SAHRR Round #6 ~ Quilter’s Choice

 

This week, Round #6 is hosted by Anja Quilts.  Anja chose Quilter’s Choice.  Hooray! Thanks, Anja. That gave me a chance to use the first hourglass blocks I made that were too small for the first round. And to combine them with the purple and yellow pansy fabric that I wanted to use, made for a relatively easy border. 

My plan is to use the pansy fabric for the binding also. I haven’t picked a backing fabric , but it will be purple!  I think I am pleased with this SAHRR. 

I’m linking this up at Anja Quilts. 

And at Alycia Quilts for Finished or Not Friday. 

I haven’t had an almost finished in a long time. 

And a final thought, found on the internet. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

I LIKE Thursday #270

 

Shared from Tiny Buddha!

I didn’t post last week. So I’m answering both questions this week. 

Feb 19 2026

what was your favorite subject in school... elementary, high school, or college... or did your favorite subject change over time? what was the teacher like? do you still have an interest in that subject?

I liked school! I liked English mostly. Elementary, I’m sure it was reading, High School it was English. I was in Advanced Placement English and Math. But dropped the AP math my senior year. I didn’t go to college but took some adult education Bookkeeping courses.

Feb 26 2026

what is the most adventurous thing you've ever done? 

It’s a tie between snorkeling in the Caribbean and taking a motorcycle trip from Wyoming, ferrying across Lake Michigan on to Niagara Falls, back to Indiana to a Gold Wing Rally then home to Wyoming. 

Neither one very adventurous!

This week’s likes were sort of fun. My birthday was Monday. I received two handmade cards from 2 friends. 

Mr Busy bought me flowers!  These are my favorite. Lilacs, purple, and no scent because they are paper. 

I received this gorgeous bouquet from my local granddaughter and her family.

We had some warmer temperatures this week, but there was some wind. Sun and wind takes the snow away. And along with it the icy roads and walkways. 

Just tiny bits of snow left. 

This week I’m working on my Stay At Home Round Robin. Photos this weekend. 

Reading a new book!  For my F2F Book Club. 

I’m just getting started. I think it’s predictable….we will see!

Tuesday night we decided not to watch the State of the Union Address. Instead we watched Song Sung Blue on Peacock. Starring Hugh Jack and Kate Hudson. It has been years since I cried watching a movie. This one brought tears. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful

SAHRR. Round #5. Two Colors

 

This week’s prompt is Two Colors. At first I was going to go rogue, because I really wanted to add more of the pansy fabric. I guess technically it is purple and yellow. But in reality there is whilst, green and yellow and many shades of purple. So this is plan B. I’m not extremely pleased. And they are not attached yet, so I could change my mind. It is almost to the correct size, so I’ll wait for the final round and then continue 

I’m joining the linky party at  Quilting Gail

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful

Slow Sunday Stitching. 2-22-26

 

I’m joining other slow stitchers today. Kathy’s Quilts gives us this opportunity to slow down and put needle and thread to fabric. To breathe and to enjoy. Saturday, I attended a gathering of makers. We call ourselves Quilt Chicks. 🐥. We started out as quilters only, then soon there were members who did embroidery, and counted cross stitch in addition to also quilting . We continue to meet once a month for several hours, but most women do not haul their machine and all the necessary accessories to sew for 4 hours. And with snow and ice on the streets and parking lots it’s just a lot. So now we all bring handwork. 

Top Left: Aggie’s cross stitched temperature tree for 2025. Top Right: Aggie’s and Diana’s trees. Left Bottom: MaryJean’s embroidery coffee cups. Right Middle: my Winter Row cross stitch. Right Bottom: Connie’s Celebrate 250 Years of America. 

I placed more stitches in Winter Row. 

And shared my progress on the octopus biscornu. 

Today I’ll put more stitches in the outlining backstitch on the octopuses. I really am anxious to get this together. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

Project Quilting 17.4 Of Another Era.

 

Sometimes friends give me fabric. Lots of times it’s fabulous. Sometimes I think, “you’ve got to be kidding!” I received a panel years ago and the matching fabric. I have used it. ⤵️

 The iconic smiley face, a symbol of happiness and positivity, was created in 1963 by Worcester, Massachusetts, commercial artist Harvey Ross Ball. Commissioned by the State Mutual Life Assurance Company of America (now known as Hanover Insurance) to boost employee morale following a merger, Ball designed the simple yellow face with two black eyes and a curved mouth in just 10 minutes, earning $45 for his work. Despite its widespread popularity, Ball never trademarked the design, and it became a global icon without his financial gain. In 1999, he founded the World Smile Foundation to promote acts of kindness and support children's causes, and the first Friday in October is now celebrated as World Smile Day. The Worcester Historical Museum houses exhibits honoring Ball's legacy, and the city commemorates his contributions with the annual Harvey Ball Award, recognizing individuals who have made a positive impact on the community. 

1963 was a good year for me. I met and started dating Mr. Busy. I was a Happy Girl!

I needed to go sort of simple this week. I cut out the 2 large faces. To make a pillow. 

Right sides together…No-o-o-o! They are not the same size. 

There would have been wrinkles and tucks. Enter the yardage. I cut a circle of the many smiley faces fabric to match each face.  Sewed them together, clipped the seam allowances, turned them right side out, pressed them smooth. Easy Peasy!  Grabbed my bag of fiberfill and a chopstick for stuffing, a spool of thread for sewing the openings and started to stuff. And stuff and stuff

I ran out of fiberfill.  Not a tragedy, but it snowed and I didn’t want to drive to Hobby Lobby and I am bummed. 

Friday: the gym, stopped at Hobby Lobby, home, lunch date, trip to big box store to purchase new washer and dryer, home and a nap! I had 9, 572 steps in. I’m pooped!

The slump continued,  the challenge was not met! BOO!  

I’ll share at Persimon Dreams anyway.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

Scrap Happy Saturday.

 

Linking up with Angela at So Scrappy  Green is February’s selected color. I made a second

 16 patch star block. . The one on the left is the second one. 

I also sewed crumb blocks. I’m using all my greens in the crumb blocks. 

Other sewing this week, was an item for Project Quilting 17. This week’s prompt was Of Another Era. So many possibilities. It didn’t go as planned.  This was a panel from my stash. A front and back of a Smiley pillow. I cut out the circles.. The directions say sew the front to the back and stuff. They are not the same size. 

Also a new prompt was announced for SAHRR. This week our round should be 2 Colors. 

Still haven’t landed on a plan.Maybe this afternoon. I might tweak the rules a tiny bit. No Quilt Police during SAHRR. This is what it looked like yesterday. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful.

SAHRR Round #4 Curves

 When Wendy announced Round #4 prompt, curves, I had several thoughts. Drunkard’s Path, Orange Peels, appliqués circles, I even looked for a piece of fabric with printed curves. I’m trying to keep my project wall hanging size.  I’ve used a pansy print already. But that seemed like a cop out. 

So I decided on orange peels on the left hand border. I only wanted the border to be 4” finished. I looked up several patterns, but they all were on a 5.5” inch piece or bigger! 

It finally dawned on me that I could use petal shapes. I found several in a collection of patterns from BH&G Patchwork and Quilting calendars! From 2013!

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Theses are not appliquéd on yet, but they are fused in place. I’ll finish them today. 

I might embroider some detail on each little half flower. 

Sharing over at Wendy’s blog Pieceful Thoughts’ 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

Slow Sunday Stitching 2-15-26

 

Progress on all (mostly all) of my stitching works in progress. 

Sweetly Sayin’ is finished, though not yet fully finished.

Winter Row is Progressing. I have 2 rows to finish on his bottom to make him more rounded. And my friend Aggie gave me a strand of the called for floss for the noses, so next he’ll have a nose. 

 Lastly, I’ve moved on to octopus #3 backstitching. Last night I was merrily stitching along while watching the Womens Mogul competition and the Women’s Curling, when I discovered 3 missed stitches on #3’s #2 tentacle.  It was 10:30 pm, so I put it away and got ready for bed. 

Can you see the missed stitches I circled on #3 as compared to #2?  Easily fixed, just need to thread a needle and do it before continuing. 😟

I read a few chapters in my current read. 

Tomorrow my book club meets and we will be discussing:

Linking up at Kathy’s Quilts

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful 

ScrapHappy Saturday❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Today I’m linking up with other scrappy sewists to share . Angela at So Scrappy gives us a platform. Rainbow Scrap Challenge. 

Happy Valentine’s Day!! On Thursday , my stitching group meets. We have some creative and very generous ladies . 

A card with a peppermint Ghirardelli from Sandra, the pink paper heart with a Valentine message on the back from Mary, the tiny enveloping of conversation hears and a decorated flap from Diana, and the tiny mailbox, 2 nugget candies wrapped to look like a mailbox from Agnes. The Ferrero Rocher candy was from Mary’s husband, he’s decided to eat healthier. 

I finished the Sweetly Sayin’ cross stitch, on Tuesday night. I hope to find time to Fully Finish it today. 

In between I made a 16 patch star block. I really liked Diann’s from last year. I don’t think she will mind if I share her flimsy. The photo is from her December 5th blog post.

 Her squares are 3.5, I have drawers full of already cut 2.5” squares that need to be used up. Her point squares were 2”, I tried 1 7/8” . Are they ok?

I'll leave you with this photo taken Thursday night. Our neighbor’s house  in the cul-de-sac behind our house. Decorated for Valentine’s  Day!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful.