Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

I am still catching up so here is the current UFO Challenge for March. As I said earlier that it is # 8 and that is my Birdie Stitches that  Little Miss Shabby  did last year and as far as I can tell the link to her site looks like you can still download the pattern if you want. Here is mine so far.  I used a charm pack by Moda of Mary Engelbreit "Recipe for Friendship" Then I copied the pattern on to a sheet of Sulky 's Sticky Fabri-Solvy. Love that stuff, use it most of the time when I need to transfer pattern on to the fabric. Now to the NewFO's that I started this past month, Feb. I have not one but two.  What I have so far  It is from this book and this is the pattern I copying. All the fabric I'm using is from my stash. The second one is this Lemoyne Star.  I wrote about it last month  here My goal is this, to do a reproduction of this antique quilt Till next time Kat =^..^=

I am now having to catch up on posting my UFO Challenge, OPAM and just sharing. First I want to say I had a wonderful birthday with friends and family and wanted to thank everyone who sent their birthday greetings to me, thank you. That is what made the day special, and to think I am now 54 years young, it's just mind boggling. I guess I enjoy it so much my body decided I needed to get grounded and so now I have a head cold. Felt like poop yesterday. Better today, so now I have a list of things to do, so let's get started. 1.  I finished sewing my Hunter Star top, now done.  This is #1 on my list.  I used Deb Tucker's ruler Petite Rapid Fire Hunter Star. I made the 6" blocks (circled in green) and when you put 4 of those blocks together you get a 12" block (circled in red). This is what I had originally planned but once I did get it sewn together I going to think about maybe adding another row. I just don't know, I'll sleep on it.   This

Have you ever been to McAllen, Texas. This was the first time for me and the first time I had been south of Dallas Texas. I had intentions of writing about our trip to McAllen while being there but I was so tried from traveling the first day and than setting up our booth at the quilt show. By the time we would get back to our room all I wanted to do was rest. So now I want to share some pictures of our trip and then the next post I'll show a few of the vendors I met and the some of the quilts in the show.  The first picture I took was the sign saying we were welcome to Texas, no longer in Oklahoma. I have a thing for wanting to get a pic of these signs. I did miss the one coming back that would of been a welcome back to Oklahoma.  Our first stop was a little out of the way but we wanted to go check out the quilt shop Stitchen' Heaven. I was surprise that it was located in a semi small town. It was a very nice shop. If you are near Dallas you ought go out of your wa

This recipe is one I eat at least once a week if not more often. Being on WW I am looking for filling dishes but low in points and this one does both. Egg Burrito This will serve one but just double, triple or more if wanting to serve more than one You will need 1 Egg Fat Free or Reduced Fat Cheese Whole Wheat Carb Balance Tortilla Salsa Scramble the egg  Heat the tortilla, I put my on top of the burner and heat it that way. I have a gas stove and so I am just using the flame heat. If you do not have gas or prefer to heat in the microwave or in a pan that's fine, just do not use any oil. That will add points and if you do you will need to make adjustment to point totals Place the egg, 2 Tablespoons of cheese and salsa in your tortilla.  Roll and ready to eat. This is 4 points plus but if you another tortilla and split the egg mixture, you will have 2 burritos  for 5 points plus. Leave out the cheese and it's 3 pts for o

Last month at our Quilt Study meeting Alice McElwain had brought a couple of her signature quilts. She has a thing for them, if she find one in at least fair shape she'll snag it up.  This was a quilt she had  purchase and was told it was from Kansas but after doing some research she found out it was actually from Oklahoma. Somewhere in the Durant area. The blocks are interesting, this here is one block.  When joined the corners make a group of hearts. the center piece where the signature goes is what I find intriguing Reminds me of a bone but I doubt that's what it is suppose to be. See the L, and the detail to the block.   I just fell in love with all the neat embroidery work. Some very creative combinations of stitches were used. All the blocks had a lot of detail.  Different from most quilts in this style I have seen. If I remember right, she dated it to be from the 30's Then she had this quilt which again is done in a uniqu

I know I was suppost to start the first of the year and build one a day. At first I thought I would do it like Jeanneke and cut out the pieces and just sew together. Copied her pattern and then life happens as usual and I did not get to it right away. By the time I got around to it, I decided I was going to paper piece instead. By then she had removed the foundation pattern. I knew I had read on another blog about  having the pattern plus some. Well that too was gone by the time I finally found out who. So my friend Liz (who has kept up and has two rows completed the last time I seen hers) helped me figure it out using EQ7 on making my own pattern. Not that it was hard, its just I'm still new at drafting and it wasn't coming to me.  I do not paper piece much  :-p  So here it is my first house. Working out the technique but I'll have it down soon and hopefully will be producing like crazy. I have some catching up, as usual, to do. I won't be doing much the

I found this recipe a couple of weeks ago on Martha Steward's website while looking for some ways of adding poached eggs in recipes. Needed one that I could use for dinner and since I had some spinach growing in the garden and tomatoes in the freezer, this sounded like a good one for me. You know what, it tasted very good too. This one also is a keeper Poached Eggs with Spinach Ingredients 4 large eggs 1 tablespoon olive oil 16 grape tomatoes, halved crosswise 1 teaspoon coarse salt Freshly ground pepper 8 ounces baby or regular spinach (about 16 cups), tough stems discarded 1 garlic clove 2 tablespoons distilled white vinegar 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh chives Directions Fill a large, shallow, straight-sided pan with 2 inches water. Bring to a boil. Break each egg into a small ramekin. Meanwhile, heat oil in a medium nonstick skillet over medium heat until hot but not smoking. Add tomatoes; cook, stirring, until they start to break down, about 5