and it's such a yummy recipe. Going to use some of my grass fed beef that we raised and some of the vegetables from the garden. Lots of veggies . Then some biscuits.   I also hope to  get two blocks cut and prepped ready for my gray and yellow Nested Churn Dash blocks.  And hopefully I can move right along today and start cutting out the panels for the little dudes cloth books I'm making for Ch

Well I have to say I've given in. I wasn't sure if I was going to do Bonnie Hunter's MQ this time cause of all the projects I have already plus with the holidays. But temptations was too much.  So today I picked out some fabric that I had.  One thing with me and mystery quilts is that I'm not sure if I will like the finish product. Now I have done one other of hers, Easy Street and it did turn out really nice. Back to the fabric, I went with some of the 30's prints I have and switched a blue for the turquoise. Now I have enough 30's prints to make it scrappy but I chose the easier way by just using one fabric for each color choice. I call it being lazy. I didn't want to put all that time in. It would of look cool tho. So for the HS I figure I would just do a large quantity at a time. I do not do the Easy Angle Ruler, I do use Deb Tucker's Trimmer. So I figure for 3" sq to start with I can get 14 from the WOF and would need t

I have just realized while doing dishes. That maybe I could do a voice dictation on the Kindle for my blog.  You know what, it works.  It's a little fussy but it does work. So maybe I can just do dictation and not have to worry about how slow at typing I am.  Then all I have to do is just add my pictures.  This is really cool.  It's amazing what you can think of when you're doing something else.  Maybe I'll be able to post more often, (let's hope) seeing how part of my reason is because I am a slow typist and it takes me a while to write a post and time is an issue but this might take care of that.  Now if I can just master my camera that I have it so I can take pictures with that instead of my iPhone. Speaking of I Phone's,  there is an app  for Google Blogger (also  androids ) which I have used. Seeing how the phone does have the microphone but I found tho often will not write the word I said, so I would have a lot of editing to d

I was so excited to get started this morning that here it is 9:30 and  I have fed the chickens,  the cows, did some laundry, the dishes, straightened up,  and even started on one of my blocks. I do not anticipate any interruptions, but you know how life is, so we'll have to wait and see. My goal to complete what I had put in the big tub. Not necessarily meaning I needed to finish each project that I put in there. Like example the churn dash, I had three blocks prepared and that's all I expected myself to do was those three blocks. And then go onto another project that I had either started or catch up on. So far that has been working out very well for me. But I was thinking is that the way I should be doing it? What would you do? Would you try to complete each project before going onto the next one or would you just do what you had prepped and then continue on from there. I'm really curious about that. Agai

I'm ready Showered, dressed, and had breakfast.  It's day two  of my personal sew-a-thon. I think I made a good dent in my tub.    What do you think? So I will do like I did yesterday, I will post updates a couple times during the day and evening. When the title of my post said (with updates) that mean of course added something. So if you come back to look to see if I've done anything you don't see that up there you'll know that I hadn't posted anything yet.  The first project I'll work on is that stash busters.    I will finish putting the rows on that and then the border.  Then I'll go back to the binding strips I cut. Do some pressing and will be ready to attach to the quilt. Not sure how long but I'll get back on show the finished top.  Till then  Well my morning and early afternoon did not go as I had planned. The "man of the place" with home to take care of so