ScrapHappy Saturday some June pink!

It’s Saturday! I should have some pink hollow 9 patches done, or at least one Geese Migration block complete!  I'm linking this post to ScrapHappy Saturday over at Angela's blog. 

But nope... I needed to finish this small baby quilt for Jack’s Basket so that was my focus during the week. 

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The quilting on this little "lovie" is from a panto named Promise!  I think its a perfect name for this quilt too!  

This shows the quilting my friend Marva did and the dark binding I found in a drawer!  It matches the fabric in the center square!  Score!!!   Oh, and look! This is might be the last of the Winnie the Pooh fabric!!

I might have done some sewing yesterday, but I took some time to put a few flowers in a small raised bed . I asked Mr Busy to turn on the water to the outside spigots. He did. I finished the plantings and watered them.

Then I went in the house to get some chicken out of the freezer for dinner. We have a extra freezer in the basement. Yikes!! there was water on the floor in my laundry room. And lots of water in the closet next to it. That’s where the water line comes into the house and it was dripping a steady stream. I hurried upstairs to call out to hubby and then back down to start picking some things up off the floor. You can imagine that the next hours were filled with moving wet stuff out of the closet. Using the shop vac to vacuum up excess water and general cleanup! Whew! We were tired! 

Next week, I’m downsizing yet again!   Getting rid of some of that closet stuff. We don’t entertain any more. I don’t need a chip and dip bowl set from the 60s! Or a potato ricer! Or a punch bowl!  You get the idea! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy. 

Finished or Not Friday 6/5/20

 

 I’m not fond of mending. But I put a quick hem in the sleeves of an old denim shirt. I’m not fond of squaring up a quilt and attaching the binding! Even on a small baby quilt. But I did that too, this week. This little “Lovie” will be sent off to Jack’s Basket! I auditioned a couple of different fabrics for the binding. I thought it needed a darker contrasting binding since the outside edges are light. I even looked through the drawers of a forgotten little chest behind my sewing machine. I found a large piece of the dark purple that is in the center block! “Jackpot”! And I like it a lot.

Do you put a label on a donation quilt! I know that there are restrictions for QOV donations. I’ll check the Jack’s Basket website before I go further.

The backing is pieced, as almost all of my backings are these days! The pink is just tone on tone leaves, but the print is Cabbage Patch Kids. With pink hearts. I had already used some of this print, and there was just a chunk left, but the pinks were great together. 

A close up of the binding, and the quilting. A panto called "Promise". Isn't that a great design and a name for this quilt!  Also, there is some more of that Winnie the Pooh fabric. I think it is gone now!

I'm linking this post up with Finished or Not Friday at Alycia Quilts.  Normally I have an "or Not". Finally I have a finish!!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy

ps: I'm having a bit of a problem with the new version of Blogger.  Has anyone discovered how to make the photos bigger?

Some scrappy happiness and other sewing

I'm writing my post late.  I had hoped to get another basket finished. But I did not.

This is as far as it is this morning.

Light blue, quilted and cut to size. The handle is on the one end piece. Ready to go together.

This little scrappy quilt came back from the quilter.  Love the pantograph she used. It's called Promise. I don't know the designer.  I love it flowers and hearts. And the name speaks to the life this quilt will have. I am donating to Jack's Basket! The binding is cut. I'll get it on today or tomorrow.

And a bit of a "squirrel" came about yesterday. My middle granddaughter texted and asked me if I would make her a face mask. She lives in Phoenix and has just secured a job with Amazon. Funny story...I asked her earlier if she needed masks. She declined, saying she had a box of disposable ones. But her son, who will be 10 in July would like one. She allows him to play Xbox on line, but only if his face is covered. So that was fine with me...I sent one to him and included a little pink one for his 3 yo sister. I know how sisters are...if brother has one, she needs one!
Now that Mom needs a mask at work, she wanted a handmade one. Better than the disposable she says, but was reluctant to ask, since she had turned me down earlier.  Her dad, our son, said, " Call Grandma! I'm sure she will be glad to!"  He was right, of course.  Cause that's what we as grandmothers do!  I was tickled pink!!

So these are cut out and ready to sew. I'll send them priority mail on Monday, she'll have them on Tuesday.  Just in time to start her job on Thursday!. One is purple with a grey lining, one is aqua flowers with a red lining, and one is coffee beans with a pale yellow lining. The red lining is interfaced with SF101,  the fabric is a bit light and not so tightly woven. I'm now out of elastic cord, a bit of flat 1/4" elastic is left and I have cut t-shirt yarn for the halter style ties.  I'm wondering if the t-shirt yarn has enough elasticity and hold to use in an ear loop. I may try one for myself. I haven't ventured out to Joann's or Hobby Lobby. They just opened up here in our county and I'm in the at -risk category. I have not gone out except to pick up groceries and take out lunch once in a while.
Maybe I'll don a mask and go see how crowded they are.

Here in NE Wyoming we are pretty safe. No new cases in the last 10 days or so, in our county.  No deaths at all in our county. Only 2 of the 17 cases we did have, were hospitalized. So we have definitely flattened the curve. In fact, when they weren't doing elective surgeries, our county hospital cut wages, furloughed nurses and even furloughed some traveling doctors. The CEO did not take his pay for the balance of the fiscal year.

Well, this turned into a long blah blah blah post.  Sorry.  It looks like Angela has given us Junes new color.....PINK!  So I will get busy on my pink basket, pink Geese Migration blocks and pink hollow nine patches.  I'm linking this post to ScrapHappy Saturday. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy.

Scrappy Happy Saturday 5-23-20

Linking with Angela at ScrapHappy Saturday!



I made another green scrap basket.  When I made the first one, it was overflowing!

When I commented on The Joyful Quilters blog post on the May 9th Linky party,  Joy replied with a suggestion that we both make a green scrap basket. She suggested a race or a challenge.


On the 16th, I commented on her ScrapHappy Saturday post that I was going to make another basket and was she going to join me.  She accepted my challenge. So here is my basket.

This time I decided to make one in the lighter, brighter greens of the spectrum. That way I could sort the scraps, at least a little bit.

Here are both baskets, scraps sorted! Not quite full. A little  bit of growing room.

This week I worked on another scrappy project that I showed on Finished or Not Friday. So some of you will have seen this one already.  Apologies.

I pieced a backing and found a correct size batting, so now I just need to call my friend with a long arm machine. It will go to Jack's Basket.  All the fabrics were from stash!


Not sure what will happen in my sewing room this coming week. I have another batch of 9 patch and rails in more boy fabrics. Maybe I'll be able to find fabric to set them into a 36 x 36 quilt for Jack's Basket. 

Until next time
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A “Finished” and an “or Not”

My first little finish is another scrap basket. I’ve had slab/crumb block in my UFO box for a couple of years. I always wanted to do these cute baskets. So this summer is the time!

Light or bright green this time.

Here it is next to it's darker cousin. Now neither one is overflowing.


I have participated in CiL’s block drive at Kat and Cat Quilts since January 2018. Currently Kat is taking a break. She’s catching up with all the Blocks from the previous drives. Though she didn’t say, I would assume her “Day Job” is taking it’s toll also. She is in the medical arena. So I made a little baby quilt to donate to Jack’s Basket.

Last week I posted the 5 pieced blocks ( are they chunky churn dash?) and two hour glass blocks asking for advice. I just looked back at my blog and these blocks were first made by Sylvia at Treadlestitches. She calls them Nine Patches and Rails. See her finish here!

Alycia suggested setting the hour glass blocks to frame the block. I think this is what she had in mind. I love it.

On my design wall with the top and bottom borders just stuck in place. You can see my original post with all the blocks here.  Lots of these scrappy blocks. More boy like in colors and fabrics. So I will be looking for setting fabric for them.

It wasn’t big enough for Jack's Basket so I added a cream 1 inch border then a 3 inch pink border. It’s just right now.  I wonder if I can quilt it myself ? I’m reluctant to try. I can do wavy lines, stitch in the ditch or some outline quilting. But I’d really like some  flowers or swirls or something more graceful. When I get the backing pieced...I think I’ll call my long arm quilter and see if she has an opening.

This is better, borders are done.  I am so pleased with the almost finish.





I'll link up with Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday.
And maybe because I am done before Friday, I'll link up with Can I Get A Whoop Whoop with Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy!  And more importantly Stay Healthy!

Finished or Not Friday - Flimsy Finish

I'm finishing flimsies/quilt tops. One of these days I'll be able to deliver some to my long arm quilters. My hold up is batting. My long armers are fairly new at the business and so they require that the quilter supply the batting. I have some pieces that I need to fuse together for some of my smaller finishes.

Tiny Tuesday is complete. I had to use scrappy white on white backgrounds and even a different white on white for the 2" outside border. It looks ok to me though. I promised Dianne at Little Penguin Quilts that I would leave my wonky fan block and my not so perfect owl and pig blocks. So they are included. I had to make one correction as I was webbing the blocks. One side of a block strip was cut at 1.5" not 1.75" as directed.  OOPS!  I don't know how I missed it when I made it, but I found it when I was sewing blocks together!  I had an extra red block that used the same fabric, so I took that one apart. It worked out fine.

I'm not fond of tiny, but these blocks gave me something to focus on that did not require large blocks of time last year when my sister was under going chemo for lung cancer and I couldn't be with her. One day at a time our mother used to say, and this helped me focus one Tuesday, one block at a time.


I didn't have enough blocks to set the colors in rows. And I wanted to be done, so I did not make extra. I used Angela's example of setting the colors in blocks of color. Angela set hers alternating straight sets with diagonal sets. I deviated from the directions and set some of my individual blocks differently. It did not cause a problem though. It may not be a organised, but it's for me. Now I have to decide on a backing.

I have another little quilt that I need your help with. The pieced blocks in the middle and the corners have a girly vibe. I want to send it to Jack's Basket.

 I have been holding on to the pink with tiny yellow dots, waiting to find a pale yellow to make hour glass blocks to go with it. This quarantine has made that kind of hard. I found a mottled cream,with pink and green in my stash. I thought it would work. I made one set of hour-glass blocks. Now I don't know if I like it. Do you like the hour-glass blocks or just the pink blocks?

Or maybe just the cream blocks?  It's so scrappy and busy, I am just not sure.  It will need a border to be 36 X 36 for the donation requirements.
Anyway, I'll consider all options. Thanks for your input.


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    I'm linking up with Alycia's party Finished or Not Friday.

A Comfort Quilt Just in Time!

Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict hosts Hands2Help every year. You can read about this awesome effort here.. You can read about my journey to this charitable organization here.

A small quilt ready to be mailed to Jack's Basket. From the pattern Simple Gifts by Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr of Modern Quilt Studio.

The fabrics were not fat quarters, but large chunks leftover from various projects. The Pooh fabrics were from a quilt I made for my 2nd Great grandson in 2013. The green swirl fabric was from an over-purchase of fabric that I used to create a Mommy Bag for my granddaughter. The peach was from my 30's stash and is now nearly all gone. I have used it my bow tie blocks for RSC19 (the May color is Orange), it was in a block in the 30 Blocks in 30 Days quilt but was originally purchased for a block in a 30's Sampler quilt that was a donation for our local quilt show prior to 2011. I cannot remember why I have the red with white dots, but I like it and there is at least  3/4 of a yard still in my stash.

This fabric is soooo cute!  Pooh and Piglet, what could be better?

 The quilting was done by my friend, Marva Jo in record time. I gave it to her at our stitching group meeting on a Thursday, and by Friday at noon she called me to say it was finished! Whoo Hoo!  She used a variegated green thread in a pattern called Spring Fling. There are flowers and butterflies. It fits so well.

The backing: two Pooh fabrics and more green swirls!

Pooh and Friends  Hello Little Cloud!

I am excited that this precious quilt is done and ready to be revealed at our challenge reveal day. Then I will package it up and mail it off to Minnesota.

Thanks Sarah for giving me the opportunity to participate in your Hands2Help Challenge. It won't be the last time. 

I will link this post to Confessions of a Fabric Addict linky party on the 19th.

I will also add it to Finished or Not Friday, Oh Scrap, and **Can I get a Whoop Whoop after I post it on Sunday. 

**I decided not to add to Can I Get A Whoop Whoop as the post is already on Sarah's blog through the  linky party for Hands2Help! I did not want to be so redundant!

I would love to be able to find a local way to help also, but other than Quilts of Valor, there doesn't seem to be an avenue for donation quilts.

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