Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

Today my mom had her congestive heart failure check up.  When Mom or Dad have a doctor appointment in Tulsa I'm usually away from the house for 6  to 7 hours. Makes for a long day.  Her appointment went well, she's maintaining which is good.  I always take some sort of handwork with me when I go to the doctors appointments and today I did not have a small crochet project I'm working on so I picked the bag with my hexagon Diamonds that I've been working on for the past 2 years  I started this project  almost two years ago when we went to Houston Texas to MDAnderson Hospital for my mom's cancer diagnosed at that time. .  I have seen this picture online on Pinterest and just loved this quilt and I thought well I'll just start this.  I had not taken anything with me because we thought it was going to be a short trip, well we ended up being there for a month. So I went by a quilt shop and picked up some charm packs a

By this weekend and it will be in the 70's - 80's and I'm ready for it. Been cleaning up flower beds and yesterday I picked up some zinnia seeds to plant. Maybe tomorrow, today Mom has an appt. at CHF clinic and usually these appts. are an all day event. I do hope to get some stitching in while there. I'll take the Mosaic Diamond (Mom Quilt) with me. As you can see is that there are two colors here that I decided to use for the outer ring on the diamonds. I decided to add the cream grunge because on some of the diamonds the fabric would blend in too much with the gray grunge. In fact I had sewn it on and put them up on the wall and that is when I realize I would change it up. Do you see what I mean? Fun part was taking the ones sewn on off, not easy. I was so afraid of accidentally snipping the hexes. Went very slow. I need to get  pictures soon of all the diamonds I have together. I started this quilt almost a year ago, it was

I decided this morning that it was going to be a day of as little housework as possible, just the basic. Also no cooking.... total leftover and clean out the frig day. It was a cold, blustery day. Sun came out but still didn't make much of a difference. Stayed inside, lots of piecework, sitting around. Probably too much sitting around but it will warm up and it is going to be a busy week ahead. On the list for today was to add grey around this diamond Done  I also dug out the Vintage Garden top that is pretty close to done. First I put down on the floor to get an idea of how I was going to go about the border. But the light is bad and really didn't think it would work.  so I put it up on the design wall. The outer border will be pieced cuts. This was a BOM from about 10 years ago so I'm working with what I believe it's suppose to be. I do not have a picture of the finish quilt just a photo copy of he pattern or able to g

I worked some on the Wonky Log Cabin blocks. Finished these 6 and will do 6 more Blocks are 12 1/2 right now. Mainly today is I worked on some piecework. Quilted some on the Blue Rocky Road,  after having it put to the side for a while..... since I was quilting on the Scandinavian Christmas . Now that it's done, this quilt really needs to be finished. There is a lot of quilting in this quilt and I'm still not sure how I will quilt the border. Also this evening did some more stitching on the Mosaic Diamond Hexagon blocks. I am in the process of changing this up some and I'll get into that more later Linking up with Kathy

NEW INTRODUCTION Last night I was working on this and pretty much was finished writing and was ready to upload the pics. Went to do that and found my iPad dead, needed to be charge so here it is the next morning seems like there is one thing or another lately. After a few days of only able to put in just 15 mins a day, yesterday I was able to sew for over 3 hours.  The first thing was to add a border to this months RSC. My next plan is to practice machine quilting. I think this could be a great way to get 15 minutes in. Have here shown 19 diamonds completed but there are a few missing. I have started adding the background hexagons So I needed to cut out some more  2" squares to prep some hexies for the Mosaic Diamonds.  Then I was going to start on something new but just wasn't in the mood to search down fabric. So decided to work on finishing something I started.  Picked the box that had the RSC blocks from 2015, picked the spools bloc

Day 17 already and in two weeks it will be 2018 I'm going to turn 60 next year, that just don't seem real. What is 60 suppose to feel like because I sure don't feel like I'm 59. Oh heck, I always said I refuse to grow up....a kid at heart. I said I would show more of Mom's Mosaic Diamond Quilt  I have 19 now done and a boot load more. I have found the fabric to use for the background hexagons. It's one of the Grunges, a mix of grey's with hints of beige's. A really good match I think. Looks good doesn't it. Then today before we went to take some firewood to my parents, I started on one of the gifts I want to give to the girls. It is bowl holders to use in the microwave. I have been wanting to make something like this for a least a couple years now. I am tired of burning my fingers getting something out of the microwave or trying to do it with pot holders (that doesn't work well).  I