Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

I have been working on last year RSC and I can say as of now I have 2 completed from last years group and this month's done too. Still working on last months. I have not worked on it very much but it on the top of my list now.  My curvy log cabin turned out nice. As you can tell I don't have all the colors in this one only 5 months but I also have to confess I never made all of them either.  So that worked out good. Don't think I'll add any border, like the way it is. It measures 80 x 65' nice twin size.  It will be perfect for a kid.  The nine patch I finished earlier this week and plans are to practice machine quilting on it and all the baby quilts I make this year. My goal is to get 100 hours in. I better get busy cause I haven't put in any yet.  I also finished this month. Same plans on finishing it.  I'll give them to the guild to be donated.  Linking up at   so s

I have something that happened this week that I would like to share and link it to Five on Friday  at Amy's love made my home.  Now the first two are both very exciting and I don't know which one to pick, so what I'll do is pick the one that took the longest for it to happen. And that is I finally finished hand quilting and have the binding on my 30 Sampler. I started the sampler in 2010 and started quilting on it the next year 2011 and for the last five years off and on I've been plugging away. But now I can check it off the list. Plus you know it completed when the cat's claim it first. The other biggie for the week is after couple months of the chickens have barely giving me an egg a week, I went out there to check the nesting boxes seeing how it's been a couple days since the last time, I found five eggs. I guess the girls could read my mind because I have been contemplating getting some new chicks to replace the old girls. I g

I'm not able to knit for very long before my carpal tunnel starts acting up. So it is taking me forever to get something completed. Needless to say I'm still working on the cat ball bed and the socks I started over a year ago. I'm just chugging along. With Lenten season, I decided to read something spiritual in nature, besides my daily readings.  I came across this book.    I know beads are used in many faiths while praying. And when I saw this I thought it sounded very interesting. Here what is the description says, A Bead and a Prayer introduces Protestant prayer beads to Christians who have no experience in praying with beads. Author Kristen Vincent explores the history and art of using beads in prayer, explains how to use prayer beads, includes instructions for making your own set of prayer beads, and offers a variety of prayers. Through this book you will learn how prayer beads can help you deepen your faith, understand Chr

Lent begins

This morning after I had done a few things I usually get online and go to my Blogger site to check my stats and comments etc. Noticing that I had a lot of comments that I had not responded back to, figure that would be the next thing I was going to do and cleanup my emails. But I got sidetracked by going to a few of the blogs I follow and I don't know if you do this but I'll go to one blog that will have a link or subjects that interests me and will go to that, and before you know it I'm off somewhere. Well that is what happened this morning, it led me to a website which I had never heard of before and that was quiltalong.net. Now you might of been there already, seeing how I figure you all are savvy bloggers. I read it's been around for a year. I far as I can tell there is no membership or fees required to view the quiltalong or the link parties. You can sign up for a newsletter that I understand gives you updates on new ones being posted

I'm tired from not  just having one project up on the design wall but a rotation of projects. Started out this morning with this month's RSC.  I went straight to changing out the walking foot I had on the machine for attaching the binding to the 30's Sampler. Which by the way I am halfway done sewing it down.  After changing the foot I sewn on the rest of the border, now it completed and ready to sandwich. After that I started putting up last years RSC's  I had 5 different quilts patterns, so started to see what was needed to finish them. The nine patch is ready so went ahead and put it together. Now this one too is ready to quilt. The curvy log cabin has plenty of blocks, just need to put it up on the wall in the layout I want, which I'm not sure yet. Spool blocks I think there are enough, now just need to decide if I will lay them side by side, have a sashing or alternate block to separate the spools. Guess it

That's Right Happy Dance I can say with such delight I am finally finished quilting on the 30's Sampler. These picture are from last summer and most of the basting stitches were in.  I had this one basted on a large quilting machine so that is why there are all those straight line. I quilted a quarter inch from the seams on 99% of the quilt. The only time I quilted closer was when I quilted around an appliqued piece. So today I am going to make a binding and I'm thinking of using all 30's solids, in all the colors I have. Attach that down while watching the Superbowl (love the commercials)  Boy after 5 years, that's how long it's been since I started quilting on this and I believe this is the first post  written  about quilting on this back in Dec. 2012. And at that time I said I started it the year before. If I happen to get the binding on and have time before the game, I'll try to finish the flying