Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

 Here it the 14th, Valentine Day and Ash Wednesday, which means it's the Lenten season Hope you all were able to participate in one or both.

IT'S BACK !!!! Remember this quilt I made a while back ..... well after all this time Pam at Sager Creek Quilts is offering this Sunflower quilt again as a BOM  Here is the information about how to sign up. The project will include 12 months of kits for the blocks along with setting pieces and borders.   Kits will include fabrics similar to the ones used in the picture.   Kits—$ 20 per month   Call the shop to sign up 479-524-5244 This beautiful Sunflower Sampler is back by popular demand! Designed by Marilyn and edited by Pam - This is a block of the month from 10 years ago and was lots of fun to make. It includes a variety of techniques. We will be using fabrics similar to the ones shown in the photos for the kits.                   This project includes many different techniques in making sunflowers—traditional applique, blanket-stitch applique, old fashioned piecing, strip piecing, 3-dimensional fabric manipulation, paper-piecing, etc. This w

NEW INTRODUCTION Last night I was working on this and pretty much was finished writing and was ready to upload the pics. Went to do that and found my iPad dead, needed to be charge so here it is the next morning seems like there is one thing or another lately. After a few days of only able to put in just 15 mins a day, yesterday I was able to sew for over 3 hours.  The first thing was to add a border to this months RSC. My next plan is to practice machine quilting. I think this could be a great way to get 15 minutes in. Have here shown 19 diamonds completed but there are a few missing. I have started adding the background hexagons So I needed to cut out some more  2" squares to prep some hexies for the Mosaic Diamonds.  Then I was going to start on something new but just wasn't in the mood to search down fabric. So decided to work on finishing something I started.  Picked the box that had the RSC blocks from 2015, picked the spools bloc

It's been a long week, been everyday except yesterday spending the day at the hospital visiting mom. It takes up a good portion of the day but I have been able to get a little each day working on scraps and yesterday I was home so I was able to finally finish cleaning up this mess.  It took a while but this is how wonderful my room looks now. Have now all the UFOs up on the shelf instead of in the ironing shelf. Put in the shoe box size containers scrap bits, triangles, HST and some 1 1/2 strips.  Then in this shelf I have all the cut squares and strips. I know that I have some sizes that most don't save but they do come in handy when wanting make HST. I have been wanting to get this task done for a year now and it feel good to finally have it done. Now it's time to get busy using them up seeing how I have tubs of scraps I need to press and cut. Was able to do a little sewing after all this was done, Finish the baby Blue RSC

I meant to get this written last night but we were watching the last two episodes of Longmire on Netflix. This has been such a great show I hate to see it end and it had my full attention. I did get my 15 mins in but it was all on getting the cut scraps organized. It looks like a tornado hit. I had started before this saving the cut pieces in plastic bags marked so I knew which size it was.  These were all stored in one of those plastic erect drawer units.  I do not want those in the sewing room now. Going to use the storage unit / ironing station. So far I have 3 different sizes that will fit in the unit and not sure until it finished what it end up looking like. I would like to think it will be perfect but I know better. Imagine that it will need a little fine tuning as I start using it.  For the past year all of this has been out in the garage not being used. Was hoping to get it all done yesterday but unfortunately my Mom was a

Today I spent a good 5 hours in the sewing room working on pressing and cutting scraps into useful sizes. Had a good size piles to work with. I organize them by the closes size I could trim them down to. Starting with 2 1/2", 3", 3 1/2" 4", 5" 6 1/2" and had even a few large pieces With those I went ahead and cut them into squares and some strips. Some of the pieces were units that mom had sewn and strip sets Which I will use to help complete what I had up on the wall of the blocks mom made. Like I said yesterday this will be fun. My poor mom is now dealing with Bronchitis. Seems like it's one thing or another lately. She'll be surprised when she see what I've done with her scraps. This evening I took a break from sewing and did a little crocheting on a new afghan I started this week This too is using scrap yarn that mom gave me many years ago. Linking up with Kathy's   and with Cy

I have been meaning to write something for the past couple of day. For one if you had been following me for a while you'll know that each January it is time for the Pantry Challenge, that's where you try to eat mainly from whats in the house only getting from the store your basics....milk, butter and fresh veggies and fruits. And beside that it is also National Soup month Thursday I made a big pot of Split Pea Soup with ham. Add to that some fresh cornbread. (All had in the house) Yummy We had nice temps until Thursday and that is when it got really cold again and hot soup does hit the spot. When cold spell hits I like to spend time sewing. Was able to start in on RSC for this month, color is blue. I decided to use Moda Love Charm Quilt pattern (free) and will make a baby quilt. Using some 30's reproduction fabric. Very easy little one to put together. Also dug out one of the scrap box container to find some more blue to c