Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

I That has been me today.  And you know what, I loved it and did manage to accomplish so much more than I really planned on. The list for To do's was....   Read a little Start another batch of Lime Pickles Put binding on one of the flying geese lap quilts This is the first of the two that I have been working on.  I used the scraps I had leftover from the geese for the binding.  And I was very lucky cause I had just enough to be able to bind the both, in fact I had less than 12" left. It is so nice to get these done and in plenty of time for Christmas. But if you were to look it up it's only 116 days (from today). The last thing was to make something new with zucchini's. I'm doing that now, making a dessert pie but won't know how it turned out till later and I'll share that tomorrow. Write my Mom My mother lives in Kenai, Alaska and I try to keep her up to date on how her

Yeah, it's Friday. I get excited over Friday whether I have something to do on the weekend or not. Just an old habit from working.  Amy at Love Made My Home has not been posting Five on Fridays this whole month of August cause she taken the month off. She'll start back up next Friday but I still want to go ahead and post my Five for Friday My five pics will be the five rainbow scrap quilts that I am making in regard to so scrappy RSC 15 challenge I have 2 of the 5 sets caught up with all the colors for year.  Being that this month was indigo and here are my indigo blocks Some how I miss counted how many blocks to make, need 2 more. But then the other 3 sets, I still have to catch up on May and June the baby blue and the bright green.  1. Is the spool blocks. These are made from small pieces of scrap from trimming up my bigger scrap. I just couldn't throw them away, had to make something from them. Which those smal

While in a stupor yesterday and doing some quilting while watching some Masterpiece Theater, I was thinking more about how I wanted to do the border of the 30's sampler Like I mentioned yesterday I have been basically quilting a quarter inch outline stitch, or in the ditch  and sometime just a barely outline stitch around the applique.  Thinking about the border which is not that wide, it's a 5" border that is basically a straight design. I have  rectangle patches of the print fabric with a strip of the background fabric on each side.  So I was considering....  OK if I'm just going to go with what I've done with the rest of the quilt and do an outline stitch but do I do it only on the border fabric....  or do I do it on the printed fabric.   And I have even considered doing it on both but in reality it's not needed to keep the batting secure and that would be more for an aesthetic look.  T

Today I am what you would say out of it. Yesterday afternoon I had 2 cups of caffeinated coffee (I normally don't do) which kept me up till 2 AM. I get up at six with "The Man of the Place" every morning and like any other morning, was up at six this morning. I need more than four hours of sleep. Without my normal amount of sleep, which is like seven hours, I just feel so out of it.  Passed on any heavy gardening this morning.   watered the seeds planted, water the potted plants on the porch, fed the birds and deadheaded some of my perennial.  Added to that a day of mindless sewing. Started a few spool block and worked on some strips sets  Quilting on the 30's sampler some, I'm down to what I would call the last row. But I haven't decided yet what I'm going to do with the border. I've done mainly outline or in the ditch. I would love to get this one done within the next month or two. I'm such a slow

I love mornings, I look at it like a new start. Which it is, of course. But I just love that feeling. I'm all for new chances.  Anyway, I have walked out of the house with my new prescription glasses on. I'm still getting used to walking with them on, seeing how they are trifocals and I'm not used to that. In the past I would you use readers to do my sewing and reading and the rest of the time go without any type of glasses but now that I have cataracts that are forming and starting to affect my vision. I need glasses all the time now. But still after a month of having them I still don't like walking with them on, especially going downstairs.. I feel like I'm going to trip and fall. So while walking, I put them on top of my head and  enjoy my morning walk slightly blurry, but all the same wonderful My morning walk give me a chance to put my day in perspective While having my morning cup of coffee before my walk I usually make my thing to do list

Right now what's up on my design wall is a blank wall. I had taken everything down yesterday so I could put up my collections of rainbow scrap color blocks to see what it looks like with all the various colors I have already prepared. These are what I have of the spool blocks. Over the weekend we had a series of heavy thunderstorms with a lightning which blew out my modem and router. Today I went down to the telephone company to get a new modem, because that's who provides the modem. Then I have to go to the store and buy a new router. Then I will be up again But for now I am writing this through my blogger app on my iPhone. Thank Goodness for that. So before I went for my walk, I went to let the chickens out of the house and see how everything is. "The man of the place" had over the weekend put up some wire where the chicken wire was starting to deteriorate . Had to fill in the hole again from the groundhog.  In the proces