Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

 Time to reveal my NewFO the month of June.   I've probably bitten off more than I should but I just love her design this time and I'm catching it right in the beginning, no catching up to do. Over at  Esther's blog  she has started her new BOM. It is an intense applique design. Drafted from a picture of Historical quilt dated 1790 she calls Love Entwined. http://estheraliu.blogspot.com/ This is the center portion but isn't it just gorgeous and there is still time to join if you are up to the challenge and believe me I think it will be. But what an heirloom quilt. Can go to her website and link over to her yahoo group and join, then you'll start receiving the monthly pattern. Right now I am deciding on fabric choices. She has on her blog posted 4 colorways she had thought about and then on the group discussion there also other colorways. I believe I am going to go scrappy with a light background. ...

I had seen a couple of old quilts that I just went goo-goo over. Of course they were Blue and White. Faded and mostly stripes and plaids. I had been looking for fabric to meet those specs and it's not easy to find. There is a line called Farmhouse Blues that is gorgeous. But I have a couple of quilts in mind and I realize that with the price of fabric and not really finding what I have in mind, I have to come up with another plan. Then I thought shirts. I have been visiting Bonnie Hunter's blog for awhile now and she is always speaking of using shirts, so I thought why not.  I started looking in Thrift Stores when I came across one and had time to look. Until yesterday I had found only 15 I liked  Then while in Tulsa I thought I would find a new Thrift Store. I scored, found 10 new shirts for 28 dollars. That's 2.80 a shirt. And one shirt can give around a yard (give or take) of usable fabric. I had seen the video that Bonnie has on her blog on h...

I thought I would make this post one of a little of this and a little of that. Well what should be first, I think I'll start with the stash report. Added 6 yards to go with the quilt I'm making for my daughter. I did get a quilt bound this afternoon but I had  counted it  already  I believe so all I can show is a picture. My total numbers are located on the side. Besides doing the binding on this, for my slow stitching Sunday I am doing a little embroidery on the 30's row quilt. Just a simple stem stitch will do the trick. I have 4 blocks to do. Then there is March's NewFO. I am starting a quilt for my daughter. She had emailed me a picture of a crib quilt but wanted it done as a queen size. The pattern was minimal and simplistic. So on EQ I drafted it to be her size The blocks will be rather large and the quilting will be done by hand in a big stitch quilting. Here is the fabric she had picked out a few years...

Here is the end of the months tally and I wish I could say it was more than I'm going to share. But to make it look like I did a lot I'm putting together my color RSC13, NewFO and confessions of my Git-R-Done for this month and what I'll make next list ,  For the color this month which was purple I use 2 1/2 strips that I had left over.  So I have 2 child quilts to donate. I decided that is what I was going to make each month with this challenge.  This is how far I have gotten with last months color pink. It will look like this one that I found online. My NewFO for this month is the Granny Square Quilt from the class last week. As you can see it will be two separate quilts. 30's reproductions 1800's reproductions                 Now confession time of the four on my list for Git-R-Done,  not one got finished. I really don't know what has happened. So guess what. I'm j...

It has been a while since I have taken a class at the quilt store. I don't know why I waited so long, they are so much fun and I always learn something.The quilt we are making is this Granny Square, which was a pattern that was in American Patchwork and Quilting magazine some years back. I went looking for my magazine copy but couldn't locate it. Gee I wonder why!!  The instructor for our class is a friend of mine and she is such an excellent teacher, Sharon. That light square in the upper right side is an alternative color way, done in reproductions 30's.  After some verbal instructions we are off and running, busy bees we were.   Don't you love that quilt behind Mary, that is another one of Sharon's quilts. Method used was strip piecing and the hardest part is keeping them in order.  So this my attempt at making the block and that is all I did today was just made one. I decided that I wasn't ...

http://grandmotherschoice.blogspot.com Oh my, now don't hyperventilate  or anything cause I have written 2 posts in 24 hours but I'm home and feel like writing. It has been too long and I have the need. So I wanted to share a couple of new things with you, one is from that wonderfully interesting Quilt Historian Barbara Brackman . She is at it again with giving us a fascinating look into history. She has chosen a look into the Rights For The Women Vote. Here is a copy of a little intro to what she wrote in her blog, better said than I could write Women in the United States won the right to vote, women's suffrage, in 1920, a centennial anniversary we will be celebrating in seven years or so. But I thought it would be a good idea to start a memorial quilt in the early teens because the fight for that national right took so long. This is her plan as written on her blog, Grandmother's Choice is the logo for this Block of the Week. For the n...

It is getting to be a bad habit with me on posting a day or two late. There is a saying, "A day late and a dollar short." I think that was written for me. So you are thinking, what is she doing having another project to put on the list but you see I had these UFO blocks that were left over from a quilt I made many, many years ago. And when I saw an older book from Blackbird Designs I just knew I could put them to good use. I decide I will make the Rick Rack Garden Quilt out of their book You're Invited. So there it is my NewFO for July and if you wan to see some more hop on over to  Cat Patches . Till next time Kat =^..^=

This is a pathetic start on my little houses. I had full intentions of trying to get caught up, because the is to make a house a day, total 365 or 366 (leap year)  and as you see I have 360 to go. I am posting this because this was my New UFO for March and over at Cat Patches  she has links to others who are posting a new start that they did this month. I have been working hard on trying to finish some of my older UFO's and have been trying to resist starting a new thing. But as you can tell that doesn't last long. Till next time Kat =^..^=

I am still catching up so here is the current UFO Challenge for March. As I said earlier that it is # 8 and that is my Birdie Stitches that  Little Miss Shabby  did last year and as far as I can tell the link to her site looks like you can still download the pattern if you want. Here is mine so far.  I used a charm pack by Moda of Mary Engelbreit "Recipe for Friendship" Then I copied the pattern on to a sheet of Sulky 's Sticky Fabri-Solvy. Love that stuff, use it most of the time when I need to transfer pattern on to the fabric. Now to the NewFO's that I started this past month, Feb. I have not one but two.  What I have so far  It is from this book and this is the pattern I copying. All the fabric I'm using is from my stash. The second one is this Lemoyne Star.  I wrote about it last month  here My goal is this, to do a reproduction of this antique quilt Till next time K...