ABC Table Scraps Challenge for April. Purple, Y and/or N

The Joyful Quilter hosts a challenge every month coordinating with So Scrappy's color of the month plus an added prompt or challenge.  This year she has been adding letters of the alphabet.  April's color is purple, and Joyful added the letters Y and N. 

So I put on my thinking cap and decided I could make a placemat in purples. I purchased a Go Big AccuQuilt cutter with some "windfall dollars" and it came with a die to make flying geese. Well, heaven knows I need help with flying geese!  I would have told you that my problems were probably with  accurate cutting.  Now, I'm more prone to believe it's accurate sewing!  Anyway. I cut purple and a floral purple for contrast and made geese with purple sky and some with floral sky. I used a pattern , sort of, provide by Accuquilt.  I fudged with the center square, because I ran out of the floral scraps that I was experimenting with. 

I backed it with a mini lavender and white gingham or is it called baby gingham check? I quilted it with some fankenbatting made at the Spring Sew last week and a tighter serpentine stitch, cause I liked how it looked. Then the binding was built by striping some cut off triangles into 1 3/4" strips. The strips were short, lots of joining seams, but luckily no seam landed on a corner! Whoo Hoo!

Now, what do I do about the "Y" and the "N"?  I have a placemat that is mostly purple, the floral has a yellowish background.  So......how about a set of YELLOW NAPKINS!!!  OK!  Judy!!   You can do that!  Diann at Little Penguin Quilts just talked about a double sided napkin tutorial a few days ago.  Yep, here it is. from Made with Moxie

Yellow side of the napkin on the left and the yellow with a bit of purple on the right! 

Linking up with The Joyful Quilter on the last weekend of the month! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

ScrapHappy Saturday ~ Purple

I sewed, and sewed and sewed last week! But only this purple happened! ⤵️

And I learned when you use a AccuQuilt cutter, weird scraps happen! ⤴️

Hopefully next weekend will be more purpley! 

I’m linking up with Angela at ScrapHappy Saturday!

I have out of town company, so I’m off to the grocery store and then the kitchen!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

To-Do Tuesday #134

Oh my stars! Usually on Monday mornings I go back to the previous week's TDT post , make a copy of it and start the new TDT post so I can see how I did. Well, you all probably noticed, I didn’t make a list to accomplish from March 28th to April 3rd. No wonder I felt “off”!

I guess I’ll just show and tell you what I did do! 

I got the Any Kid quilt and Growing Up Odd quilt delivered to the long arm quilter.

There are no photos, but they are in the possession of Nicki at Heirlooms by Design!,

I planned food for our Grandson -in-law’s birthday party. 

 No photos of the party either but it was great fun. Sunday Brunch. 

 

I got the additional 10 Happy Blocks made and One Happy Girl is on the wall

 

My replacement Go Big cutter arrived on Saturday morning, so I had to rearrange my sewing space a bit. 

A small gaming table that Mr Busy built and painted years ago, works fine at the end of my cutting table.

I stitched on Miss Flopsy and thought about how to get her to a FFO. (Fully Finished Object)

I've got the breast of the robin to stitch. An eye in each the bird and Miss Flopsy and Miss Flopsy's nose. 

green stems on the carrots need to be done too! 

Here is my To-Do list for the upcoming week 

April 4th -April 10th.

1. Cut and sew some horizontal white sashing for the QOV.

2. Practice with the AccuQuilt.

3. Get taxes done.

4. Plan a project for next week's  3-day Spring Sew.

5. Finish Miss Flopsy before Easter!

I’m linking up with Carol at Quilt Schmilt for To-Do Tuesday!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

TO- DO Tuesday #132

I'm linking up with Carol at Quilt Schmilt - For the Love of Fabric and To Do Tuesday!  

Last week March 14 - March 20


1. Finish and post Project Quilting 14.6. CONQUER A FEAR ✅
           You can read about my project here



2. Think about ABC Table Scraps Challenge.❌

Technically not true! I thought I would cut some HST on Sunday. Last week I ordered an AccuQuilt cutter, the electric Go Big! Expensive! It arrived Thursday and I didn’t get a chance to open it til Saturday. Then I read all the accompanying paperwork! On Sunday, I plugged it in, reread the start steps and hit the green button. Noise, but no cutting! Made three more tries! Still no cutting! I have submitted a support ticket and chatted with the AQ BOT! !  Karen and Jeanna reached out to me about their cutter. They both are happy with theirs. As of 5:00 pm Monday I have received an email from Customer Service. I followed their suggestions and their instructions. I hope to be packing the cutter up and shipping it back to them this week. 

3. Happy Blocks ✅ In frustration after what was happening with the accuquilt, I put them on the wall.     Rearranged and left them. I didn’t like them! “Sad face”

Then,  I pulled out all the definitely girly blocks and make seven more in more gender neutral colors. This is the result, before I started to sew them together. They are now webbed vertically. Tomorrow or soon , I will sew the horizontal rows. Then probably a border.  Or not!!  

Next week
March 21- March 27


1. Do something for ABC Table Scraps Challenge
2. Finish the Any Kid top and get the “girl” colors on to the design wall  
3. Box up and return my Go Big cutter!

4. Keep working on star sashing for Long May She Wave. 

5. Work on Miss Flopsy cross stitch from Melisa at Pinker 'n Punkin Quilting.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!