Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

This is a Jo Morton quilt done in her new line "Sweet Emilie". All those hourglass squares and then there are over 550 1 inch squares. Boy I am so glad it turned out as well as it did. The picture does not do it justice.  I started working on my "Beyond The Cherry Tree".   Oh heaven , the WIP list just keeps getting longer.  What am I going to do with myself One of these days I am going to figure out and post all that I have in WIP's. But to make me feel better, I will also put up what I have completed. Then maybe I can breath a little. Till next time Kat =^..^=

The Prairie Dog I forgot to show you this in my last post. They are so cute but I bet they have their own falsies too. This was the picture I was able to take with phone camera. There was a whole colony of them but could not get a good zoom shot. They really do bark like little dogs and they have short tails they wag. Reminded me of squirrels. Found this cartoon on another blog, thought it was cute.

Howdy y'all, My goal was to write each day I was in Colorado but between not being able excess the internet and being tried, it didn't happen. That way I could of gone into more detail, but I'll try not to make this too long, (ya right, since when). I was so tired each day from being very busy. And I thought I was busy here on the farm. It was a nice show and I met a lot of neat peoples. Some of those nice peoples were across from our booth, these ladies have a line of fabric with Moda, their line of fabric is call Sweetwater . I had taken a picture of their booth but it did not turn out for some reason. It was a really cute booth, I just love the color of their fabric. Then there was a shop from San Diego that was right up my alley, ALL APPLIQUE The name of the shop is called Amidon Quiltworks , it wasn't that they had really anything new, it was that the owner was very knowledgeable in the technique I like to use when appliqueing. She taught me a few new tricks and

OK I can share some photos that I took on the way here to Colorado. While driving through Kansas you pass by fields of corn, millet and sunflowers, you know how I love sunflowers so I try to take a photo of the field while driving past them. This is what I ended up with Now use your imagination and tell yourself "oh what beautiful flowers" Then we are plodding along and before we knew it (yeah right, 8 hours later) We are crossing over into Colorado. Of course I had to be like most tourist and stop to take a picture to document this historical occurrence. So that was yesterday, like I said yesterday we were pretty tired so that was about all we did. Today we went the Event Center for the Rocky Mountian Quilt Festival to see about when to set up and we lucked out and was able to start earlier than we thought. This was the first time that I have been present to help set-up the booth. I have in the past just shown up to work the booth the days of the show, boy there is a l

This is just a short post because it's late and we have been driving all day. I'm in Loveland Colorado for the Rocky Mountain Quilt Festival. This is the first time for me and I am looking forward to what the show will be like. If allowed I will have pictures tomorrow. Right now I am using my friends computer so I do not have access to my picture I took today I have always loved being in this part of Colorado. We plan on taking time to go to Estes Park. Now that is a gorgeous place. Will not have time to do any of the hikes but will have to get out and walk some in the park. Till next time Kat =^..^= 

This is not my original idea but it is a pretty darn good one. Seeing how I raise chickens, I have these Polywoven Feed Sacks but Sunflower Seeds come in these bags as does some dry pet food. This is my bag They are very easy to make but I'll suggest that you use a sewing machine that can sew through denim easily. The polywoven is a very tough material to sew through and use a larger size needle also. With an empty feed bag I rinsed it out and let dry. Step One: Cut off the pull string edge and then you will cut off  4 - 5 inches off the bottom of bag. You want to make sure not to cut into the design, so figure what you like on your bag. They are all different. Step Two : Turn bag inside out, sew along the bottom using 1/2" seam Step Three : You will miter the corners of the bottom. To do this you need to fold the bag with the seam going down the middle (see Photo).  Measure from the tip down each side 5".  Sew from one marked edge across to the other marked edge. D

Here is what's up on my design wall, this a Deb Tucker  pattern. She has designed tools to simplify making various combinations. Like this one is pieces to make a hunter star but there is no Y seams. When put together it looked like this Very pretty I think. Then I am working on this small wall hanging and I should be able to finish it today. Till next time Kat =^..^=