Rainbow Scrap Challenge April 9th

 

Joining Angela and others at Raunbow Scrap Challenge. 

These week I sewed one orange 16-patch.

And cut and sorted 2 1/2’ squares of more orange and some light blue to finally catch up on January. 

Two small crumb blocks are being constructed as leaders and Enders while stitching the 16-patch squares. Nine year old great granddaughter was very interested in sewing on my machine. We will explore that this summer. 

There was a bit more orange and orangish here this week. In my grocery order I included some Wild Wonder Medley tomatoes. They came in a large square clamshell. I washed them and dried them and they are sitting on the counter in my mom’s Jewel Tea mixing bowl. I love how they look! We are eating them like candy! So  so good. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

ScrapHappy Saturday, April 18

Linking up with Angela this beautiful April morning, at ScrapHappy Saturday

Not a lot of sewing happened this week. Here is the reason why!

Emily has joined our family. She is just a baby, 10 weeks old. We are working on potty training mostly. 

I did get squares cut and laid on the small design boards for the last two pink 16-patch stars.  And also cut 16 1.5” squares for star points. This week’s block ( on the right) and on the left, next week’s block. 

There were some various sized crumb blocks made also. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful.

Rainbow Scrap Challenge. End of February Green.

 

 I was a slow starter in February. But I kicked into high gear on Friday. The crumb blocks kept growing. This more muted slab will become a topper for my side table in the living room.

You can see I need to add a piece on the right side of the bottom part. Then it will be ready for backing , batting, and quilting. 

Then this pice is long enough, but needs some more width. About 2.5 inches, to be 12 x 11. Then it will fit on the nesting smaller table.

I have this type of table beside my chair, but mine are oak. 

Then I can get my March stitcheries out and put Valentines away!

I’m linking late Sunday afternoon with ScrapHappy Saturday. Then I’ll begin sewing Red tomorrow. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

RSC 2026 Jan 10th

 

I had the blues out this week. Earlier I cut some blue and some white squares that may become a Stash Buster block, for RSC. I’m linking up with Angela at ScrapHappy Saturday .

I only got started on the first block. I had to read and reread the instructions. Depending on how they go together, I’ll decide if they will be RSC blocks.

Trim them to 6” square, then slice into 1.5” strips, 

Then rearrange like this and sew together. 

This is the right side of the block, the other (left side) is the opposite. 

It’s the Delectable Mountain block. Have you ever done one?

Then I got the scrappiest bins out and made crumb blocks. I have no real plan for the crumb/slab blocks. But the scraps won’t end up in the landfill if I can help it.

 

I did participate in Project Quilting, but used aqua and a bit of lime green. 

Looks like my upcoming week will be busy. Mr. Busy graduated from Cardiac Rehabilitation and we have committed to walking 3 days a week to start, then add to that. We have a great county Recreation Center, so we won’t have a bad weather excuse. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

ScrapHappy Saturday…Middle of March!

 

Not much sewing this week. I did cut 9, different neutrals that read white, 3.5 “ square, 3 times. I made 3  more nine patches to go to the current block drive over at Quilting is more fun than Housework. 

                                               

I gathered  9 different neutrals with a creamy background to make some of those. Cynthia has asked us NOT to mix them. 

It’s a subtle difference. There was lots of rearranging and rearranging again. 

There was some sewing with yellow also. One yellow potato chip block was finally completed. 

And there is a crumb block under my needle. 

Linking up with Angela at ScrapHappy Saturday. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

January TableScraps Challenge

 

Ready for Table Scraps Challenge 2025?  Hosted by Joy at The Joyful Quilter this is my 5th year of participating in this challenge . If you are interested, Joyful’s actual introduction post is Here, but this year’s  first post is this ONE. Jump in anytime!

In December, Angela from So Scrappy, announced the color for the upcoming month of January as Pink. The Joyful Quilter  gave us this prompt.. WARM BEVERAGE/ANYTHING COZY… It’s Project Quilting season and SAHRR(Stay At Home Round Robin). Yikes I’d better get my ducks in a row!.  

I thought of a mug rug, of course and a table runner, of course. But I wanted something different. So I thought, and worked on pink RSC blocks, and Project Quilting. And thought some more.

One day I was walking by this Christmas Quilt on the extra design wall in the hallway. It’s waiting for it’s appointment with Glenda, (the longarm quilter)    *  Second column  bottom row: 

I had the pattern. 

What about on a gift bag. Yup! That will work. I have been using crumb blocks in my scraps challenges. This time I traced the pattern for the cup and heart on fusible. I use Pellon 805. That is what I have, but there are a lot of different brands. Ironed it to a strip of raspberry solid. Zigzagged around the heart and the cup. Right sides together, I sewed the long sides, Voila! A bag, and I boxed the bottom for this one. A casing  and a dig through my  pink/red ribbon box for 1/8th inch pink ribbon, resulted in this bag. I’ll fill it with cocoa packets, apple cider packets and some herbal tea. 

What do you think?  Cute, huh? 

I’ll link up with The Joyful Quilter.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Rainbow Scrap Challenge 3rd Saturday

 

Some pink scraps were cut to 2”x3 1/2”. I’m a judicious cutter of scraps. That makes me slower. But I am not in a race, my focus is to use up my scraps. 

One potato chip block was finished,

 one is under my needle. 

So many different pinks! Raspberry to Petal Pink, to beige-y Peach. 

Small leftovers will become crumb blocks. I have a plan for those too. 

It’s been a slow start this  month but it’ll get better. The cold is making my arthritic joints hurt. It’s 4 degrees now at 4pm with a low tonight of -12.  And it’s playoff weekend, so not much machine work. I spent time this morning with like minded quilters. Mostly lots of visiting and sharing. It was Reveal Day for the last of the 2024 challenges. Some beautiful quilts and needlework were revealed. 

Hope you all are having a great January. I’m linking up with Angela at So Scrappy Hop on over to see lots of pink!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Table Scraps Challenge ~ Dark (Brown or Black) 🍁 🍂 Leaves!

 

The Joyful Quilter hosts The Table Scraps Challenge and uses the Rainbow Scrap Challenge color as a jumping off point. Joyful also gives us a prompt each month! September is Leaves. 

As usual, I made crumb fabric with my table scraps and used a long long resident of a scrap drawer! I have lots of brown, tan, darkish colors in my fall basket! One year, many Christmases ago, my son and then-daughter-in-law gave me a Christmas themed tray with 18 fat quarters of browns , individually wrapped so they looked like a tray of brownies! It was a fabulous gift! 

A small square table topper that fits pretty well on  the table next to my rocker. 

The light green- gray leaf was a freebie from Connecting Threads years ago, announcing their die cuts. I used it as a pattern to cut the brown one, then appliqued them both to the crumb block. No binding on this one. Just layered and turned, then top stitched around the edge. Easy peasy! 

Joining Joyful and friends for September’s Table Scraps Challenge. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful! 

Scrap Happy Saturday 8-10-24

 

I attended a Sleep In Your Own Bed retreat this week hosted by a group I belong to called LooseThreads! We met Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in a large meeting room at our local library. We invited other sewing groups to join us. Some Thursday Stitchers and Material Girls attended. Several people were out of town or working at the Pathfinders Camporee. We had 60,000 campers and staff visited our small city. Almost double our population. 

A drone photo of one of their evening assemblies. It was an amazing thing to see.

I managed to sew all 8 of my orange Split 9 blocks and 4 zipper blocks. There were 5, but the fifth had an oops, so it was unsewn and will be remedied today. 

I often don’t cut well with others, and this is a prime example. Luckily there was another piece of the dotted fabric that was long enough to cut a 9 1/2” strip! Phew! 

And scrappy crumb blocks were started. They will be used in the Table Scraps Challenge for August!

I’m joining other scrappy sew-ers at Angela’s ScrapHappy Saturday!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!