Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

The challenge has been going on for not quite 2 weeks but I have to take a furlough from it for a week, seeing how I'm not home. But I think I did pretty well for the 10 days of working on eating just what we had in the pantry and freezer. Example of some of the meals I made, first meal I took a roast our of the freezer to use in a stew. Seeing how I didn't have any stew meat left, I would just cut up a roast. I used only half of it with some potatoes, onions I grew and some carrots and celery I had in the frig. That lasted us 2 nights. The leftover roast I cooked in my Instant Pot, which I love by the way.  It does so much more than a average pressure cooker. Used the meat in Taco's one night, added some to Spaghetti Sauce I had canned and use one of the Spaghetti squashes I had grown. I had a very good year for Spaghetti squash last year. From one roast had 5 meals. Made a batch of Butternut soup, Lentil soup and Taco soup which I had most of the ingr

I am so pleased to say I have a finish top for this new year. I'm going to take that as a good sign.   I can cross of my first UFO, #31. It is a Lori Smith pattern called Lily's Garden. It is made using 30's reproduction fabric. I did machine appliqueing, using Ricky Tim's applique paper. The quilt is a wall hanging or crib size, 45" x 45". Used Kona Cotton in Snow for the background. I haven't yet decided if I will attempt to machine quilt myself or have a pro quilt it.  One of my goals is to be good enough at quilting on my domestic machine. I have tried it on a couple of small projects but I really do need to get quite a few more hours under my belt to feel comfortable at it. Right now I feel like hands don't know which way to go half the time or to have my feet to go in sync with my hands. Practice, Practice, Practice. Isn't that what it takes! It's now time for

This is not up yet on my design wall but it will be. Now it will take a year before it will look like this but I am so in love with this design the thought of having to wait a year seems cruel but it's really not like I will be getting right to it anyway with that UFO'S list I have. Now this is a BOM that Reeze at Morning Glory Quilts Has design for 2015. What do you think? You love it too! I'm putting a link on my side bar to her blog to use whenever you need to get there any time.  Next task is going through my stash to see what I have. I can work that in as part of my organizing my sewing room. But what's up on my wall right now is nothing, so I have no picture to show at this time. Sorry.

I spent the day catching up on season 4 of Downton Abbey so I would be ready for tonight premier of season 5. I also did a little cleaning up in the sewing room and getting some of my projects organized to work on. One of those projects was this applique wallhanging I have been doing. Right now I'm working on embroidery the details. I so love this pattern. I found it in a Quiltmania magazine from a few years ago. This is what I'll be stitching on while watching tv tonight. This is one that was on my list of UFO's and takes priority to be finished by the end of the year.

There are 2 events coming up that I wanted to share with you. First one is the Pantry Challenge  over at Good Cheap Eats. Jessica challenges us to eat from what we have in our pantry instead of going out and buy. I have been doing her challenges for the past couple years and I love the challenge. You need to go to the link above to her site and get tips on taking inventory, menus and recipes. It's a month long deal and the rewards are using up food that needs to be and not being toss out cause its too old and other good thing is seeing how much money you can save. I need to do my inventory still, that is on tomorrow "to do list" The second event is the Oklahoma Wildlife Winter Bird Survey. So if you live in Oklahoma maybe you might consider joining in. Doesn't matter where you live, whether you're in town or out in the country. It starts Thursday the 8th. I am loaded up with bird feed and have been putting it out for a time now to encourage

While cleaning up my blog and taking inventory of all the quilts I have in various stages. I realize that if I'm going to get a portion of these done I need to make it public. What better place then on the blog. So here is what I wanted to share with you. I wrote down a page for ones started, a page for ones I have everything for but not started and a page for tops that need quilting or binding.  Now does anyone else have so many too. Please say I'm not alone. Chooky, I want you to know I'm not giving up on my Some Kind of Wonderful quilt.... It's on the list. Then after seeing so many others share their goals for 2015, I thought I would do the same. I believe it will help me by being accountable and again by going public.  Like Marvis I'm picking 12 main ones to focus on for the whole year, giving me 365 days to complete. Here they are; Organize my sewing room;  this alone could take a year. OK kidding aside it is a big

Wishing you all the best for this new year. One of my resolutions is to reestablish my passion I have had for blogging. So everyday this month I am devoting some time to my blog.  Whether it's posting, planning or cleaning up my blog. So today I am going to spend some time cleaning up some the old stuff I have on the side bars. I am devoted to remaining to be an ad free blogger. I'm hoping you are to able to start on your resolutions too, if you made any.