Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

This is my February's Lovely Finish, Nested Churn Dash. I am so pleased with how it turned out. I wanted to thank those how left comments with their suggestion on how they would finish it. I am going to take their suggestion along with my friend Mary and combine them. I will go with grey to frame it in but I'll use it in the binding.  A change from my scrappy binding like I was planning. And will have that darkness of grey but not as thick as the sashing.  Thank you everyone. So now for a few other finishes. This is an addition to the blocks I started for RSC15 I had these blocks left over from making Breast Cancer quilts many years ago (8 yrs).  Now I have another donation quilt. This one is crib size and will make a cute little girls quilt. Then I found these block while looking for something. These date back again to 2008 & 2009. At one guild I was member of would have what you call a pizza box exchange. If y...

I haven't given any information on my chickens lately, for one reason they haven't really been doing much. It's been cold and they pretty much just stay in the hen house and try to stay warm. Bless their hearts, they're doing a very good job of it with no help for me. I do not have a light out there in the chicken house. It's not well insulated is just plywood walls. There is straw on the ground to help with some insulation. But as you can tell from what I'm saying the poor girls are on the own. Boy are they from Hardy chickens. I have not lost one this winter. I have 13 girls, and they're all older girls, 3years and  older. I really thought I would lose some of them with this cold spell we've been having. But just proves to show you what good health and mother nature  has created can do. Okay I have to give myself a little credit I have been feeding them exceptionally well. I've been trying to keep their health the best so they can fight ...

My goal for today is to try to finish my nested churn dash quilt.  But I'm not sure if that's going to happen. I had to have my friend Mary help me this weekend to figure out how to put the blocks together. I was just puzzled how I would do it, you would think after working on it for so long I would have it all planned out to the end.  But no! We decided to go with a dark sashing and yellow cornerstones.  But that's as far as I got, now I have to decide what am I going to do for the outside. Will I continue with the dark all the way around  or will I go with a lighter fabric all the way around. I know what I want for the binding. I'm going to do a scrappy binding. Now if there's anyone out there have any ideas of what they would do, I would love to hear them because I am auditioning at this time. I would really love to get this done this week and check it off my list. While deciding I am going to finish this lap quilt...

It has been a very relaxing Sunday for me. With the new cold front that came in today it was a great day to to watch a good movie and do some handwork. I had prep the first block of Morning Glory's BOM,  Columbine  I know the picture she has is with a black background but I wanted to do mine in an off white sateen. I just love the look of sateen. We watched the movie Boyhood. I thought it was so nice to see the actors all age naturally. I felt it displayed real life. And then we watch the first few episodes of Longmire on Nexflix. I was so pleased when they picked up that series after A & E dropped it.  I'm going to link this up at Kathy's Quilt and I hope you'll go check out all the others who have too.

I've done it again, let time slip away. I have been meaning to write this for the past week and I'm finally now getting to it. I do have a good excuse, I been very lucky to have all this week for sewing and prepping applique blocks.  But what I wanted to share was my blocks that I made for this months RSC15. Not just mine thou, I also wanted to show the blocks that the ladies in the 30's club we have at a local quilts shop, Sager Creek Quilts.  How this came about was last month at our meeting I mention how I have been particapating in RSC for the past couple of years and how it is a fun way of using up my scraps. I ask if anyone wanted to join me this year. To my surprise they all say they wanted to, there is 12 of us. And being that our group is focused on the 1930's, the majority  have done their blocks in 30's reproduction fabric. Also since we started last month, this month was the first time we we able to show our block so we have blue and some pink ...

I can say that these projects are being made with yarn I had left over form previous ones. I have wanted to try making sock two at a time.  So I'm using 2 Socks at-a-Time, Toe-Up, Magic Loop by Very Pink Knits. Here is a link to a youtube video I haven't gotten very far as you can tell. I also started some slipper using a new pattern and the yarn leftover from "the little dudes" slippers, just didn't take a picture yet. I'll tell you more about this pattern and another one next week. There is more to it then just the pattern and I would like to get all my facts straight and such. Now for what I'm reading. It's not a novel or biography (which I love) No this is something that pleases my  geek side. I had heard about this on TV and just knew I had to find it.  And I have already used a few of the tips already. This book if full of tips and trick you can use whether it's your phone, tablet, computer or camer...

Up on my design wall today is one of my UFO's  My Nested Churn Dash Blocks. I have 7 of the 9 blocks done, so I only need to get those 2 done and figure out how I want to set them. I am going to  make this one of my UFO's to finish this month. Over at  Sew BitterSweet Designs blog   you can link up to tell what is going to be your finished project for the month. Only need to commit to one so this is mine. There you can see others who are doing the same thing as to finishing up a Lovely. I still have this months RSC ( pink ) to do and while looking for pink fabric I came across some unfinished pink basket blocks. I will add that to my personal to do list. Plus finish my Pea Ridge Lily  this is the original in Barbara Brackman book Civil War Quilts Mine is in blues. linking up to  http://www.patchworktimes.com/ http://whatahootquilts.blogspot.com/