I LIKE Thursday #89

Good Morning!  Hope you're having a great day! I'm sharing my likes from this week with everyone at LeeAnna's blog Not Afraid of Color. Join us in sharing your good news and checking out other participants. 

Entertainment:

We watched this last Friday night. Not many movies these days move me to tears these days, but this one did.  It's on Apple +

And then Sunday night it was a big winner at the Academy Awards. Nominated for 3 awards, won 3 awards. I hope you will get a chance to watch it, if you haven't already!

I'm still working on Lilac Girls. I will have to spend some daytime finishing it up. I usually read at night after I go to bed. Lately, I am so tired that I can only read about 10-20  pages before my "eyes slam shut"!

Words:

I had to share this one! Our older great granddaughter loves to “jump in muddy puddles!” Luckily her mama, the neat-nik, lets her do that! 💖. I just smile when I think of her splashing in puddles!

Wednesday 

Wordle 284 5/6.    I’m in a Wordle slump!  On Tuesday I missed it completely! Dang! 

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Mail:

I want to participate in the making of string hearts in Bonnie Hunter's sew along. But I didn't have enough yellows left in my stash. She is teaming up with GE Designs and Gudrun  had a special of a blue and yellow bundle. The net proceeds to a Go Fund Me account for Ukraine. You can read about it here. I quickly ordered it and even though they were waiting for fabric and stated that in the website, it really did not take long. It arrived on Monday   So excited. 

I had company so it was a bit be for I was able to open it!

Aren’t they pretty? 

And the best thing this week, was this visit with my brother and SIL!  We talked and talked, went out for pizza and beer, watched CODA on Apple+ when we got home. ( They had not seen it and do not have Apple+ at their house. We were happy to watch it again!) They spent the night, I made breakfast casserole and we had coffee and fruit and more talk! It was so special! 

Mr Busy and me in the middle! I’m a happy girl! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

To -Do Tuesday! March……

May go out like a lion! The oks saying may hold true. I noted in my journal that the 1st of March was unseasonably mild. Now they are predicting cold and maybe even snow for this afternoon and tomorrow! Hope they are wrong! 

Today is To-Do Tuesday! Let’s see how I did and then check out others at Texas Quilt Gal! Thanks Linda for keeping us on track!

March 22- March 28

1. Finish TSC  and post to The Joyful Quilter ✅

      You can see my post here

2. Start quilting in Chunky Churn Dash for H2H donation! ✅

The denim blue thread is visible in some blocks more than others! 

So many different prints I just kept the color the same throughout!

After picking out the first two rows of quilting, I cut a new piece of batting. It’s Warm 100 and it has a scrim. The package states you can quilt it 10” apart. My lines are no more than 6”, so it should be good. So I’m back on track “ i

3. Keep working on Growing Up Odd blocks! ✅ I got two blocks done and moved the blocks into my sewing room’s design wall. 

My brother and SIL are coming for an overnight visit, so I was neatening up! I need 5 more blocks! There will be sashing between the blocks also. 

And tasks for next week…

March 29 - April 4

1. Get a start on pink! Happy Blocks and  ZigZag blocks! 

2. Trim and attach binding to Chunky Churn Dash! 

3. Stitch on August’s Year in the Garden. 

4. Make some Bow Blocks for Melva’s “Pieces in the Garden” and download Block 3 from her site! 

That should keep  me busy. Of course there are other non sewing related tasks. Like laundry and cooking. It may get nice enough to start on our lawn clean-up. And I need to get a birthday card in the mail to our grandson-in-law. 

Til next week

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Hands to Help donation #1

 

I put together a top for donation.

Ninja Friends, from this book! ↓ The pattern is called  Simple Gifts. It's a great book, recommended to me by Nancy at Grace and Peace Quilting. All these fabrics, just a tad more than fat quarter each were in a tote given to me by a friend. She said, “I’ll never use them!” I knew I would! 

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and a skinny scrap of gray from my stash down the “middle”!

Then the backing

Odd pieces of flannel, pieced to make a backing for Ninja Friends. 

It’s quilted and bound! Washed and dried. Ready to go to give some little, a quilty hug. 

Linking up with Mari at The Academic Quilter

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Last ScrapHappy Saturday of March 2022!

I'm linking up with Angela at Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2022's ScrapHappy Saturday. 

Last week I promised the finish project I was working on for Table Scraps Challenge. Yellow, of course and with flowers. 

 Finished on my cutting table!

Even a label made!  That is a real finish!

 

Flowers in the fabric, flowers in the backing and flowers on display. I love it!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

OMG for March Finish Link Up ~ Goal Not Met!

 

My goal was to make 7 of these large blocks to finish off Growing Up Odd!   

What was I thinking? My other monthly sewing of RSC blocks, Table Scraps Challenge and quilting on two donation quilts did not require or in some cases even allow the use of leaders and enders. 

I only completed two blocks, cut the remaining sashing pieces, and berated myself several times!

I will be carrying this goal over to April! 

 I'll be linking this up over at...... Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal - March Finish Link-up

I’m also linking up to Oh Scrap with Cynthia at Quilting is More Fun Than Housework. This is definitely an Oh Scrap make! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy 

Finished or Not Finished Friday! A Little Donation Quilt and a Happy Table Topper

I've finally finished the small donation quilt I'm calling Ninja Friends.  The quilting went very smoothly. The serpentine stitch across the width 2.5" apart and up and down the length 1.75" apart using the guide on my walking foot. It made a rectangular grid that mimicked the rectangular size of the quilt. 

It's bound and washed and dried.  I'm really happy with it! It will be one of my donations to Hands 2 Help. 

And this is the happy yellow March entry for the Table Scraps Challenge hosted by The Joyful Quilter. 

It's six different 6.5" blocks with more than six different yellow or gold fabrics. I added the 2 inch scrap of sunflower fabric to give it a bit of "focus"!

It's backed with a black flowered fabric given to me in a donation tote. I bound it with the backing. 

Two small finishes.    And 6 days left in the month. I do have another small child size quilt that I though I was ready to quilt. I used an odd piece of batting that I could not get to lay flat. When I started quilting there were numerous wrinkles in the backing. The quilting has now been all removed. And tomorrow I will cut a different batting and start over. 

I'm linking up with Alycia from Alycia Quilts for  Finished or Not Finished Friday. Hop on over there and see what others finished or maybe not quite finished. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Table Scraps Challenge March-Flowers-Yellow

 

March came in “Like A  Lamb”where I live. The weather was mild. I was excited for the color yellow selected by Angela at So Scrappy. And Joy from The Joyful Quilter, gave the prompt flowers! I’m ready for flowers. I dumped my yellow scrap basket.!

After making some RSC blocks, I started on my table scraps project. There were lots of scraps. This rail fence pinwheel, used some gold! 

Using the same yellow, gold, and pink print I made  four hourglass blocks!. But I cut the original squares at 4.5” instead of the 4.25” as the directions read! Drat! 

So I remade the hourglass block in a different yellow! 

Then a churn dash block with some daisy fabric and a scrap of sunflower fabric. I had sunflowers on my mind.  🌻 for 🇺🇦! 

 Next a two toned pinwheel block. 

Then a simpler gold batik 9 patch.

Finally a spotted Ohio Star variation! 

Then I quilted with my favorite serpentine stitch! 

 

I decided to bind this little table topper with the backing, I had originally decided to use the same  fabric for the binding. So it’s only a change in technique. I followed this Tutorial  at Cluck Cluck Sew.

Allison used pins, but I normally use Wonder Clips. I especially like these wider ones on the corners for this technique. 

Don’t mind the pearl headed pin! It’s my reminder to finish a half a line of quilting!  

And it's done!

Here is the very busy back!

And a close up of the label. A triangle scrap frame a string block, written with green Sharpie and fused on with wonder under and secured with some wonky X stitches with variegated floss! 

A final resting place. 

On the coffee table in the living room. Complete with some “fake” sunflowers! Probably they are really rudbeckia! In yellow and an orangey red! 

I’m linking up at The Joyful Quilter and  March Table Scraps Challenge .  Thanks again Joyful for this fun fun challenge every month!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Judy