Finished or Not Friday Feb 2020

Linking up with Alycia's Finished or Not Friday! 

Even if today is Saturday!  LOL!


I have a photo of my garlic knot flimsy, if by chance you haven't already seen it 17 times already! 

And a completion.  A book pillow aka tablet pillow for our young great granddaughter. They are leaving our area, moving to Florida. Her older brother has one and I thought this might make a loooong car ride a bit easier for all.

It's not like she doesn't like books, here proof:

reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar to her mom over the phone. 

but she does like learning on the tablet too!  And there will be lots of hours to fill! 


Stay Busy and Stay Happy

ps: last Sunday was my birthday, I have to share this card from my sister:

my friends would laugh if they knew I was a blogger too!

Last Orange Saturday February 2020

Just a quick post to let you all know that I haven't fallen off the face of the earth.


I'm linking up with  ScrapHappy Saturday over at Angela's blog So Scrappy.



These are the extent of my orange RSC20 pieces. It's all good.
One geese migration block and 8 hollow nine patches.

These has been some other sewing in Feb. I sent 3 blocks to CiL.  Wow, these look mish mashed but maybe you can appreciate them.

I finished my garlic knot flimsy

 

And I sewed a Book Pillow alias Tablet Pillow for our young great granddaughter. I was gifted some children's fabric and this one worked perfectly. Luckily I had a scrap of the perfect purple to make the pocket.

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February OMG Finish

My garlic knots have been kneaded into a flimsy or quilt top, if you prefer. I made this as leaders and enders for the last several years. I used Bonnie Hunter's technique and pattern for constructing the actual block complete with pressing directions.

When I got ready to put them together, I had a bit of a pickle!  First I decided I did not want to do the sashing technique that was in Bonnie's pattern. Not because I didn't like it, but because it requires a design space to get the colors right. My design wall is smallish and was being used for my RSC 20 blocks.

Then I had a "senior moment" in laying out the blocks in the pattern that I had seen on pinterest. See this post.

Finally, I had them on the design wall in the arrangement I liked. I gave each block a label as to which row and which column, took them down to my machine and  began sewing them together. Well, the pressing was a problem. Some seams did not nest as I wanted. Some I had to nudge, some I had to push and some just did not obey at all. Several intersections are off.  A bazillion pins later, it is together. And now with a 3 inch border. I cut it a little large in case I wanted to cut it down a smidgen. Not sure yet, but my February OMG goal was to get it to flimsy/top stage and here it is..

 If I had to do it over, I would not use the darker neutrals for the background. There are a couple that jump out. But this will "not be going to Paducah" as my guild members like to say, so I am satisfied. And every single piece including the border is from my stash. It was fun to remember the quilts that each of those little bits came from.

I am linking this post up with Patty at Elm Street Quilts, just in time.  February Finish OMG.


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Finished or Not Friday and some orange bits

5 columns of garlic knots are webbed this morning. So no finishes but progress at least!

and

This is IT for Orange this week!  One Geese Migration block almost together and 2 hollow 9-patches done, with some more 2" squares cut.

I'm using both of these as leaders and enders as I web the Garlic Knot blocks. My sewing time is limited and precious, got to make it all count.

I'm linking this post with Finished or Not Friday at Alycia Quilts and

ScrapHappy Saturday at Angela's RSC20 page.



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Feb OMG On Deck

My goal for February is to get all the garlic knot blocks that have been my leaders and enders project for the last couple of years to a quilt top or flimsy!

I started by putting them up on the design wall like this!

I took a grey scale photo and moved around a few but settled on this. I carefully labeled each block, then took them down off the wall and put them in a project box. I needed to finish my Temperature Quilt and Christmas was approaching and our house guests had moved in.

In the mean time, I spent some time looking at blogs and Pinterest and decided I liked this layout better.

This is a photo from Pinterest

So out of the box they came and  back on the design wall in original order. I thought I would just rearrange, so my color distribution was similar.

Here is what I got! ☹️

Not right at all! And there is that weird grayish one in the middle !


I studied the photo on Pinterest, I studied my arrangement. I took pictures of my design wall. FINALLY !  A light bulb went off. Kind of like in the cartoons!  Duh!!  I had changed the direction of every other row, but what I needed to do was change the direction of each block in each row in order to get the intersecting "links".  I fixed it but  neglected to take pictures. Columns 3-8 are back in the project box.  Columns 1 and 2 are webbed and on the design wall, patiently waiting for me to have or maybe take the time to finish.  

If I make it my February OMG, I will TAKE the time! 

Notice my hollow 9 patches in light/bright green for the RSC20 . Green was January's color, but I am behind on everything. And technically I am writing this post on the 30th of January, so I am under the wire. LOL!

I will link this up with Patty's February OMG link up page on the February 1st. 3rd!


Stay Busy and Stay Happy

ps: stay warm is you are in the path of this current storm. Our schools are on a 2 hour delay this morning and I wouldn't be surprised if they closed completely. 5 more inches are expected and accompanying wind!

I'm On Board!

I finally downloaded the button info for RSC20.  I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to post to this event until my house guests had relocated. But I have found some bits of alone time and some bits of scraps.

Some green for January:

Green   Geese Migration blocks. I have been wanting to do these for the last couple of years. So 2020 is the year for them. These are 10.5 inches unfinished.

Also some hollow 9 patches made with 2" squares, these are 5.5 unfinished. So these will be in the queue for a while.

green:

and orange.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy

I'll be linking up with Angela at So Scrappy.