Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

Well we are back to a quiet home, even thou the grandsons were here less than a week, it was nice to have all the noise and activity 2 five years old bring. They flew home yesterday and I have spent part of yesterday and today putting up Christmas decorations. Pretty much done and I'm ready to get on with making plans for this month. I have decide which projects I want to post for 2018 FAL Q1 I believe I'll just pick 3.   Finish quilting on this, Scandinavian Christmas   This is a RSC from 2016 and there is really not much left to do. The goal is to finish the top, have it quilted and bound Lastly will be finishing up the baby blanket I started last year. Next thing will be to find a baby for this. I believe this is all doable.   Mailed off the little red hats today, the deadline was the 15th and I believe they should make it.  Feels good to have a something finished on time. Tomorrow will be a day of Doctor app

Here it is Sunday already and tomorrow the grandsons fly back home, their visit was way too short. But I have to say it wasn't one of our best thou. Ben was sick the whole time. He was congested like my daughter and then for the next 3 days he had a temp, stuffed up and a daily bout of throwing up. In fact on the way to the airport to pick up their mom he threw up in the car. Oh my what a mess and stunk, phew wee. Just hope he does okay on the plane ride home. Now on to more pleasant stuff. Last year I started keeping track of stash usage. I did really well until about October and then I really didn't do much to add to the total.  So my ending total usage 55 3/4 yards. I was hoping for more but at least it was to the good. Now for the start of 2018 It's easy one, this week I used a yard and half from my stash. Brought nothing in This also means I need to redo the stash report on the side here. I also going to add something else new Kate at Life in Piec

I had forgotten that I had listed a few things on the 4th quarter of FAL This quilt here was one that I had put on the list. And it is a finish. Yeah After the binding was put on I hung it up in the living room for the holidays.  I really enjoyed making this one. Another on the list is the Scandinavian Christmas  which I am still quilting on.  So I can not claim it as a finish.

Happy New Years 2018 Hard to believe it's time to write a new year on checks and such.  And this year is starting off very cold for so many of us here in the US. Woke up this morning to 6 degrees out and only got as high as 19. But it was nice and toasty in the house thou, we heat our home with wood and as you can see it's 11 outside and 75 in the house. The bedrooms are a little cooler but still in the 70's.  As much as I want to get started on a new project like so many others have, I have to wait until after the grandson's leave next week. They will be here Wednesday and we'll celebrate Christmas then. So today I worked a little on projects I have already started. Up on the design wall show what I've been doing. A little appliqueing, EEP piecing and some piecing.  I've been prepping another block for Warm Hearts  This one will not be on this years list to finish but I do plan on working on it some.  Till tomo

2018 is almost here and I have been giving it a lot of thought to what has happened this year and what next year will bring. I love new beginnings, whether its mornings, a baby, a new project or a new year. Love the fact its like a start over in some way. Love to plan and make lists...am a list maker. But with all that's happened this year I'm feeling uncertain to what I can reasonably plan for this coming year. Have to say it's takes the fun out it. But I will not let it stop me, just has taken me a little longer to figure out what my goal is for 2018 as far as my quilting go. I have some personal ones that I'll keep to myself but do want to share these and join in on the party for the first time and this may keep me focus. 2018 Planning Party at quiltingJETgirl First of all I will keep it down to a minimum for me.  1. I'll again track my fabric stash usage, in and out but I am going to start tracking time sewing and quilting. This is main

This morning I quilted some more on the Scandinavian Christmas wall hanging.  I finished another quarter section and I'm onto the last.  Now once I get that last section done, I think I will go ahead and do only the hearts on the border. That way I could go ahead, put a binding on and hang it for our company next week This afternoon I worked on the Japanese knot bags or you could call them reversible bags. In fact the website I got the pattern off of,  was a Martha Stewart website  and I'll put a link here for you and there's also a YouTube video that you can watch from when she had it on her daytime program So far I have three completed and one left to go.   From what you can see I have the lining and the outside of the bag left and it's just time now putting them together. Also as you can tell is they are all made with cat prints. We are all cats lovers here in this family

Here it is the 26th day for the challenge and I can say I've done well, have posted 20 times. Best month out of the whole year in total times. Today I spent time finishing up on the decoration, here most are done with Christmas but mine is still to come. Do have a few more gifts I'm making. These will become what are known as Japanese Knot bags  Making one for each girl and one for myself. Over the past few weeks I've been working on the little hats for  http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Affiliate/Little-Hats-Big-Hearts_UCM_487734_SubHomePage.jsp# This is a link for all the information needed I have 23 ready to be sent off in the mail to Tulsa. The Man of the Place like to feed the deer corn and he puts it out by the driveway out in front of the house. That way he can watch the ones that come up, which are many. Not only do the deer like the, just about all the critters around here do and today a large flock