ScrapHappy Saturday.

 

Starting a new month and a new color. I’m anxious to sew blues.  There was a chuck of blue added to the bottom hem piece that needs to be added to the quilty shower curtain.  I’ll eventually get it totally done and then will try to write a step by step. I’ve had some questions about the method to my madness!

Today is my brother’s birthday. He’s the only one of the four of us who has a summer birthday. The only one who is left handed and the only one of us who didn’t wear glasses in elementary school. So interesting I think! 

And tomorrow Mr. Busy and I celebrate our 60th Wedding Anniversary! 

We were so young! Our bridesmaids wore blue, there were blue gladiolus decorating the church. 

Sooo,  I’m ready to sew blue! The blue scrap baskets are on the cutting table. 

Linking up at So Scrappy for ScrapHappy Saturday!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy

No 2022 Rainbow Finish so ……A New Way to Be Scrappy!

For the last 5 years I have participated in Angela’s Rainbow Scrap Challenge in an effort to sew up my scrappy stash. I have enjoyed each and every year, but I rarely had a finish. 

In 2018, I made crumb blocks and assembled them into Precarious.  

It still needs to be quilted!

 

RSC 2019  was Bowtie Blocks, Sprout Blocks, Tiny Tuesdays and Garlic Knots from Leaders and Enders!  

RSC2020  I started Hollow 9's and Geese Migration Blocks. I made Rainbow Colored Scrap baskets and started a different Leader and Ender project, Easy Breezy!

RSC 2021. Full Stop from Angela , Growing Up Odd blocks and more Hollow Nines! 

 This year 2022, there  were Fall colored strings from emptying a tote of strings, ZigZag rows , some tiny Pieces In the Garden Blocks from Melva Loves Scraps, more Rainbow strings, Happy Blocks and a new Leaders and Enders from Bonnie Hunter, Triple Treat!

Phew! 

So now I have flimsies, and project boxes full, though not only from RSC blocks. Some are other quilts started because !!! Not many finished quilts. In 2023 I hope to remedy that!

This my plan.  I have built an Excel spreadsheet that lists all the months and a place to enter the color picked by Angela.  Then there is an empty column for any notes. UFOs are numbered ( there are 20!) in the next 2 columns, and each of them has been assigned a color by random. Then a column with a quick description of what the UFO needs to be done.   Lastly there is a place to list the Table Scraps Challenge hosted by Joyful Quilter, using the monthly color. Last year, Joyful gave us a prompt. This year the prompts will occur again. Although I am expecting some uniquely creative prompts!

I was hoping to insert the file as a photo here, but I’m not as skilled at merging Blogger with Excel as I had hoped! So I hope you can sort of tell by this photo of my laptop screen. 

Hopefully this will be a way to participate in the monthly color and yet complete my many UFO's. I'm going to try to keep this up on my laptop. But I may end up printing it and hanging it in my sewing room as a more VISUAL reminder.  I'll see how well I do with it just on the Mac for now. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

May 22 , Some Red and Some Baskets

and 

  I promised myself I would make at least one hollow nine patch per week! Here is the 4th one! With the 3 from last week. 

My exclamation points got pinned to the design wall in the hallway! They are not sewn together. I’m going to have to get a different background fabric and nothing in my stash works.

As I was putting the borders on Follow Your Own Path yesterday, an accident happened! I didn’t get a photo then. But here is what part of my shelf unit looks like today! 

I mean, I wasn’t even near it, it just broke! So a trip to Menards’s is on the agenda today! The little plastic doohickeys that the shelves sit on, failed! 

They will be replaced with metal, but first the plastic bits embedded in the holes will have to be drilled out! Enter Mr. Busy! And before that can happen, the floor area must be cleared! Oh bother! 

The drill is doing its job and we found metal support brackets in the kitchen junk drawer!

You can see what I'll be doing the rest of the day!  I'm linking this post up at ScrapHappy Saturday. Not lots of red scrappy-ness. But you do get a look at my scrappy baskets and the messiness that happened.

And I guess I will link up with Cynthia's Oh Scrap! over at Quilting is More Fun Than Housework. 

 Because I may have uttered a version of that when my shelf of baskets fell!  "giggle" 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy

Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2020 Round Up

 Angela at So Scrappy and hostess of Rainbow Scrap Challenge has suggested a round up of our completed quilts/projects. 

This year I started out making Hollow 9 Patches in the monthly color and Geese Migration blocks. I am away from home, or I would do a design wall presentation. Instead you'll have to suffer the photos from my camera roll!

January's light or bright green.  

 

Feb -  Orange

March - Teal and Aqua Blue- Green

April - Light and bright blue

And then in May, there was a Scrap Basket that developed into a challenge with Joyful at The Joyful Quilter. 

I began with dark green and then went back and caught up with the previous colors. My shelves begin to look quite colorful! 

Soon there was 

Red

And Dark Red

And yellow

And I’ve finished with these two!

I need to make several more Geese Migration blocks and decide on a background color. I haven’t shopped for quite awhile and it will be online I am sure. There aren’t enough hollow nine patches to make a quilt, so I will continue with those in the new year! 

I'll be joining the RSC21 group.....see you there~

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy 

ScrapHappy Saturday. End of November

 

I'm linking up with Angela at ScrapHappy Saturday!  

Neutral scraps were sewn, a slab was built. Then measured and trimmed to size. 

Then I looked for neutral thread that wouldn’t disappear among the many shades of beige. I found this variegated beige/tan. It works well and I've had it forever!

Using that infamous serpentine stitch on my old Bernina it went pretty quickly!

Next the long sides were sewn together and the corners boxed! I also finished the sewn edges with close zigzag stitch. 

I found a pale floral that seemed perfect for the binding around the top. I thought about using a big stitch to finish it! 

This is an old partial ball of variegated pastel perle cotton. I think #8. But it’s really hard to push a needle through the quilted-ness of the bowl.  So I found a leather zipper pull from something.  A purse maybe....that helped.

So now my light neutral scrap basket is finished and filled with the smaller chunks and scraps. As you can see i have some "yardage", though most is 1/2  to 3/4 of a yard.  Not much larger. 

 I'm loving these baskets to "pretty up" my sewing space and also to be organizational!  Keep an eye on my Basket Buddy, Joyful Quilter!  She and I have a challenge going!  Baskets in every color! 

 Since I am spending the holidays at our son's home, my blogging will experience a bit of hit and miss. Sorry, but time with this one is important!  So we are visiting, watching movies, even a bit of sight seeing!  I will pop in periodically!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy

RSC20 November / December Scrapbasket Challenge!

 I’ve been chilling,  waiting to see what Joyful might do about our scrap basket challenge! I only have 12 days until I’m away from my machine till the end of the year. So I’m taking the leap of faith that she will accept my challenge. Anyone else want to join in?  Please do. November will be a neutral scrap basket. Your choice of size to fit your allotted space. You pick the technique. There are tutorials out there and there may be one in the making! 

I got an early start!  Slabs and crumbs and strips and pieces all started to puzzle together. Then frakenbatting happened and a piece left over from a worn and stained holiday table cloth became the backing or inside of the basket! 

You can see bits of pink from great granddaughter Miss B’s Welcome quilt, There some black on white that was in a step granddaughter’s college graduation quilt. There’s text fabric and a bit of aboriginal fabric! 

I started by dividing the slab into fourths with the large serpentine stitch on my machine using this thread. It’s a variegated ecru/tan.  Then stitching “snakey” lines the width of my walking  foot!

The lavender dots to the left and the Australia n fabric near the bottom of this section. 

There were some extra crumb blocks and this zipper pouch happened. Truth be told there are more extra crumby blocks to go into the finished basket!  LOL

I hope Joyful will be OK with me starting on my basket! And I hope we get some other takers on the challenge.  So end of November, let's show and tell our Light Neutral Scrap Baskets and then the end of December we will show and tell our Dark Neutral Scrap Baskets!  Deal?

I'm linking up with Angela at her ScrapHappy Saturday!   See you there. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!