Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

I have some Friday finishes....shock...shock Being home bound I've been working on a little bit of this and that so my finishing will reflect that. I did get the first two days of Arne and Carlos mystery KAL Had to take a break though because my wrist was starting to hurt a little. This weekend I do another one or two. I'm behind 3 squares already . For the longest time I have been meaning to cleaning out my little fan that I use every night. I just have to have a fan on me at night. It sure collected a lot of lint and cat fur.  Amazing Took a little paint brush, in fact the same one I use to clean out my sewing machines bobbin case. Looks like new now. I feel better too, I was afraid that somehow all that stuff could catch on fire. I don't know if it really could but it would still freak me out at times thinking it could. Sweet dreams now  Then while still working in the master bedroom, the wall lamps I ordered a...

It's been a while since I had something to show that's up on the design wall. Up on the wall is one of three tops. When my stepmother passed away she had been trying to make a quilt for each of her granddaughters. She has 5 granddaughters and was able to complete 2 quilts  and was working on the other 3. I had cut out all the squares she needed because she was unable to.  So I collected all the squares, partial blocks and completed blocks to go ahead and put them altogether I had to frog some of the pairs due to the seams allowance was not correct. Mom was never a precise seamstress and as she got further along with the cancer her precision worsen but she would not let that bring her down and she kept going. That was comforting for us to see her do what she loved up to close to the end of her life. I will get these done for her like I promised. I hate to admit it but I started a KAL along with the knitting a pair of socks each...

Yesterday I needed time to calm down from all the craziness going on in our world    Yes we are all in this pandemic together and we need to take heed to what the experts say on how we can help ourselves and others. So I'm taking their advice but I also have the luxury of being able to stay home and hunker down. Yesterday I needed to stay busy and decided that cooking was going to keep me away from watching the news for at least the day. I know I can get too absorb in it all. Saturday I took the sourdough starter on hand and fed it all without using or disposing some of it. That meant I ended up with 4 jars of ready to use starter First jar went to a double batch of waffles The recipes is from Emilie Raffa website The Clever Carrot It's called Cinnamon Sugar Waffles  which she also has in her book Like I said I made a double batch which I put all of the extras in the freezer for another time. And this where I'm getting ...

It has been a very nice slow Sunday. The "man of the place" has been at his dads all day so I have had the house to myself.  I decided this morning that I was going to purge and declutter my scraps of fabric. I have accumulated so much over the past decades, seriously decades.  As you can see I have quite a bit of scrap fabric. I have divided it up over time by color and that had worked really well for me. But my love for quilting isn't quite what it used to be and I have literally hundreds of yards of fabric that I should be  using, so I’m going to pass on my scraps to a group of ladies that make quilts to sell for extra income. So today I bagged it up and will take to the a person who will deliver the bags.  I have started a crochet scrappy granny blanket which I am using also some scrap yarn that I had again accumulated over time.  I’m using what is considered baby yarn and I just put it all in one tub, because I really did...

One of the goals I have for this year is to make a dent in my yarn stash and one way is to knit a pair of socks each month. This is most of my sock yarn but do have some solid colored sock yarn in another box. I was working on this pair of socks that I started in December. Had one sock done and close to half way done with the second. But Monday while out running errands,  which one was getting the oil changed in my car,  I was knitting on the sock while waiting. But sometime during the rest of the day I lost the sock that I had finished. I do not have enough of the yarn to make another sock, so I just frogged it. Since my goal is to make a pair and there is a KAL called #freesocks2020 on Instagram.  This was January's pattern  on-the-fence   Free pattern I am relearning how to knit socks and one thing I've learned is my tension. Started out loose but by the end of the first sock I've found my mojo. Ended up having a slight differen...