Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

 on the design wall is the same as it has been for the past couple of weeks, Words to Live By. I didn't do a thing on it today other than prep a section to sew. What I did do is trimmed 3 quilts for binding. My mind is on Christmas already. You see my daughters and their families will be here for the holidays. First time in ages, and being that is been a while I have to find the decorations. I haven't decorated in years and not sure if all will be fine. They have been stored in the crawl space above the garage and hope to get them down this weekend. Decided to start with the gingerbread quilt, have the strips cut  just need to press and attach. But before I can do that I needed to finish the last block of next months Farmers Wife Another paper pieced block, #97 Tracy. Using freezer paper this time all is going well except I did not receive enough of the dark purple print to finish it. I'll get tomorrow when I go to the shop.

Yesterday morning I wasn't feeling good, so I got a late start on things. Didn't have a chance to show what was up on my design wall. So I'll share now what I have up on the wall. I have all the units completed for the Metro Twist top. This is a Sew Kind of Wonderful pattern using their Quick Curve ruler. And it is a quick curve to assemble.  I can do these units without any pins. That's the joy of it. Now that I have all the units assembled now it's a matter of deciding placement of the units. I like to put them up on the wall, and then take a picture.  Then from the picture it give me a better perspective of balance of colored and contrast. I try not to fuss around too much on this, I can drive myself nuts with it. Since its a donation quilt and will not be  shown or judged in anyway, I'll go with what looks good. Not perfection Sometimes you can't get something perfect anyway no matter

My what's up for today is twofold, what is up on my design wall and the other is what I was up to the past couple of days with my container veggie garden. I know I can get obsess with something when my mind gets started on something new. And that is with this garden on the porch. I know I have a large mess out in the big veggie patch. But I just do not find myself wanting to go out there and work that big space that needs a lot of work right now. But I do want fresh homegrown veggies. So after seeing what Mama did with hers, it just clicked. I've known about growing veggies in containers ever since I started gardening and I've even done a little bit in the past but for some reason the thought of the simplicity of just going out to my back porch, harvesting and taking care of vegetables sound so much more appealing than going out to the big garden daily. Now I have a big garden for crops that need to grow in large quantities for canning and preserving. 

Up on the design wall is my finished March rainbow scrap quilt. I can now say I have another project to machine quilt on, and another baby quilt to find a home for. I'm working on the rest  of my Quilty Circle 365 for the month. I found some new novelty prints at the Dallas quilt show earlier this month and I'm taking the time now to cut out I spy circles.  Not sure if I will get them sewn  today or tomorrow, seeing how I really would like to start machine quilting on the baby quilt. I've been looking at images online of other urban nine patches. Wanted to get some quilting ideas on how to go about doing mine. I had to keep in mind that I am a beginner and cannot get some of the patterns that are shown accomplished because they were done either on a movable long arm or by a professional. But nonetheless I have gotten some really good pattern that I am going to attempt Linking up at love laugh quilt .patchworkt imes

Today I decided that I would make the pillowcases for the "Little Dudes". They are really into Thomas the Train, Dusty from Planes and Lightening McQueen from Cars. Found some really cute fabric to make them out of. I believe they'll go nuts over them, plus I made a set of dinosaur one too. I used the sausage roll method you can find here the pattern  . Very easy and all the seams are finished when you done, no raw seams. Now up on my wall is another UFO that I have on the list I made at the begining of the year but I'm affaid it might be up there for awhile. Seeing how I'm going to my daughters house for a couple weeks next month and I'm trying to get my garden and other things  done before I leave, so sewing right now is low on my priorities. It was one of those Buck a Blocks that a quilt shop was offering. You purchased the package for the block for a dollor but when it came to the finishing up the quilt they offered a kit fo

My goal for today is to try to finish my nested churn dash quilt.  But I'm not sure if that's going to happen. I had to have my friend Mary help me this weekend to figure out how to put the blocks together. I was just puzzled how I would do it, you would think after working on it for so long I would have it all planned out to the end.  But no! We decided to go with a dark sashing and yellow cornerstones.  But that's as far as I got, now I have to decide what am I going to do for the outside. Will I continue with the dark all the way around  or will I go with a lighter fabric all the way around. I know what I want for the binding. I'm going to do a scrappy binding. Now if there's anyone out there have any ideas of what they would do, I would love to hear them because I am auditioning at this time. I would really love to get this done this week and check it off my list. While deciding I am going to finish this lap quilt

What's up on my design wall after taking down my quarter log cabin blocks ( more here about it )  Is now a panel Charlie Brown the Great Pumpkin that I had bought to make the "little dudes" a Halloween quilt.  There are 2 panels of course, just going to show one.   I have some other fabric up there to coordinate with it, but I think I need some more.  Now who don't need more fabric. I think while I'm at the Springfield Missouri Quilt  Show I'll look for some coordinating fabrics or maybe some additional Halloween prints.  Now for how to construct it?  I have a couple pattern that I could choose from or maybe design mine own.  Haven't decided yet on that.  Then I had bought last year before last Halloween, a countdown calendar for the "little dudes".  Have everything for that, bought it at the kit and so now all I need  to do is get it sewn together. Do you see a theme going on, it's all abo