Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

It's funny how some days just don't go as plan. I try to plan out my day while having my cup of coffee in the morning. I had planned to work out in the garden first thing in the morning while it was still cool out. You see our nice cool weather is gone, it's back to summer here. I had the strawberry bed that needed weeding and the runners thinned down and grean beans to pick. see the rabbit in the background at the top I had planted these strawberries this year and they have really taken off (and so had the weeds). One thing I need to do was thin out the runner. Should have 2 or 3 per plant. This one has at least 6 or 7. And thinning is very simple, just cut off the runners. I did plan on starting new plants from the cut off runners but that didn't happen today. This is a bad picture, not clearly showing the runners.  I decided to go with 2 per plant seeing how I just planted them and I want the plant to put most of it's energy into growi

Democracy is the government of the people,  by the people,  for the people   Abraham Lincoln 

Last week I made my goal to go through my seeds I have and reorganize them and replace the ones needed to plant for the fall garden. before I started So I went through the seeds and separated the old from newer.  I tossed the old ones  and I had seeds that dated back to 1994 Then I emptied and clean out the container I store them in and went through the dividers I made and put them back in order. Found some recycled freezer bags, ( I wash my bags after I use them and save them). What I do is put the seeds in the freezer bags and then just file them in the box. Easy enough. Have a few flower seeds also off to the side. I try to mostly plant perennials but I do have some flowers I like to plant in with the veggies to help attract pollinators and they are annuals. Bought the new seeds and have all the summer crops in and here in a couple I will start with fall planting. Here the ave. first frost is Nov 3. but if you do

July 1st already, half the year has past. Where I live we are having below average temps, 82 today. That is almost unheard of, normally it's in the 90's and humid. Loving it and means I'm spending a lot of time  outside and not that much in the sewing room. I know it will not last and I'll be back to the sewing room when it's too hot to be out. What's up on the wall is one of my RSC13 . I'm a couple months behind and this is Aprils color orange. Still have blue,   yellow and this months teal  to do. I know what I want to make, it's just doing it. This months (April) baby quilt I made fabric from scraps and then on a piece of fusible interfacing I drew a circle on the plain side. I put the fusible side next to right side of the fabric and stitch on the  circle I drew. Trim the circle and made an opening in the fusible to turn it inside out Try to push out the edge as much as you can to make the circle round. I have mi

 Time to reveal my NewFO the month of June.   I've probably bitten off more than I should but I just love her design this time and I'm catching it right in the beginning, no catching up to do. Over at  Esther's blog  she has started her new BOM. It is an intense applique design. Drafted from a picture of Historical quilt dated 1790 she calls Love Entwined. http://estheraliu.blogspot.com/ This is the center portion but isn't it just gorgeous and there is still time to join if you are up to the challenge and believe me I think it will be. But what an heirloom quilt. Can go to her website and link over to her yahoo group and join, then you'll start receiving the monthly pattern. Right now I am deciding on fabric choices. She has on her blog posted 4 colorways she had thought about and then on the group discussion there also other colorways. I believe I am going to go scrappy with a light background. see more NewFO at  cat patches

I cannot say that my slow Sunday is really that slow. I have a lot of things I would love to be able to do today. First of all I am so happy and pleased to say that I have my daughters candy wrapper quilt top all pieced together. Now it's  only took like nine years to get this accomplished, but yeah My daughter decided that she wanted her border to be done in pink so I have a pink solid that I am going to start putting on today. Karen, here is Pete's close up. And then there is my Stash Bee block for this month that I haven't made yet. So I would love to be able to get that done today and get it in the mail tomorrow. Also there is the planning of the fall garden which I would love to take a little time this afternoon and work on that. But then the weather is so beautiful here today, in the 80s, with a breeze from the north so there's no humidity. I would just love to be able to also take some time and just sit on the bac

 It was hot this past week, the chickens would wade in their water dish to help cool off. Sure makes their water dirty. Even though  it was hot, work on the farm continues. Here is a small peek of what went on here at the farm.