ScrapHappy Saturday. Final Yellow Roundup!

This is a wrap- up round up of yellow sewing this month. 

Easy Breezy blocks #1 and #2

And with #3, #4, and #5.

All five hollow 9 patches

Two yellow Geese.migration blocks. 

And last but not least, a yellow scrap basket. A different construction method was fun to try!  And I practiced FMQ on my old Bernina. It was not wonderful! Some special gifted fabric makes this one an extra special project!   And it was my One Monthly Goal for October! 

I’m linking up with Scrap Happy Saturday at RSC20. Hosted by Angela

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy ! 

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Finished or Not Finished Friday " A Squirrel"

It’s not a quilt, it’s not a Scrap basket. But it’s a finish.

Drawstring tote to corral the Water Pic Flosser when we go our son’s for Thanksgiving. 

I don’t have photos of the beginning of the construction. It was just something I thought I needed to make. The outside beige fabric was a piece leftover from making an armchair caddy for Mr. Busy’s chair! It's a lightweight home dec fabric. 

I sat the Flosser on it. Determined that it was wide enough, but needed to be taller. I searched  my overflowing basket of brown fat quarters. I found this one. There is a bit of gold glitz in the stripes. 

I knew what I wanted to do, but looked at several YouTube videos and settled on this one. 

 

I knew I wanted a boxed bottom!

After inserting the lining into the bag, I topstitched along the top edge. I find it easier to do sort of  inside out. The bulk of the bag is to my left  and away from the stitching. 

Whitney uses a technique that sews a casing near the top of the bag that leaves a header. I like that look. So, I measured and sewed two lines of stitching 3/4 of an inch apart, This will be the casing for the drawstrings. This could be different depending on what you choose for drawstrings. 

I found a brown and a gold length of grosgrain ribbon in my stash. 

It would have been good to find enough of the brown or enough of the gold or even a larger piece of turquoise,  but you use what you have!!

Then she opens the side seams on each side for inserting the ribbon. Because I used grosgrain, I did not seal/heat the edges! It shouldn’t ravel.

 I  made a slipcover from extra lining fabric and inserted a piece of cardboard for stability! 

Whoot Whoot!  A finish! I am going to slip in a plastic bag to be sure it doesn't leak during the travels. 

This started out as a Squirrel!  And it was a fun project!

I'm linking up with Alycia at Alycia Quilts for Finished or Not Finished Friday!

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I LIKE THURSDAY #16

It took some introspection to come up with some likes this week. I  had to DECIDE to look for the little stuff.  There was snow and bitter cold...that meant we didn’t go anywhere. So I sewed!  That's a Like!

I finished a book! Mary Higgins Clark..... it wasn’t the best I’ve read but pretty good. If I don’t have the mystery figured out by the middle...then it’s a good one!   That's a Like!

And I started number 9 in my Goodreads goal to read 10 books this year. It’s a sad goal, but my reading mojo disappeared the last couple of years. It’s Nora Roberts- Temptation.   That's a Like!

It's an old one. A paperback given to me in a bag of books from a friend's  MIL. 

I joined WW one month ago and this first month lost 10 lbs.   That's a Like!

 Monday, I received my 5 lb charm. 

This is not my first time using Weight Watchers, now WW. It’s always worked for me when I could attend meetings. But no meetings in my area now, so I’m on my own. It seems to be working. I’m cooking differently and Mr Busy is very supportive!    That's a Like!

And one last Halloween decoration hanging by our front door. 

I made it many years ago. I like Happy Ghosts!   It's a Patchabilities pattern.   I have more than one or two!  That's a Like!

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If you live in the US.  I hope you voted! But if you didn't, please remember to do so on Tuesday!

We voted!

To-Do Tuesday #12 And Weekly Progress Report!

Joining others today over at Home Sewn By Us with Sue and Roseanne. Where we share our to-do list and weekly progress. 

 Last weeks list.

October 20 -October 26

1. Finish 2 geese migration blocks ✅

2. Continue working on Heartland ✅

3. Start to make dark brown/black or neutral crumb blocks. ✅

1.  Yellow Geese Migration blocks!  I also checked the pattern. I need 25 blocks. I made 2  for 8 of the months. And 2 months, February and May, I made only 1. I didn’t have 2 different orange solids  in February or a second Dark Green for May.   I hope to be able to make a brown or tan block and a black one  too, then I will lay out the ones I have and try to decide what colors I can fill in with.

2. Heartland Blocks.   Now there are five.  But progress is progress. Right?

3.   OK,  I did more than start the neutrals....it’s Addictive!

Next weeks TO-DO List. 

October 27 - November 2

1.  Make more "fabric yarn"

2.  Make two more Heartland Blocks

3.  Make a zip bag for a travel jewelry pouch

4.  Bonus:  a yellow/gold string block

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

OH(no...too many) SCRAPS !

I started sewing scraps to strips. Then twosies  to each other. Then Fours to fours and so on. I stacked the pieces by approximate size. All of a sudden I thought I had some big enough pieces to make a slab.

I’ll make a light neutral scrap basket! Lots of beige, cream, and white, but also some pink gingham, lavender polka dots, even some black on white. Oh, and there is a scrap that had a bit of red! It works. There is a piece or two of “darker than a paper bag”.  (Bonnie Hunter says if it reads lighter than a paper bag, it’s a neutral!) But it’s a homespun and I won’t use it anywhere else.  I was going to use muslin for the lining. But then I remembered that I had just taken apart an old holiday tablecloth that belonged to my MIL. Lots of good quality white fabric. The piece I cut only had one small pale cranberry stain! It’ll never show! 😊

But, I was over zealous! I have a pile of crumb blocks and pieces that won’t be needed for the basket.

I will need binding for the top and a piece for the handle, but I’ll have extra! Oh well, seed for another scrap project! 

I’m linking up with Cynthia’s OH SCRAP party at Quilting is More Fun Than Housework! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy! 

October OMG! Yellow basket

 My One Monthly Goal for October was to make a scrap basket using a new to me method, 

I had very few crumb blocks leftover from making them in 2018 for  the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. So I took the bits I had and raided my 1.5” and 2” strip buckets! I lamented in an early October post that I was running out of yellow scraps and would soon have to dig into my bigger chunks! 

To the rescue...The Joyful Quilter! 

An envelope with many yellow scraps. I knew I would need binding for this technique and I knew I would add a handle. I sorted through the scraps and chose ones for those parts. Then started adding Joy’s scraps to mine to get my slab big enough. With a little help from Joy and her math whiz son, (she sent me the dimensions I needed), I got the puzzle pieces together! 

I pieced together some thinner poly blend plain yellow that had been given to me! I wouldn’t use it in a quilt, bot this application is perfect. I don’t have pictures of the quilting process. I used my QE Bernina and it was stressful and ugly. I am determined to practice practice practice! These kinds of projects are good practice pieces, 

The basket with joined side seams and the corners boxed. No top binding yet!

I thought I needed 

a little rigidity in the bottom, so I cut a piece of cardboard from a box and made a slipcover for it. Like a small pillowcase! 

Looking inside! 

The side seams....next time I’m going to try zigzagging over them. They don’t really bother me, raw like that. I just think I’ll try it! 

And done. The handle looks low but it really isn’t.

And now it is put to use ! That little goldish  scrap with 3  blackbirds is from Joyful, it deserves a special place. 

So my OMG is ✅ 

Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal - October Finish Link-up

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Scrappy Happy Saturday Plodding Along

 

 

I’m still working on YELLOW

I finished the 2 required yellow Geese Migration blocks! It was fun to have some new gifted fabric to use. TU Joyful! 

I'm using prepped Easy Breezy pieces as Leaders and Enders...but Geese Migration blocks are really good L&E in their own right! Two are complete. 

Next Saturday I should have a wrap up! And then a start on the next scrap basket or two! Are you sick of seeing my baskets? I hope not, there are more to come! And then , I’ll have to think about RSC21! 

I had a different basket/bag this week. A sort of Squirrel or DreAMi ! 

We will be traveling for the holidays!  Since Mr Busy had his dental surgery we have been using a WaterPik Flosser!  This bag will carry it with us. I just winged it on a design, though I did watch a You Tube video by Whitney Sews. I used her method of adding the drawstrings.  All from my stash and I'm pretty pleased. I'll show more photos next week. 

Did I show all my Hollow 9’s? If not , here they are. If I did, sorry! 

I'm off to check out the other ScrapHappy posts.  Join me there.  ScrapHappy Saturday at Angela's blog. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!   

        Please wear your mask!