Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

It has been a good day, the weather for most of the day was cloudy, breezy and cool. Gave me the opportunity to get a bit done outside and help "the man of the place" with the cows. It's time to take the calves off to market. After that, I enjoyed some piecework.  Started this last weekend to take with me to the retreat Dreamy Hexagon   ( from the pattern book Quilt Grandeur ) Made little progress then but have been working on it this week and have two of the seven done.  So love the colors and tonight I'm working a muted green and pink hexagons while watching Game of Thrones. Also today I drug out my loom. A while back I had started this scarf and had put it away while the boys were here.  Pretty close to the end and need to get it off the loom because I would like to make some wash cloths out of all the cotton thread I have. Still bothers my wrists to knit so I might as well weave some. Who knows I might like them better. Y

I have been meaning to write since I came home from the retreat Sunday. Monday was filled with unpacking, cleaning and going over to my parents home to check in on them. All is well, thank goodness. We talked about my sister and aunt who are driving here from California and would be arriving that day. By the time I arrived back home "the man of the place" was home from work and it was too late to do anything else but dinner and clean up. Tuesday was 30's club at Sager Creek and had plans to go but things change. My sister needed to work while here in Oklahoma and needed good internet connection but my parents and another aunt who lives here did not have what she needed. Being   not what she had thought she could work with by talking to my aunt, because she was going to stay with her during the week while needing to work and weekends with my parents. That's changed, she is now staying here and we have been working out a routine. So here it is Friday and I&#

 I finished cutting all the subsets for the nine patches. As you can see, there are hundreds..... seeing how I'm making approximately 595 if I did my math right. So that makes 1,785 subset . . .  WHEW that is a lot, glad I didn't think about this before I decided to make this.  It will remain my leader and enders  Made one of each nine patches needed, 3 different styles..... had to see what they looked like. I'm a little giddy about getting the first step done and now it will start looking like something.  While working I took a minute to snap a picture of the bird feeder outside my window. The Goldfinches are such a bright yellow, pretty little birds.  Also seen a little later a young groundhog come up towards the house. Now this is unusual to see groundhogs so close to the house. They are very timid animals. Let alone come up on the back patio. He was a little bigger than a squirrel but he like the sunflower seeds too.  

Tuesday I was in Tulsa all day. Had my hair cut and ran around town. Favorite part was shopping at Costco, I can always find items I didn't realize I needed. Go without saying but I will, didn't get a thing done in the sewing room. But I made up for it some today. I finished up sewing 36 strip set which means I'm done with that step. Now it's time to press and starch the strip sets, ready for cutting into 1 1/2 sub sets. Had made approximately 140 strip sets. Cutting the strips would be tedious if done like I had in the past but now that I have the Go cutter, it has made this step so much easier and faster. Here I press and put 3 strip together and cut into 7 1/5 section to fit on the cutting board. Loaded it up and cut. In just minutes I had around 80 subsets.. If I did my figuring right, should have enough for the 595   9 patches needed and maybe a few extras. Didn't get them all cut today but will tomorrow. Linki

My MoJo is back, in fact I just wanted to work in the sewing room all day.  But I had other tasks on my list to do too like clean out the refrigerator, change and wash sheets on bed, vacuum... heck you get the idea. Did tho in between all of that was able to get some sewing in. Started with making freezer paper template for the sashing. First I just used the one I made for both side and realized that it was off, not the same curves. Now I'm picky at times and this just had to be one of those times. If it wasn't for the fact that the look was frames around each block and they are side by side I thought there needed to be more even. So I did a reverse of template.  Like it so much more. Only doing a few will tell. Then worked on the leader and ender project that I have been working on the past year and pretty close to finishing the strip sets.  Want to get the strips finished so I can cut the strips into  1 1/2" subsets. That fo

I can say for a fact, my Sunday has been slow, a slow progress was made. Today I have spent all day prepping various projects I plan to take to a retreat I'm going to in two weeks. Well at least that was my intention. I think I got a little carried away when I went looking for some fabric out in the garage and found a couple projects that I've been wanting to do for a couple years now. One is a  Kaffe Fassett  kit I had purchased on one of our quilt shops bus trips.  And another was one that I had started, Oh it least seven years ago. Have all the appliquéd blocks completed but need to do the sashing and borders. But the ones that I intended to do, which is a QAL over at Confessions of a Fabric Addict which is her Trip Around the World. Part of her 12 days of Christmas blog hop. Got the strips cut and now ready. Another is going to be a baby quilt using one of Deb Tucker's patterns called Tumbling Triangles. I have the strips