Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2025

 

Is coming to an end. I laid out my potato chip blocks . First like this:

Then like this with the dark neutral blocks in the 3rd column . The blue row has an extra blue one as a place holder. I’m building a few more dark neutral blocks.  I’m still unsure and not really pleased. Nancy from Grace &Peace Quilting, suggested more random. I wonder if my OCD will allow me to do that! LOL

Here is the latest. 

I’m also building a pieced backing for the string quilt. It’s a puzzle!!

Not in anyway a final layout. Just up on the design wall so I remember what is what. 

That all for now!

Linking up with ScrapHappy Saturday.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

It’s almost the end of the month.

 

And you know what that means. Finishing up! (Or at least trying)

Getting to the sewing room has been difficult. Between cardiac rehab 3x a week for Mr. Busy and other medical appointments, tests, etc. and the daily cooking, laundry, and grocery shopping it seems there is no time. 

I was able to get the side borders on my string quilt. The pieces are cut and sewed to each other to make the top and bottom. Mr. Busy helped me measure it on Monday, but that is as far as I got. Maybe tomorrow. 

Seems like both our hobbies end up in the family room. There is one of Mr Busy’s airplanes!

I was also able to work on the Table Scraps Challenge. It was mostly hand work that could be done in the evenings as we sat together. 

No potato chip blocks were made. I wanted to lay them out on the floor for a photo to see what colors might need more blocks . Just before I was ready to get a photo of the potato chip blocks, I went into the laundry room to check on the rugs from the bathrooms. There was water seeping out from under the dryer. We have a sump pump down there and periodically tree roots grow in the pump tub and keep the water from being pumped out. So a halt was put on every other project while we attended to that.

Just now, as the laundry room has been recovered I took time to lay out the potato chip blocks. 

Looks like I need at least one more orange one. And maybe hold off on the brown because this will be narrow and tall. The blocks are 9” finished so that makes it 45’across and 72 “ long without the brown. Maybe a different arrangement or only lengthwise sashings. It will require more thought. I will make one more orange block. 

Hope you all have a great rest of your week. I’m linking up with Angela at ScrapHappy Saturday

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

ScrapHappy Saturday 10-18-25

 

 Happy Saturday. I’m linking up with Angela for Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2025. I’ve been making potato chip blocks in the monthly colors. Angela suggested neutral for October. And I have 2 blocks completed. 

I haven’t laid all my blocks out on the floor to see how they look together. I should do that soon. I may have to fill in some colors. 

I’m starting to think about 2026. Although I really like using up my scraps in specific colors, I’m starting to get little pieces left over. So I need to come up with a plan. And I need to get the previous years’ blocks into tops/flimsies. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Sept 2025

 

Linking up with Angela and friends for ScrapHappy Saturday . Very little sewing this week. I counted all my finished potato chip blocks, and decided I needed a couple more pink ones. Only one was completed.

I’m making the photos big because they are scarce. I have a pale green one  under my needle, no photo!

I need this meme today. Thanks Sweatpants and Coffee. 

Mr Busy was life-flighted to Fort Collins hospital early Thursday morning with diagnosed tachycardia. He is stable and doing better. Right now they are doing a heart Cath, to discover the reason for the irregular heartbeats. 

I am not with him, but our daughter is. Fingers crossed all will go as planned and they will discharge him tomorrow. Then our daughter will bring him home. We live 5+hours away. Guess I am going to have to put on my big girl panties and learn to drone in the Denver area!

My posts may be infrequent for a bit longer. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy with Healthy and Hopeful. 

Scraphappy Saturday

 There was some sewing done this week. Another aqua potato chip block. That makes 3. While checking my calendar for something else I realized August has 5 Fridays. I’m having to scrounge for 12 different aqua fabrics for each block, without cutting up an intact fat quarter! I know, I know!  What the heck am I saving them for?  

And I’m back to evening stitching on Marcellus and friends. 

It’s good sometimes to step back and really look at a stitchery piece. I can see some missed stitches on octopus #2. And #3 still needs tentacles 5, 6 ,7 & 8 completed. 

I’m joining Angela and friends for ScrappyHappy Saturday. There are some fabulous projects being worked on. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

ScrapHappy Saturday~what color is aqua?

 

It’s August and Angela at Super Scrappy, and the creator of Rainbow Scrap Challenge has us changing gears. She’s selected Aqua. I love Aqua. But as I started pulling from my Aqua scrap basket to cut chips for this month’s potato chip block, I got to wondering. Do I even have Aqua? Or do I have teal, turquoise, ocean, cyan, sky, cerulean, or sea foam. 

Creative Booster

I think it doesn’t matter. They look pretty good together. 

My potato chip blocks have 12 colored chips in each block. I try really hard not to repeat a fabric in each block. Aqua will be a challenge. I may have to do some stash enhancement shopping. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

ScrapHappy Saturday

 

I’m joining Angela at ScrapHappy Saturday  plus other more prolific scrap happy quilters  today. (I was gone and just realized I didn’t post this!)

I’ve been working at finishing this Glowing Hearts baby quilt. It almost qualifies as scrappy. And there is purple and orangeish fabrics there. 

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In between stitching triangle corners and sashing I’ve been making potato chip blocks in this month’s color. The chips make great Leaders and Enders. 

I finished the outside three-fers  on last week’s purple chip block and added a 2nd purple block. 

I also did one more orange block from June, because I need at least 4 of each color.

Looks like this  one needs a really good press. 

That’s all the sewing I did this week,  there was a new stitch start, but I’ll save that for tomorrow’s Slow Sunday Stitch. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful.

Scrap Happy Saturday

 

 

Trying to get back in the swing of posting again. The color for July is Purple and luckily I used purple when I tried out my potato chip block way back in January. Granted it needs the outside round but it is started. 

I will try to squeeze in two more oranges from June.  Because I need at least 4 of each color and the small chips are already cut. 

Today I am going on a Garden Walk with my friend who recently lost her husband. She is a great gardener and has a lovely yard. We will visit 4-5 local gardens to admire the designs and the flowers. I'm looking forward to time with her. The Master Gardeners in our town do this Garden Walk as an annual fundraiser. 

these are some of the gardens we will view. 

Hopefully all of you are enjoying the weekend..

Joining the group at ScrapHappy Saturday

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Finished or Not Finished.

 

A lilac bush at our library. So pretty!

I’ve got nothing for the upteenth Friday in a row. But I’ll share on Alycia’s blog. I was in Colorado at Medical Center of the Rockies with Mr. Busy. An unplanned, urgent but not emergency triple bypass. I am home in Wyoming but he is at a rehabilitation facility til the 10th of June. It’s 129 miles away. So I don’t go every day. 

You would think I would be sewing. But my concentration is short. 

⤴️There are pieces cut for a baby quilts following along with Glowing Hearts QAL at mmmquilts. I have til August. 

There is partial construction of green potato chip blocks ⤴️

And there is a pile of  BH Triple Treat blocks that are in need of assembly. They looked like this on the design wall, before I stacked them up.⤵️

All waiting for me. 

Stay Busy (right?) and Stay Happy (I’m trying) and Healthy (absolutely) and Hopeful  (with God’s help)

ScrapHappy Saturday 4-19-25

 

This week, after tidying up my sewing space….I sewed two more potato chip blocks. 

And while the red scraps were still on the cutting table, I decided to put some Triple Treat blocks on the design wall. There were four more blocks than needed for a 6x7 layout. I’m trying to get rid of scraps not have extra . So, I made a red triple treat block. 

The first one. 

See right column, block 5. 

And a second one is ready to be assembled 

This next week, I’ll continue with potato chip blocks and Triple Treat blocks and try to make a plan for Table Scraps Challenge. Red and Rain. The prompts are thought provoking. 🤷‍♀️

I’m linking up at  ScrapHappy Saturday hosted by Angela. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Positive!

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.