Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

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

As you can see from my design wall I have nothing on it this morning. I just finished straightening up my sewing room, after at least a month of chaos. I am ready now to kick butt. So I'm going to have a sew-a-thon, and  for the next three days I am going to do nothing but sew.  Oh maybe a little straightening up the house and cooking of course. But to be honest I have really very little cooking I need to do seeing how that's all I did for the last three days. I have make beans, 2 ba tches of soup, and a roast. So I have plenty of leftovers. After straightening up the room I compiled all my UFO's and current projects that I have been working on the pass few months. Now that is what I'm going to work on during my personal sew-a-thon.  Seeing how the weather outside is in the 20s and doesn't plan to get much warmer for the next two days what a perfect time to spin sewing I will post pictures of m