Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

For my birthday this year I decided to give myself a gift and it was to take yoga classes from a professionally trained instructor. Never have and have for decades follow a video or lately an app that is really good. But sometimes I feel I'm not doing the poses right.  Well there no classes near me so I've ended up going to Tulsa to The Inner Peace Studio. They are very nice, knowledgable and patient. I have a mat, blocks and a belt which I've stored them in a pillow case. That was ok for home but after taking my pillow case with me, it's not really the best way to take my stuff with me. So after a google search, came across lots of bags like this but they only held your mat and I needed something that would also hold the blocks and belt too. This was what I needed, right here  is a link to the pattern So here is mine. I had found some deco fabric for the exterior and then quilt fabric for the lining. The dire

Up on the design wall is my finished March rainbow scrap quilt. I can now say I have another project to machine quilt on, and another baby quilt to find a home for. I'm working on the rest  of my Quilty Circle 365 for the month. I found some new novelty prints at the Dallas quilt show earlier this month and I'm taking the time now to cut out I spy circles.  Not sure if I will get them sewn  today or tomorrow, seeing how I really would like to start machine quilting on the baby quilt. I've been looking at images online of other urban nine patches. Wanted to get some quilting ideas on how to go about doing mine. I had to keep in mind that I am a beginner and cannot get some of the patterns that are shown accomplished because they were done either on a movable long arm or by a professional. But nonetheless I have gotten some really good pattern that I am going to attempt Linking up at love laugh quilt .patchworkt imes

I wanted to share this this morning before I go out and help  "The Man of The Place" put out hay.    It's the first time to show what been done for this months RSC baby quilt. It's been a slow process this time, which is odd since it started out with orphan blocks. Had some of the fabric left over that I used with the blocks to make my daughter's quilt. I have written about earlier here  and here I have the sashing in mostly now and the next step is I would like another border around. Deciding what I have in scraps that can be used is where I'm at now. Seeing how it's suppose to be for a baby I would like to lighten it up some. Right now it's on the deep purple side and doesn't really read baby to me.  If it wasn't going for a child I would definitely use the darkers.  What's your thoughts? It will be a while before I get back in the house to work on it so you have time to weigh in your ideas. I'm game f

  I had never seen this before and was post by someone on facebook and thought this was a cheap, fast and easy idea for the cats.  And here I am knitting a cat cocoon which is pretty much the same idea. I have to say that the T-Shirt cube is way so fast.  Maybe the cats will like the cocoon better, won't know till I finally finish it. So here is what you need; 1 large T-Shirt (easier with a large one) A box the size of a milkcrate or little bigger (not too big that your shirt won't stretch  around) That's it!!! You'll stretch the shirt around the opening of the box,  making sure the neck opening is centered in the opening of the box. Next is to tie the best you can in the back of box the T-Shirt. If your box is bigger and if you can not get enough to tie, I pinned with a big safety pin the extra shirt closed. Then the sleeves are tuck back into the armhole like so. Now That's

I have finished a couple projects since the last time I wrote about what I had been working on. I was able to finally and I mean finally finish, a pair of socks that I had started over 3 years ago. I remember working on them while flying to California. Now I have to decide who will be the recipient.  I also started and finished a scarf with some yarn that I had in my stash.  Effin Scarf Found this pattern that I thought was so cute and before using some expensive yarn, made it with the stash yarn.  Turned out just as cute as the picture and that doesn't happen all the time for me.   It was very fast and easy, a no brainer. Going to start another using this yarn here. I was also able to listen to a couple of books too.  The first was It was a fun spooky little book. Not too gory.  It was one I found out about on another blog here on Ginny's link up a while back. Thanks to all the others who link up I h

I've had one of those weeks, I have intended to get so much done and just didn't happen. So I had nothing to write about.  It's a new week and been able to get a little done. Up on the wall is a little progress on the Scandinavian Christmas.  All 4 blocks completed and sew. Added the inter border and now working on the prepping the applique blocks.  There are 23 heart blocks.  Doing the method of using freezer paper templates and with stray starch and a brush, moisten the edge and press it back onto the templates. Then tack it done onto the background with a little glue and it's ready to stitch. Also on the wall is a baby quilt I did last year. Going to add a border, want it to be a little bigger. Then it's going to get sandwiched to be machine quilted. Need to get in some more practice in. So far I only have 4.5 hours in and nowhere near my goal. But little by little I'll get there The backg