Finished or Not Finished Friday! Growing Up Odd! 6-30 23!

I’m sharing this “ it took me forever “ finish, finally!, over at Alycia Quilts. 

You must check out her Pink Lemonade quilt! 

I finally have this finished quilt to show. I started it a long time ago. It was my leader and ender project for more than one year. If I search my blog using the Growing Up Odd label, blogger goes back to 5-4-21. But that post lists a to-do as “keeping making Growing Up Odd blocks! So who knows!

But it took awhile. There are 1,552 2” squares in the smaller version of the original pattern, Growing Up Odd from Deanna at Wedding Dress Blue. I stitched the final stitch in the binding last night watching TV. But had it to Show and Tell at Thursday Stitchers yesterday. A new member to our group said the colors were “magnificent”! I never intended this to be anything but a utilitarian quilt. A picnic quilt! She said, “Ooh No, No, No! You must hang it!” I appreciate her compliment, she’s a respected fiber artist in our community! But I don’t think it will hang. It’s very heavy!

Hanging on our side fence. Touching the ground, it’s 74x74

Close up of the many fabrics! Yes, there are duplicates!

Close up of the back!Nikki used a great design, in multi colored thread. I don’t remember the name of the design.

So to you, blogger friends and readers, it is finally done! You won’t have to see another post about this one! 😄

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Slow Sunday Stitching….

June is ending and Summer has begun! You wouldn’t know it here in my part of the US!  Yesterday the high was only 65F most of the day and it rained off and on all day til after supper!

Today I will be joining Kathy and friends for Slow Sunday Stitching! 

I have 3 binding projects in the works. I will continue with this one

until the first side is done. It’s the biggest, 74x74.  I’m nearly there, I got that done last night while watching Tom Hanks’ movie from 2020, The News of the World.  Have you seen it? It was very good in our opinion. And I need to get my ABC Table Scraps Challenge project ready to reveal, by next Friday! So that one is next. 

Then there is the QOV.

It is patiently waiting!  Lots to occupy my slowed down stitching time. I’m needing that. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Finished or Not Finished Friday. ~ Growing Up Odd and Long May She Wave.

Today I have a couple of not finished quilts,  but they are in the last lap to the finish line. 

First is Growing Up Odd. 

This is a bigger quilt than I am used to . 74X74.  Not huge but I finally got it wrestled through my machine. Not without a detour or two though. I decided on this burgundy with a tiny white “ditsy?”.

The fabric has been in my stash for ages. I bought several yards to make a circular skirt for a table in our family room.The table is 30" in diameter and 26" off the floor. It took a lot of fabric. Anyway, I cut the longest 2.5” pieces I could but the scrap was getting short. Long story short, I cut them then didn’t get them all diagonally sewn together! Don’t ask how, all I know is I was short! A stop to make more binding, then add it to the already attached binding and continue on! It’s all attached to the front. Phew!  Now I’ll spend the next several nights stitching it down. 

When it’s done, there is the QOV Long May She Wave to stitch down. Here is it all folded,  ready and waiting it’s turn. You can see I decided on a red binding.

I'm linking up at Alycia Quilts. 

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Last ScrapHappy Saturday for March!

I'm sharing my GREEN goals at Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2023!  Thanks Angela for allowing me to do it my way this year. Finishing is a must for me this year!!!

Most of you remember that I’m following the color prompt to finish some UFOs. I have a spreadsheet on my laptop that has all my UFOs listed and I randomly assigned each one a color. When Angela announced that color, I work on that UFO for the month. Green led me to get the borders on Growing Up Odd and to get a flimsy of happy blocks ( one of my blocks for 2022).

The Happy Blocks are all together, stay stitched around the outside, pressed and folded in the bag to go to the quilter. 

Thanks to Mr Busy, better lighting for this outside photo. 

Also there was a bit of green sewing going on! Come back next Friday to see my ABC Table Scraps Challenge entry!

I’m pretty happy with the way this project list is going!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

 

March One Monthly Challenge Finish 2023

My OMG challenge was to get the outside sashings on this quilt and as a bonus, get the backing ready for the quilter. 

The borders are done and you can see the navy blue twill fabric for the backing. I’m waiting for a batting sale at JoAnns and then off to the quilter it will go!

Edit:

This is a pattern from Deanna at Wedding Dress Blue. It’s called Growing Up Odd! Each part of the big block has an odd number of squares. Susan from DesertSky Quilting recognized it! Thanks Susan for reminding me to give Deanna the credit. 

Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal - March Finish Link-up

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Green is for March.

Joining all the other Rainbow Scrap Challenge participants at Angela’s bog today!

My first UFO for March (green) was to get  the outside sashing on Growing Up Odd. This is done and the two old curtain panels have been un-hemmed , trimmed up and pieced into a backing 82 x82.

The next step is purchase batting and deliver to the long arm quilter. I will bind it with something dark or maybe scrappy. It's going to be on the ground at the park for a picnic or in the car. 

And Precarious is back from my long arm expert, who basted it for me so that I can attempt to quilt it myself! 

She use a pastel multi colored thread, horizontally and vertically and some diagonal. She had never done this before, so she "overbasted rather than underbasted". Her words. Stitches are about 1/2" to 3/4" so I will be able to remove them easily. 

I planned to matchstick quilt it.  Well maybe not a "matchstick width" but maybe as wide as my pinkie finger,horizontally across the colored rows in matching colored thread. That is my vision. I am putting it here, so you all will hold me accountable. This has been a long time in the making, so I am determined to get it done.  

For those of you who don't remember or know this patten, here is the flimsy on my back fence after the piecing was done, 2019! 

It’s a pattern by Kelly Young from her book, Stash Statement.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Rainbow Scrap Challenge March 2023 Green.

Some of you may remember that I was going to participate in RSC 2023 a bit differently this year. I was going to finish UFO's per color for the month. I made a spreadsheet on Excel and assigned each of my UFO's a color, randomly.  When Angela chose green for March, the corresponding projects were: sashing on Growing Up Odd and Happy Blocks from 2022 into a flimsy.

My spreadsheet so far. Not always successful, but working toward a goal. I wish I was savvy enough to figure out how to make the spreadsheet shareable on Blogger, so I didn't have to do a photo of my laptop screen. 

This quilt has 1,552  little two inch squares. Cut over a period of 3 years. They finish at 1.5" The sashing is a vanilla ice cream colored grunge. I wish I could find a name for the fabric but there is only a number.The original pattern is from Wedding Dress Blues  and was set 5x5 and was 90" x 90".  Mine is 4x4 and 71"x71". 

A bonus will be to get the backing pieced. I’m using a pair of used navy blue twill curtains! Because it’s to be a picnic quilt or throw on the ground to sit on quilt, I wanted a dark color no nonsense sturdy backing. And I had the curtains! Wish me luck! 

I'm linking this post up to ScrapHappy Saturday at Angela's blog, So Scrappy. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

March OMG 2023. Link Up

This month my One Monthly Goal is to put the top, bottom, and side sashings on Growing Up Odd picnic quilt.

This quilt has 1,552  little two inch squares. Cut over a period of 3 years. They finish at 1.5" The sashing is a vanilla ice cream colored grunge. I wish I could find a name for the fabric but there is only a number.The original pattern is from Wedding Dress Blues  and was set 5x5 and was 90" x 90".  Mine is 4x4 and 71"x71". 

A bonus will be to get the backing pieced. I’m using a pair of used navy blue twill curtains! Because it’s to be a picnic quilt or throw on the ground to sit on quilt, I wanted a dark color no nonsense sturdy backing. And I had the curtains! Wish me luck! 

I’m linking up with Patty at Elm Street Quilts today. Patty has gone into partnership with Anne-Marie, who blogs at Stories from the Sewing Room. So you can link up at either blog and your post will show up both places. Thanks to Anne-Marie for jumping in to help out! 

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Like Thursday #97

We are watching    Bosch:Legacy on freevee!  

New crimes, same Bosch.   Amazon Prime  "freevee"

I'm reading : 

A modern day story with references to the Battle of the Little Big Horn.  I have read the 2 previous titles in this series. The author is a Wyoming resident. He served on the Sheriff's Department in our county. 

I'm stitching the binding down on Frames. 

A reddish Bachelor Block from Pieces of the Garden at Melva Loves Scraps

I'm still sewing blocks together forGrowing Up Odd.  

Check out LeeAnna’s blog, Not Afraid of Color for a list of other participants in I LIKE Thursday. A great place to share all the dood things in the world today. Lately we could all use a little help in that task! 

I will  be taking a short break from posting to I LIKE Thursdays.  Life has gotten in the way. I will be back at the end of June or early July. 

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ScrapHappy Saturday ~

There was sewing this week! Some crumb blocks were made in forest/ sage green. There’s a bit of lighter olive green too! 

From this ↑

to this👉

And a sage-ish green binding was built! 

Just a peak, I'll post more next Friday. I have company coming from Florida!!!!!!!!! I might be busy with snuggles from 2 of our great grands!

Other sewing happened too! I started assembling the blocks of Growing Up Odd. These are big 17” blocks. Sashing between the blocks, set 4 X 4. A square picnic quilt!  Row one done plus the sashing strip between row 1& 2. Row 2 is nearly complete.

I'm linking up with Angela at So Scrappy and RSC 2022. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!