Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

  As you can see,  things have changed.  Why not... everything else seems to of this year. I had been thinking about changing the looks to my blog for some time now and thought I would just wait until the 10th anniversary, which is not until June of 2021. But you know what, there is no good reason to wait. I wanted to clean up the look and so now I’m in the progress of learning what I can do with this layout. All the information that was on the side are accessible through the menu bars at the top right now.  I’m playing around with that. How exciting...... Now I need your advice, I going to be making these socks and want you to help me decided which yarn to use.  The black is the main color and then then need to know what you think will look the best for all moons and light color pattern  The beige or orange  I’m going for a Halloween like theme.  I’m in love with moons and it’s so cool she has all the phases incorporated in the pattern.  Found this pattern on Instagram on pikku_kimala

After dumping my troubles it’s time for some fun and happy stuff.   I promised to show you some of what I’ve been working on this past month.  In my last video I had shown some quilting projects I wanted to get done before Halloween.  I did finished the top Tape Measure.  I really like how it turned out. I plan on quilting it myself on the machine.  And right now I’m working on the table runners for my daughters. They were here to help me after the surgery and I was thinking I would work on them while they were here but that didn’t happen.  This is what I have completed so far.   I was working on the star blocks and found the the directions are incorrect and had to fudge some.  The other project was a test knit I did. The socks turned out so cute.  The pattern is called Louie and Prim Cat Socks by razzafrogie.  You can get the pattern on Ravelry, it’s a paid pattern. It was an easy pattern and the cat and paws are stitched on after you finished knitting by doing what’s called a duplica

  Again life has taken an odd turn and this year for so many of us it hasn’t been for the better. We all have had to change so much of our lives dealing with COVID-19. Many countries are doing fair, a lot better than here in the US.  And I understand everyone is so tired of this all but I’m afraid we have a way to go before it’s better. Like so many we haven’t seen our grandsons since February.  I know my lost and challenges are not as bad as others but is better  compared to some. Beside being home bound, we lost our pet after many years. Lost my step mother to cancer in the beginning of this year and was hoping to take dad out to travel some to help with his grief but that never happened.  And for some time I was having issues, health issues and was putting it off because of dealing with what my step mother needed. I then waited a few months after her death because of the virus before being comfortable going to the doctor. Well after some tests she found polyps in my uterus and neede

Finally I have another video made. This time I'm sharing some FO's, Wip's and future plans. I was able to get one of moms quilts finished. She was getting pretty weak and was hard to focus so I needed do some redoing on this top which took me a little time. Plus I just didn't have my heart into it. But I do need to get them done.  Have 2 left to do and would like to get them finished before Christmas so the girls could have them as gifts from her. Then I did get a top made for me that was originally for my daughter. Do have another one cut out but debating whether I want to finish it. There are other patterns I have cut out and ready to sew and would rather spend my time on them.  Here are links to the Granny Shawlette Helen Steward's Pebble Beach Shawl Crabapple Hill pattern for the Halloween Journey Plans for this month This one I would love to get to but the other two I will be working o

It's hump day I have so many WIP's right now there's not enough time in the day to work on them. I really need to get busy. Which I'm trying. Here is a WIP I started 3 years ago This is the first diamond I've worked on this year. I had a bag of the hexies with some fabric that I needed to be able to work more on this quilt. And for the life of me I could not find it anywhere, I thought I could of lost it last October when I took Mom and Dad to California. I keep all the stuff for this quilt in this small suitcase I found at a flea market and it wasn't in there.  But I found the bag this past weekend. It was in the truck we use sometime when go somewhere. You see the "Man of the place" thinks my Subaru is just to small, "made for hobbits" Well in the glove compartment was my bag of hexies.    Now it's back in the suitcase. This afternoon I worked on one of the granddaughters quilts my step-mother started. I'm hoping to get this one don

We are half way through 2020 and personally I hope the second half is better than the first but right now in the United States and here in Oklahoma it's not. I'm remaining to stay home, no eating out or any indoor crowds and wearing my mask every time I go out.  The good thing about spending more time home I have to say is I've gotten my creative mojo back this past month.  And also has given me time to think about how I can blog more and improve what I'm trying to share. So I'm going to be adding videos here on the blog that I will also post on my new YouTube channel. I want to be able to show more of what goes on here whether it's a project I'm working on, the garden, cooking or just daily life. Knowing that writing is not my best asset, maybe videos will help. It will be at the bottom, so if all works right just click on the video and it should play for you. My channel is called Rose Prairie Farm I dropped the quilts because I didn't want it to be con

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.