Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

Made it home last night from the Dallas show around midnight. For now all I can say is I thought it was a wonderful show. I need to go through my pictures and the post my favorites. So on my wall is what I left up there last week seeing how I been gone since Thursday. I have been working on getting this months color YELLOW  done. And a portion of a baby quilt using Jenny Doan's method of her Disappearing Hourglass 2 A word of warning there are a lot of bias edges, so be careful not to stretch them. Starch heavily, can help. 

I have become obsessed with Larabars, especially the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough.  So being a penny pincher and at a $1.50 a bar, I figure I could make something close to it for a lot less. Went online to read what others have done besides reading the ingredients on the bar. From there I started playing around. I ended up with one I felt was pretty close. Actually down right yummy and a healthy, clean snack All you need is raw cashews whole or pieces pitted dates without sugar and chocolate chips ( I found at Sprouts vegan, sweeten with Stevia mini chips. Perfect) A pinch of salt And a food processor. I used equal amounts of cashews and dates, 1.5 cups each. If dates are hard, soak them in warm water for 10 mins, drain and pat dry. Put them in the processor for about 10 sec. It should be well minced and starting to ball up.  At least it did on me. All that is important is that it will stick together enough to form balls or bars. But not too

I wanted to show the Christmas Wall hanging that I had made 5 years ago. Its just now has it's binding sewn on.  I can now cross this off my list for good. This a Redwork pattern called  Winter Twittering by Pearl Louise Krush publisher The House of White Birch I linking this to  julie k quilts

Seeing how it's another cold gray day perfect for sewing and that's my plan. What I am working on and not yet up on the wall today, is the start of this month RSC 15 color which is yellow, So I am cutting all the scraps I need to make my blocks for this month  Then I'm going to cut for the stash busters that is next month at Sugar Creek quilt shop that they have every other month. The pattern is a flying geese variation which is in rows of flying geese that Moda  had put out.  This is going to be my March Lovely to Finish, which I link up to at  fiber of all sorts , hope you go see what others are working on finishing this month. It's a free pattern you can go to their site and download it or just copy which ever you want to do. ( I was told but I can't find it ) I'm going to make it out of a fat quarter pack that my daughter had given me for Christmas a few years ago and then some background fabric that I had purchased last year fo

We still have snow on the ground, which I thought we were going to lose today because there was a prediction of rain but that didn't come about. It was cold and a good day to stay in.  Today was a good day, I got to speak to a lot of family today through face time or over the phone. Work on our taxes for last year. And did get a little bit of sewing done. All mainly handwork.  I did prepping for my "Words to Live By" BOM by Primitive Gathering.  you want a good reference book for appliqueing, this is it;Jeanne Sullivan's Simply Successful Applique I also worked on my Morning Glory Designs  BOM ,  I did the Iris block. And I did some appliquéing on the Columbine block.  So in retrospect, it with a good day. I'm going to be linking this post at Kathy's quilt for her Slow Sunday that she has every Sunday. You need to check it out, there's some really neat things going on out there and I enjoy reading other peoples blogs.

This is my February's Lovely Finish, Nested Churn Dash. I am so pleased with how it turned out. I wanted to thank those how left comments with their suggestion on how they would finish it. I am going to take their suggestion along with my friend Mary and combine them. I will go with grey to frame it in but I'll use it in the binding.  A change from my scrappy binding like I was planning. And will have that darkness of grey but not as thick as the sashing.  Thank you everyone. So now for a few other finishes. This is an addition to the blocks I started for RSC15 I had these blocks left over from making Breast Cancer quilts many years ago (8 yrs).  Now I have another donation quilt. This one is crib size and will make a cute little girls quilt. Then I found these block while looking for something. These date back again to 2008 & 2009. At one guild I was member of would have what you call a pizza box exchange. If you wan

I haven't given any information on my chickens lately, for one reason they haven't really been doing much. It's been cold and they pretty much just stay in the hen house and try to stay warm. Bless their hearts, they're doing a very good job of it with no help for me. I do not have a light out there in the chicken house. It's not well insulated is just plywood walls. There is straw on the ground to help with some insulation. But as you can tell from what I'm saying the poor girls are on the own. Boy are they from Hardy chickens. I have not lost one this winter. I have 13 girls, and they're all older girls, 3years and  older. I really thought I would lose some of them with this cold spell we've been having. But just proves to show you what good health and mother nature  has created can do. Okay I have to give myself a little credit I have been feeding them exceptionally well. I've been trying to keep their health the best so they can fight