I had a little DrEAMi !

Normally I don’t post about DrEAMi projects. Usually they are just distractions and not really completions!  But this this month, it was completely unplanned. I was working away on houses for Sandra’s QAL 

and using up some crumbs and bits of orange fabric. I had five and 7/8ths of number 6 and didn’t have another orange scrap!

So I pulled out the Halloween basket! There was a chunk of and old jack o lantern fabric 

So all 6 are done

and a couple of FQS of  not orange spider’s fabric! I thought, what will I ever do with blue spider fabric and multicolored smiling spiders. 

Then I remembered napkins made from 2 fat quarters. Diann at Little Penguin Quilts makes them. She uses a tutorial found here. 

So my two local great grand littles will have special napkins for October and Halloween! 

A few more 1 yard pieces were unearthed in the search and those littles have parents…so they will get theses. 

And then there is their grandmother. They call her YaYa,  she needs some too!

That squirrel was busy this week! I didn't get a post written in time to link up with Sandra's monthly DrEAMi , but I'm putting it out here anyway. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

TO-DO Tuesday #142

Joining Carol and friends at Quilt Schmilt - For the Love of Fabric this morning. We gather to share our victories and if necessary our almost victories. It's great to see the progress of others.

May 23-29

1. Trim and bind Precarious!✅ OMG, it's finally finished. Label and all! I had to wait for the sun to come up before taking it outside for a photo!

Hanging on the inside of our fence, cause I still had my jammy pants on!  I was showing it with the pink at the top, but Miss B reminded me , “ it’s red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo,violet, Gramma”!  So red on top it is! 😍

This is a preprinted label that’s been in the drawer for years. If you look closely you’ll see needle and res thread. I’m stitching along some of the flower shading to help tack down the label. I’ve had them get wrinkly and loose in the past. This might help. 

2. Evening stitching on Spring Stamps.✅  the stamps took a back seat late in the week, so I could stitch and stitch  and stitch the binding and the label on Precarious! But a bit of stitching was done. You'll see I have started stamp #6.   Early Bird. 

3. Cut and assemble Houses #7 & #8 

House 7 is done, though it’s not a favorite. There is not enough contrast in the porch cover over the door. The left point gets lost!

The grass looks wavy, it just needs a good press!

And eight is also done! I have number nine done too, I'll show it next week after I write a post for the QAL.

4.  Make at least 2 more orange crumb blocks.✅ 

      There were four extra blocks when I finished all the crumbs!

⭐️    Cut pieces for Sew Preeti’s Positivity QAL!  ❌

Upcoming week:

May 30th - June 5th

1. Start on leaf blocks for Preeti's Positivity QAL

2. Decide on a OMG for June and post about it 

3. Double check the RSC 23 color for June.  And see what the associated UFO's are from my list. 

4. Try to finish the December Year in the Garden Block, so I can begin to think about a quilt pattern to use. 

5. Stitch on Spring Stamps

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Finished or Not Finished Friday!

I really wanted a finish for FONFF! But , alas all I have is a Not Finished. And the meme closes in 19 hours….so this is what you get. I’m linking to Finished or Not Finished Friday, hosted by Alycia Quilts!

Early morning light is not the best! It was 7:20 am! 

A better look at the quilting on my DSM. Total time= 24.75 hours! Phew. That’s only the quilting!

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May 23 One Monthly Goal Finish

At the beginning of May, I had three of the 16 rows quilted!

My OMG is this: Get the quilting done on this old UFO ! Fingers crossed.

And I finished it Wednesday the 16 th.  So Monday, the 22nd, after my company went back to Colorado, I thought I would trim it a get a binding ready. I was too tired!  Tuesday, though, dawned a new day. I trimmed it and got the binding attached. I settled on a dark purple check. 

The binding is stitched down on the left side, and the top. So I’m half done. It’ll be done by the end of May! 

My goal was only to get the quilting completed! So I’m satisfied. And I like it a lot! This one stay with me!

I'm linking up: Stories from the Sewing Room One Monthly Goal May Finish Link Up

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ScrapHappy Saturday ~~Final Four Orange

 I'm linking up this morning with  Angela’ ScrapHappy Saturday. Last week I had two crumb blocks. This week as I sewed and cut and sewed and trimmed I ended up with 4 more. The final four for sure. I had to raid the Halloween basket to get the last one up to size. 

Crumb blocks and string blocks are the only color specific blocks I am making for this year's challenge. I am trying to finish some UFO's that have lingered too long in my sewing room. I have assigned each UFO a color. When that color is announced I work on finishing that UFO. So far I have been sort of successful. 

May's color was orange and my spreadsheet said get a backing and batting for En Provence and Long May She Wave and get them to the quilter. That puts me somewhat at the mercy of the quilter. I could not get these two to that stage. Long May She Wave will be delivered to Aggie on June 1st. And En Provence has a date with Marva, but when I sent her the photo, I notice a huge OOPS!

Do you see it?  That top has been hanging in the closet for a few years. I pressed and trimmed thread earlier this year and even pressed it again last week, in preparation to go to the quilter! I didn't see it then either.  So now I have to do a bid of surgery!  And you can be sure I will peruse it once again to see if I can see anything else. Thank goodness it is on an edge. Not too difficult to fix.  "Good Gravy".  So that one won't be done either, for May!  I will get it though, I've committed to the quilter. 

On to the next color specific UFO. I see Angela announced Dark and Bright Blue. But I did those for January.

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May ~ ABC Table Scraps Challenge!

Here we are at the last weekend in May, so time for the ABC Table Scraps Challenge. Angela from So Scrappy chose orange as the color of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge and Joyful gave us two letter prompts (F and L) to comply with ABC Table Scraps Challenge. 

Orange has been a color I'm coming up a bit short on lately. As I was working on 2 more crumb blogs to add to the 2  already on the design wall.....there was the start of 2 more.  and then the trimmings started a 5th, which developed into almost a sixth. But I was short just one small scrap, to bring it up to the size of all the rest. 6.5" X 6.5".   So what's a girl to do. I dug into the Halloween scraps. I found a Jack O'Lantern print that's been around for almost 20 years. Score! 

As I was searching through the basket,, I found lots of odd fat quarters. These don’t fit the orange perimeters! 

What will I do with a blue spider print and a multi colored spider print. Then I remembered the fat quarter friendly napkins that Diann at Little Penguin Quilts makes!  She uses this tutorial!

So here they’re are, bot orange but FRIENDLY and definitely not LAZY! Look at all those webs. I think my littles might like them for Halloween month!

But I couldn’t stop there. Those littles have parents! So some 1 yard cuts were cut to FQ size and became these rectangles. Waiting patiently to be top stitched and folded. 

Some FRIENDLY ghosts and mummies. Some LOUD black and orange checks! And these spiders are definitely LAZY!  Not one web to be found!

Table scraps led to something useful from these ancient pieces in my Halloween bin!  Win-win! 

I’m linking up with The Joyful Quilter! 

Come and visit all the Table Scrap participants! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

I LIKE Thursday ~ Vacation?

All our favorite network shows have been having the Season Finales! One favorite, NCIS: Los Angeles had their final finale. That show will not return. It ran for 14 seasons.


I don’t have a summer replacement that I’m looking forward to. Maybe I’ll get some books read!
These are on my TBR list!

Bridges Out of Poverty by Ruby Payne

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny

Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo.    

Wonderland Creek by Lynn Austin and 

The Life She Was Given  by Ellen Wiseman. 

Letters from the Sky by Jessica Brockmole  

Keep Her Safe by Sophie Hannah

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.  

I was grateful that we were able to host our oldest granddaughter’s birthday celebration. We had a very good day!

The birthday girl in her tiara and her youngest, our Miss B. That’s her husband in the background trying to be invisible!

I made  dark chocolate brownies and an amaretto-less cheesecake. It’s my sister’s fabulous recipe, but I left the Amaretto out because our daughter has a nut allergy! It was still awesome..

My Lily of the Valley are blooming! It makes me happy!

I changed out the Mother’s Day stuff on my buffet. Patriotic for Memorial Day!

The flowers are still left from Mother’s Day, I just changed out the container. A clear vase set in a patriotic woven bucket. Little bowl fillers I stitched last year and a chicken pincushion in red, white and blue. 

 LeeAnna’s prompt for this week is:

if you could go on vacation anywhere right now, where would it be? tell us why you chose that place... imagine how long you'd like to be there, and what you'd like to do there....

This one got me to thinking! When I think of vacations they require air travel mostly. And that won’t be happening again unless I go by myself. Mr Busy, refuses to fly anymore. I dream of a beach vacation! Sun and sand and Caribbean blue water. Sitting on a chair under an umbrella reading. Someone young and tan and male bringing me umbrella drinks! Like pina coladas, Mai tais, or a Yellow Bird! I’d stay at least a week, maybe two! Other than sitting on the beach or poolside, I’d eat great food, maybe take a moonlight/ sunset cruise! 

That’s what sounds good to me! 

I’m joining LeeAnna and friends to celebrate the good things in life! 

**If there are multiple fonts as you read this post, I apologize. I tried, and tried to get them all the same. I'm throwing my hands in the air!  I don't know how to fix it except maybe to start over. and it's too late for that. I know you all will understand. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

TO-DO Tuesday #141

I’m linking my list with Carol at Quilt Schmilt and also encouraging other in keeping on task!

May 16-22
1. Stitch on DECEMBER! ✅

I’m stitching on this one, almost exclusively at my Thursday Stitchers group. It just stays in my go bag.

2. Make progress on Spring Stamps✅

This is Spring as I quit and headed for bed last night at 10 pm. Hence, the “hoop marks” and wrinkles! 

3. Finish House #6✅

The heart house! Even the grass has heart shaped flowers!

4. Start on House #7❌
4, Orange crumbs blocks✅

My goal for the coming week!  Doable, I think! 

May 23-29

1. Trim and bind Precarious!

2. Evening stitching on Spring Stamps.

3. Cut and assemble Houses #7 & #8

4.  Make at least 2 more orange crumb blocks.

⭐️ Bonus! Cut pieces for Sew Preeti’s Positivity Quilt Along!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Orange Scraps! Two Crumbs blocks and a few in progress

Crumb Blocks Plus!

My orange scraps are nearly gone!  Two crumbs blocks plus some bits and pieces that hopefully will yield 2 more. I have some, what I call "chunks", but those are safe in the basket! I may need some for binding  Precarious, my header photo!   Stay tuned. A decision of binding color has not been made. 

I'm linking up with Angela at ScrapHappy Saturday and 

Cynthia at Oh Scrap! 

Til next time, I'm off to do Birthday Party preparations, and an emergency run to the grocery store!  Sometimes even a list doesn't help me!  LOL

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

I LIKE Thursday ~ Any Celebrities?

Good Morning All! Hope your week has been wonderful so far!  Join LeeAnna and friends to share the good things ! 

"have you ever had a close encounter with a celebrity? Seen someone in person, talked to them, etc?  please tell us the details!"

It’s pretty difficult to run into a celebrity in South Dakota or Wyoming! That being said, I did get the autograph of George Peppard when I was about 16. Some of the movie How the West Was Won  was filmed in and around the Black Hills of South Dakota, in 1962. That’s where I grew up. Some of the cast and crew did a promotional appearance. An all star cast in that movie, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Debbie Reynolds. But I only got George Peppard’s autograph. He was a heartthrob back then. 

Wish I still had that autograph book! 

I took a trip with my MYF( Methodist Youth Fellowship) when I was 18 and a senior in high school. We saw a Broadway play in NYCity. We saw “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”. It starred Robert Morse. We also saw Elizabeth Taylor in a limousine on the street as we waited in line. Very exciting when you’re 18, and from South Dakota!

And just to bore you with my age, I’ve seen a couple of celebrities in concert. Kenny Rodgers in Billings Montana and Mac Davis and Barry Manilow  in Rapid City SD. I missed seeing Elvis! We had just moved to Wyoming and Mr Busy said” he’ll be back, we’ll go next time”! It was June 1977! You all know the rest of the story, he died August 16th, 1977. 

Well, that was certainly nostalgic! Nothing exciting in recent years! 

Other stuff:

We are still watching Rabbit Hole on Netflix. And Mr Busy and I watched The Mother with Jennifer Lopez. 

Intense but good! IMHO!

We did nothing special on Mother’s Day. Mr Busy bought flowers on Friday, they still look pretty good. I’m a real amateur when it comes to arranging Dollar Store bundles of mums!

I did take myself to an art show in our community,  called Local Color. All local artists, and all pieces were for sale!   I got permission to take a few photos, as long as they weren’t  up close. Hopefully you’ll be  able to zoom in on the first photo. 

This fiber artist is new to our community.  Just a few of the pieces she had in the show!

I took this photo mostly for Mr. Busy. It’s some examples of metal sculpture!

The crabapple trees are blooming in our neighborhood! This is fuzzy because I had to crop out the pickup trucks (almost) and garbage cans at the neighbors! 😂. There are white and pink flowered varieties. The pink ones haven’t quite got to full glory yet. I’ll watch for some to photograph this week! 

I finished quilting Precarious yesterday late afternoon. Now I’ll have to pick a binding, make a label and get it done!  Photos soon!

I’m still making houses! This is #6 to show, I have a 7th one done but haven’t shown it yet! 

Nine houses are needed for the throw size, so just  2 more. I’m leaning toward bright green and turquoise. 

There’s a birthday celebration for our oldest granddaughter on Sunday. She’ll be 38! How is that possible? I was 39 when she was born! She’s requested cheesecake or brownies for “her cake”. I’m going to do both! The rest will be simple. Burgers and brats on the grill, chips, dip, fruit tray and veggies! Soda, iced tea, maybe lemonade! 

Well, that was a chatty post! Go check out others by clicking the links on LeeAnna post. Not Afraid of Color

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!