Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

I have been making my own Hummingbird food for years and it is very easy. About a week and a half ago I noticed my first Hummingbird so I made some food and cleaned my feeders. The recipe is 4 Cups water to 1 Cup white cane sugar. You can boil your water first and add the sugar or you can add the sugar to the water without boiling first. I find it just as easy to boil and add. For me it dissolve faster but if you do not have the time to wait for it to cool down go with straight from the tap. At the website I'm referring to gives a great deal of helpful instructions on feeding from a feeder. This great website has wonderful information and I have given some of what they provide but I would suggest you go there to really get more than what little I shared from them. http://www.hummingbirds.net/index.html   Map showing when to start your feeders. This is info from  http://www.hummingbirds.net/attract.html There is more about not using  pesticides and inse

What I have up on my design wall is one of my Get-R-Done's. Once I get this row stitched all I need to do to finish the top is sew the rows together and add a border. And then on the other part of my wall is another one of my Get-R-Done's,  Some Kind of Wonderful. I started this one last year in March and with birth of my Grandsons it has been neglected. As soon as I finish sewing the sashing strips I will have these two rows completed. Three more rows to go. Can you can tell,  I love to applique

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