Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

Last month when the "little dudes" came for their visit I thought it would be fun to have little chicks for them to learn about and care for while here. So I order 18 chicks, a variety of pullet (girls) and had them delivered the day before they arrived. oh they are so cute and the boys were elated with them. In fact I was worried they would love them to death but all was good. Here they are at 2 weeks Now they are 4 weeks old and they have grown a lot, they are now getting their feather and are in what I consider the ugly stage, not cute fuzzy chicks and not fluffy pretty hens.  Poor things. I don't normally get chicks this time of year cause where to keep them is a challenge. Because it's to hot in August to keep them in the garage and in the house is ok the first couple of weeks but for a little over a week now they have outgrown their box and need a bigger space and out of the house.  They do smell like st

Yesterday was a very productive day for me and the installers had most of the kitchen floor in and today they are finishing it up. I am so pleased with how it looks. But it sounds like it will be next weekend before the whole project is completed, that's hardwood and carpet. Now I was able to do 2 quarter sections of the center portion of The Words to Live By and now I'm working on another. Yesterday I was able to complete the last 2 Farmer's Wife blocks. So tonight at the 30's Club meeting they'll have more blocks for me. You see I'm the tester, making sure there is enough fabric and that directions are correct which makes me few months ahead of the group. I plan on taking the I Spy quilts as Show and Tell tonight... can't think of anything else. The leader and ender I mentioned the other day and had no ideal what I was going to do.....well I do now. The other day while looking on Facebook I came across this post on

This morning while I'm writing the installer just arrived and will start laying the kitchen tile.  They said that they would have it all in today, I just wish they could of been working on finishing the hardwood. The sale rep was not there Friday and we all left messages. I hope they will replace the bowed planks soon. They told me that the carpet layers will not install the carpet until the floors are finished. Don't know what that means, will we be waiting a length of time...sure hope not. I want this to be over soon so I can get the house all back together. I'm in the sewing room out of the way and have a couple projects to work on.  All the embroidered/applique pieces trimmed and now it's time to start assembling a half square triangles on the " Words To Live By ". So far up on the design wall is one quarter of the corner units that need to be sewn. Figure I'll work on one quarter at a time. Its nice to see how much is comp

The title says it all, this weekend has been a blessing of what's to come. We have had two days of some perfect fall weather. I just want to sit out on the back porch and read, enjoy the weather. But I think instead of reading I'm going to take Ben's I spy quilt and try to finish up the binding. I've been meaning for a while now to write this post on how the boys I Spy quilts came about and was constructed. It started with Audrey over at Quilty Folks and her Quilty 365 challenge. I decided then, when I saw the challenge, that this is going to be the boys I Spy quilt. Because you see I've been collecting and thinking about how I was going to go about making that quilt and when I saw her post and challenge, I knew that was what I wanted to do. Now knowing that I had 2 quilts I was going to be making and realized it wasn't feasible for me to appliqué the circle down by hand. So I decided to use the method where you sew fusible interfacin

I have been so preoccupied with getting the flooring in that I haven't taken time to write the past 2 days. So here is a quick catch up  The floor is not done.  Could just leave it at that but I won't. Some of the hardwood planks are bowed so they weren't useable, and there was an unusual amount of these boards so they are checking into getting some replacements. So until then I have half of the floor in. That half does look nice. I was also working on staining the new baseboards, which there will be around 200 linear feet. Keeping me busy I was able to spend some time sewing the past couple of days.  Did finish another Farmer's Wife block and it is assembled correctly but just doesn't look right. After some thinking and studying the block I realized that after the block is sewn in, the 1/4 inch  seam allowance will make it look right. At least it I'm hoping. Did get the first Retro Air-Ship Propeller block together and now

OK I'm being a little optimistic here but they did get a portion of the hardwood laid.  Doesn't it look nice and it feel so nice on my bare feet. I'm getting so excited. What also excited me today was the fact that I was able to spend a good 6 hours in the sewing room. First I needed to pack a few more things but after that it was all sewing. I finished another Farmer's Wife block, paper pieced ( Fun - Fun ) and worked on another one. Before starting on those blocks I prep fabric for the next leader and ender project. Going to be making 3" nine-patches. Now I do not have a pattern in mind but did have a large collection of 1 1/2" strips from a project I was going to do a few years ago but have decided not to. Whoa-la I could take paper piecing for only so long before I had to do something else, so I went through some fat quarters that I still had in the house and picked out a few to make a Retro Air-Ship Propeller blo

Today was another day of not much progress, I worked like crazy to get the last minute stuff moved like lamps, my handwork that I have been working on in the evening and just some little stuff. Did laundry because I wasn't sure if the laundry area was going to be one of the first floors they would work on. But all that got done today was they took up the tile in the entry ways and level a hump in the kitchen floor with a big grinder/sander. Then put on sort of cement like product on it to level it out. I was able to spent time in the sewing room. Finished a Farmer's Wife block. Since I don't have much to share, thought I would share the class I attended last week. It was learning how to make a Cleopatra Fan. This is another pattern from the 1930's that has been given a new life.      At Robert Kaufman fabrics they offer a free pattern for this quilt I just love the look of this quilt and a great one for using up my exploding stash I