Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

Yeah, it's Friday. I get excited over Friday whether I have something to do on the weekend or not. Just an old habit from working.  Amy at Love Made My Home has not been posting Five on Fridays this whole month of August cause she taken the month off. She'll start back up next Friday but I still want to go ahead and post my Five for Friday My five pics will be the five rainbow scrap quilts that I am making in regard to so scrappy RSC 15 challenge I have 2 of the 5 sets caught up with all the colors for year.  Being that this month was indigo and here are my indigo blocks Some how I miss counted how many blocks to make, need 2 more. But then the other 3 sets, I still have to catch up on May and June the baby blue and the bright green.  1. Is the spool blocks. These are made from small pieces of scrap from trimming up my bigger scrap. I just couldn't throw them away, had to make something from them. Which those smal

Right now what's up on my design wall is a blank wall. I had taken everything down yesterday so I could put up my collections of rainbow scrap color blocks to see what it looks like with all the various colors I have already prepared. These are what I have of the spool blocks. Over the weekend we had a series of heavy thunderstorms with a lightning which blew out my modem and router. Today I went down to the telephone company to get a new modem, because that's who provides the modem. Then I have to go to the store and buy a new router. Then I will be up again But for now I am writing this through my blogger app on my iPhone. Thank Goodness for that. So before I went for my walk, I went to let the chickens out of the house and see how everything is. "The man of the place" had over the weekend put up some wire where the chicken wire was starting to deteriorate . Had to fill in the hole again from the groundhog.  In the proces

Was able to get these two blocks done to add to the spool blocks. Need to do a little more but until then I will go ahead and share this at So Scrappy Today I was able to spend time with my youngest daughter. We met in Tulsa and went to the Gilcrease Museum to see the showing of  California Impressionism: Selections from The Irvine Museum Granville Redmond California Oaks oil on canvas, 1910 30" x 42" This was one of my favorites,  but before I left I started the process of making Lime Pickles. I had not known of Lime Pickles till I moved to Oklahoma. They are very easy to make and are pretty much fool proof. Start with Mrs. Wages Pickling Lime, soak your cucumber slices in the lime water all day or night Then you rinse, soak in ice water for a few hours and then the vinergar/spice brine overnight and then I'll can them tomorrow. I finished this portion that was in the hoop and now on to another part.

Mother nature decided to give us a taste of fall here in North East Oklahoma the past couple of days. I woke up this morning with the temperature at 60's and you could not ask for any more pleasant weather. So the first thing I did was to get dressed, after my coffee, and go outside to just drink up this beautiful blessing Before I took my walk I decided to check the traps by the chicken house none in that trap but  Lo and behold I have one trapped underneath the birdfeeder by the back porch. Jeez Louise this makes seven in the past four days. I thought they lived in like dens and they would have a certain amount of area that they would consider their feeding grounds. How many can you have that one area? And another thing they must breed like bunnies So after my walk I went out to the garden and did a little more weeding, pick some more veggies, and planted a few seeds for my fall garden. I also took a picture of the dish I mention yesterday t

Last Tuesday was the 30's club at Sager Creek Quilt Shop and was the first meeting where we are starting   Laurie Aaron Hird's Farmers Wife 1930 Sampler and here is our fist 5 blocks We had twice as many attending, then we had before and it was wonderful.  The ones who's been attending this year were ready with their RSC15 blocks they made for the past months.  This quilt is one of our past 30's quilt. Eiko made it like just the pattern. Very beautiful isn't it.  Now I have finished mine and it is almost finished quilted but I changed it a little. Instead of the floral basket and went with a row of cottages. I going to add clouds and I'm thinking of clumps of grass beneath the the houses and in-between. Then it will be done. I just love the look of hand quilting...... especially on the back. linking up to  so scrappy

  This past weekend I spent four glorious day at Roaring River Resort near Cassville Missouri. It was wonderful and you couldn't ask for a greater group to be with, plus the fact of four days of sewing. Here packed and ready.... And I have to admit I had a big ambitions. I took three sewing projects and some handwork. I was able to complete two of the machine projects and get a good start on the 3rd... did do a little  Handwork My biggest achievement was......  drum roll please....  I finish #4 Ruby Garden, mine.  I am now done with all of the Ruby Gardens I am going to make. I'm going to take a picture of the four of them and how I try to make each in the personality of the recipient later today Then I was able to get caught up on May, June and July block for the rainbow scrap. Now it's on to August which is indigo  I had hoped that I could finish my string quilt that I had started a number of years ago. But I have to ad