Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

I've made it to Dallas yesterday and our booth is set up and ready for the show today. Driving south you can see more signs of spring than at home. With all the rain we received and warm temps, we too are starting to see life coming back to plants around the yard. These pictures are from earlier this week and wanted to share  The first to show itself was the Daffodils No, I take that back, it's the birth of baby calves. The lilac bush is showing buds. Then the peach tree is too, but I'm concerned because we could have one more freeze before spring. Then all would be lost  Last and most showy in the Phloxes. Just wish I had more of them planted.  Take care Kat

I have had an issue with getting my bum out to the garden and getting busy at planting. The weather has been so nice that I have no excuse other than lack of motivation Well I can say that for the past two days my potatoes planted 25th hills. Planted cauliflower (12 plants), Broccoli (six plants), red cabbage (six plants), green cabbage (six plants),  and six plants of collard greens  I didn't get the plants planted in the proper time of the moon phase. I procrastinated last week, all my fault. Then later this week I'm going to be in Dallas at the quilt show. So my timing was either do it now or delay it for another week and that would just stress out the little plants Cajonquilter had made a comment the last time I posted about planting by the moon and I had shown a calendar, here is the website that I have found that calendar. There are also two other website you can go to which is the farmers almanac here, and this one I'm still picking carrots that

Today after church I just moved in slow speed. I had intended to do a little outside but didn't. Ended up doing some reading, helped "the man of the place" feed the cows and then some prep work on the outer border for the Scandinavian Christmas. I had finished the last block (4) this week and now it's time to work on all the little blocks. There are 4 churn dash blocks to do for this last section. And there is the outer border too. It has a couple churn dash blocks, applique hearts blocks and cross stitch snowflakes. I was going through the package with the pattern and fabric. I had purchased this BOM years ago and at the time didn't go through it to see if all the fabric was included.  Has had all the fabric in each month up till now. Should of  Cause I'm missing the piece that I have highlighted.That is a good size piece and did not have scraps leftover that big. Thank goodness I had bought some of that fab

Well this months color is PURPLE over at Soscrappy I'm not a big purple person but I do have some. Also have some leftover blocks from a quilt I made my oldest daughter a few years back. This quilt was completed in 2012 and given to my daughter.  It was an easy block to piece just took a little while due to so many blocks. Her quilt was larger that the pattern specs. I believe I gave the pattern away after I was done. I have 12 blocks leftover so maybe with some sashing and border it can become this months baby quilt. Need to look now in my stash for some more purple Linking up with soscrappy

I did it again and hadn't wrote a thing all week.  It's been a busy week, went to the eye doctor and I am doing just fine.  Spent the day Tuesday with my parents When I was in Tulsa had to go to the newly opened Trader Joe's. So pleased to see it finally opened and now just waiting for Costco to open next month Now for the finishes, first is a baby quilt.  I machine quilt it myself using a walking foot. Seeing how I was quilting in the ditch and I'm so new at this I figure it would be easier. After just 4 hours this quilt is finished and ready to be given away. Then I have this month's group of circle completed. Now have over 120 completed.  Linking up at Quilty Folks Michelle's Romantic crazy mom quilts

I love Sundays. And today have been a good Sunday. "The Man of the Place" took me out for dinner, so that meant no cooking and no cleaning. Yippee The rest of my afternoon and evening will be devoted to handwork. I will quilt some and now that I finish having to remake a template  for the center of the Rocking Road Block.   And a Walking Dead marathon. Yes you read right, these oldies  like The Walking Dead. Have to have one fault Anyway enough of that.  Yesterday didn't do anything other than clean house  yuck... yuck...  but it needed to get done.  Friday tho did start quilting, machine quilting, on a baby quilt. It's one I'm going to give to a new Mommy at church Not being very adventurous, I'm using my walking foot. Should practice with my quilting foot, doing straight lines but thought just because I'm a beginner and don't think I stress myself out too bad and just use a walking fo

First of all I want to say I am not promoting this product and getting anything in return for sharing this. I have a non profit blog, it's all me folks. Anyway onto my newest toy. Before I even started the Whole30 I had been trying to find a way to make veggie noodles.. Didn't want to go the grating way. I have bought 2 kinds of hand held style of noodle makers. These were both hard to hold onto and very wasteful.   was able to return this one. So I decided I would spend a little more and try this one. Well it was worth it so far. Here is my first attempt and was very easy to use. With just a little of an end when done. I plan on trying other veggies beside zucchini. I think I found my veggie/fruit noodle maker