Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

What's up on my design wall is the same four blocks that I left up there before leaving to go see my daughter and grandsons. The plan for these four blocks is still to make into a baby quilt. I hope to have my cleaning done in the next day so I can get into my sewing room and start sewing. It's been a month and I have the itch bad While gone I honestly thought I would be able to get a little stitching in. But that was not to be the case, I got very little in So I have nothing to show for the whole month I've been absent. But that did not stop my mind from thinking of all types of quilts I want to finish or start. There's one quilt I want to start is the one that is being  done by   Audrey  over at Quilty Folks. It is her Quilty 365. First I thought well, I'll do it in blues. I've had this thought that 2016 will be my start a blue quilts. But I had another thought of a quilt I've been wanting to do for my grandson's.

It was a nice crisp morning, temps in the high 20's and low 30's. Do have a wind from the northwest but sunny. All the makings of a beautiful day. Which it is. Made my list of things to accomplish today, had my coffee, a banana and proceeded to go about taking care of the things on my list. I had strip the bed and done a couple of loads of laundry. Clean out the litter box. And straightened up and was dressed for the most part. Had a nice warm fire in the stove, in fact I felt overheated after vacuuming. So when I went outside to dump that stuff that I've vacuumed up (have a bag less vacuum) it felt rather refreshing,  being in short sleeves and Birkenstocks with no socks. Saying that to myself, until I went to open the door to get back in.  Low and behold ... I hadn't unlock the bottom lock, so needless to say I had locked myself out of the house. I've done this before and I would just go to my car use the garage door opener and unlock the

I got back last night after 3 weeks away  babysitting my grandsons. Before I get into that I want to thank my friends for sticking with me after being away. Thank you. I didn't post while there in California cause like many Grandparents I could of bombard you with pictures of the little dudes. But I will share this one of them in their Halloween costumes. They were part of the Paw Patrol, and ready to go trick or treating. We had so much fun. I spent part of my day unpacking and taking my sweet time doing it. Napped some and then spent the afternoon harvesting what was left in the garden that needed to be picked before the killing freeze (20's) tonight. I harvested lettuce, beets, turnips, sweet potatoes, potatoes, green peas, radishes and a few carrots. I was taking pictures but just haven't gotten round to editing them but I will and write more about my garden and how it did this year. I just wanted to touch base and make this a short o

I am entering this quilt at Amy's Creative Side Bloggers Quilt Festival  This quilt will go in the Scrappy Quilt category The pattern is from Creative Grid but with some changes.  The original pattern was for a small wall hanging but I had so many strips in my scrap pile I just needed to make it bigger. I barely made a dent in my pile too. I used Creative grids curvy log cabin ruler. I have use this ruler on quite a few projects and I love how easy it is to get the look you get. I have scraps in this quilt that date back to the 70's and bring back so many memories. To me that is what a true scrap quilt does Pieces of our life in scraps, pieced together Had it machine quilted in the Baptist Fan pattern. I just love that pattern, an old traditional pattern that gives this quilt a feel of age. This is such a great snuggle quilt and is a large queen size.  That way when in use on the couch you can total

I am going to entry this quilt and a couple others today at Amy's Creative Side Bloggers Quilt Festival. This one is going in the Modern quilts category The pattern was a Stash Buster pattern from Sager Creek Quilt Shop in Siloam Springs Arkansas. Every other month they have a meeting for quilter to share, show and tell plus get patterns to help use up our stash.  The fabric in this quilt was a gift from one of my daughters and in return I have made this quilt as a gift to her for Christmas. There are 140 flying geese in this quilt. The block measures 6 x 3 and the quilt measures 53" X 66"  I used Deb Tucker Wing Clipper to trim these blocks so they went together perfectly. I had intended to quilt this myself on my home machine, I was going to use my walking foot to get the straight lines. But I gave it to the quilter and he was able to get the look I was going to do.  The lines are space at different widths. F

Have you heard the one about your on the way to the garden and you get distracted by a messy garage.  Well that is what happen to me.  Since I'm trying to get stuff taken care of before I leave, I realized that it's not just the garden I need to attend to but the potted plants I have around the porches. Which means I need a place to put them in to protect from the cold.  The dream of a greenhouse is still a dream so until then it's the garage....hence the cleaning. Enough of the depressing stuff lets see what did get completed Put the border on the big orphan block. Done...ready to quilt...another one to practice on.. Did another Farmer's Wife. A paper piece one. Getting better at it, and by the time we're finished with the book I might be able to say I think I know a little about how to.  And you never know I might even like it. Maybe

Even thou I was able to get some gardening in you can see by the picture there is so much to do and I have little time to do it right now.  For some reason this year I just could not keep up with the growth of weeds. Then on top of that, some of the veggies just didn't preform like they should of. My guess is the cooler temps in early summer, then above normal rainfall in the summer. So now it's getting close to our first frost and Grammy needs to be leaving to go visit the "little dudes" Plans are to tend to harvesting whats left before I go and then worry about most of the clean up when I get back. Was able to get one block made from The Farmer's Wife 1930's book and went looking for the pink fabric used in this block but had no luck. Did find the green so I guess I'll use that. Think all white border might be a little to plain seeing how it needs at least a 6' border just to make it 36". Woul