ScrapHappy Saturday!

My yellow sewing has been minimal. I continued with Bright Birches at the Sleep-in-your-Own-Bed Retreat. 

There is another yellow one and a lime green that looks kinda yellow!

 Some patriotic stars happened, some yellow and gray whirly blooms, a beehive panel, and a library employee in a yellow shirt who demonstrated the use of their Cricut machine. It’s available to check out! 

I didn’t have permission to share these photos, so tried to block faces. A busy couple of days. I’ll go back this morning and pack up. Then I have to visit a lemonade stand that my great grandson is working. Then laundry and packing for our short trip early next week. 

Linking up with Angela at So Scrappy! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

 

Finished or Not Finished Friday!

I’m linking up with Alycia and friends at Finished or Not Finished Friday! 

I haven’t had a finish in a really long time!  I am sewing, but nothing is complete. 

So I’ll show the “things” I do have finished! 

60 blue and white geese! 

60 white and red geese! 

72 red geese with white wings unattached! 

Squares cut for the beginnings of stars! 

All marked and bagged ready to go to a mini retreat next week!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

To -Do Tuesday #79

Good Morning! I'm checking in with Linda at Texas Quilt Gal for To-Do-Tuesday. I had moderate success this week.




To-Do for Feb 15th- Feb 21st:

1. Continue on Table Scraps Challenge. Decide on binding. ✅

quilting nearly done, binding is too!

2. Make 2 more string blocks in Aqua. ✅

current two to match last years two

3. Mail CiL blocks to Kat. ✖  The package is ready to go to the post office, but it is too cold to shovel the 1.5" of snow. It's -9, as I write this.  Our schools are on a two hour delay! The wind chill or feels like temp is -32! 

I should have gone Saturday morning. But......I must go out tomorrow, so I will take it then. 

4. Find or  construct a backing for a small donation quilt. ✅ I sorted through my tote of donated pieces and found this !  I think it will be just right. It's flannel. 

And here is my list for the upcoming week. My regular monthly sewing group is meeting for a two day mini retreat, Wed and Thurs.  I have a small plan. 

Next week: 

1. Put together a top for donation  through H2H at Mini Retreat. 

2. Finish posts for TSC and OMG! 

3. Get one more Growing Up Odd block made and decide if 9 blocks plus sashing are ENOUGH! I’m getting tired of this block! 

4. Sew something else at Mini Retreat.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy 

Retreat Project 10-2019 and some RSC19 sewing

I did not get the last 3 Tiny Tuesday blocks done. I will work on them soon. I was at a retreat for a few days the 3rd week in October and some scrappy sewing was accomplished.

First and foremost was the completion of the quilt top for my RSC19 Bow Tie blocks. Mr Busy held it up from behind the back fence. Wish I would have pushed the gate shut....then you would not have to look at our trash cans!

I had made black bowties all along, because I knew I wanted to feature them. This will be a car quilt, to go in my "new last November" black Equinox.  Chevy logo=bow tie. Maybe you have to be married to a car guy to "get it", but it works for me. I'll be looking for a dark backing so we can use it for a picnic quilt and not have to worry too much about getting it dirty. Plus we have " littles" in the car sometimes, so you know it will get used. Some of the blocks seem a little light in the big picture, but it is what it is and they were all from my stash. But a lesson to remember.


While at retreat, this happened too!

Lots of squares and strip piecing to make 9-patch and rail blocks. Here are 6, I made 14. I haven't put them on the design wall yet, I may need 2 more for a 4X4 layout for a good size kid quilt. Again, only scraps from my stash!  And the novelty bin is still "full"

And these 2" squares became:     I used Bonnie Hunters Essential Triangle Tool to make the 2" HST from 2.5" matched strips. Some neutral and blue, some neutral and red and some red/blue.  The layout on my portable design boards was a bit tricky. We were limited in space, but I just did the 4 quadrants , one at a time and that worked.

I'm early for 4th of July!  There is a sashing strip of neutral down the middle with a red square in the center. I kind of like it this way though. Guess I'll make the sashing strips and then decide. It's a pillow cover.


That's it for my scrappy October sewing. I'll be linking up with Angela at Scrap Happy Saturday and spend November working on my Tiny Tuesday blocks.

I'm also linking up with Can I Get a Whoop Whoop! over at Confessions of a Fabric Addict!


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OMG for October

I've been on retreat!  We, of course, had a great time. There were 13 of us in a not very large convention room. We were coxy!   I took no pictures except of this range of the Big Horn Mountains on my way home.  Yup, that is snow! We had lovely driving weather to the retreat and great weather coming home. While we were there, the temperature dropped, we had intermittent snow flurries and some freezing rain. But we just sewed and sewed!  No problem.

My OMG for October was to get my RSC 19 Bow tie blocks together into a flimsy/quilt top!

Mr Busy donned his Carhart jacket and gloves to hold this against our back fence for pictures. It is cold today, 27 degrees with a windchill to feel like 18 degrees.
But it is done. I haven't picked a backing yet...I looking for something dark, as it will be a car quilt. I titled it "We Switched to Chevy".  My new Chevy Equinox is black.  Chevy grill symbol is called a bowtie.  Get it???

We have snow at home too!


So my goal was accomplished

I did get some other things done at retreat. I'll save those for another post.


I'll link up with Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal - October Finish Link-up



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Scrap Happy Saturday September Purple

It's the last Saturday in September. It's raining and COLD! It's 44 with "a feels like" of 35 degrees.  There is a 6-8 year olds Football Game on the schedule this morning!  BRRR and Yuk!  Luckily they only play about 45 minutes.

The week was pretty productive in the scrap department.

I finished the last purple Tiny Tuesday block - Bright Hopes. And I sewed the necessary 3 more  black Bow tie blocks.  I am close to being ready to get the Bow Tie block quilt to a completed top ( flimsy) stage so I can decide on backing and get it off to the quilter.

Though that could be a problem. I have 2 favorite local long arm quilter friends. Lynn just got her machine back from the "hospital" after 5 weeks, so she is backed up. And Marva fell and broke her ankle 2 weeks ago. Plus they both are planning to snow bird this winter, so they will be unavailable for several months. I am going to have to find someone else, I'm afraid.

I completed a 3rd Scrappy Sprout  Here are all three. In the project box they go! I have no plan for them, so have no idea how many I may need. It's a WIP!

I finished the binding and the big stitch quilting on my October Retreat Challenge.  Here is a sneak peak.

I finished my QOV for presentation in November.  And finished 8 blocks for the current CiL block drive. See that post here.



Ill be linking up to Angela's Scrap Happy Saturday and Cynthia's .Oh Scrap!

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Finished or Not Friday 9-27-19

I'm posting in Alycia's linky party this week.


The QOV is done, except for the label. I washed and dried it with 4 color catchers. They picked up lots of red, from the backing I think.

I have made contact with my veteran recipient and she is tickled. I have known her since she was a little girl, we are friends with her dad.  I know she served in the Air Force, several tours I think. Now she is a police officer in our small city. I need to get few more details about her.  Our presentation will be in November.


The other “finish “ this week, was a finish of 8 blocks for Covered in Loves September-October block drive. I have been sending 8 blocks every two months for the last 2 years.  These are 12.5" unfinished and based on a Split 9 Patch tutorial posted here. The sizes are posted on Kat's Covered in Love tab on her blog. There is plenty of time to join in, just check it out!

 I did spend some time cutting fabric for projects to take to a retreat the 3rd week in October. There will be a post about that later in October.


Stay Busy and Stay Happy

Finish it up Friday - NADA!

FINISH IT UP FRIDAY  at  Crazy Mom Quilts


****A request for HELP at the bottom of this post. ****

This week has not been as productive as some in the past. I have a new challenge looming and it is not finished, nor will it be for some time. I will share it, if and when, I get it done.

This is just a peek. Hexies and an antique churn dash block.










Nothing was finished this week. I am sewing the binding on my crumb quilt. So hopefully by next Friday that will be done.

I am loving the lime green!


I have a retreat coming up the first weekend in May, so I have been busy cutting projects.  Half square triangle that are 2 inches will finish at 1 1/2,  Way outside my comfort zone!!

 I like to have most all of the cutting done beforehand if possible. I don't cut well with others!  :)   I love going to this particular retreat both for the camaraderie and for the setting.

But because it is a remote hunting lodge, we bring our own bedding, towels, and food in addition to machines, fabric, notions, tools, ironing boards, cutting mats and all. I am almost too old to tote all that stuff. So I have promised myself to actually "retreat" and take some "me" time too. Walk in the beautiful surroundings, read a book, do some hand stitching, maybe even take a nap. It is hard to sit at my machine for 8-10 hours a day. I just cannot manage it. I'll let you know how it goes this time.



Stay Busy and Stay Happy

PS:  Last week on Finish It Up Friday, I was visiting all the linked up blogs. There was one that had a link to the procedure and diagram of how to sure your seams in the binding were in a precise spot. For color matching. Also to make sure the seams did not land at the corners. I have tried to find it again. If anyone, can tell me where to look for this diagram, I would appreciate it. There was a drawing, and it had to do with measuring the sides of the quilt so that from point A to point B around the corner was the length of the binding strip between joining seams. Thanks.