Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

I can actually share some sewing this time. Was able to finish 3 of the 4   Farmers Wife  blocks   for next month's 30's club. I wrote earlier that had only 3 months left counting this set but I was wrong, it's 4. Still that's not much. I can say that I have becomed better at paper piecing and using freezer paper is my favorite way. I do know... I do not like tearing paper away. It felt good to spend time sewing and quilting. This evening was devoted to working on blue Rocky Road. I'm now working on the outer rows, which I'm starting on right side now, with help of course. Wanted to show you how big my chicks have gotten. They are now 2 months old and they look like hens, little one but hens all the same We have them out in the shop in a big round stock tank with a chain linked gate as a cover. 4 months from now they should start laying which we be good cause as of now the 6 old "freeloaders" h

It was a good day to just stay inside with the A/C on, seeing how that even this morning it was already so humid, 80%, down right sticky and thick.  After my coffee, I went out to open up the hen house so the girls could go do their thing. Beside letting them out and giving them scratch, I'll check the nesting boxes for eggs. All I could see was the golf balls I have in the nesting boxes. This is to fool the snakes so when they swallow one thinking it's an egg, it will become stuck inside them. An egg will collapse and be digested but not a golf ball so the effect of that is the snake will slither off and die somewhere.  Well that is what I came across this morning, a black snake who had swallow an egg.  Saw me and tried to escape the way it came in the box but as it was leaving in the space it enter in was now too small to pass through now, with that egg in it. And there was no way I was going to grab that thing by the tail to get rid of it. I

Today is the 30's club at Sager Creek Quilt Shop. So this morning I worked on the last two blocks I needed to finish the two month sets, #6 & #7 Here is the block, Jewel, I was working on. Thought I had everything laid out as far as the paper printed for the block and marked on paper which fabric is needed for each section (paper piecing).  But so much for thinking.             Not sure what went wrong on this block         Need to get a little more fabric now to correct my mistake tonight. Other than that, here are the rest of the blocks done . Tonight being that it's December, we always have a cookie exchange.  So the cookie I'm making is called Christmas Crack or Saltine Toffee Candy  Now if you've never had this you'll know how it gets it's name. It is addicting Besides being addicting, it's very simple to make. You only need four ingredient, unless you add nuts on top, then five

I have been busy outside of the home that I wasn't able to do much sewing today.  But here is what I have up on the wall waiting for more blocks to be completed.  Its going to be a full size quilt which will need 30 blocks and I have 20 done. The pattern is one you use a Jelly roll plus some for the sashing and borders. The pattern used is one that is from Sager Quilt. Every other month they have a meeting called Stash Busters where they give a free pattern and we come back two months later with our quilts we made using what we had in our stash. This one I have used only what I had in my stash. I want to share the pattern here.  I have up also are the blocks to the new 30's club quilt. Its a Lori Smith pattern  Lily's Garden I noticed that I hadn't appliqued the bottom right block when I took this picture, it's done now.

Today at our 30's club we had a cookie exchange and all the cookies were so yummy. I probably gain 2 or 3 lbs. I came home with a plate load which the "man of the place" attacked. But I was able to grab a couple of  peanut butter balls before he devoured them. My friend Mary made these and they have only 4 ingredients in them and no cooking involved. So here is Mary's Peanut Butter Balls 3 1/2 c. powdered sugar 2 c. peanut butter (creamy or chunky) she used creamy 1 can Eagle Brand condensed milk Mix all together with an electric mixer just because it is pretty thick and hard to mix. Make balls about the size of a large marshmallow (not the new campfire so'more size) Melt (you can melt in the microwave) the bar of Almond bark or chocolate. Dip the balls in the melted  bark. Let cool Then just enjoy.  Link to homestead revival

Boy did a lot of us shown up yesterday for the 1930"s club at Sager Creek Quilt Shop . We had a great time, we were so busy chatting that we forgot to do show and tell until Betty came it to share one of her quilts. She was here visiting a family member and found the quilt shop there in town. She had won awards with this quilt and many others she had made. She has a website you can go to to veiw her gallery of quilts. She is amazing with what she does on her domestic machine and she has only been quilting for six years. She also brought in one she is still working on.  Here is her website Betty New Till next time Kat =^..^=