Maybe Not the Best but some Favorites!

 

Being away from home for the holidays has been so relaxing and fun. A downside of course is that I haven’t been finishing any projects! So, encouraged by Little Penguins post, I decided to at least try to put together a year of finishing. 

Early in the year I participated in Project Quilting season 15. I intend to participate again this year My first completion of the year!

Part of the new year of sewing includes the Stay At Home Round Robin. A quilt along hosted by Gail at Quilting Gail !

This was not a favorite finish, but it was a finish 

Then there was a QOV presentation to my only living uncle, a Korean War veteran. He’s 92! The pattern is Long May She Wave by Alycia at Alycia Quilts.

A UFO being turned into a shower curtain!

And last but not least a quilt made for my youngest nephew, to celebrate defending his thesis.The two littles are his sons and I erased their faces. 

 I think I should probably keep better track of my finishes in 2025. I spend a lot of time scrolling through all my photos to find my favorites. Thanks for indulging me in this review. 

I’ll link up with Cheryl and friends from Meadow Mist Designs

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

I LIKE Thursday.

 

Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends in the US. And happy Thursday to others friends around the world.

I’m joining LeeAnna at Not Afraid of Color and others as we share things we like about today. 

I’m cooking for a small group today. Mr. Busy and I are hosting dinner. Our granddaughter and her kids will be here for sure. If jobs don’t take precedence, and jobs here always take precedence, others will join us. 

Just traditional dinner fare, and not too much, if I can help it. It’s hard to cook Thanksgiving for 3-4, and 2 young ones! But I’m thankful to get some time with them. They are so busy, with school, and gymnastics and robot club, etc, etc. 

My sewing mojo has returned. I finished the Mom Bag! My granddaughter loves it!

And I got the borders on this Christmas UFO. 

I’m working on constructing a backing. I’ll wait til after Christmas to take it to the quilter. They are swamped now and I’ll have a new quilt to hang next Christmas. 

We attended the annual Festival of Trees, last Sunday. Boy, that puts you in the holiday spirit !

A few of the trees! There were gorgeous wreaths too! An auction was held Saturday night and they raised over $475,000. The money will benefit improving healthcare in our community. 

Trees in purple and white with wine corks, tiny glasses and other ornaments. There was an all pink flamingo tree. Guess whose favorite that was?  A Lego tree, a Home Alone themed tree, a Mario tree and an old fashioned Norwegian tree. 

LeeAnna asked us if we preferred hot chocolate or hot toddy. I love Hot Chocolate. Especially with Peppermint Vodka and whipped cream. I’m not much of a whiskey drinker, but am a fan of Hot Buttered Rum or a Tom and Jerry. Are you familiar with a Tom and Jerry?  A variation of eggnog with brandy and rum sprinkled with nutmeg! Yummmmm! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. But most of all Grateful!

Finished or Not Friday!

 I had a “finally finished”this week!  I turned a UFO into a shower curtain. Some of you who follow my blog read about it on Wednesday. Some of you may have only heard about it. It was an OMG project for several months. 

If you are interested in more detail, here is a link to my Midweek Makers post! 

It’s funny to me, that when I showed fellow quilter friends this top, the reactions were lukewarm! “Well, that’s interesting!” And “ hmmmm, where did you get that pattern?”   I really hadn’t had an idea where it was going to go at the time, so it when in the to be finished closet. I liked and still do. When we redid the shower in our front bathroom , I decided to get rid of the fishing theme. Rainbows, Be Kind, Positive Attitudes was my thought process. I thought of this quilt. And so it is done! I  linking up with Alycia at Alycia Quilts for Finished or Not Friday! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful

April Goal Setting Post!

As stated in the finish link up from March, my April One Monthly Goal is to finish the Quilt Top into Shower Curtain project. Interface the top hem, install 12 grommets, hem the bottom. Doesn’t seem like too much, but you never know!  

I’m linking up with Anne-Marie  for April’s OMG at Stories from the Sewing Room. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

March One Monthly Goal. Finish Link Up

My OMG for March 2024 was to turn the UFO  "30 Blocks in 30 Days" flimsy into a shower curtain. 

I worked on it. In between, RSC blocks, Project Quilting Challenges, Table Scraps Challenge and a baby quilt. 

Some squares and rectangle were added to the sides. 

Then I made a backing out of muslin and measured and remeasured and attached the backing right sides together only on the sides. I do not have 12 grommets or extra large eyelets in my stash. So a shopping trip will have to happen on Monday!  Monday is April!!!!

So I clothespinned the top to some wire hangers, twisted the hooks and hung them from the shower rod. This is the crude look!

It is wide enough, but I need to interface the top to accept the grommets and I think the bottom will need some added length in order to get a decent hem that can be weighted in the corners to help it hang straight. I've made drapes in my past life and will look to see it I can find drapery weights. 

So I did not finish my goal, but I made progress. And that is OK by me.  April OMG will to FINISH. 

I'm linking up with Anne-Marie at Stories from the Sewing Room. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Last Purple ScrapHappy Saturday!

There was not much purple sewing going on in my space this week. I was trying to get my 30 Blocks flimsy wide enough to become a shower curtain. I measured and cut squares and rectangles of several colors. And I measured and sewed muslin for a backing. Not much to look at. I didn’t get it done. 

But there was a bit of purple in the mix! 

I had a couple of days where I wasn’t feeling my best. Achey and out of sorts. So I did some cross stitch, read a book and napped. 

Unstitched the hems in some gifted gingham curtains and sewed the pieces back together for a backing for the Jasmine quilt. 

I posted about my Table Scraps Challenge Thread Catcher.   There were just small projects completed! 

Linking up with Angela at ScrapHappy Saturday. Wishing Happy Easter to all who celebrate and Happy Weekend to others. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

OMG Finish link up. En Provence finally done!

My OMG was to get the binding on this long overdue finished quilt.  The long arm quilter had it back to me in record time. 24 hours!! Happy Dance!

Bonnie Hunter's 2016 Mystery. En Provence. Made slightly smaller. 3x3 instead of 4x4 as the pattern is written.

The backing is a Thimbleberries backing from my stash! 

I had this purple fabric slated for the binding since I first finished the quilt top. I still like it!

Next a label and I will have met my One Monthly Goal! 

Label done and revealed at Saturday’s Quilt Chicks’ Gathering!

I’m linking up with Anne Marie at Stories from my Sewing Room. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

February 2024 One Monthly Goal link up!

In January, I couldn’t decide what my OMG should be. I finally made a decision but didn’t post it here. It was to get a backing and batting ready for En Provence so it could go to the long arm quilter. It was finally accomplished and the quilt was delivered to Deanna on Wednesday, the 31st. She said, “ Oh , good! I’m out of quilts!” when I walked in the door. 

This is an old photo. I started it in 2017! Time to get it done. Eagle eyes will notice the top right corner has one triangle in a square block turned wrong. Rest assured, this was corrected and a neutral patchwork border was added. 

Yesterday, Thursday, February 1st, she called to say it was done.  I’ll pick it up today. 

This is far as it got at home. Out of the bag and flung on the couch to show Mr. Busy. 

It needs to be trimmed. Binding needs to be made and attached. Mr Busy and I are putting new hinges and new knobs on our kitchen cabinets. Actually he’s doing that, I’m wiping them down and apply Old English Scratch Cover. They are looking good. I'll be back in the sewing room soon. 

So my OMG for February will to finally get this quilt to the finish line and get it bound, labeled and ready to be displayed.  

Stories from the Sewing Room February One Monthly Goal Link Up

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Scrap Happy Saturday ~ September 9

Because I forgot about aqua, I have no UFOS assigned to be finished or at least worked on this month. I could I forget aqua? It’s a favorite color! 

So I will work on my OMG…..it needs my attention!

And maybe sew some aqua string blocks or crumb blocks. Maybe both!

I did get the binding on this little quilt which will go in the donation pile. The binding isn’t aqua but there are some aqua fabrics in this one!

I’m linking up with Angela for Scrap Happy Saturday.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

 

August Rainbow Scrap Challenge 8-5-23

If you remember. I’m not building blocks for a new project this year. Instead, all my UFOs were assigned a random color of the rainbow. When the color of the month is announced, the UFO with that color will be the project I work on!

Angela selected     Yellow = August! 

Full Stop and Colorful Birches! Both in the blocks need to be put together ( Full Stop) and blocks need to be made ( Colorful Birches) stage! What was I thinking, putting these on my UFO list? Well, if I can at least move them forward, I’ll call it a win! 

Full Stop was the 2021 RSC Sampler on Angela's blog. Here is a link so you can see Angela's quilt. I'm sure I am the only one who hasn't completed the quilt.  But I'll try to remedy that this month. 

I have on my list Colorful Birches and when I looked up the photo and link to the pattern, I remember the designer, Crazy Mom Quilts ( Amanda Jean Nyberg) calls it Bright Birches. I'm following her pattern which I downloaded several years ago. The date on my copy is 2012!   What ever I call it.  the blocks need to be made.  I have pieced the birches inserts previously, a Leader and Ender from many years ago.  

Strips for 7 blocks are here! Each block uses 3 strips.

Parts for more here and there are many more in my project box. 

Here is the photo and link from Connecting Threads.

We will see how it goes. I have lofty goals this month.!!!!!!!!!!!

I think I had better print out a calendar page, commit to what project which day and see if I can stay organized. 

 I’ll link up with Rainbow Scrap Challenge for 2023 over at SoScrappy's ScrapHappy Saturday. I hope all is well with Angela. It’s Saturday at 12:40 MDT and still there is no post from her! I’m a bit concerned!  😧 All is well!  She's been super busy!!  Phew!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

August OMG Link Up Post

 I’ll be joining the Linky Parties at Patty’s blog Elm Street Quilts and Anne-Marie’s blog Stories from the Sewing Room!

I’ll be working on getting all the appliqués zigzagged down on the top and bottom border pieces. I’m anticipating no problems! I’ve done the two side borders and my machine is newly cleaned and oiled! 

That will be my OMG for August. 

Top border pieces ironed down!

Bottom border ironed and ready for stitching!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!