Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

I was able work some more on the strip pieces but only with help from Bob of course. At one time I had to lock him out of the room, he just wouldn't stay off the table. This months RSC is almost completed. Just a few more block of curvy log cabins to go.  I will be taking to the retreat the large block that is made from 30's reproduction.  This is the pattern but I'll be prepping this months red along with May and June (bright green and baby blue) to take.   Linky up with so scrappy

Its been a little boring the past couple of days around here. I have been trying to get some projects ready to take with me on a retreat I'll be attending next week. My goal is to have 3 or 4 prep projects to sew on the machine and then I'll take the blocks I have ready for "Words to Live By", plus some knitting too. I've been going through my scraps for strips and then cutting up squares and rects.  And the strips for this project. Figure I would sew up strips to take with me so all I'll need to do is trim them up and make the units. Will see how that works out. They'll be 3 of us in one car and we try to keep it down to the minimum, so my plan is to have everything cut and ready to sew together. I'll be taking no extra fabric. Bob is feeling like himself these days and I'm so happy to see it. Except he is into everything. Helping with the scraps. He thinks I need to help with appliqueing too. But he ...

Well I did it, #3 Ruby's Garden if done. I really like how it looks with those muted colors and that splash of some very muted lavender Now it's onto the last one, mine..... I have the fabric picked out and now time to start cutting. And last night I finished block five of "Words to Live By".  There is 12 of the smaller blocks that surround a larger block in the center.  I'm thinking about maybe making all those HST  leader & enders. That way I'm not trying to get them all made at one time, I can spread out the joy .. Seeing how it will be awhile before I'm ready to assemble anyway.

What's on the wall this morning is all the blocks for #3 Ruby Garden Quilt, I really like how the muted colors turned out on this one.  I hope to get all the blocks sewn together and get that one off the wall so I can start working on # 4, I know I haven't written much this past week but I have been busy. I did finish appliqueing a block for "Words to Live By"  and I'm almost done with another. I have been doing a little quilting on my 30's Sampler this week also. I've been doing a little catch-up also on my RSC15.  I'm about halfway done with the red which is this month  but I still need to catch up on May and June Today is my dad's 83rd birthday, and yesterday we had just a small gathering at mom and dads house to celebrate, so I hadn't done much over the weekend. And update on Bob.  He was able to come home from the Vet Saturday so I drove to Stillwater...

It's time for my Five on Friday . I'm going to share some firsts.  My first first for this week is: 1. I harvest some zucchini. I have four plants that are doing wonderful and this is the first picking of the year. 2.  Another first for the week is my Manx cat Bob had to go to the Vet and spend some time. Wednesday he was acting strange and was hiding in every little dark place he could fine. Now this is not the behavior for Bob. Bob is just barely a year old and he is in full kittens mode, so after having a day of him acting like this I was really worried. I called my daughter who works for a Vet and asked her if I could take him in to see the Vet. That's right there are vet that just specialized in cats. After examining Bob she told me he was very dehydrated from not eating or drinking for the past 24 to 36 hours and due to his other symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea he needed at some fluids and some test to see what would cause this.  So Bob had t...

I have just came across Amy at Love Made My Home  Five On Friday. Here in her own words of what it is: Five On Friday is a way to share Five things - on a Friday!  They can be connected, or not.  You could choose to share five quotes and say why they mean something to you, five pictures from your garden, five favorite flowers, five cakes, five anything that you like!   I read that and realize this was something I felt was a wonderful idea of sharing a little something without have to fill a whole post. There are a lot of things here on the farm that I don't feel I have enough to write about. Partly because I'm not a writer and its hard at times to do. This is a lot like how at times the posting of pictures I've done on Saturday but with a little narrative.   Amy has a link up for bloggers to post there Five On Friday and for us to read and see what others have contributed. So here is my first attempt. One - Over this pass week we have h...

I did it again, I got in that cleaning mood. The picture I took yesterday of underneath my sewing table drove me nuts. So first thing this morning I had it on my mind I was going to clean that up under there  And I did, what do you think? I like it... makes me happy Now I have a spot for my current projects underneath my sewing area so I know where they're at when I'm ready to work on them.  I  can't believe it, I also found a project that I have started when I first moved here to Oklahoma in 1994. I had started cutting out from all my scraps, apple-core pieces. Then I went to working again and as you know,  things happen, projects get put away. I'll have to put that one on the list of to do's, this one is not on my current list of quilts started.  Photo is a little washed out  Got the strips cut for the Ruby Garden quilt and started sewing on them. Next I need to get the containers with my co...