Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

Yesterday I needed time to calm down from all the craziness going on in our world    Yes we are all in this pandemic together and we need to take heed to what the experts say on how we can help ourselves and others. So I'm taking their advice but I also have the luxury of being able to stay home and hunker down. Yesterday I needed to stay busy and decided that cooking was going to keep me away from watching the news for at least the day. I know I can get too absorb in it all. Saturday I took the sourdough starter on hand and fed it all without using or disposing some of it. That meant I ended up with 4 jars of ready to use starter First jar went to a double batch of waffles The recipes is from Emilie Raffa website The Clever Carrot It's called Cinnamon Sugar Waffles  which she also has in her book Like I said I made a double batch which I put all of the extras in the freezer for another time. And this where I'm getting the rec

It has been a very nice slow Sunday. The "man of the place" has been at his dads all day so I have had the house to myself.  I decided this morning that I was going to purge and declutter my scraps of fabric. I have accumulated so much over the past decades, seriously decades.  As you can see I have quite a bit of scrap fabric. I have divided it up over time by color and that had worked really well for me. But my love for quilting isn't quite what it used to be and I have literally hundreds of yards of fabric that I should be  using, so I’m going to pass on my scraps to a group of ladies that make quilts to sell for extra income. So today I bagged it up and will take to the a person who will deliver the bags.  I have started a crochet scrappy granny blanket which I am using also some scrap yarn that I had again accumulated over time.  I’m using what is considered baby yarn and I just put it all in one tub, because I really didn’t have a

One of the goals I have for this year is to make a dent in my yarn stash and one way is to knit a pair of socks each month. This is most of my sock yarn but do have some solid colored sock yarn in another box. I was working on this pair of socks that I started in December. Had one sock done and close to half way done with the second. But Monday while out running errands,  which one was getting the oil changed in my car,  I was knitting on the sock while waiting. But sometime during the rest of the day I lost the sock that I had finished. I do not have enough of the yarn to make another sock, so I just frogged it. Since my goal is to make a pair and there is a KAL called #freesocks2020 on Instagram.  This was January's pattern  on-the-fence   Free pattern I am relearning how to knit socks and one thing I've learned is my tension. Started out loose but by the end of the first sock I've found my mojo. Ended up having a slight difference in size.

It's been since last December that I last wrote. In that time my step mother had hospice come and on February 7 passed away. She lived a long and blessed 84 years. Had a memorial for her this week with family coming here for the past couple of weeks.  It was so good to have family come and give Dad support. They had been married 58 years and even though we knew the cancer would take her, it stills doesn't lessen the lost. Now it will be a change for both of us, no more doctor visits and 24 hour care. And life will return to more normal. Which means I can get back to a way of life comparable to 3 years before mom found out she had cancer. I'm going to just share this for now and tomorrow will be a  "new start"   just a little late. For Mom  

It was a nice relaxing weekend for a change and boy did I so enjoyed myself. I had intended to write this last night but I was just enjoying how relaxed I was. Enjoyed watching season 3 of Outlander and working on my Advent socks AND  a new project  started a shawl for one of my daughter for Christmas. It's a crochet pattern by Sandra Paul of Cherry Heart, pattern is called Linden Bee So pretty.... Also was able to get to some sewing in weekend for the first time in quite awhile. In fact you can see by my collection of plants that found a home on the sewing table that I haven't been doing much sewing lately. They really do like it there, west facing window. But they were moved so I could dust off the machine do some sewing.  I have been collecting projects and finally was able to get a few completed. I finished up weaving on a few washcloths, so they needed to be hemmed.  Nothing fancy here, As you can see they are not

My goodness it's only 13 days until Christmas. Have to say this year is a little different, we have had family coming all month. My middle daughter and her family have been here already and  my oldest brother and wife will be here this weekend. Then next weekend my other daughters will be here.   Everyone is here to share Christmas with Mom. She now has hospice and we all want to make the most of what time she has left here on earth. Needless to say my time for a while now has been away from home and such but I have been taking still small hand projects to take with me when out on appointments and visits. I started a pair of advent socks It's been a few years since I've knitted some socks. I debated whether I would use double pointed needles or circular needles and I went with the DP needles. And have no regrets. I have missed knitting and I am taking it slow so my wrist doesn't act up. I had already knitted 2 cowls.  O