Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

This is my February's Lovely Finish, Nested Churn Dash. I am so pleased with how it turned out. I wanted to thank those how left comments with their suggestion on how they would finish it. I am going to take their suggestion along with my friend Mary and combine them. I will go with grey to frame it in but I'll use it in the binding.  A change from my scrappy binding like I was planning. And will have that darkness of grey but not as thick as the sashing.  Thank you everyone. So now for a few other finishes. This is an addition to the blocks I started for RSC15 I had these blocks left over from making Breast Cancer quilts many years ago (8 yrs).  Now I have another donation quilt. This one is crib size and will make a cute little girls quilt. Then I found these block while looking for something. These date back again to 2008 & 2009. At one guild I was member of would have what you call a pizza box exchange. If y...

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...

Up on my design wall today is one of my UFO's  My Nested Churn Dash Blocks. I have 7 of the 9 blocks done, so I only need to get those 2 done and figure out how I want to set them. I am going to  make this one of my UFO's to finish this month. Over at  Sew BitterSweet Designs blog   you can link up to tell what is going to be your finished project for the month. Only need to commit to one so this is mine. There you can see others who are doing the same thing as to finishing up a Lovely. I still have this months RSC ( pink ) to do and while looking for pink fabric I came across some unfinished pink basket blocks. I will add that to my personal to do list. Plus finish my Pea Ridge Lily  this is the original in Barbara Brackman book Civil War Quilts Mine is in blues. linking up to  http://www.patchworktimes.com/ http://whatahootquilts.blogspot.com/

I was so excited to get started this morning that here it is 9:30 and  I have fed the chickens,  the cows, did some laundry, the dishes, straightened up,  and even started on one of my blocks. I do not anticipate any interruptions, but you know how life is, so we'll have to wait and see. My goal to complete what I had put in the big tub. Not necessarily meaning I needed to finish each project that I put in there. Like example the churn dash, I had three blocks prepared and that's all I expected myself to do was those three blocks. And then go onto another project that I had either started or catch up on. So far that has been working out very well for me. But I was thinking is that the way I should be doing it? What would you do? Would you try to complete each project before going onto the next one or would you just do what you had prepped and then continue on from there. I'm really curious about that. Ag...

Well that is a big question, what's up Seeing how I haven't posted since before the retreat I went to. So I will show what I did at the retreat and what I have been doing these past few days, which is this Log Cabin Christmas Tree  wall hanging I have the blocks completed and now it just a matter of getting them sewn together. I'll get to that tomorrow. While at the retreat I made this baby quilt top with the disappearing 4-patch block. I had a charm pack and used some "snow" fabric Kaufman snow is one of my favorite whites to use. It's white but not a stark, bright white, goes well with a majority of the fabric I've collected. I started late making my blocks for RCS14 First I wasn't sure what pattern I wanted to make and then with all that was going on the first part of the year, I didn't start until July. One quilt is using a quarter log cabin in solid colors. I made these at the retreat, have the other half t...