Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

They have worked on the livingroom floors and wish I could say they are finished but no. Hopefully one more day and I can get my house back in order. I can handle chaos for so long and I believe I have reached my limit.  The plus part to all this is that I'm in my sewing room for most of the day, need to stay out of their way. Today was a day of sewing all the parts completed so far together to the Words To Live By . Getting closer to the end.  Since this part is done, it's time to sew all the HST for the outer border. Somewhere around 120 for each side. Hadn't counted yet .... just guessing. That section above is only half of the top border. Tonight a little more quilting. I am so slow at it compare to some. But I do enjoy quilting. Linking up with  love laugh quilt bambisyr-evaj patchwork times cooking up quilts ems scrapbag

I'm so glad it's Friday and can say that besides the kitchen floors being finished, now the carpet is also finished.   Hopefully if all goes as planned, which nothing has yet, they said the hardwood will be finished by next Tuesday. Then the tough part starts and that is going through all my stuff before putting it back in the house. Really need to purge some things, have way too much stuff. Before I had to clear all out of the sewing room I worked on " Words To Live By "  Completed  the corner sets of HST and sewn them to the center block.  Also was able to sew the appliqued blocks together. Hadn't had time to get the light border strips on before they came this morning but at least I'm ready when I do get my room somewhat back together. Haven't yet decided how I want to set up my sewing room and what I want to put back in it.... definitely not all I had in there. The past week while emptying it out I been liki

Yesterday was a very productive day for me and the installers had most of the kitchen floor in and today they are finishing it up. I am so pleased with how it looks. But it sounds like it will be next weekend before the whole project is completed, that's hardwood and carpet. Now I was able to do 2 quarter sections of the center portion of The Words to Live By and now I'm working on another. Yesterday I was able to complete the last 2 Farmer's Wife blocks. So tonight at the 30's Club meeting they'll have more blocks for me. You see I'm the tester, making sure there is enough fabric and that directions are correct which makes me few months ahead of the group. I plan on taking the I Spy quilts as Show and Tell tonight... can't think of anything else. The leader and ender I mentioned the other day and had no ideal what I was going to do.....well I do now. The other day while looking on Facebook I came across this post on

This morning while I'm writing the installer just arrived and will start laying the kitchen tile.  They said that they would have it all in today, I just wish they could of been working on finishing the hardwood. The sale rep was not there Friday and we all left messages. I hope they will replace the bowed planks soon. They told me that the carpet layers will not install the carpet until the floors are finished. Don't know what that means, will we be waiting a length of time...sure hope not. I want this to be over soon so I can get the house all back together. I'm in the sewing room out of the way and have a couple projects to work on.  All the embroidered/applique pieces trimmed and now it's time to start assembling a half square triangles on the " Words To Live By ". So far up on the design wall is one quarter of the corner units that need to be sewn. Figure I'll work on one quarter at a time. Its nice to see how much is comp

I have been so preoccupied with getting the flooring in that I haven't taken time to write the past 2 days. So here is a quick catch up  The floor is not done.  Could just leave it at that but I won't. Some of the hardwood planks are bowed so they weren't useable, and there was an unusual amount of these boards so they are checking into getting some replacements. So until then I have half of the floor in. That half does look nice. I was also working on staining the new baseboards, which there will be around 200 linear feet. Keeping me busy I was able to spend some time sewing the past couple of days.  Did finish another Farmer's Wife block and it is assembled correctly but just doesn't look right. After some thinking and studying the block I realized that after the block is sewn in, the 1/4 inch  seam allowance will make it look right. At least it I'm hoping. Did get the first Retro Air-Ship Propeller block together and now

It's been a busy and sometimes hectic past two days. I've been meaning to write but just couldn't get the time to do it. Tuesday at Sager Creek Quilt Shop in Siloam Springs Arkansas, my friend Pam Goggans, had a blockbuster class. It's a once a month class using Deb Tucker's trimmers. And by the way Pam has another one of her patterns published,  this one was in the July/August issue of Fons and Porter's magazine, Quilting Quickly.  Even though I have been using these trimmers for a few years now I always seem to learn something new. And this month was no exception. Learn how to make these shaded 4 patches units. I've seen the demo sheet and even have talked about it at quilt shows when we're there at the booth but personally have never made one.  My goodness they are so easy to make this unit that looks so complicated. Here is a brief example of the steps taken to make the unit. And here is a link to one of Deb Tucker's

What's up on the wall this week will be the "Words to Live By. Last week I was able to complete all the 12 inch blocks and now ready to sew the setting triangles on.  Been working steadily on the HST, have the fabric marked and ready to sew. Started with 28 pieces that marked for making the HST and now I'm down to nine. I have sewn some of the half square triangles.  Waiting to be trimmed.  And have completed trimming over 250 of the HST. So looking forward to having all of these HST completed so I can start assembling the center block and the borders. 672 HST it's quite a few. The center is almost done, just 2 leaves left to be appliqued and doing the stems. I've been so busy trying to get this quilt top completed that I have put off my circles and my rainbow scrap challenge. Linking with  love laugh quilt super mom no cape what a hoot quilts bambisyr-evaj patchwork times cooking up quilts ems sc

 I hope you're not tired of this yet but I have more progress to report on the "Words to Live By" Yesterday I corrected the mistake I made and fused down the remaining pieces to the center block. I can say now that, all I have to do is blanket stitch and do a little embroidering That black fabric is all cut, setting squares and the HST.  I still have a few other blocks and you can tell from this picture with the vacant spots for the smaller 12 1/2 inch blocks. Still need to do some detailed embroidered on them. I don't have all the setting triangles cut out on my design wall, it's not as big as my quilt it is. I want to redo the design wall. That is one of the things I would like to do after the carpet is laid, being that all the stuff will be out of the room.  One that goes from the ceiling to the floor, right now I have a gap in both areas. I've also started on the half square triangles I ha