Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

You could not of asked for a more beautiful day. Have you ever felt like you hope that this is what heaven might be like. Or things are so perfect that you're afraid something will happen to end it. The Man of the Place worked on the water gaps sense the water is down and my job in helping was cooking for his Dad and brother who came to help. You couldn't of asked for a better day to have to work outside. I walked down to the creek to see all that had happened. It's amazing what the force or water can do. At this spot the water had been as high as my shoulder, you can see the debris in the tree. And in other spots it had been over 8 feet. But it is so different now, places we would cross are now so wide and deep you can't now. And the amount of gravel and sand that has washed up just changes the flow of the creek. So this evening I am going to continue quilting on my daughters quilt and I am loving doing a big stitch. It is goi

You have to watch out for what you wish for, we need rain but not this much at one time. The good thing is we missed out on tornados here but not everyone in Northeast Oklahoma was that lucky. Thank goodness no major injuries that I know of. Just property damage. Look how much rain we received in less than 9 hours. Besides the fence being moved and bent all to heck the wire fence (water gap) is laying there in the grass with debris entangled in it The force of the water moved the hay ring and fence a good distance. Look at how much debris is stuck in those fence panels Wow, what destruction fast moving water can do. It can move fences  and in some cases totally remove them. Especially the water gaps, which is a wire fence that stretches across the creek or drainage ditch. This creek is usually around 6 - 8 feet across and up to 2 feet deep. Now a good 25 feet across and probably 6 - 8 feet deep So the "Man of the Place"

Today I was going through my Piecework Magazines looking for info on Berlin Work. But it was so easy to get side tracked with so many interesting articles and projects. I found a couple I remembered I wanted to make and also one I thought was so appropriate for Yarn Along. The whole issue was dedicated to as it saids "Literary-Inspired Projects" This was an older issue, September/ October 2010 If you love vintage needlework and /or history, you might want to find a copy of this magazine.   For what I'm working on, It's still the baby hat. I haven't done much knitting this past week. I realized I did not like the circular needles that I had been using on the project so I changed to DP needles.  The needles I was using were plastic older ones and just did not knit smoothly. It was work moving the yarn which took more time to do and just not enjoyable.  Have you ever came across needles like that? Audrey Hepb

I finished for the most part my daughters quilt. I talked with her this past weekend and she would like a border on it, so I will be putting that on. Then I'll go get it basted so I can start quilting on it. I was able to finish the baby green quilt so that's down.   And then these are the two finished blocks for the Pea Ridge Lily I'll start getting more prepared.

Being that it a wonderful stormy day I have been sewing and now taking a little time to knit I thought I would show what I am working on. It is one of the projects I had started and put up and  found when going through my yarn stash.  It's a baby hat that I probably started when the "little dudes" were waiting to come and for some forgotten reason just quit. I'll finish it and donate it to the hospital the "little dudes" were born at. I have a couple more I have made to add to it.  Now for what I'm listening to is still the "Friendship Bread" Almost done, maybe 40 mins. left. This one of 2 book over a Maigold''s Loft  for the Reading Book Club. The first book "The Book Thief" I loved and recommend it to you as a good read. I loved how the writer told the story. It was one of those books you wish would continue on. And for this book it's not my type. I know this type of book is very popular but to

When I was young we would have rice a lot. While growing up in Sacramento California there were rice paddies all over the Sacramento Valley and I don't know if that had anything to do with the fact that we ate a lot of rice or not.  Back then we ate white rice but since I've been on my my own I have eaten rice in its more natural state, brown rice. When I was little we would have a bowl of rice with milk, sugar and cinnamon, which I considered this to be of my most favorite comfort foods. I also eat rice often in place of noodles. I will have rice as the base with the main dish on top. But the recipe I want to share with you today is my basic comfort food   that is just a bowl of hot rice with milk, sugar and cinnamon. I now use like I said brown rice, and in place of white sugar I use raw sugar or honey. you can use any other type of sweetener that you like and a generous amount of cinnamon. If you are wanting more rice recipe go to Judy's for What&

I am having this thing of wanting to try different Scone recipes and this is one I found over at Mennonite Girls Can Cook . They have so many Yummy recipes and there is another Scone recipe they have that I want to try here soon. This one is so good, especially with the powdered sugar icing I added  Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups white flour 1/2 cup whole wheat flour 2 tbsp brown sugar 1/2 tsp baking soda 2 teaspoons baking powder 4 tbsp butter, cold 2/3 cup unsweetened apple sauce 2 tbsp orange or lemon zest 1/3 cup buttermilk 1/2 cup blueberries, fresh or frozen Method: Stir together all dry ingredients. Cut in cold butter until the butter is very small chunks. Stir together the apple sauce, zest and butter milk. Pour over dry mixture and stir with a fork just until it all comes together. Do no over mix scones. Using your hands, gently work the berries into the dough. Place mounds of dough onto a parchment lined baking sheet. Bake at 375º for 12-15 minutes.