ScrapHappy Saturday Last of the Darks!

 

Happy Last Saturday of July to everyone!  I did sew with a bit of dark blue this week.

Star points on the flag block. This is #5 for Covered in Love's July/August Block Drive. If you want to learn more about this wonderful organization, click here. 

Then the star block was bordered in dark blue grunge to bring it up to 12.5" unfinished. 

I also cut and joined the 8 strips of dark blue batik for the binding for my positivity quilt. My quilter returns home on Sunday. I'll give her a day or two to catch up on her laundry etc. Then she will start on quilting both Positivity's Cappuccino and a Blueberry Bagel and Rainbow Geese Migration. 

I still need to press it in half and put it in my binding basket! 

I found 3 red strawberries this morning when I was watering. I don't harvest many, I share with the birds and the bunnies!  I have a dark blue teapot shaped trivet that sits on my counter all the time. Sort of keeping with the blue theme this month! LOL,

And a really bad photo of the dark blue colon blocks for Full Stop! I haven’t sewn them into a row yet! I was rearranging. Looks like two of my divider strips need a good press! 

I’m linking up with Angela at ScrapHappy Saturday! If I get the strip of dark blue punctuation mark blocks sewn together, I’ll edit this! 

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I LIKE Thursday #54

                            Yay! It’s Thursday!

I’m joining friends at Not Afraid of Color to share “likes” and good “stuff”! 

Mr Busy washed both vehicles this week! I like that he maintains clean, neat inside vehicles. While we were at the car wash, I spotted these pretty baskets!  I think it’s nice that whom ever is “working at the car wash” helps maintain a pleasant place! 

My neighbor asked me to raid her zucchini patch while she was out of town. Only one small one to sauté, one made zucchini boats filled with shredded pork and topped with mozzarella cheese and tomatoes! Sorry, no pictures. But they were yummy. 

The others were grated and 2 cups went into a Cinnamon Zucchini cake and the rest in the freezer! 

I participated in Sandra’s Follow Your Own Path QAL in from April 3rd to June 15th. I was lucky enough to win a prize. A roll of Hobbs Q-sized batting! I was thrilled. Sandra mailed my prize the end of June from Canada! I finally received it on July 24th! Luckily I have Informed Delivery with the USPS, and was just about to try to contact the USPS , when I saw it started to move.  Thanks Sandra and Hobbs Batting! 

My neighbor planted sunflowers and pumpkins and some beans in her front yard. See the photo below! She brought me a sunflowerin a water bottle tied with an orange ribbon and 6 homemade chocolate chip cookies. That put a smile on my face and Mr Busy was excited about the cookies. He walked their dog for 3 days while they were at a family reunion. 

Guess that’s all for this week! Click on over to LeeAnna’s blog, Not Afraid of Color and see what good things are happening around the blogosphere! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy 

ps:  as I opened blogger Friday morning, I noticed I hadn’t actually  published my post for Thursday. I usually schedule it the night before. Seems like I missed a step. We had a leak under the kitchen sink Wednesday night ( I may have been distracted) and I was away from home all day Thursday! I hope to peek in on the other I Like Thursday participants this weekend! 

July Table Scraps Challenge and Finished or Not Finished Friday!

 

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The RSC Color for July is dark blues. Or dark neutrals, Angela suggested!  As I was making my Positivity QAL blocks using a Bali Pops bundle (Bali Pops are pre-cut 2.5” strips of batiks) I found the strips were cut skimpily.  They are beautiful fabrics! They were WOF . They were darks. Blacks and browns, and also some yellow golds were included! I love the bundle and had been saving it for a long time!  Then,  I had a mishap cutting a set of strips for the plus blocks. They were supposed to be 6.5 inches. I cut them at 5.5, by accidentally measuring from the wrong end of a ruler. If you are not paying attention, a nine (9) can look deceivingly like a six(6). Oy vey! 

Luckily I had enough of the other strips to complete my Positivity blocks! But I had more strips! I had admired a table runner posted about by  Nancy at Grace and Piece Quilting. Check out her Dandy Candy table runners here. Hers used gorgeous Japanese fabrics. She responded to my comment on her blog by telling me how to get the pattern. It’s from Pieced Tree Patterns. And so I ordered it. It uses 5 inch X 2.5 inch rectangles. I had some of those and the left overs from the cutting of Positivity! So voila! All from that bundle of cappuccino colored strips. And there is more left over.

I took this photo on our living room sofa. It looks good there. I think it will end up on the buffet at the beginning of August! I am so pleased with it. I used 3 different black strips to do the binding. And I sewed it all by machine. It was easy and I think it looks good. 

 It’s hard to see the top stitching on the black binding! I attached it on the back and turned it to the front to stitch down. 

This is the back. You can barely see the black stitching on the edge! I used black Masterpiece thread in the bobbin, so it shows a little on the back. But, hey! It’s the back!  It’s pieced and not stunning anyway. Next time, I’ll try using a better blender thread color. 

OMG! Do you see what I see? A whole panel of brown rectangles unquilted! 

 

Not too noticeable from the front, just to the right of the vertical yellow gold strip. But I think I’ll go back and finish it!

This Table Scraps Challenge , this year, has really helped use up some stash, try some techniques that I would be reluctant to try on a regular quilt. I’ve gotten better at quilting on my DSM. I’m excited to continue. Wonder what August's project will be?  What color will it be?

I'm linking up with Joy at The Joyful Quilter. Her linky party will go live on July 30th and run til August 2nd. 

And since this is my only finish this week, I’m linking up with ,Alycia Quilts, also!

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TO-DO Tuesday #49

 I’m joining some blogging friends this morning at ChrisKnits. Every Tuesday she gives us this space to commit to a list of items to accomplish and also to report on how we did last week. Thanks Chris! 

Last week’s list:

1. Keep working on Spool Quilt border #2 ✅

2. Quilt and bind Table Scraps  Challenge.✅

3.  Decide on binding for Positivity Quilt! ✅

I found a dark blue batik in my stash. It will be enough and perfect, I think!

Next week July 27 to August 3rd

1. Do dark blue blocks for July for Full Stop at So Scrappy!

2.  Construct binding for Positivity Quilt…C&ABB!

3. Do one more Flag star block for Covered in Love! 

Bonus: Make another Growing Up Odd block

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy 

July OMG. A Finish!!

 

My OMG for July was in two parts:

Part 1.   Get a binding on Go Your Own Way!

 Part 2.   Spool quilt border #2

Part 1:   Finish the binding on FYOP or as I renamed mine Go Your Own Way! 

Didn't my quilter do a great job in the quilting. It’s a pantograph called, Apollo! 

 

Part 2 border on spool quilt. 

I thought I was further along on this project. I thought I had all the shapes fused and cut out. I did not!

I got out border #1 and discovered I missed a set of buds and leaves.  It’s all stitched down. 

This is the right side border!  See where I circled in green? The spacing is wrong. There should be some buds there. 

This is the placement sheet from Edyta Sitar. I don’t know how I didn’t notice that!  Again, I circled in green. 

I did get the left hand border done. Thanks Diann from Little Penguin Quilt for your vote of confidence.

I will decide later, if I need to add to the right hand border. Or just how I will do that! 

Maybe it doesn't look too out of balance.?    

But I am done with the 2nd border and I am linking up with Patty @

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

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Finished or Not Finished Friday! #61 No Finishes!!

 

 

Not much to share this week! 

I’m doing the machine appliqué on border #2 of my Spool Quilt UFO.

I have my Table Scraps project for July to finish. 

The painter finished our house!  We are completely satisfied. A rare thing these days.

He even painted the utility boxes. This house has been in existence since 1977 and we’ve lived here since 1988. They were looking pretty tacky. I didn’t know if you were allowed to paint them or not. Apparently, it's ok.  All except the natural gas meter. That belongs to the gas company and was actually  upgraded and  replaced last fall. 

And I am still working on finishing these two book! One in print, 

Although I am enjoying reading this book, it is not one read for fun. It is read for enlightenment and knowledge. She and her co-writers, write almost above my pay grade. Sometimes, I have to go back and re read a sentence or even the whole paragraph. That's not a bad thing!  Just different!

The other on my Kindle:

I've had this book on my Goodreads dashboard and my Kindle for years. I finally opened my Kindle and decided to read it. I just learned it is a banned book..or was. I'll research further. But this one, I am enjoying a lot. These are tortured teens. But they are finding each other. I hope it ends well! 

I'm linking up with Alycia at her regular Friday Linky Party: Finished or Not Finished Friday.!  Go see her fabulous finish this week!

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I LIKE Thursday #53

 Good Morning! I’m joining LeeAnna at Not Afraid of Color and friends, sharing “likes” in my life. Today, I'm back stitching with friends at our county library!  We are so fortunate to have this venue available at no cost to our community. You may have heard about an upsetting fiasco that happened at our Campbell County Public Library last week. If you want to know, check out this link. CCPL- Gillette WY    and then this.    If you don't want to be thoroughly PO'd, then refer to image number 4 below.  Edited: I just re read my post. I wonder if my comments were misunderstood? I do not support the protestors! I was sickened by this act of intolerance. 

These signs are in front of our library this morning!

The signs are not in focus sorry! Large red hearts with the words My Library.

I got mail early in the week. I was so busy working on Positivity QAL, that I didn't even open it. 

I knew what it was. 

The Daily Deal from MSQC was this tiny iron. I've been eyeing these on other quilter's tables for sometime. My extra iron next to my machine is not coming back on after the auto shut off kicks in. I have to get up and unplug it and plug it back in before it heats up again.  So a new iron was needed. 

 My positivity quilt, Cappuccino with a Blueberry Bagel is a flimsy. And in the bag, with backing and batting to go to the quilter!

A quote on an antique quilt from Bonnie Hunter's Facebook page.   True statement!

The painting of our house is finished!  We hare very pleased with the workmanship and the painter himself.  His attention to detail, and the fact that he cleaned up after himself. He was just genuinely a nice guy!

Not exactly sure what color it is, they mixed to match what was there before and that one was called Straw Bonnet or something like that. :) It's a creamy light yellow. 

The dark green trim , the paint store named Blauert Green. It's a funny thing.  That isn't our name, but it is someone we know!   LOL    The door into the garage had been dark red.  I don't know, I thought I wanted a red door once.  It peeled badly!  This looks good. 

I'm glad to be starting on the zigzaging on border #2 of the spool quilt.  The second half of my OMG for July.  The yellow is done, now the dark red is done. I have a bit of orange and 2 pink hearts, then all the green vine and leaves! I can get it done! I know I can!

And this made me shake my head and giggle to myself.  It's a basket I have on an upper shelf in my sewing room. It's where I put prepared bindings for quilts in progress. So I have them at the ready. This only happens if I know what the binding will be. Sometimes I have to wait for the quilt to speak to me. This is fabric that coordinated with the backing of my Garlic Knots quilt. It isn't sewn together to a long strip, but they are all cut and neatly in the basket. With a sticky note!  The problem is, that quilt was finished a bit ago and now lives in Vermont. It received a dark burgundy binding!  So much for being organized!!   LOL

 

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