Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

This is the fraternal twin to the other Flying Geese Quilt I finished last month and is also one of my my finishes for   on the windy side They both turned out better than I thought and they will make great present this Christmas. Had an audience while taking these shots. Believe these young heifers wanted to have their picture taken. linking to   http://www.onthewindyside.co.nz/2015/09/2015-finish-along-q3-finishes.html and binding blitz soon http://www.juliekquilts.blogspot.com/

Had intended to post this yesterday like normal but I spent the day in Tulsa. That was not my plan, so I didn't get one lick of sewing in. Wanted to show the progress made on the 2 baby quilts.  The first is done in turquoise and gray with the Twisted Blossom pattern that was a QAL by Sew Kind of Wonderful. I just love their Quick Curve Ruler, it's a lot of fun to use. Actually  enjoy it so much that it's also the tool I'm using for our stitch groups paint chip challenge. I'm going to use their pattern Urban Nine Patch. Now if you haven't heard the paint chip challenge this is our stitch group spin on it.   We take the first letter of our first name, our middle name, and our last name. Our twist is we added the first letter to our maiden name that makes now 4 choices. From those letters that you have in your name you are to find a paint chip color that name starts with that letter Here are mine. My initials; K L

Some days you think life could not get any better. This weekend was one of those. It was quiet which gave me time to reflect on my life.  What I've done, where I've been, where I'm at and where I see myself in the future but not just myself my family too. That's what sewing does for me sometimes, give me that quiet time to think and reflect. So this weekend I was able to have enough time to finish my RSC 15 blocks.  And finish prepping the Words to Live By  blocks and if Scandinavian Christmas that I have been working on off and on all week.  I had also given it some thought about a couple projects I had started and where I see myself going with those.  And decided that instead of making a full size quilt out of the twisted blossom block I'm just going to make a baby quilt. Using this Grey and turquoise.   So today I will spend part of it cutting out what I need to make this baby quilt and another. 

Well it's Wednesday and the middle of the work week.  Even though I can't say I work outside the place, I do work at home which in some ways my week is all week and not five days. This week I've been trying to accomplish some fall cleaning. I have washed the cabinets down. Today it's steam cleaning the rugs I need to do the windows, they look terrible. That's another day. But when I'm not doing any of this cleaning, I'm able to take break and work on prepping of the blocks and a little bit a knitting. I'm almost done with heels and almost time for the cuff Not sure if I will have enough time to get them done by the end of the month to put as one of my finishes for this quarter but I'm gonna try. Last month was my first time I attended the book club with my friend Donna and I thoroughly enjoyed it.  Next month read is Dietland.  I haven't started it yet and really do not know much about it I just downl

I had read somewhere on the internet that groundhogs were solitaire animals. A few days ago something dug out the dirt from the previous hole in the chicken house.  Put the cage out by the hole day before yesterday, just like the first time but didn't get any activity. I expected that to happen.  but  yesterday afternoon another groundhog was in the trap.  It's a big one. The Man of the Place thinks it's bigger and fatter than the last one. I think it has more brown near its chest.  I think they are cute and they really don't bother us much but just can't have it stealing chicken food and scaring the girls. Bad enough they are molting and that alone can lower egg production. Then being scared on top of it.... no wonder I'm getting no eggs.   So cutie here   spent the night in the back of the truck away from predators. And this morning he was move to it's new home. 

I'm prepping some projects that I have started and they're doing a rotation on the wall today I'm preparing the 4th and last block of Scandinavian Christmas. Don't you find it exciting when you get down to the end of the project. It's will be ready to appliqué, then I will do the embroidery work. For the appliqué pieces of Scandinavian Christmas you can use a wash away appliqué sheet which works beautiful. I run it through  the printer then I roughly cut the shapes out and press them onto my wool or cotton. Will turn under the edge and glue baste it down. Now they're ready to be appliquéd. I've used freezer paper using this technique but some of these pieces are so small I find it easier to use a product like this which will wash away and you can just print it in your printer.  Small pieces can be quite challenging with freezer paper.  The products I've tried are C&T and the other called Hugs and Kisses. Both work equall

I here it is the middle of September and I just started this month color orange for RSC 15 To think that this is the 3rd Saturday that So Scrappy has had her link up.  Didn't spend that much time working on this, got side tracked with watching an episode of Doc Martin and quilting some.  Finished this small block And now on to this portion.  I have already been thinking about patterns for next years RSC. Seeing how I haven't really made a dent in my stash or scraps. I think I might attempt something different. I'm thinking I might do is make one baby quilt a month in the color chosen. That way would end up being 11 small quilt for the year. And thinking I'll even go a step further and attempt practicing machine quilting on each one. I didn't do that the first time I had  done making one baby quilt a month Just now thinking about it, the thought of having say three patterns to pick

Five on Fridays is back on Amy's blog so skip over there and give it a look to see what others are posting for their five My five this weeks........  Is lessons learned on straw bale gardening This was my first year to attempt straw bale gardening. It's a very ingenious way of gardening if you do not have good soil, the space or energy to have a garden. It's temporary so if your're a renter, you don't have to worry about making any permanent changes to the yard. It can be done on concrete if you don't have any place for garden. I do not fit any of those criteria's but I wanted to give it a try anyway. I have a large enough garden to keep me busy all year but I was fascinated by this idea and wanted to give it a try so here are the five things I learned from my experiment this summer 1. I found out that you will need to look for a tightly compress bale. Mine were loosely packed which created some issues when com

I have been able to make a little progress last night and this morning. I finished the rest of the cross stitching, plus was able to even do the little snowflake block.  So this morning I trimmed up the block and made 4 churn dash blocks. They're little filler blocks.  Now I can say block 3 is completed and it's on to the last, block 4. I didn't get all the Farmer's Wife blocks done like I was wanting. My goal was to get the 6 blocks done so I could drop them off at the quilt shop on my way to meet my friends. We try to get together at least a couple times a month to visit and stitch. Was able to get 4 blocks completed, took these to the shop. When we meet someone usually has a finish quilt to show and this time Joan had a beautiful one,. As a group project we decided to make the Pea Ridge Lily.  I have mine done. Pam had hers done  and now Joan does too. Plus it's quilted and bound. I believe