Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

By this weekend and it will be in the 70's - 80's and I'm ready for it. Been cleaning up flower beds and yesterday I picked up some zinnia seeds to plant. Maybe tomorrow, today Mom has an appt. at CHF clinic and usually these appts. are an all day event. I do hope to get some stitching in while there. I'll take the Mosaic Diamond (Mom Quilt) with me. As you can see is that there are two colors here that I decided to use for the outer ring on the diamonds. I decided to add the cream grunge because on some of the diamonds the fabric would blend in too much with the gray grunge. In fact I had sewn it on and put them up on the wall and that is when I realize I would change it up. Do you see what I mean? Fun part was taking the ones sewn on off, not easy. I was so afraid of accidentally snipping the hexes. Went very slow. I need to get  pictures soon of all the diamonds I have together. I started this quilt almost a year ago, it was

I know... I need a new project like I need a hole in my head, as the saying goes. But I couldn't resist. I had been seeing photos on Instagram and blogs from the Netherlands and surrounding countries. I was so drawn to it...No control. It's a Mystery Hexagon quilt called Winterse Hexjes from Anne Liefs  who has a quiltshop in the Netherlands. She started the mystery at the beginning of this year but you can still sign up like I did a couple weeks ago This was week 1 and 2 Week 3 and 4  Now I'm starting on week 5  I'm using 1" hexagons and it is so far moving right along but I figure as it gets bigger it will take a little longer Speaking of slowly moving along.... It's the second crochet scrap yarn blanket. The one furthest is the completed first blanket and as you can see the second one is getting closer. Have about 24" left to go and I will so glad when it's done. I can say that I should have a

Big milestone, I finished quilting on the main body of this Blue Rocky Road  Now it time to work on the border  I have decided on what stencil pattern to do, it's from one of Helen Squire's book,  Instead of making a plastic stencil, I figured making a cardboard oval with some registration marks could work And using a white Nonce Marking pencil that can be removed with water. I find that this pencil stays on longer than a chalk pencil and great on dark fabrics. Important since I needed to mark one side because I had to make it all fit. So I laid the oval and trace and than put the marks for registration  Using those mark I can trace the curves. Voila  Ready for the hoop, and I have a couple to pick from I think I'll start with the hoop that is design for this job, edges. If not I can always use the small oval. Now comes to where I need your help, I'm not sure w

Good Morning and a congratulation to Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge on their new son. Such a sweet family, the children are so cute. We had a good slow rain this weekend with no severe weather, which is odd. We have not had a tornado since last October here in Oklahoma. In fact California which never had that many before have had 5 already this season. I don't know but maybe global warming could be a factor. So while inside I worked on the Kith and Kin top. Was able to get two more blocks completed This makes 6 completed and which mean that I have 3 more to do. Went ahead and cut them out but instead of putting them up on the wall like I usually do, I put them up on the portable design wall. The wall has the Vintage Garden quilt up and I plan to keep it there until I have the border finished. This has scallops around each block and also all around the outside edge. Now the directions I have are a copy from the book,

Here it is April 21 and it's been in the 50's and we have a fire in the stove. I can't remember having one for days this late before. Strange weather, but I do like the cooler temperatures. I have been wanting to share this for months.  I have since the new year started keeping track of the days and time spent in the sewing room, this doesn't count in handwork or quilting. Kate over at Life in Pieces has been doing this and I out of curiosity decided to follow her lead and see how much time I do spend sewing. I have spread sheets that I have to keep track. These are the last 3 months and since I haven't yet made a tab at the top for me to keep track, here are my current numbers Days with stitching time this week:  6 out of 7 days  (missed one this week) Days with stitching time this month:  20 out of 21 days Days with stitching time this year:   82 out of 111 days Success rate:  74% Hours spent so far to this day 120 hours and

I am tired of just of writing about quilting and such. And you really don't want me to write about housework or other cleaning, heck I don't even want to. So I thought I would do something related to the farm  How about Cow Trivia * A cow has 32 teeth, and will chew about 40 - 50 times a minute. *A cow will chew for up to 8 hours a day * Cows move their jaws about 40,000 times a day *Cows spend about 10 hours a day laying down. * Cows will stand up and lay down about 14 times a day. *Cows can sleep while they're standing. ( is that where cow tipping comes in) * The first cow arrived in the U.S. in 1611 in Jamestown. * A cow will consume about 40 lbs. of food in a day. * The hamburger debuted at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. * Almost 2,000 quarter pound hamburgers can be made from the ground beef in one cow. * Cows have an acute sense of smell and can detect odors up to 6 miles away. Pretty cool facts.

I Have up on the wall the Vintage Garden still and will be up there until I can get the border finish Today I did not prep another side with the scallops but went ahead to work off of my things to do list. I did make a little progres s. 1. Finish the Lime Crosses 2. RSC - yellow-   Wonky Log Cabin  Finished 3. Prep some of the outside border for the Vintage Garden Have as you seen but will do more before I mark this one off the list. 4. Outside border for my Snowman quilt 5. Finish quilting Baby Blue Star   Finished 6. A Stash buster pattern that I can't show because it will be published this year.  Been working on this one too 7.  Cut out some more Tumbler blocks to use as a leader and ender 8. Cut out Crystal's Clam shells 9. Kith & Kin 10. Binding on one of the many quilts that need it. I'm half way done with this one This was a RSC a couple years back and it has been in the closet for a wh

I decided this morning that it was going to be a day of as little housework as possible, just the basic. Also no cooking.... total leftover and clean out the frig day. It was a cold, blustery day. Sun came out but still didn't make much of a difference. Stayed inside, lots of piecework, sitting around. Probably too much sitting around but it will warm up and it is going to be a busy week ahead. On the list for today was to add grey around this diamond Done  I also dug out the Vintage Garden top that is pretty close to done. First I put down on the floor to get an idea of how I was going to go about the border. But the light is bad and really didn't think it would work.  so I put it up on the design wall. The outer border will be pieced cuts. This was a BOM from about 10 years ago so I'm working with what I believe it's suppose to be. I do not have a picture of the finish quilt just a photo copy of he pattern or able to g