Friday. Not Finished

   On this last week of the month, I finished nothing!  I’ve working on my SAHRR . Round 2, HST was

 

about done. 

After round one. But I don’t know what Round 3 will be. So I don’t like the way Round 2 looks.  On to plan B. More Jacob’s Ladder sections. 

This is the Off Week for Project Quilting, so I thought I would finish my pink Table Scraps Challenge . 

Wonder what will evolve?

But that didn’t happen, I had company from out of town. That meant family obligations happened. I’m glad for the visits and for the meals shared. But sewing was at a minimum. 

We are having friends over for dinner tonight and will teach them to play Rummikub. Mr Busy is obsessed  with that game, and I like it too. Should be fun. Spaghetti, salad, and garlic bread are on the menu. 

Tomorrow I will give TSC my full attention. *SMILE*. 

I’ll post and link to Finished or Not Friday at Alycia Quilts

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

I LIKE Thursday 25.4

 

It’s good to stay busy. I’m trying to be better at keeping a journal. I wish I was artist with pen and ink, or paint. 

I ordered this journal from Amazon. I shop there a lot. But lately I’ve been rethinking that. 

Last Thursday I stitched with friends at the Library. We always, always enjoy each other’s company. 

Friday I worked on my mug mat for Project 16.2 Ombré. I had no ombré fabric in my stash, and it was too icky weather-wise to go shopping. I learned Ombré is also the name of a trick taking card game. So a card trick block it was, in graduated hues of blue. 

Mr Busy and I made Chex-Mix on Friday. One batch traditional one batch without nuts. Our daughter has a nut allergy. I sent the whole batch home with her on Monday when she returned to Colorado. 

Saturday our daughter and granddaughter arrived. Then her sister and family came over. We had pizza and played games. 

We talked a bit about the new administration’s first 6 days. We mostly all agree, so there was no arguing. 

I worked on my SAHRR project . So far it looks like this. This  week we are to incorporate HSTs. I’m working on 4 pinwheels. 

I finished 4 pink potato chip blocks. And began working on blue for RSC 25. 

 

We played a few more games of Rummikub with our granddaughter and hugged her goodbye. 

Her dad took her to the airport in Denver yesterday, they got a motel and this morning she had a 6am flight. 

She’ll be home by supper time tonight. 

I need to get ready to attend Thursday Stitchers today, so I’ll close this post. It’s sunny and supposed to be warmer today. Hooray. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful.

Ps. I’m joining LeeAnna at Not Afraid of Color to share I Like Thursday. 

Slow Sunday Stitching 1-26-25.

 

Joining Kathy and friends at Slow Sunday Stitching on this last Sunday of January. We made it through the longest darkest day of the Winter Solstice. 

First thing today was coffee and cake with our daughter and our youngest granddaughter. Then showers for all and they got ready to go visit other family. I headed to my sewing room to get a bit of my SAHRR blocks stitched. The first thing I did was make a mistake, so some slow un-sewing happened.

Now I am seated in the family room with Mr Busy watching football playoffs and ready to turn on my Ott light and stitch the fourth piece of coral 🪸 on the back of the biscornu. 

I’m excited to move on to the front and the 4 octopuses. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

SAHRR. Round 1

 

Kathleen @Kathlelen McMusing gave us this week’s prompt She said"Make a King’s Crown block/s for your first round OR make blocks that begin with your first initial or my initial K".  

I received a box of quilt block cards in the Jenny’s Countdown to Christmas box from Missouri Star Quilt Company. 

I found a Jacob’s Ladder card. Cause I’m Judy, and I have a nephew named Jacob.  There are cutting directions for several sizes. I mistakenly thought two of the 6 “ blocks on two adjacent side would be cool. The six inch block has tiny, tiny pieces. Eek!

So I recut for the twelve inch block and plan on using 2 sub blocks( 6.5 unfinished) on two adjacent sides. 

I’ll leave the corners open for now. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Scrap Happy Saturday. Last of Pink

 

My pink scraps are not gone. My plan was to make at least 4 of every color this year and more if  time and energy allowed. Early in the year I participate in Project Quilting and SAHRR(Stay At Home Round Robin)

Yesterday as I worked on my challenge for Project Quilting, I used my pink and neutral 2x3.5” rectangles as Leaders and Enders!  It worked. 

Four pink potato chip blocks. Slightly organized, not totally scrappy. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Project Quilting 16.2

 

HELLO Friends!     Welcome to the wonderful world of Project QUILTING hosted by Kim Lapacek @ Persimon Dreams!!  This year is my 3rd year of participation in the Challenge.  Trish Frankland @ QuiltChicken creates the challenges that we will face during the next 12 weeks.

I’ll bet you can guess who got me started!   I followed The Joyful Quilter and loved her creations. She kept encouraging me with, “you can do it”! We had  been traveling at holiday time, so I thought I couldn’t join in. But the  rules don’t say you must participate in every challenge. That encouraged me. If I had an idea and life cooperated, I could join once in a while. Well, let me tell you, this challenge is addicting! Once in a while became every single one. 

I also discovered  that  LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color was also participating. She is a fabulously creative artist that I admire. I felt like I was participating with a few friends at least. 

Anyway!  The PQ 16.1 prompt was revealed on Sunday, January 5th at noon CST. We were still in California and planning a Sunday Brunch with neighbors. I planned to check out the post and then dream and try to come up with a plan on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. We flew home on Thursday. I hoped to execute my plan on Friday the 10th and Saturday the 11th, and be able to post it by the 12th at noon, CST or 11:00 am MST. I finally took the last stitch on the binding at 9:30 pm Saturday. 

Well, the prompt for the first week is Mythical Creatures. We arrived home at 2pm after getting up at 2am to catch a 5am flight. Thursday night I was too tired to do much. You can read more about the next two days here, if you haven’t already. 

This is the finished table topper. 

Sunday, January 19th, the second week of making for Project Quilting. Trish announced the prompt. 

I don’t own any ombré fabric. I’m terrible at choosing hues and values. I needed a clarification, a jumping off point. I Googled ‘ombré’. 

Ombré is a gradual transition from one color to another, often from light to dark. The word comes from the French word ombré, which means "shaded" or "shadowed". 

It’s hard to get a gradual shading effect if you are using separate pieces of fabric. 

Also, in the Oxford English Dictionary there is this definition:

noun

1. a trick-taking card game for three people using a pack of forty cards, popular in Europe in the 17th–18th centuries.

A card game, a trick taking card game. Could I do a Card Trick block with four changing colors? I stood staring at my scrap bins. Blue is full to overflowing . I’ve never made a card trick block. I had a box of block cards from MSQS.   

But there was not a card for that block, so off to YouTube I went. Success, success! 

Lots to choose from. I chose one marked Easy! I was under the gun it was Wednesday AM. The tutorial was from Tulip Square Patterns.  I worked on it all day Wednesday, in between loads of laundry. I have company coming this weekend. Sewing will be minimal. And Thursday is my slow Hand Stitchers group day. 

Friday. I layered, quilted and sewed the binding on. A Finished Mug Mat with Card  Trick Block using blues from light to dark. 

It’s 8x14, with room for a beer and a bowl of Chex Mix. (Mr. Busy made Chex Mix, today). Yum!

I’m linking up at Project Quilting 16.2 Linky party.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

Finished or Not Friday 25-2

 My finish for this week is a mug/cup/bottle mat using light to dark shades of blue , to satisfy the prompt for Project Quilting 16.2 =Ombre..  Also, Ombré is the name of a trick tacking card game, hence the Card Trick block. 

I’m linking up with Alycia from Alycia Quilts for Finished or Not Friday. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

I LIKE Thursday 25.3

Another good one from Nanea Hoffman from Sweatpants and Coffee. I need affirmation posts every now and again. Actually, I like them every day!

I’m joining up with LeeAnna and friends over at Not Afraid of Color, for inspiration and affirmation and good things to like. 

The weather has been frightful lately, and I can’t like it very well. But a good thing is, it is easy to retire to my sewing room. 

I’ve been working on Project Quiltings 2nd prompt…

I don’t own ombré colored fabric. I’m not particularly dawn to those fabric. I mean, I love the shading in the challenge meme, and I like other things ombré colored but…? So off to the www. I went. Stay tuned. 

I also baked a blueberry bread with lemon glaze this week. We haven’t tasted it yet, but it was a recipe from https://natashaskitchen.com/blueberry-bread/. We used her cranberry bread with orange glaze while we were in California, so I’m confident this will be good as well. 

While looking in kitchen drawers for something to use to zest the lemon, I ran across this gadget . It’s from Pampered Chef. Does anyone know what it is? 

Can you believe I don’t have a grater, or a microplane or a zester? Come on, even my son owns a zester!

Anyway, I remedied that problem and Amazon will deliver this week along with this book. 

The Reading List by Sarah Nisha Adams

It’s on my F2F Book Clubs Reading List for discussion in April. I’ve read The First Ladies, to be discussed in February and Remarkably Bright Creatures, our book for March. So I’m good. 

My daughter and granddaughter are coming to visit this weekend. Finger crossed for good traveling weather. 🤞. 

If you don’t see any posts this weekend, you will know why. Girl times are happening and we are busy!. 

Stay Busy and Happy and Healthy and Hopeful.  

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Slow Sunday Stitching in 2025. 25.1

 

Good Sunday Morning !  It’s the 3rd Sunday of the new year.and I’m joining Kathy and friends for the first time this year. Click on This Link to see others slow stitched treasures. Special sympathy to our hostess Kathy. 

We’ve are back in Wonderful Wyoming! But gosh it’s cold!! It’s 7:14 am as I’m typing this and it’s -4 F ° with a high of only 9°.  A good day to stay in watch football and stitch. 

When last I joined you here, I was stitching on a Christmas small. It’s an FO, but not a Fully Finished Object. 

I outlined the white of Santa’s hat with DMC 3840. I used it for the snowflakes also. My chart had the border in brown and the word Christmas in green. I noticed that Little Penguin stitched hers with the border in green and the word Christmas in brown. Both are cool!

I am working on the Biscornu from Tiny Modernist. The orange coral is the bottom, I haven’t started on the octopuses 🐙 (or octopi, if you prefer) yet! 

Thinking of those in the wake of the fires in California, the extreme cold in the Midwest and the Nation, as we enter a new epoch in our history. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Rainbow Scrap Challenge 3rd Saturday

 

Some pink scraps were cut to 2”x3 1/2”. I’m a judicious cutter of scraps. That makes me slower. But I am not in a race, my focus is to use up my scraps. 

One potato chip block was finished,

 one is under my needle. 

So many different pinks! Raspberry to Petal Pink, to beige-y Peach. 

Small leftovers will become crumb blocks. I have a plan for those too. 

It’s been a slow start this  month but it’ll get better. The cold is making my arthritic joints hurt. It’s 4 degrees now at 4pm with a low tonight of -12.  And it’s playoff weekend, so not much machine work. I spent time this morning with like minded quilters. Mostly lots of visiting and sharing. It was Reveal Day for the last of the 2024 challenges. Some beautiful quilts and needlework were revealed. 

Hope you all are having a great January. I’m linking up with Angela at So Scrappy Hop on over to see lots of pink!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

SAHRR 2025. Center

 I finally decided on my center block for this year’s Stay At Home Round Robin.

It’s 12.5” Christmas block. I don’t remember why I made it. I was probably just trying out a block. I’ve got a whole bin of Christmas fabric, traditional colors. I’m headed toward a wall hanging or small lap quilt. 

I hope to get a plan laid out regarding measurements this weekend. Then I’ll be ready for the first Round!

I’m linking up at Quilting Gail’s blog. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful