Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

I believe I have an answer to how to go about getting the look I want on the border to the Rocky Road. Remember I asked about what you all thought about color and thickness of thread, and from your answers I went with the white pearl cotton. Loved the look but it was just to hard on my wrist, but wanted to have that look without the pain. So I tried using the quilting thread doubled, it was a piece a cake to stitch but thought it was not quite heavy enough. Then I had an idea about trying sulky 12 wt thread. I use this thread for embroidery work It's thicker than quilting thread but not as thick as pearl cotton. Threaded through my quilting needles....great decided I would also double it, it worked. Can you tell which stitches are which? Most is pearl cotton but there is the quilting thread and sulky. Hope this is self explainable. Where the light blue are pearl cotton...the look I like Between the yellow lines is t

I wish the weather would stay like this all year long, I don't believe I would get bored at all. Yesterday I did take the pictures of my handy work outside. What I had potted up.  Last Friday while helping with Master Gardener's I was at a event for Arbor Day that the Cherokee Nation had put on and some of the booths were giving out native trees. So I picked out ones we do not have here on our place.    Picked out some Shortleaf Pines and  Chinkapin Oaks , they are the ones in the coffee containers, needed some larger than the other pots that the pines are in. I'll plant them in the fall. Also plan on redoing some of the beds around the house, they have become over come with weeds and another type of weed that I can not pull or dig out so I'm going to have to resort to spraying. Either my herbicide is old or they are just a tough plant to kill. I do see some yellowing but I'll spray again. In one spot along the side of the house I'm going to p

It's amazing sometimes how quickly time fly's by. Last Thursday I said I had to be in Tulsa with Mom and it was an all day event like I predicted. Her check up was fine and looks like she is ok to have surgery in a couple weeks. Friday was the start of some very pretty days here. Now that I'm in the master gardeners group I was able to participate in my first event as a member.  For arbor day we went to 3 elementary schools and had trees for the kids to help plant.  Planted American Elm trees. This is the same specie of tree that is the Survivor Tree in Oklahoma City that was at the site on the bombing of the Murrah Building. That was in 1995, one year after I moved to Oklahoma. The rest of the day was getting tomato plants and some herbs. Saturday  was such a pretty day, spent all day outside. Had to get the back porch cleaned off to bring out the plants that have been in the house and garage. Need to get pictures but the ones that were

By this weekend and it will be in the 70's - 80's and I'm ready for it. Been cleaning up flower beds and yesterday I picked up some zinnia seeds to plant. Maybe tomorrow, today Mom has an appt. at CHF clinic and usually these appts. are an all day event. I do hope to get some stitching in while there. I'll take the Mosaic Diamond (Mom Quilt) with me. As you can see is that there are two colors here that I decided to use for the outer ring on the diamonds. I decided to add the cream grunge because on some of the diamonds the fabric would blend in too much with the gray grunge. In fact I had sewn it on and put them up on the wall and that is when I realize I would change it up. Do you see what I mean? Fun part was taking the ones sewn on off, not easy. I was so afraid of accidentally snipping the hexes. Went very slow. I need to get  pictures soon of all the diamonds I have together. I started this quilt almost a year ago, it was

I know... I need a new project like I need a hole in my head, as the saying goes. But I couldn't resist. I had been seeing photos on Instagram and blogs from the Netherlands and surrounding countries. I was so drawn to it...No control. It's a Mystery Hexagon quilt called Winterse Hexjes from Anne Liefs  who has a quiltshop in the Netherlands. She started the mystery at the beginning of this year but you can still sign up like I did a couple weeks ago This was week 1 and 2 Week 3 and 4  Now I'm starting on week 5  I'm using 1" hexagons and it is so far moving right along but I figure as it gets bigger it will take a little longer Speaking of slowly moving along.... It's the second crochet scrap yarn blanket. The one furthest is the completed first blanket and as you can see the second one is getting closer. Have about 24" left to go and I will so glad when it's done. I can say that I should have a

Big milestone, I finished quilting on the main body of this Blue Rocky Road  Now it time to work on the border  I have decided on what stencil pattern to do, it's from one of Helen Squire's book,  Instead of making a plastic stencil, I figured making a cardboard oval with some registration marks could work And using a white Nonce Marking pencil that can be removed with water. I find that this pencil stays on longer than a chalk pencil and great on dark fabrics. Important since I needed to mark one side because I had to make it all fit. So I laid the oval and trace and than put the marks for registration  Using those mark I can trace the curves. Voila  Ready for the hoop, and I have a couple to pick from I think I'll start with the hoop that is design for this job, edges. If not I can always use the small oval. Now comes to where I need your help, I'm not sure w