Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

I am trying something new for me. Its been around for a while now but I just now decided to give it a try and that is growing veggies in straw bales. I have a friend who had done this and she had great success and I hope to too. So I started by laying down some landscape fabric to help prevent weeds from growing underneath the bales.  Being where my garden is located it is a never ending battle fighting weeds. Then I postion the bales on their sides  and started conditioning them with blood meal (doing it the organic way) I apply 3 cups of blood meal per bale on day 1, 3, 5  watering everyday.  Day 7-9 I'll put 1.5 cups and continue to water it in each day. Day 10 I'll apply a organic fertilizer. Should be ready to plant 2 - 4 days later. I'll keep posting pictures and updating. I'm on day 5 now. You want to know more than what little I have written go to these site to know more and they are the ones I following the "

Yeah, I finished the binding just in the nick of time. I wanted to be able to have anoher one on my list to be completed and checked off. I was able to make this completely from scraps I had, what a great feeling to know that I use up somthing that could of been tossed. I used the Creative Grid Curvy Log Cabin ruler, I know that it can be done without it but I had it and like how easy and prefect the blocks work up.  The quilt is 90 x 75 Hobbs 80/20 cotton batt and was professional machine quilted on a longarm Gammill using the Methodist Fan Pattern Beside Bob my cat, Elmo and Grover had to inspect my work. Im linking up on the 1st to http://www.juliekquilts.blogspot.com/

Okay I said I'd  probably have no time to sew any but I just had to work on something. So I added the binding to my Log Cabin.  Trying to finish this by the end of the month so I can add it to the list of finishes and link it here   So enough of my simple quilt  on with the beautiful ones from the Dallas Show

Today I decided that I would make the pillowcases for the "Little Dudes". They are really into Thomas the Train, Dusty from Planes and Lightening McQueen from Cars. Found some really cute fabric to make them out of. I believe they'll go nuts over them, plus I made a set of dinosaur one too. I used the sausage roll method you can find here the pattern  . Very easy and all the seams are finished when you done, no raw seams. Now up on my wall is another UFO that I have on the list I made at the begining of the year but I'm affaid it might be up there for awhile. Seeing how I'm going to my daughters house for a couple weeks next month and I'm trying to get my garden and other things  done before I leave, so sewing right now is low on my priorities. It was one of those Buck a Blocks that a quilt shop was offering. You purchased the package for the block for a dollor but when it came to the finishing up the quilt they offered a kit fo

After a full day of working outside I am more than ready to spend the evening relaxing and doing some embroidery work.  I am so close to being almost done, I am getting excited. After all these years of off and on working on this project, it looks like I might be able to give these quilts to my 3 girls for Christmas this year.  I am making each one and myself, so a total of 4 times 12 blocks  Thats right 48 blocks, now you know why I am so ready to have this finish. I have just two blocks left, As you can see its December's block. The pattern is Ruby's Garden by Waltzing with Bears from 2007 and I believe that is the same year it was offered as a BOM. I decided to just recieve the pattern without fabric. Chose to pick my own.  Maybe this part can be completed before I go to my daughters for the "Little Dudes" 3rd birthday. A proud Grandma here. Linking up at Kathy's Quilts