Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

Well its Midsummer and Sunday is the longest daylight of the year for us. That is also Fathers day here in the US. Plan to spend the day with my dad, we have been keeping our safe distances. I wish everyone would. Here in Oklahoma they are having a rise in Covid-19 cases, especially in Tulsa. I've been keeping at home only going out to go grocery shopping. Have to admit it was tough at first adjusting to all this and can say I've finally have. I've been doing mostly Knitting and crocheting with just a little sewing but now I my creative MoJo is back and I have so many projects running through my head and can't wait to get busy. But right now I'll just show what I have completed since the last time I posted in April. Oh and by the way the beginning of this  month marked the 9th year of this blog. Hard to believe but I have also have plans for my blog and will share that soon but for now it's but to show and tell  Here is the knitting FO.

It's nice to focus on slowing down and putting all the chaos out of mind for at least today. And I can say I was able to.  Today was a day of purposely being present and just loving the moment. So spend the morning working on sewing some more masks for family. My sister in California asked if I could make her a few and also my eldest daughter, along with my youngest daughter Tomorrow I'll finish them up and get them in the mail. Speaking of mail I've notice there is practically no junk mail..  That could be the one thing I would like to see continues longer. Then after lunch I enjoyed a nice nap, just love good a nap. Later on was spent crocheting on the scrappy granny strip blanket This is it's home while waiting to be worked on. Under the blanket are all the balls of scrap yarn. Which is baby yarn that has been given to me. This picture show how much progress I have done since that last time I posted here Doubled in si

Hey there everyone, I hope you all are doing okay with everything that is going on in the world. I understand from the news that pretty much all of us are in a lock down of one form or another. Don't know about you but it has been a challenge for me. I can be very happy being home bound, it's just that I was watching too much news and was freaking out a little. So I'm not watching all the time now and my anxiety is better.  Don't know if any of you are experiencing any thing like that too. Also for a while I couldn't seem to be focused, more than normal  But  I'm adjusting and relaxing a little and feel like writing about some of what I've been up to these past few weeks Well I started on new socks and this time I decided to do a plain vanilla pattern Did a twisted rib cuff in a contrasting color with a German short row garter stitched heel. First time for doing this style heel and I liked it. Says that it will wear longer So far I

I have some Friday finishes....shock...shock Being home bound I've been working on a little bit of this and that so my finishing will reflect that. I did get the first two days of Arne and Carlos mystery KAL Had to take a break though because my wrist was starting to hurt a little. This weekend I do another one or two. I'm behind 3 squares already . For the longest time I have been meaning to cleaning out my little fan that I use every night. I just have to have a fan on me at night. It sure collected a lot of lint and cat fur.  Amazing Took a little paint brush, in fact the same one I use to clean out my sewing machines bobbin case. Looks like new now. I feel better too, I was afraid that somehow all that stuff could catch on fire. I don't know if it really could but it would still freak me out at times thinking it could. Sweet dreams now  Then while still working in the master bedroom, the wall lamps I ordered a w

It's been a while since I had something to show that's up on the design wall. Up on the wall is one of three tops. When my stepmother passed away she had been trying to make a quilt for each of her granddaughters. She has 5 granddaughters and was able to complete 2 quilts  and was working on the other 3. I had cut out all the squares she needed because she was unable to.  So I collected all the squares, partial blocks and completed blocks to go ahead and put them altogether I had to frog some of the pairs due to the seams allowance was not correct. Mom was never a precise seamstress and as she got further along with the cancer her precision worsen but she would not let that bring her down and she kept going. That was comforting for us to see her do what she loved up to close to the end of her life. I will get these done for her like I promised. I hate to admit it but I started a KAL along with the knitting a pair of socks each month