ScrapHappy Saturday❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Today I’m linking up with other scrappy sewists to share . Angela at So Scrappy gives us a platform. Rainbow Scrap Challenge. 

Happy Valentine’s Day!! On Thursday , my stitching group meets. We have some creative and very generous ladies . 

A card with a peppermint Ghirardelli from Sandra, the pink paper heart with a Valentine message on the back from Mary, the tiny enveloping of conversation hears and a decorated flap from Diana, and the tiny mailbox, 2 nugget candies wrapped to look like a mailbox from Agnes. The Ferrero Rocher candy was from Mary’s husband, he’s decided to eat healthier. 

I finished the Sweetly Sayin’ cross stitch, on Tuesday night. I hope to find time to Fully Finish it today. 

In between I made a 16 patch star block. I really liked Diann’s from last year. I don’t think she will mind if I share her flimsy. The photo is from her December 5th blog post.

 Her squares are 3.5, I have drawers full of already cut 2.5” squares that need to be used up. Her point squares were 2”, I tried 1 7/8” . Are they ok?

I'll leave you with this photo taken Thursday night. Our neighbor’s house  in the cul-de-sac behind our house. Decorated for Valentine’s  Day!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

ScrapHappy Saturday October Dark

October color is dark: browns, blacks, greys

I already made black Bow Tie blocks for my "We Switched to Chevy" quilt! There are 8 black blocks here.

And the first Tiny Tuesday block:

When you cut for tiny blocks, sometimes you can't include all the fabric= (Cho)colate!

Then I did one more purple sprout block, because all the pieces were already cut and ready to go.

I wasn't sure I wanted to make brown/black/gray scrappy sprout blocks....but I have a large basket of brown fabric. Some yardage, some fat quarters, some scraps. So I dove in, cut 2.5" squares, 2.5" strips of light and dark to make HST and some neutral 2.5" squares. Two done and they aren't too bad!

My first week of brown is in the books. Not sure about more brown/gray/black sprouts, but I can always do some string blocks.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy

I'll link this post to Angela's ScrapHappy Saturday link up party as soon as she posts in the morning. It's 8PM in Wyoming and it's raining. No snow yet, so that's a plus. Tomorrow is our local NEW (North East Wyoming) Quilt Show. I entered 2 small quilts. I'll try to remember to take photos of the spectacular ones and post them next week.

Blue Scrappy Saturday -

My week was ho-hum!  It's been warm and wonderful in the weather department, but my sewing was minimal. I did get 3 light/bright blue Bow tie blocks cut and sewn together. I drafted a layout, so I would know how many of each color I needed. I only need 6 blue blocks and I made 3 in June in the navy/dark blue hue.

Don't you love the monkey with the guitar?

I do need to dig through my scraps for some more black. I don't want duplicate fabrics, and I have 5 black blocks made and need 8. It takes a larger chunk to get 2- 4.5" squares and 2 - 2.5" squares out of just one fabric. I may have to go rogue and mix the colored squares up!



I did start on a new project toward the end of the week. It's a baby quilt for a great great niece?  ( Mr Busy's sister's granddaughter is having a baby girl)  The new momma's mother and father are absent from her life, so my SIL has been there for her. She is an engineer in Montana. Doesn't want any thing "too girly", so this is the fabric I chose. Feminine but not too girly, I think. I'll get the top done this week, then off to the long arm quilter! Baby is due in early October!

Just some of the blocks from the pattern called Wiggle by Cynthia Brunz at Quilting is more fun than Housework! The background seems kind of dark, but I wanted the "wiggle" blocks to pop!  Have not picked a backing yet!

I'm linking up to Scrap Happy Saturday.  So hop on over and check out all the scrappy goodness!

I'll be back next week too!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy

Scrappy Saturday June 15th

So June's color is Blue.  Navy or Med Blue is suggested. My scrappy sprout blocks had been partially constructed prior to the announcement of the color. So there is a bit of lighter blue in some of the sprouts. The contrast is good.

I may have posted these previously! This is what could happen if your 5 yo great grandson wants to watch you fix the strap on his reading pillow and bumps into the design board you hastily laid aside, but not "UP"!

Oh well, it was remedied very quilkly!


I made a couple more Bow tie blocks, then went back and checked my graph paper layout cheat sheet!  I only need  6 Blue blocks and I would like them to be a mixture of blues. So 3 dark/med blue will be good.

I have been working on Tiny Tuesday Blues.  The Grandmothers Fan block gave me the blues!  Or maybe a better description would be "the jitters".  I procrastinated, and procrastinated!  I happily made the 2nd Tiny Tuesday block for June from Cynthia's cute and well written tutorial.  I'ts the one on the right and as of now, does not have a name. I'm calling mine Town Square, until Cynthia picks a name officially!

I searched the internet for hints on paper piecing with freezer paper. A long time ago that method was taught at a retreat and this is the finished product. So I know I can "Do It".  But I had forgotten the fine points!

I was able to find a link to a free guide here. Thank you Rebecca!! So I happily printed the document and set about paper piecing the tiny blue fan!  When it came time to trim the fan arc, I again experienced the "jitters"!  Slow and steady, Judy. You can do this! I took Angela's advice and cut an oversize block to appliqued the fan to. Then I worried about turning under the edges. So I ironed the shape onto the back of the block and cut the shape including seam allowance. The seam allowance was generous, maybe 3/8 ".

Have you ever used the spray starch method for turning under edges for applique?  I remember seeing a friend and experienced quilter do it a few years ago. So I sprayed some starch in an extra laundry detergent cap, found a small soft bristled paint brush, turned on the iron and set to it!  You basically paint the starch on the seam allowance and press it over the pattern edge.  Sometimes a stylus works to keep your fingers out of the way.

Then I did the same for the small background piece that will be appliqued on top of the narrow part of the fan blades.

It is done!  A tiny bit wonky, but I am basically pleased.  See the photo above, next to the Town Square block.

I'm linking up to Scrap Happy Saturday. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy

Last ScrappyHappy Saturday in May

Most of my orange sewing was completed earlier in the month. A tiny bit of orange string block stitching was done. I still have an orange butterfly to make for Tiny Tuesday.  Then it will be on to dark and navy blue!

I am reaching the end of my orange scraps. I have some larger than fat quarter chunks but not many bits and pieces. And the variety is lacking!



Linking to So Scrappy today!


Stay  Busy and Stay Happy

ScrappyHappy Saturday 5-18

We woke up to snow this morning!!  It is not sticking to the roads or highways yet, they are just wet!  But the grass, the deck, my new planter boxes are covered in white!!  Bah Humbug!

On a happier note, this orange was done this week. I am getting really low on orange scraps and may have to cut into some yardage!

I think I only need 5 orange bow ties for the layout I have planned. But will double check before May is over.

Two Tiny Tuesday blocks from the 7th and the 14th!  That Bear Paw Bow Tie was  a bit challenging. But the directions were clear and concise. I really did not have too much trouble. I nipped 2 tips when I added the outside setting borders, but that is OK .  The whole process of tiny blocks is way outside my comfort zone but I will continue because my technique is improving and I am learning lots!

And I did use a bit of orange/peach in this little quilts for Hands2Help 2019 at Confessions of a Fabric Addict. I will link the whole blog post about that on the 19th.

Linking this post up with Angela at  So Scrappy!


Stay Busy and Stay Happy

Scrappy Saturday 5-11

So far only 6 scrappy sprout blocks and one Tiny Tuesday in Orange!  Funny thing about orange. There are Halloween fabrics, pastel peach flowers, Bronco orange circles, pumpkin colored swirls, motorcycling cats, flames on a black background, oh my!  Fabric is cut for Bow tie blocks, and I may or may not have strings enough for one or two string blocks. We will see. I don't do string blocks til I have enough to at least make one block, because I change the needle and the stitch length.

Sorry for the out of focus! I'll try for a better photo later in the month. 

Road to "Tranquility"

Bow tie blocks at the ready. And my messy sewing station. PS, I haven't used orange in my temperature quilt yet!  It will be awhile


I have been using the sprout blocks as leaders and enders, but I really am anxious for Bonnie Hunter to reveal her new L and E block in July. I have 2" blocks cut and corraled in a box and I have 2 1/2" blocks, always!   I am sure some of them will be in the mix!




I'll be linking up with Angela's Scrappy Saturday post. See you there!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy

Final So Scrappy Saturday of April

So Scrappy Saturday hosted by Angela at So Scrappy!

I decided to put all my April Aqua blocks and projects on the design wall. I am disappointed because I am running out of Aqua strings and scraps to make more string blocks. A couple pieces are large enough to cut the length needed to go on the diagonal, but the rest are too little or they are over fat quarter size. ( I find it hard to cut into those) 😞

I have one string block and another under my needle. 6 bowtie blocks, 6 scrappy sprout blocks, and 3 Tiny Tuesday blocks. I did not get the one from last week, made yet.  And hopefully there will be one more, 5 Tuesdays in April. Also at the top of my design board are the first 25 blocks of my April row on my Temperature Quilt. It reads Aqua also.  There are a couple of green signifying warmer weather, but mostly April has been from 35 degrees to upper 60's.  There were a couple of days that we reached 71.

I think I will put out an APB ( All Points Bulletin) for aqua strings at my next guild meeting. I could be sorry!!!

Until next Saturday,
Stay Busy and Stay Happy

So Scrappy Saturday! April is Aqua!

Oh My Goodness......I do love scrappiness!  Especially if its aqua or teal or turquoise or ocean or whatever the color people are naming it!

I have squares and HST cut and arranged to make Scrappy Sprout Blocks. Some of you will notice that the left half of this block looks wrong. It is really the right hand side and this happened as I piled everything on the project board to bring it home from sewing group! It did not go into the block reversed!!  "smile"

 I made the Tiny Tuesday Shoo Fly Flower block.  Should it be set diagonally or straight?  Decisions, decisions!

Half way to 6 Aqua Bow Tie Blocks. 

Even the blocks for the first 3 days of April in my Temperature quilt, read Aqua!  ""smiley face""!
Wait til you see the ones for 4-6th!!! 


I even decided to do string blocks afterall....so these are the green and red ones. I'll catch up with the yellow and aqua ones next week.

I'm a happy girl!  The sun has been shining, it's nice enough to walk outdoors and I will be able to stay with my sister the week before Easter.  Mr Busy is healing well from his surgery and the restriction on what he can lift will go away on the 15th!


Stay Busy and Stay Happy

linking up to So Scrappy Saturday!  

Scrappy Saturday Mostly Green

Finally I have some green to share. March has been a busy busy month. If you read my blog you know that Mr Busy had unexpected gallbladder surgery on the 1st. He had some complications, and spent the next 3 days in the hospital. His pain levels were intense and his breathing saturation levels dropped at night. Alarming the doctors and the nurses. We came home on Monday and the next several days were pretty grim. Needless to say, I did not drive to spend time with my sister during her second round of chemotherapy. I felt so bad about that. She is doing well, better than I had anticipated. Hopefully I will be able to go the next round.

In the mean time, between hospital and doctor visits, checking on the patient, up and down the stairs, and doing regular household chores, I got these done.

4 green sprout blocks. I do not have a plan for them yet!

A green Multiply block. This one was really fun and a bit challenging for me. I always say,  I do not like miniature blocks and this one is tiny.

Five green bow tie blocks and a black one. Yes, black. I have a plan. You'll have to "hide and watch" 

as Mr Busy says!

This can happen when you try to do too many things at the same time. An easy fix, thank goodness!

And I finished appliqueing the lemon peel block from February and turned the Multiply block to the correct orientation. .

Tuesday I dumped my string box and quickly made the #2 block for March.

That's all for this post!  I'll be linking up with Angela at So Scrappy. 


Until next time,

Stay Busy and Stay Happy

Tiny Bits of Yellow

Last week was a difficult one for me. Emotionally. My sister, recently widowed, started her treatment for lung cancer. Being a cancer survivor myself, I was concerned, worried, anxious. The quilt I made for her, was at the long armer. I wanted to drive to our LQS, to buy fabric for the binding. It is 20 miles away, but she was closed due to illness. Luckily, I checked her facebook page before driving out!  Normally I would use something in my stash, but this quilt needed fabric to coordinate with the front and the backing.

Long story, short. I needed something to do!  Something small and quick, something I could complete but would keep me occupied for short sections of time. I was skipping around reading blogs and logged on to So Scrappy. I participate in Angela's Rainbow Scrappy Challenge and I was checking to see if I could link to other blogs from last week, to read about their progress. It was Tuesday!

Now, I had decided not to participate with Tiny Tuesday when Angela started it. But there it was a yellow Ohio Star block. Happy and fun!  A link to a great tutorial and I was hooked. So here is what kept me busy last week as I waited on daily reports from my Sis.

I did the Ohio Star, the Friendship Star then went back one week and did the 9-patch and the Shoo Fly block. I am happy to report that the block making went well and my sister is doing well also.

It is snowy and blowy here in NE Wyoming. Messy roads, no travel advised outside the city limits
and driveways that need attention  but these block are making me smile.

I am linking to So Scrappy Saturday at Angela's blog.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy

ps: Lynnie's Longarming called and my quilt is off the machine, so I will have it tomorrow. I did get out to the LQS for binding fabric, and last night I got it cut and joined and pressed. So I am ready to finish that this week. And there needs to be a label made also!