Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

Yesterday was our small groups day to meet and this time we all seemed to have brought something to show.  JoAnn had been busy.  antique one Now the rest of us...... These pictures are Linda Grandsons class. As a raffle quilt, the handprints the children colored themselfs. How can they not bid on this. You know each of those children's parents and grandparents are going to want to go home with this. Hope you enjoyed

I was going through the pictures on my camera when I found these I had taken last year when I cooked eggs in the pressure cooker.  Last year I purchased an Instant Pot and was finding ways to use it. Telling my friends about what I had and wanted to do is when Pam told me about how she hard boils eggs in her cooker. I had never heard of that before. Now that was something I needed to try Well time went by and I forgot what she said so I went to the Instant Pot website and there is where I found these instructions, Pour 1 cup water into the pot and position a steamer basket or trivet atop the steam rack. Place 3-5 eggs, using canning lids or metal cookie cutters to separate/hold the eggs. Close lid and steam valve.  Press Steam setting, and adjust time down to 4 minutes.  (5 minutes for hard boiled). At end of cycle, place a cool cloth on the lid and quick release the steam valve.  Use tongs to transfer eggs to a cold water bath for 1-2 min

Well here it is, time for 2016 finish A-Long. To be honest it's snuck  up on me. I had forgotten about it, plus forgot to post the last quarter of last year's finishes. So I'm just going to just start with a new slate. Then later I'll take the time to find the list of the ones that were for last quarter and see what I did accomplish. Forgive me on this post, it will be loaded with pictures First one on the top 10 list is to finish the 30 sampler. I am in the homestretch on this one, Quilting the border now and after that of course the binding and label. Then I'm done. Yeah, after all these years. Will feel good Number two on the top 10 list is the tumbling snowman I have a started.... that's all I can say about this one.  I have to put a few easy finishes on my list. Which number three is.  The Red String quilt is one of them.  Just require binding only.  These pictures were taken before it had gotten quilted.

Well after writing down my tasks of things to do today and prioritizing them, which I put sewing as one of the top three, as you hopefully can see there. I am loving this daily spread. I have it down to a page a day and I can change the color to fit my mood or liking.  I am going to work on at least the blocks in month 8 of the Farmer's wife 30 samplers quilt BOM from Sager Creeks Quilt Shop.  But up on the design wall I have some more of my Quilty 365 circles. Which were from a fabric that had Thomas the train and friends images on them.  The boys are big fans of trains and Thomas. And the last two corner blocks been appliqué down for the Words to Live By quilt I'm working on. All I have left to appliqué now is the center block Later today I need to prep the Pea Ridge Lily quilt top that is getting sent off to a group of hand quilters to be worked on for me. There are so many quilts that I would preferred to have h