To Do Tuesday. Setting Some New Goals

I’m joining Linda at Texas Quilt Gal and some friends to share my to-do list from last week. And then make a list for the upcoming week. Come see what everyone has been up to! 

Aug 23-Aug 29

1. Sew orange and neutral HSTs into a row and make a ScrapHappy Saturday post! 

Done! Post is here!

2. Make 4 orange string blocks.

There are FIVE!

3. Keep sewing on Triple Treat the Leaders and Enders project. 

I’ve mostly been sewing twosies of 1 colored 1.5” square and 1 neutral 1.5” square. They are then combined into a 4 patch that is 2.5”. Each Triple Treat takes 3 four patches. It’s a slow process.

4. Monday is my annual Medicare wellness exam! I hope I pass!

 Rescheduled by the clinic at 8:15 AM Monday.  I see an APRN, and one of her kiddos was sick. So now I have to wait til Sept 14th. 

Next Week

August 30 -  September 5

1. Sew light blue strings and crumb blocks

2. Keep stitching. Boo Crew!

3. Plan birthday party for great grandson! 9 is Huge!  

4. Decide on One Monthly Goal for September! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Slow Sunday Stitching

Linking up with Kathy’s Slow Stitching Sunday. 

I’ve picked up cross stitch again. Enabled by some YouTube videos, and some local stitchers that I’ve become acquainted with. 

I’m working on Boo Crew from The Fat Quarter Shop! 

I wasn’t able to download the link in the image but here is a different link.. There is a small quilt pattern too!

My YouTube friends would never pair a pink flamingo needle minder with a Halloween themed stitch, but I’m just getting back in the game. I have started used Floss Drops. Pluses and minuses to those too! These were shared by some friends. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Scrap Happy Saturday. The Orange Finale!

I know! My title sounds like it should be epic! But, sadly, it is not!  I'm linking up with Angela's Linky Party anyway! 

Orange and neutral HSTs are on the design wall! 

My scraps looked like this, 

Then became  this…

And four happy blocks got added to the mix. 

Not much for a month’s worth of work. But there was icky-ness, and company and then there was housework that seemed overwhelming. And cooking and laundry and blog-reading! 

So, at least some orange was used. 

The rest of the month, I’ll build string blocks or crumb blocks! Cause I must! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Finished or Not Finished Friday!

This is a twofer post! I will copy the Table Scraps Challenge post here. I have to take like successes where I can find them!

My scraps started out like this…not cohesive at all. I could have gone to my Halloween basket of fabrics but Halloween is more than two months away! There were some crumb block beginnings. 

But I should decide how the embroidery will go. I keep having visions of LeeAnna’s creations. You know, beautiful improve piecing, gorgeous fabrics and fabulous embellishments with embroidery threads and beads! But alas, I’m too OCD or controlling or boring or something!

So I paged through my embroidery patterns. A pumpkin? 

Or maybe this one!

A sunflower? 

A poppy?

I finally settled on this design from Gum Trees BOM 2011.  By Vicki Tucek

I left off the heart shapes in the steam and the ruffle like edging on the coaster , selected two different  orange threads, black for the mug, a mocha for the coffee and a bluish gray for the steam. I had  a large piece of slightly peachy mottled fabric for background. A scrap of Pellon  SF101 ironed quickly to the back and in two evenings I was done.  (Sorry, no photo of just the stitching!)

I sewed some crumbs together, 

found some long pieces for borders, because they were there and they are easy. There was a long pumpkin colored fabric strip that I thought would work for a narrow binding. Sew, trim, add some more. The size it ended up being was decided by a piece of batting that was in the batting scraps bin. And there was a piece  of orange pumpkins for the backing. 

Ready for quilting with Orange Zest thread!

I straight line quilted horizontally and vertically with a spool of Orange Zest, a free gift last year with an order from Missouri Star Quilts.  Then thought I’d give some big stitch quilting a try. I had a spool of 12wt Sulky thread in reddish orange tones.  

 It doesn’t have a color name only a number, 712-4006.  I’d call it rhubarb crisp. 😀

The binding strip got ironed, pressed in half and applied to the back. It’s narrow, so I machine stitched it on the front. Every time I practice this I get a bit better! Not perfect, but it’s a mug mat! 

Photo: outside on a small table that need restraining, badly!  Fall project!!

 This is the back. I figure I can flip it over for Halloween week! I’ve had this fabric forever! 

Can you read the label? Written with a green ZIG pen. 

It says:: 

Table Scraps Challenge ‘22

August- Orange- Embroidery 

I Love Coffee stitchery in orange 

       & black

Crumb blocks added to make 

mug mat size  8 1/2  X 10 1/2

JKB 8-5-22---8-22-22

I posted this in the Linky Party for Table Scraps Challenge and now in Finished or Not Friday.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Table Scraps Challenge August~Orange with Embroidery

My scraps started out like this…not cohesive at all. I could have gone to my Halloween basket of fabrics but Halloween is more than two months away! There were some crumb block beginnings. 

But I should decide how the embroidery will go. I keep having visions of LeeAnna’s creations. You know, beautiful improve piecing, gorgeous fabrics and fabulous embellishments with embroidery threads and beads! But alas, I’m too OCD or controlling or boring or something!

So I paged through my embroidery patterns. A pumpkin? 

Or maybe this one!

A sunflower? 

A poppy?

I finally settled on this design from Gum Trees BOM 2011.  By Vicki Tucek

I left off the heart shapes in the steam and the ruffle like edging on the coaster , selected two different  orange threads, black for the mug, a mocha for the coffee and a bluish gray for the steam. I had  a large piece of slightly peachy mottled fabric for background. A scrap of Pellon  SF101 ironed quickly to the back and in two evenings I was done.  (Sorry, no photo of just the stitching!)

I sewed some crumbs together, 

found some long pieces for borders, because they were there and they are easy. There was a long pumpkin colored fabric strip that I thought would work for a narrow binding. Sew, trim, add some more. The size it ended up being was decided by a piece of batting that was in the batting scraps bin. And there was a piece  of orange pumpkins for the backing. 

Ready for quilting with Orange Zest thread!

I straight line quilted horizontally and vertically with a spool of Orange Zest, a free gift last year with an order from Missouri Star Quilts.  Then thought I’d give some big stitch quilting a try. I had a spool of 12wt Sulky thread in reddish orange tones.  

 It doesn’t have a color name only a number, 712-4006.  I’d call it rhubarb crisp. 😀

The binding strip got ironed, pressed in half and applied to the back. It’s narrow, so I machine stitched it on the front. Every time I practice this I get a bit better! Not perfect, but it’s a mug mat! 

Photo: outside on a small table that need restraining, badly!  Fall project!!

 This is the back. I figure I can flip it over for Halloween week! I’ve had this fabric forever! 

Can you read the label? Written with a green ZIG pen. 

It says:: 

Table Scraps Challenge ‘22

August- Orange- Embroidery 

I Love Coffee stitchery in orange 

       & black

Crumb blocks added to make 

mug mat size  8 1/2  X 10 1/2

JKB 8-5-22---8-22-22

I’m satisfied even though I still have orange scraps! ! 

I’m linking up with The Joyful Quilter on the last weekend of the month! This Friday the 26th! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

 

I LIKE Thursday. Vacation spots!

I LIKE Thursday! 

LeeAnna's prompt for this week was:  

 

a place you always go to in the summer... a vacation spot, a cabin or town, camping location,  in childhood or nowadays

tell us why you like it, what it's like, how it makes you feel is it relaxing or exciting or both. If you can find pics all the better. 

ok well....As a kid we camped a lot! My parents had access to a cabin in the Black Hills of South Dakota so many weekends and vacations were spent there. I don't have photos, but picture two rustic cabins, no electricity, no running water, heat only from a pot belly stove in the middle of the room. My mom cooked on a kerosene stove. It was very fun. There was a stream nearby that was deep enough to wade up to your knees, but not too deep. My dad owned a roofing company, so we didn't go far away for vacations. But when you live and work in the Black Hills of So Dak, you aren't far from vacation.

When I graduated high school and got married. my DH and I camped too. In fact ,our daughter was born in December and that very first July, she was barely 7 months old, we camped with family for the 4th of July.. Later as our kids grew we acquired a pickup camper and then a boat. We spent most weekends at Pactola Reservoir in the Black Hills. One October we took our PU camper to Bozeman MT to visit DH's brother and family. We also drove home through Yellowstone National Park. A perfect time to see the sights there. Not too many visitors in the fall and the colors are amazing. 

Later after out kids left home, we purchased a Gold Wing motorcycle and spent many summers riding with friends to rallys and vacations spots across the US.  We went to Canada, Montana, Washington, Idaho, North Dakota, Colorado, New Mexico. Also to Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Niagara Falls, And lots of states in between. 

(All of my photos of those early years are not digital , so no pics! Sorry)

We have also vacationed in Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Nashville, and the Bahamas. My retirement gift from my employer was a Caribbean Cruise. I love to do that again.

After we retired,  we purchased a used 5th wheel camper. 

We spent lots of weeks in our favorite place in the Black Hills. 

This is the best part about camping! The campfire! 

If you waded through this “wordy” post, here are a couple of LIKES! 

My daughter and I have been watching, Only Murders in the Building on Hulu. A funny, sometimes silly, but well acted comedy starring l to r, Martin Short, Steve Martin and Selena Gomez. 

I’m also reading: Family Jewels by Stuart Woods. I’ve not read Stuart Woods books in the past. This is number 37 in the Stone Barrington series. I normally don’t read books out of order, but these are simple enough, fluffy enough that I haven’t missed anything except Stone’s other former sexual exploits! It’s OK though! A fun easy read! 

This is number 13 in my Goodreads 2022 Reading Challenge. 

 I didn’t set a high bar. 12 books in 12 months. 

https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/33561170

Now go on over to  Not Afraid of Color  and check out links to other’s vacation favorites! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

To-Do Tuesday! Goals are Good!

Linking up with Linda at Texas Quilt Gal to set some goals for next week and to show progress on those set last week. Come join the fun! 

My list last week…..

Week Aug 16 - Aug 22

1. VOTE! Our primary is today! 🇺🇸🦅 ✅

2. Get Pop Star to the quilter and write a OMG post!

This gets a ✅ with explanation. My quilter has a new pro quilter module and is just starting to learn it. So she doesn’t have Pop Star in her possession, but it is on her schedule. The post is written here, I’ll link it  with Patty at Elm Street Quilts when she opens her link on Wednesday. 

3. Make at least 2 blocks for CiL and get them in the mail. ✅ 

There are 4 in the mail to the Project Linus coordinator in Texas. I sent Kat a photo also. 

4.  Start working on TSC for August. Orange and Embroidery! ✅

It’s finished except for a label. I like it! This is a tiny peek! 

This week

Aug 23-Aug 29

1. Sew orange and neutral HSTs into a row and make a ScrapHappy Saturday post.

2. Make 4 orange string blocks.

3. Keep sewing on Triple Treat the Leaders and Enders project. 

4. Monday is my annual Medicare wellness exam! I hope I pass!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!