Scrap Happy Saturday. October Trick or Treat Day.

In our town anyway.  It's Treat Street Day. A place where non retail merchants, like realtors, construction companies etc, along with civic and service organizations, set up booths all in one large indoor space. The kids can go trick or treating in safe environment. Also, the downtown shops are open in the afternoon for the little bitty ones to come in for candy! Here is a photo of two of my great-grandkids two  three years ago, before Covid! (where did the time go!! )

Not much sewing this week. Lots of cutting though and planning.  And I did make treat bags for Jojo and Miss B. 

You are all tired of seeing my Boo Crew cross stitch finish. But some of you only see my Saturday posts. So here it is again. 

Happy Halloween to all!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Table Scraps Challenge. - Joyful!!

Joyful at The Joyful Quilter hosts this monthly challenge to use up table scraps.  Not the food kind, but the fabric and sewing stuff kind!  Each month this year, in addition to using the color of the month selected at Rainbow Scrap Challenge over at So Scrappy, Joyfull gave us a monthly prompt. This month was light green and "Joyful"!!

Well, it was October and I had some Halloween fabric pieces. One fat quarter in particular was one I was pretty sure I would never use in a quilt. Very colorful, very novelty, very graphic. 

But when I thought about it and thought about two of the great grandkids being here this year. .....Well, I started thinking about treats. We don't have many Trick or Treaters. But we always buy more candy than we give away and none of us need the extra. So why not make sure the great grands have a special little bag of more than one piece and maybe a special cookie or other treat!

I cut two strips of the fat quarter 4.5" by 11". Turned down and stitched a hem on both short end of the strip. Then I found a piece of orange grosgrain ribbon in my stash. Decided to put their initials on the bag, cause they are 6 and 9 and Miss B thinks everything cute is hers! I cut free hand block letters on a piece of scrap freezer paper, then turned them over and traced on the paper side of a scrap of fusible Wonder Under.

 Ironed them down to a scrap of black fabric, cut them out and fused them to the "front" of each strip. Then blanket stitched around the letter before making the strip into a bag. I use a used dryer sheet at a stabilizer behind most applique. 

the reverse so you can see the applique stitch and the "stabilizer"

Cut away the excess dryer sheet fabric, folded right sides together matching the hemmed edge. I folded the ribbon in half, put the fold inside the seam allowance, making sure I wouldn't catch the ends then stitched down both long sides and turned right side. out. 

So here is the finished product. Technically not quilted, but there are three layers, stitched together. Black applique fabric, main orange plaid fabric and the used dryer sheet!  Ok, artistic license?? Maybe?

There is not a bit of green ( oh, there is a green pumpkin stem, and green witch nose, heh,heh!) in this project but Jojo and Miss B definitely make me Joyful!!  And I had fun whipping up these treat bags, from scraps of fabric, and ribbon and scraps of used dryer sheets.

So this is my entry to the Table Scraps Challenge for October 2022. Now to fill them with small treasures, candy,  maybe a special cookie!  Happy Halloween everyone. Trick or Treat!!!🎃

  

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

apologize for the photo in Mr Linky.....he wouldn't let me upload the photo I prefer!

Finished or Not Finished Friday!

I’m linking up with Alycia and friends at Finished or Not Finished Friday! 

I haven’t had a finish in a really long time!  I am sewing, but nothing is complete. 

So I’ll show the “things” I do have finished! 

60 blue and white geese! 

60 white and red geese! 

72 red geese with white wings unattached! 

Squares cut for the beginnings of stars! 

All marked and bagged ready to go to a mini retreat next week!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

I LIKE Thursday ~ Last of October. Costumes!

Joining LeeAnna and friends at Not Afraid of Color to share some Likes today. And also to talk about favorite costumes.

Love this Purple Cutting Gizmo! I’ve been making a bazillion flying geese. I chain piece 10 at a time, then take to the ironing board cut them apart with the gizmo and press open. Back to the sew machine for the left side! Cut apart and press open! Again and again and again! Thank you, good friend Connie, who gifted me this little goodie! 

This was a Wordle win last week. I should have figured it out before 5!   It's a pretty seasonal word. 

Trick or Treat bags for two special kiddos!  I need to get them filled with treats!

My “Holiday” cactus that thinks it’s a Halloween cactus! Usually they bloom near Thanksgiving or Christmas! 

I have a couple of favorite costumes from family to share.,

A collage:  Top….Miss B as a ballerina,  JoJo is Mario with a  Ghostbusters machine he and his dad made from a trashed vacuum cleaner. Jojo and Miss B a couple of years ago as Dracula and Minny, Trick or Treating in downtown shops.

Bottom three: my youngest granddaughter and her work crew. She’s the pink kitty and her fiancé is the guy in the purple wizard hat!  My two young great nieces who live in Florida. And Mr Busy’s mom dressed as a Glamorous Witch for the party at her retirement center. 

My granddaughter and her partner and their two kids. They live in Phoenix! I don’t know who was in the dinosaur costume!

Maybe it’s not the costumes I love, but the people wearing them! <3

If you need inspiration for a costume this year check out Melissa at Polka Dot Chair's archives

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Omg finish up…

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

My goal was 2-fold……to finish Boo Crew by the 15th and make a good start on My Christmas stitch. 

The stitching of Boo Crew was completed by 10-15-22, but it wasn’t Fully Finished by the 15th due to the unavailability of the mounting board locally. I ordered it on Amazon and it arrived the 18th. now it is done. 

I've been taking my Christmastime stitch to my group of friends that meet on Thursdays. This is where I am on it today.  A good start I think. 

Not the best picture, it is a smallish stitch. But the Christmas card, the mittens on a string and the beginning of a Christmas bow are here. The mystery clue or releases as FQS calls them, have all been released so I will continue. I have no plan for a Final Finish. Maybe a simple frame since the aida fabric is already printed with a "mat surround".

Click on the blue highlighted link above to see other One Monthly Goals. Then join us next month at Elm Street Quilts. Patty provides the handy link every month, making it easy as pie!!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

To -Do Tuesday #111

Joining Linda at Texas Quilt Gal to share my FFO and some other ongoing projects. Small successes add up,  after all!

This  Week: 10-18 to 10-24


1. Try to get Boo Crew on the display board!✅

                                            Done and ready to be hung on Halloween night!


2. Make more Flying Geese in R, W, B. ✅

                

                                      All 60 blue geese with white wings are done! On to clue #2! 

                                               Clue #2.    Red and white geese in progress

3. Stitch on the Autumn Stamp SAL and also on the Fat Quarter Shop Christmas Mystery.✅

Next week:  10-25-22 to 10-31-22.    More of the same! 

1. Sew More Flying Geese.

2.  Get ready for 3 day Sleep-At-Home Retreat at the library next week! 

3. Keep stitching on Autumn Stamp SAL and  FQS’s Christmastime Mystery SAL!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Slow Sunday Stitching…Late October!

I’m working on two cross stitch! 

Still making progress on Autumn. I’m going to run out of the color 898 which is the border. Before I go further on all those X’s, I need to go to JoAnns today. My floss is many years old and I know from experience that the dye lot of the new skein may be different. I’ll want to conserve or mix it up some how! I’ll have to experiment. 

This is the ongoing Christmastime stitch! I do it mostly at stitch group on Thursdays. 

And I actually did start and finish this Halloween stitch! I’m like it a lot!⤵️

It’s not finished exactly like the directions stated, because I cut the mounting board 1/2 inch too big and didn’t realize it till the stitchery was already glued to the board! So I improvised. 

Joining Kathy and other slow stitchers at  Slow Sunday Stitching. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

ScrapHappy Saturday ~ The End is Near!

I'm linking up with Angela at ScrapHappy Saturday.  Even though I was a slacker this week. 

Not a smidgen of green was sewn this week. In fact, unless you count the green apples in this stitch ⤵️

or the green mitten cuffs  in this one, there was no green. ⤴️

My zig zag rows are put away into a box. I may take them to a retreat next week. There should be a place to lay them all out, and plenty of opinions as to how they should be arranged! *smile*

My main focus has been on getting my Halloween stitch done and trying to sew some on the QOV Mystery at Alicia Quilts. 

60 Blue and White geese are done, some White and Red geese are next! 

Oh look, there was some green in my Leader and Ender, Triple Treat blocks. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

 

I LIKE Thursday Trick or Treat!,

Joining up with the gang at I LIKE Thursday, to share some good stuff! Come join us at Not Afraid of Color.  Thank you LeeAnna for giving us this place to share our "good stuff"!

We finished The Offer now I think we’ll watch the original, The Godfather ! It’s been a long time! 

I finished this Jane Green novel, Sister Stardust! 

   I like her writing, she takes you there. But this character was one I had trouble relating to. 

Not sure what I'll read next. I have lots of ideas from the participants of I LIKE Thursdays. So, I'll find something when I go to the library today. 

Our weather has been wonderful tha last few days. Mr Busy and I got all our pre-winter stuff done. Deck chairs put away. Air conditioner unit covered up. Deck lights taken down, Outside faucet drained and hoses drained and put in the shed. Some leaves were raked, but the trees are still pretty with lots of leaves. So that will be another chore to do later. 

Like the list above, I still need to bake pumpkin bread, and drink apple cider. Oh, and watch Hocus Pocus.  I think DD and I will do that one of these evenings. Girls night!

Prompt. Halloween Candy

We always give out Snickers and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Mr Busy’s favorite is Snickers. We have very few trick or treaters, so we give out  the kind we like, so the leftovers don’t just hang around. Haha!

As I said last week…. Me….chocolate anything.  I’m not real fond of 3 Musketeers, only because I ate so many during my first pregnancy, 58 yrs ago, that I just don’t choose them now! To tell the truth, I like most sweet things. Even candy corn, especially mixed with dry roasted peanuts!  Salty sweet..yum!

I'm off to spend part of today stitching with friends. I finished Boo Crew!

Now it's on to Christmas!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!