SAHRR Round #3. Animal Kingdom

 

Last Wednesday it was time for another round on the SAHRR for 2026. Emily from The Darling Dogwood wrote this:

Welcome to round three of the Stay at Home Round Robin! It's my turn to set the prompt! This week, we’re taking inspiration from the animal kingdom!  Any animal counts, from the smallest ant to the biggest of sharks. There are lots of ways to interpret Animal Kingdom.  Here are some ideas:

• A block or unit named after an animal: Bear Paw, Monkey Wrench, Snail's Trail, Birds in the Air, Shoo Fly, Puss in the Corner...there are so many!  Looking for something simple?  There's always that classic quilt unit, Flying Geese.
• Applique of an animal
• Pieced block that looks like an animal
• Fabric that contains animals

It didn’t take me long to decide to do flying geese, or rather a variation thereof. I’ve been drooling over the Wandering Geese border. So I googled Wandering Geese quilt block. There were many YouTube videos. I knew I would need a video. I started with a video from Deb Tucker’s Studio 180 Designs from 13 years ago.  Then I watched several others. They all used basically the same technique, told me that the goose square needed to be cut 1/4 “ larger than the background square. None of them mentioned how to figure how big the block would be, Deb Tucker mentioned a cheat sheet for different sizes. I looked, the 2 sided sheet was $8.95. YIKES!  I stewed and waffled back and forth. I finally gave up trying to do the math by watching the videos several more times. I justified it, by telling myself that I have been wanting to do the Wandering or Migrating Geese, and clicked the download button, confirmed my payment and got busy .

These are not sewn together, the finished “block” is 3” X 1”. The side of my wall hanging so far is 15 inches tall. There are 13 geese pinned on the side. I need 2 more I think. Next I’ll try to sew some of them together. Tomorrow probably. 

Tuesday 2/10/26

Round #3 completed and attached to main piece. 

I’m linking this post up at The Darling Dogwood. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

 

Purple scraps and then some!

Joining all the rainbow scrap enthusiasts at Angela’s blog this second Saturday in April!

There were some little bits sewed together! That’s always fun. Dark intense mostly bluish purples.

I had to play and learn with my new Go cutter! It will take some practice. In the starter pack was the die for a 6x3 finished flying geese. I need help with flying geese. They always end up not quite right! So I’m practicing with purple! 

And the UFOs that got selected when purple was announced?  

Row 7: Bee-utiful blocks = make 3.  They are embroidery. 

Row 12: Multi-colored strings = Keep making them. As I reread this one, I am sure I meant make the strings in the color of the month. I don't have very many string blocks that are "anything goes". I guess it is my list I can interpret it anyway I choose. So. I am going to make purple string blocks to add to the other string blocks I already have. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

To-Do Tuesday #110

I’m joining Linda at Texas Quilt Gal to share what I am working on and what I hope to accomplish in the next week. 

1. Get Boo Crew mounted on display board! ❌ 

The beads are painted! 

That took awhile! I had to order some sticky mounting boards. They should be here today!


2. Finish 3 more CiL blocks and mail to Kat! ✅

All 4 are done and a mailing label was made. I bought an envelope at the P.O. And mailed at the same time, yesterday afternoon. 


3. Cut QOV geese parts! More blue with white sky, then white with red sky, and then 72 red with white sky! I hope I’m getting better at making flying geese, but I’m not convinced !✅

Some pieces are cut, but I’m still woefully behind!

Next Week:   10-18 to 10-24

1. Try to get Boo Crew on the display board.

2. Make more Flying Geese in R, W, B. 

3.  Stitch on the Autumn Stamp SAL and also on the Fat Quarter Shop Christmas Mystery. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

To Do Tuesday #54

 

I'm joining friends at *  ChrisKnits * to share my To-Do list and applaud the others who accomplished or at least made progress on theirs. **after writing this post and logging on to ChrisKnits, I learned that To-Do Tuesday will now be hosted by Texas Quilt Gal. So this  is the last Linky Party at Chris's blog. Understandably, too!  She has had a "crummy" couple of weeks or maybe months. Keep her in your prayers and send good thoughts her way!**

Next week August 24th to August 30th

1. Finish and post One Monthly Goal at Elm Street Quilts. DONE! See my post here. 

 

2. Finish and write post for Table Scraps Challenge and post at The Joyful Quilter. Done!  Here is that post!

3. Start adding sashings to Hollow Nines. Done!  (I started at least!)

*I have photos, but Blogger doesn't seem to be able to find them this morning. I'll edit at a later time. *

Next week August 31st - September 6th.

1.  Keeping working on getting the binding attached to Rainbow Geese. 

2. Check out the new block drive for Covered  in Love…Kat should post it this week!

3. Decide on what to take to Loose Threads’s Sleep at Home Fall Retreat! 

4. Check out the Banned Book Reading Challenge at the library!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Finished or Not Friday! This week a definite NOT!

I am linking this post to Alycia Quilts. 


Nothing has been finished this week. Some starts have been made.

I dug out the garlic knot blocks and put them on the design wall with the intent to rearrange them to a more pleasing setting. This is what I got!

Not more pleasing and not what was in my mind. And I noticed some ODD configuration of colors. Ummmm!  Back to the drawing board, sort of.

I fiddled and fiddled and finally it dawned on me what was the matter. Every other row doesn't change direction every block changes direction. So..... the first two columns are webbed and on the design wall. The rest of the blocks are in the project box, clipped in column order!  This will be completed in February!

Also there are 7 hollow 9-patches in the January color of light/bright green. 

And there are 2 geese migration blocks in green ... but I am unhappy with my execution of the geese parts.  More practice I guess.

And a start has been made toward digging through the orange scraps. In anticipation of February Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

Lately, finding sewing room time has been difficult. I keep trying, though.


Stay Busy and Stay Happy

2018 A Pretty Good Year!

2018 Was a "pretty" good year

I have visited a few blogs this week and saw this Linky Party hosted by Meadow Mist Designs. I decided it would be a good idea to share some of my linkys all in one place. For my benefit more than anyone else's.  I checked my stats.. I don't have lots of followers, nor many comments. More views than anything else. But that's ok with me. This blog is my "thing".

1.   MOST COMMENTS:    14 comments and 586 views. 

Dick and Jane, 5 yard quilt was one of the projects on my UFO list. The top is completed and I recently purchased fabric for backing. One of my Go-to long arm quilters is "going South" for a couple of months, so that means I need to get on the list of my other favorite quilter. Christmas is a busy time for all, and she has many family and Church obligations. So, it needs to be done.

2. Most Views:  861

Pink Stuff was just a post about some sewing I did. Maybe it was the cute pillowcase tunic I made for my great granddaughter. Or maybe viewers are just drawn to the title PINK STUFF!

My Favorite..

My QOV project  This is my favorite collection of posts about a specific project.  The quilt of valor quilt was a labor of love and commitment.  I started this quilt using a pattern I found on line and a long held and jelly roll.  You can read about this quilt here

The reason it is my favorite blog post, is that as I blogged about the problems I was having, lots of fellow bloggers reached out to me with suggestions and encouragement. It was because of these responses that I persevered and now the top is done. Thanks to all, but especially Julie at Pink Doxies! She had a similar tutorial on her blog, and took the time to email me extra encouragement and a "kick in the pants"  -" you can do it" attitude. I needed that!!

This year I participated in all 12 OMG challenges at Elm Street Quilts. So I will document them here also
January - Cil  String Blocks

 February - Olie and Lena wall hangings

March - CiL Blocks  Blue Hunter Stars

April - Snow Flurries

May - cut fabric for "Intertwined"  from Tag collection for DS

and the quilt done!

June - Binding on DD 's quilt

and done!


















July - 4-patch border on En Provence

August - Begin Loose Threads Challenge due in November

September - Trace designs for Thursday Stitcher's Christmas exchange. At least 6

October - CiL Blocks  8 of Adult I Spy blocks

November - get 1/2 of Rick Rack Nines rows assembled. 

December - CiL block drive   Flying Home

And that's all for this photo heavy post. Thanks for allowing me this time and this platform. One of my goals for 2019 is to be more organized in my blogging and documentation. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy

Have a Blessed New Year

I am linking up with Meadow Mist Designs'  Best of 2018 Linky Party!

December OMG finish

My OMG Goal for December was to finish at least 8 blocks to contribute to the CiL Nove-Dec block drive. 

It's December 15th and  well, the 8 flying geese blocks for CiL are done. This was the November and December block for the CiL Block Drive.  See the post here.

I am not happy with them. Some measure 12.5" and some are just a sliver shy of 12.5".  I had real trouble with fabric selection and even a worse time getting the individual geese blocks to come out at 3.5" x 6.5" unfinished.

I am putting them in the mail this week to Kat at Kat and Cat Quilts with a note of apology and permission to use them on the back of a quilt or to just toss them.

I took this photo Saturday December 12th.  And I know Patty won't have the OMG Finish Link up ready until the last week of December, but my next 2 weeks are really busy with family and Christmas prep. Also our daughter is coming home for this next week, her birthday is tomorrow the 16th. So this post will be on hold until I can link up with the December OMG link up.

ps:  It is 2:30 am on the 26th. I can't sleep, for some reason, so I am in my office space and thought I would check to see if maybe Patty had scheduled the linkup post for the December finish. Yes, she did. So I will post this and link up. 
I hope your past few days were wonderful. May the new year bring you and your family peace and many blessings!


Stay Busy and Stay Happy

Finished or Not Friday

Some finishes that I can finally show.   Our Challenges for 2018 were revealed at our Christmas party. We each drew from brown paper bag -  a "shape", 2 colors and a "technique".  I selected  "Farm Animal", Red & Pink, and for a technique, Crazy Quilting.
This is the finished project:

Pink and Red Pig  with embroidered "parts names" and various stitched around the edges of each piece. It was very fun!  I did a small grid quilting in the background.

The backing was discovered at a quilt store about 2 hours from home, and there is a hidden zipper under the red heart piece.  I am happy with it. 


I did get 3 potato bags and 2 bowl cozies made for Christmas gifts. I will be adding in some packets of soup mix and a homemade tree ornament.

 Potato bags and the bowl cozies, upside down so you can see the outside. The teal colored one is for our daughter.

same potato bags with the cozied turned right side up so you can see the inside. The one with the beer bottles is for our son.  It matches the backing in the quilt he got for his 50th Bday!


I am still working on flying geese blocks and having a difficult time. I am not sure why?

My great nephew had his first birthday party last Saturday and the Wednesday before, his grandpa (my brother) had a heart attack. All are in MN.  My brother looks pretty good, don't ya think?( in the middle in the back)

Smash cakes are the best!  Hooray!!!

I also have been working on these little fun projects.  A friend was making them and said she had found the idea on Pinterest. I dug around in my yarn scraps, Mr Busy cut 2 toilet paper rolls into 3/4" circles and I went to town. I thought I needed 10.  I have since recounted my kids and grands and great grands and spouses and significant others and need 12 + 2 if I want 2 for our own tree. I have already gifted 2 to our youngest granddaughter and her fiance. They were here for Thanksgiving and so I sent 2 home with them. They are in Loveland CO and hope to have a real tree this year.

I have 5 that need to be sent to AZ and 4 that need to stay here and one to go home with our daughter when she comes for her birthday and early Christmas on the 15th. So I have at least 4 more to make.



Thanks all, oh there was a "squirrel" project...but I'll share that a bit later. 😃

I'm linking up at Busy Hands Quilts : Finished or Not Friday!


Stay Busy and Stay Happy