Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

It's time for my Five on Friday . I'm going to share some firsts.  My first first for this week is: 1. I harvest some zucchini. I have four plants that are doing wonderful and this is the first picking of the year. 2.  Another first for the week is my Manx cat Bob had to go to the Vet and spend some time. Wednesday he was acting strange and was hiding in every little dark place he could fine. Now this is not the behavior for Bob. Bob is just barely a year old and he is in full kittens mode, so after having a day of him acting like this I was really worried. I called my daughter who works for a Vet and asked her if I could take him in to see the Vet. That's right there are vet that just specialized in cats. After examining Bob she told me he was very dehydrated from not eating or drinking for the past 24 to 36 hours and due to his other symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea he needed at some fluids and some test to see what would cause this.  So Bob had to

I have just came across Amy at Love Made My Home  Five On Friday. Here in her own words of what it is: Five On Friday is a way to share Five things - on a Friday!  They can be connected, or not.  You could choose to share five quotes and say why they mean something to you, five pictures from your garden, five favorite flowers, five cakes, five anything that you like!   I read that and realize this was something I felt was a wonderful idea of sharing a little something without have to fill a whole post. There are a lot of things here on the farm that I don't feel I have enough to write about. Partly because I'm not a writer and its hard at times to do. This is a lot like how at times the posting of pictures I've done on Saturday but with a little narrative.   Amy has a link up for bloggers to post there Five On Friday and for us to read and see what others have contributed. So here is my first attempt. One - Over this pass week we have had some unus

I did it again, I got in that cleaning mood. The picture I took yesterday of underneath my sewing table drove me nuts. So first thing this morning I had it on my mind I was going to clean that up under there  And I did, what do you think? I like it... makes me happy Now I have a spot for my current projects underneath my sewing area so I know where they're at when I'm ready to work on them.  I  can't believe it, I also found a project that I have started when I first moved here to Oklahoma in 1994. I had started cutting out from all my scraps, apple-core pieces. Then I went to working again and as you know,  things happen, projects get put away. I'll have to put that one on the list of to do's, this one is not on my current list of quilts started.  Photo is a little washed out  Got the strips cut for the Ruby Garden quilt and started sewing on them. Next I need to get the containers with my colored scraps i

I had full intentions of sewing part of the day... seeing how the prediction was right for rain all day. But I starting to clean and couldn't stop, ended up in my sewing room and was able to organized quite a bit. Boy, sure need to organize the fabric It started out by cleaning up around the floor area. Then I went over to the quilting books and decided to go through them, purged a few. Decided next to clean off my sewing area and water my plants. It looks really nice and clean now. But from the next picture you can see all the stuff hidden underneath the table, which I did not get to. ON THE LIST Had the floss to return back to the main storage from embroidering the RG blocks Seeing how cleaning out and organizing my sewing room was one of my goals for the year, I figured I better put a little more effort into it. Need to organize my scraps. I have enough bins to put them in now... I just need to label which size go where

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YEAH !! #2 is done. I've been mixing up fabric for the next one but still haven't came to a decision. So seeing how I'm not ready for #3.... I had to start the Twisted Blossom    I have all the units made for the first block but ran out of time. Needed to stop and make dinner but this is what it looks like so far I'm liking it. Now this is only about half of the prints and I might wait to assemble until I have a unit of all the choices of prints to pick from. Or maybe not. Going to make this a short one cause I want to spend a little time this evening quilting some on the 30's Sampler

I wasn't home much today, I had to go pick up a quilt that was ready. Their is a group of hand quilters in Bella Vista Arkansas that did my quilt. I have to take pictures tomorrow to show. Even tho I hand quilt, I just have way more quilts that I want done by hand than I can get to.  Now Bella Vista is about an hour 1/2 from my home and I had a few stops to make also. So you can see why it would take almost all day.  I didn't do any gardening but I did get some sewing in. I almost have this one assembled Than my quilters ADD is flaring up again. I have bought a while back Sew Kind of Wonderful's Quick Curve Ruler and have been wanting to use it but told myself not until I finish some of my unfinished projects. Well they are doing a Twisted Blossom QAL and I can't resist. It's outside my box but I think one of my daughter's will like it. I have collected from my stash a group of teal/turquoise and gray fabric. Now if this is so