Finished or Not Friday - 10-4-19

I'm linking this post at Finished or Not Friday at Alycia Quilts.

Not a lot accomplished in the finished department this week. I got my One Monthly Goal on the design wall, decided on a layout, made the 3 necessary blocks to complete that.

This project is going with me to Retreat on the 22nd. So I marked all the rows and webbed the first two columns together. Then stacked columns 3,4,5,and 6 in order top to bottom.

I also did a bit of sewing that wasn't a quilt. In my stash, and I save most everything, I still had a piece of black and white gingham left over from a gathered skirt that I made when I was 15. My  paternal grandfather embroidered trees in white on the bottom of the skirt. Border fabric was very popular then and he and my grandmother "made" border fabric. My sister's skirt was lavender and white gingham. Oh, I wish I had a photo!

When my own daughter was about 4, I made her a dress out of the fabric. ( there is a lot of fabric in a full gathered skirt.) Now, her granddaughter, my oldest great granddaughter is 3 and that leftover small chunk of fabric needed to be used. I purchased a black t-shirt at Walmart. I followed  a tutorial
from https://www.coralandco.com/blog/2018/04/easy-t-shirt-dress-tutorial.html.  I would have liked to have enough fabric to make a really full skirt, but sometime you work with what you have.

I found a half a package of covered button blanks and there was just enough fabric from squaring up the skirt rectangle to cover two 1/2" buttons. I sewed them to the neckline, vertically. I haven't tried it on Miss B yet, but I took her measurements last week so I am sure it's pretty close. I will finish the final hem, after she tries it on.


I'm cutting brown, dark scraps for Scrappy Sprouts. Not sure if brown sprout blocks are going to work, but I will make one to check and see.

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