I’ll be visiting all the blogs today, to see how everyone’s Blue month is progressing. Hop on over to Angela’s ScrapHappy Saturday to join me.
There has not been any progress with blues for me this week, unless you call moving the blue scrap basket from the shelf where it lives to the cutting table ……
to the sewing machine, progress.?
Blue scraps galore, no blocks to show for it!!
Back to cheering for the Broncos!🧡💙🧡💙
Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!
While searching through my plastic shoeboxes of scraps for more neutrals for RSC potato chip blocks, I found the box that had triple treat blocks in it. These were Bonnie Hunter’s Leader and Ender project from 2022. The post-it note said, “40 - need 42 for 6x7 layout.” So I added it to the queue by my machine.
Wednesday after we returned from our walk at the Rec Center, I decided to put them on the design wall.
So I’m linking up with Alycia at Finished or Not Friday.
And I’ll end this post with one small finish just in time.
Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Positive!
It’s the last weekend for October! You know what that means! Table Scraps Projects are ready to be revealed. As I have done for all of 2024, I used my scraps in the color of the month. October’s color was light neutral, or browns. I did have lots of light scraps. I used some in my split nines.
SOME of the rest were used to make crumb blocks. I didn’t really know where they were going. But because the prompt from The Joyful Quilter was Cats….I had a thought. I checked my pattern notebooks. Some ideas were there. I checked the internet. Cat faces were there. I tried to draw my own! Oh my, where are the kids coloring books when you need them. I finally settled on Plan A 1.2! I watched videos!
I topstitched around the outside edge after I turned and pressed them. Lots of seam allowances in crumb fabric. Sometimes it makes a mess on the underside! 😕
Coasters for my Sunday morning coffee. You can’t have too many coasters!
Linking up with The Joyful Quilter for Table Scraps Challenge for October.
And also Rainbow Scrap Challenge in the last Saturday in October.
Come see what others made.
Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful,
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!
Nothing big is happening in my sewing space. But I will share the little things I worked on.
Most of you have seen the scrappy orange basket and the 2 sets of napkins I made for my youngest granddaughter and her beau.
As I was putting my “mess” away and sorting through the brown and dark scraps I came across this fat quarter, full of acorns! I couldn’t resist making a 3rd set (2) of napkins for the little basket. Now it’s nice and fully plump with seasonal pretties.
I also purchased a KAM snap fastener set. I’ve been wanting one for awhile and after reviewing some and checking with friends, I decided on this one.
I practiced by making a color keeper needle book. A scrap of twill-like fabric from a pair of shorts I made for my daughter in 1972, she was nearly eight! And a batting scrap, a strip of white Kona, 2 tiny pins, and a set of snaps!
And then sewed a gift. No pictures of the gift til it is delivered and received! 😜 wink!
I’ll link up with Susan at Quilt Fabrication for Midweek Makers.
Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!
I’m joining with friends at Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching today. Not a lot of stitching progress here. But it’s not so much the destination as the journey for me. Don’t get me wrong, I get excited to finish a stitchery, but the fun is in the doing!
I started on the Woven Wreath’s Sun for August, last week, but did not finish. I attended a 3 day Sew-In or Mini Retreat. Meet and sew and visit and share for 3 days in a row. But sleep in your own bed at home. It’s very popular! I did some block construction.
Not quite 1/2 way with the Sun, but getting there. Stitched Saturday night while watching a new Apple+ movie. The Instigators with Matt Damon, Casey Affleck. Several other faces and names you will recognize, Hong Chau, Ving Rhames, Paul Michael Hauber and Ron Perlman to name a few. But sadly, no recommendation from either of us!
I was disappointed. I like these guys and wish I would have liked the movie!
Today I will continue the Sun. There are lots of stitches necessary in this small design. Very cute though, isn’t it?
I did finally quilt and bind this small placemat. It will go to our local Meals on Wheels. Behind is the similar one I showed last week!
Today, after a birthday celebration for my old boss, I hope to start on some orange scraps!
Some possiblities!!
I’m linking up with Finished or Not Friday hosted by Alycia Quilts.
Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful
We lit the deck fire table ! It was a beautiful evening, the only thing missing was a glass of wine. I was not prepared. 😉🍷
We watched a good movie on Netflix.
have you ever gone to an outdoor play? tell us about it.... Or a concert? do you like outdoor performances?
My favorite recollection was seeing the outdoor production of The Passion Play with Josef Meier in Spearfish South Dakota. That was a long time ago and Mr Meier is deceased. But it was very impressive. The real people, the outdoor venue. I hadn’t been exposed to much theater!
Because we lived in the Black Hills of South Dakota and much family visited. We attended The Passion Play every year. Below is a link to an article if you are interested.
Article from the South Dakota Magazine
The closest I’ve come to an outdoor concert was “Concerts in the Park”. Local talent in our City Park on Summer Thursdays. Families and couples on blankets or lawn chairs on the grass. Very enjoyable. I’d love to go again, but Mr Busy is a curmudgeon about all the people and I’m unsteady on my feet lately, so that’s out!
Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!
It’s the end of June! I was mistaken in my RSC post last week, when I said the 22nd was the last Saturday for blue sewing. Maybe I was thinking of only myself! Haha! We have the 29th to sew blue! I’ve been sewing all the leftovers of the blue on my cutting table! Well, maybe not all the leftovers! But blue crumb blocks were constructed! And blue 5” wide chunks were sewn together.
The chunks were laid on 9.5” x5” pieces of batting..and loosely quilt with X’s . The navy blue star is 5”x5” and quilted to a piece of batting. Then crumb blocks cut 5x5 were layered to plain 5x5 pieces, pressed wrong sides together to make 4 pockets. Those were basted to the bottom of the 5x9.5 chunks!
Then I went looking for watermelon fabric. Because the prompt for this month was “Watermelon” and blue fabric! 🤔🙄
Whoo Hoo! I found some!
So, I’ve been wanting a small but not too small crossbody bag to carry my cellphone, wallet, a hankie and maybe some gum or breath mints. I also have a small collapsible hair brush! You know the essentials but not all the other stuff!
What better way to use up my blue scraps! I found this Whistle Pig pattern in my pattern tote. I made the small one. It calls for a charm pack, but I cut my blue scraps and crumb blocks to 5x5.
This is what happened!
A buttonholes was attempted…..
It’s finished!
And the watermelon print inside! A win-win!
Amended:Sorry for the dark photo, I’ll try for a better one this morning outside!
I’m sharing this project at Table Scraps Challenge and at Finished or Not Friday!
PS: You know I hate selfies, this is what you get!
Stay Busy and Stay Happy!
And Happy 4th of July to my friends here in the USA! 🇺🇸
