Table Scraps Challenge ~ Dark (Brown or Black) 🍁 🍂 Leaves!

 

The Joyful Quilter hosts The Table Scraps Challenge and uses the Rainbow Scrap Challenge color as a jumping off point. Joyful also gives us a prompt each month! September is Leaves. 

As usual, I made crumb fabric with my table scraps and used a long long resident of a scrap drawer! I have lots of brown, tan, darkish colors in my fall basket! One year, many Christmases ago, my son and then-daughter-in-law gave me a Christmas themed tray with 18 fat quarters of browns , individually wrapped so they looked like a tray of brownies! It was a fabulous gift! 

A small square table topper that fits pretty well on  the table next to my rocker. 

The light green- gray leaf was a freebie from Connecting Threads years ago, announcing their die cuts. I used it as a pattern to cut the brown one, then appliqued them both to the crumb block. No binding on this one. Just layered and turned, then top stitched around the edge. Easy peasy! 

Joining Joyful and friends for September’s Table Scraps Challenge. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful! 

I LIKE Thursday!

 

 I’m joining other like minded bloggers to share some good stuff! Join us at Not Afraid of Color. LeeAnna keeps a list of  bloggers who join in. 

Last Saturday I volunteered to help set up for a Craft Swap at our local library.This is a photo of all the “just fabric” that was donated by the 1.5 hour mark in a 5 hr drop off period. I had volunteered to work the whole 5 hrs. By 3pm, I was TOAST! 

I’m working my way through the Christmas alphabet. It’s a Merry String by Lizzie Kate. It will be done this week and I hope to have it Fully Finished by December 1st. 

Mr Busy grilled a small pork tenderloin and fresh zucchini for supper Sunday night. Yummy! I was so busy eating and “hmmmm”ing, that I forgot to take any pictures! It’s all gone now! 

As I was going through mail, balancing my checkbook and doing some online bill paying , I found this sticker that was sent to me.  YES, I WILL!  I like it! No specifics, just stating a fact. I will exercise my constitutional right! Thank you Susan B Anthony and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper! 

LeeAnna posted some prompts as food for thought for the next couple of weeks. For today, Sept 26th, she posed these questions. 

what is your favorite fall scent?    I have several fall scented candles. Mostly they are Pumpkin spice, or just Pumpkin.

This is a favorite. It was made for me by my sister. It’s Patchouli Woods! It’s kinda of a masculine smell and I like it! 

would you rather have a pumpkin spice drink or apple cider?  I used to love pumpkin spice season for the coffee flavor. Now, not so much! I have some Pumpkin Pie syrup that needs to be used up, so I’ll be experimenting.  I do like apple cider, but spiced. Usually with cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon, and I have added  a touch of apple brandy! 😳

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful ! 

Slow Sunday Stitching ~ Autumnal Equinox

 As Fall begins, I sadden a bit. Although I love the cooler mornings and the warm afternoons and the brilliant fall colors, I know that Winter is on the way. I physically don’t feel as well in the winter! Old bones, you know! 

So I  have been diligently working on a cute Christmas small. It’s called Merry String by Lizzie Kate. 

This is a terrible photo of the chart cover. It’s worked on 28 ct Light Mocha Cashel using 2 ply of floss over 2 threads of fabric.  I had a, never used,  piece of 14 ct Aida in my stash.  It called Aspen. 

What do you think? I love it! It will be fun to have something new to display for the holidays. 

I will continue stitching on the Autumn Bell Pull. It’s a large project, so it will be awhile.

And I finished the September motif on the Woven Wreath project from Kathy Schmitz .

I’m anxious to start the cute pumpkin on the first of October!

I’m linking up with other slow stitchers at Slow Sunday Stitching over at Kathy’s Quilts. 

Off to stitch while watching CBS Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

I LIKE Thursday 9-19-24

 

It’s easy in these tumultuous times to forget how blessed we are. I’m sharing a few good, funny happy things today. Join with LeeAnna at Not Afraid of Color to share, some good things. 

My friend C , a fellow quilter and stitcher, shared some of her garden bounty this week. Zucchini, spaghetti squash and I think the dark green round one is a butternut squash. It’s not an acorn squash! There were tomatoes, but we have eaten those already. 😀

  

Saturday there was a birthday party! Parents rented a theater for video games . Mario Cart, I think.  Mario something. 

 

 The lighting was dim, so quality is not good.  I blurred the face of the one young friend. 

The big screen. Four kids racing against each other.

Our middle great grandson on the Switch. Boys up at the top, girls down below.  LOL

The cake was awesome. Baked by our grandson-in-law’s cousin. And yummy! We gave J. money. The cutest thing, when he counted it and put it in his pocket, his friend said, “ Wow! That’s a lot of money! You’re “kid-rich”. I had to giggle, it was only $25. 

I made two more napkins this week using, some acorn fabric and a gold with names of apples on it! 

Now the basket is full and ready to be mailed. 

I practiced adding plastic snaps using my new Kam fastener kit. This is a needle and thread color organizer. 

This week was Mr. Busy’s birthday. He received several cards. We usually display til the end of the week. He has twin sisters! Can you find the two cards that arrived in the mail from them, separately ? 😉

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Midweek Update

 Nothing big is happening in my sewing space. But I will share the little things I worked on. 

Most of you have seen the scrappy orange basket and the 2 sets of napkins I made for my youngest granddaughter and her beau. 

As I was putting my “mess” away and sorting through the brown and dark scraps I came across this fat quarter, full of acorns!  I couldn’t resist making a 3rd set (2) of napkins for the little basket. Now it’s  nice and fully plump with seasonal pretties. 

I also purchased a KAM snap fastener set. I’ve been wanting one for awhile and after reviewing some and checking with friends, I decided on this one. 

I practiced by making a color keeper needle book. A scrap of  twill-like fabric from a pair of shorts I made for my daughter in 1972, she was nearly eight! And a batting scrap, a strip of white Kona, 2 tiny pins,  and a set of snaps! 

I write the floss colors on the Kona strip with Frixion pen. I can reuse it, by ironing off the numbers for one project then adding the color numbers for the next. 

And then sewed a gift. No pictures of the gift til it is delivered and received! 😜 wink! 

I’ll link up with Susan at Quilt Fabrication for Midweek Makers. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful! 

I LIKE Thursday!

 Some of the Same and some Diversity happened this week. 

I found this on the internet last week! It fits our time I think!⤴️

I’ve been going through totes and baskets and drawers. There is more stuff in my sewing room than I will ever sew up in my lifetime. It is time to pass it on. 

The. Committe that organizes and presents our annual Quilt Show, also sponsored a “Boutique “. They accept donations of fabric, notions, kits, books and some magazines. Then they are sold for a small sum that goes into the quilt show treasury. It’s an easy way to downsize.

There is evidence that we live in a very diverse neighborhood. I’m not talking race and religion, because there is very little diversity in those categories in Wyoming. 

But we had a 

 ..kid playing his French horn while waiting for the school bus, one day! 

..and a turkey, standing on a car, while doing whatever it is that turkeys do! 

The view from my chair on our front porch yesterday, Patriots Day! It was a beautiful day, even with our ever present Wyoming wind! 

We watched the Presidential Debate, Tuesday night. I was not surprised really, by what I watched! 

 

This weekend our daughter will be here. Her GS’s birthday party is scheduled and we will celebrate Mr. Busy’s birthday too! We all may suffer from a “ sugar high”! LOL!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful! 

ScrapHappy Saturday

 

  This week it is feeling like fall. Cool in the mornings, but warm to almost hot by mid afternoon. It’s the kind of day that you take a jacket to work and leave it on the hook behind the door when you go home at quitting time. I used to do that all the time! LOL! 

I sewed darks, mostly browns this week. 

Four split nine blocks

And three zipper blocks. Who knew seashells would be in the brown category!

Also some fabric auditioning for some secret sewing!

I just had to share the creation of my friend Donnette. It’s wool appliqué, a Sue Spargo pattern. The background is black wool, except for the white and black clamshells and rectangles. She will bind it and enter it into our quilt show in early October. I think it’s just gorgeous!

And then, I mentioned it feels like fall. I’m thinking Thanksgiving!!  Here is our neighborhood wild Turkey on top of a car parked in the neighboring yard. What a silly bird! 

Linking up with Angela for ScrapHappy Saturday!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

I LIKE Thursday. September 5th

 It’s a Birthday! The first in several this month! He’s 11! How did that happen? I remember him like this! 

J and his momma! 

But it’s a school day so we will celebrate later! 

It’s starting to feel like fall. The temperatures are variable, but the wind has been troublesome. Another new fire has erupted north of us. The ones from two weeks ago are mostly contained. We need rain! And a respite for the firefighters. My neighbor told me he met several members of The Black Hat Hotshot crew from the Pine Ridge Reservation. Help is coming from surrounding areas, a blessing!

Last night we had the first BLTs with tomatoes from our tomato plants. Plus watermelon and fresh pineapple. Yum!

There are more green ones on the vine . I’ll try to baby them along. They are in pots so if frost threatens, we will drag them into the garage. 

I’m not positive about the color for September RSC. I think I saw something near the beginning of August, that September would be dark multi colors. I have been culling my fall  colors. I’ll show them on Saturday. 

Prompt from LeeAnna! 

What calming exercises have you successfully used in the past to maintain a level mood?

Lately I have been using some breathing exercises ! Not formal, just small batches of time when I close my eyes and concentrate on breathing in and out slowly. When I was doing chemotherapy years ago, the hospital in Illinois had a tape for meditation that they gave me. Wish I still had a cassette tape player and that tape! Prayer helps too, and these posts of good things and gratitude! 

Stay Busy and stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!