ABC Table Scraps Post ~ Just Under the Wire!!

I'm linking up with The Joyful Quilter's ABC Table Scraps Challenge for August. Luckily, Joyful, kept the linky party open this Sept 6th.  Phew!

Not much yellow was cut or sewn in August. Some crumb blocks and one or two Bright Birches blocks. So not many scraps on my cutting table. Joyful's prompt for this months was X's and O's.  Well, immediately on my head was XXXXOOOO, like I sign most of the cards to my grands and great grands. So.... I perused the the internet for  a X and O quilt that I thought for sure I had seen. I found one at Sew Much More in Store that Nicole offered for free  if I would sign up for her newsletter. So that is exactly what I did. I printed the pattern , she calls it Hugs and Kisses Block! I needed the blocks to be smaller than Nicole's pattern.  Her finished blocks are 12". I  used her directions and cut my main color blocks at 2.5 inches. Tried a snowball flip corner at 1.25" but that was too small. So I tried the corners at 1.5". Much better. 

I pulled 16  yellow or yellowish squares from my 2.5" square drawer and then cut 32+ white on white squares at 1.5" and got stitching.  It worked. Sixteen blocks is enough for 2 Hug blocks and 2 Kisses blocks. 

Pressing to the main square as Nicole suggested and I was ready to lay out the X's and the O's. I shuffled a bit and then sewed the blocks togethers. Took two crumb blocks that were on my table and added that ever present smiley face fabric , cut a scrap of batting. Pinned quickly and serpentine quilted on the seam lines.

 I bound it with the black and yellow scrap that I use with the yellow placemat from 2022. A set!!! 

So yellow and X's for Hugs and O's Kisses or is it O's for Hugs and X's for Kisses?? Doesn't matter. The Challenge is met.  

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!