Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

It's been a while since I had something to show that's up on the design wall. Up on the wall is one of three tops. When my stepmother passed away she had been trying to make a quilt for each of her granddaughters. She has 5 granddaughters and was able to complete 2 quilts  and was working on the other 3. I had cut out all the squares she needed because she was unable to.  So I collected all the squares, partial blocks and completed blocks to go ahead and put them altogether I had to frog some of the pairs due to the seams allowance was not correct. Mom was never a precise seamstress and as she got further along with the cancer her precision worsen but she would not let that bring her down and she kept going. That was comforting for us to see her do what she loved up to close to the end of her life. I will get these done for her like I promised. I hate to admit it but I started a KAL along with the knitting a pair of socks each...

Yesterday I needed time to calm down from all the craziness going on in our world    Yes we are all in this pandemic together and we need to take heed to what the experts say on how we can help ourselves and others. So I'm taking their advice but I also have the luxury of being able to stay home and hunker down. Yesterday I needed to stay busy and decided that cooking was going to keep me away from watching the news for at least the day. I know I can get too absorb in it all. Saturday I took the sourdough starter on hand and fed it all without using or disposing some of it. That meant I ended up with 4 jars of ready to use starter First jar went to a double batch of waffles The recipes is from Emilie Raffa website The Clever Carrot It's called Cinnamon Sugar Waffles  which she also has in her book Like I said I made a double batch which I put all of the extras in the freezer for another time. And this where I'm getting ...

It has been a very nice slow Sunday. The "man of the place" has been at his dads all day so I have had the house to myself.  I decided this morning that I was going to purge and declutter my scraps of fabric. I have accumulated so much over the past decades, seriously decades.  As you can see I have quite a bit of scrap fabric. I have divided it up over time by color and that had worked really well for me. But my love for quilting isn't quite what it used to be and I have literally hundreds of yards of fabric that I should be  using, so I’m going to pass on my scraps to a group of ladies that make quilts to sell for extra income. So today I bagged it up and will take to the a person who will deliver the bags.  I have started a crochet scrappy granny blanket which I am using also some scrap yarn that I had again accumulated over time.  I’m using what is considered baby yarn and I just put it all in one tub, because I really did...