Green Mr. Hoot!

I was reluctant to post the photo of my owl from Tiny Tuesday this week. I struggle with "Tiny" and then you add flip triangles in 1" squares and you have a recipe for disaster. I had to trim a couple of pieces to make them fit. And I think my eyes are cut a bit big also. Can you see the left side of his head, on the right as you are looking at him, is "off"?  

But Diann at Little Penguin Quilts posted her owl and he is a bit wonky too. So I am feeling just a tad better!


I am enjoying these Tiny Tuesday blocks so far.  I posted about my sprout and bow tie blocks last week. I am only making 4 of each color so it's easy to get them done all at once. 

Off to link Mr. Hoot up to So Scrappy Saturday  at So Scrappy and to Can I Get a Whoop Whoop  at Confessions of a Fabric Addict!  And I will check out all the other posts at those to blogs! 

 Happy Spring!


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Scrappy Saturday Mostly Green

Finally I have some green to share. March has been a busy busy month. If you read my blog you know that Mr Busy had unexpected gallbladder surgery on the 1st. He had some complications, and spent the next 3 days in the hospital. His pain levels were intense and his breathing saturation levels dropped at night. Alarming the doctors and the nurses. We came home on Monday and the next several days were pretty grim. Needless to say, I did not drive to spend time with my sister during her second round of chemotherapy. I felt so bad about that. She is doing well, better than I had anticipated. Hopefully I will be able to go the next round.

In the mean time, between hospital and doctor visits, checking on the patient, up and down the stairs, and doing regular household chores, I got these done.

4 green sprout blocks. I do not have a plan for them yet!

A green Multiply block. This one was really fun and a bit challenging for me. I always say,  I do not like miniature blocks and this one is tiny.

Five green bow tie blocks and a black one. Yes, black. I have a plan. You'll have to "hide and watch" 

as Mr Busy says!

This can happen when you try to do too many things at the same time. An easy fix, thank goodness!

And I finished appliqueing the lemon peel block from February and turned the Multiply block to the correct orientation. .

Tuesday I dumped my string box and quickly made the #2 block for March.

That's all for this post!  I'll be linking up with Angela at So Scrappy. 


Until next time,

Stay Busy and Stay Happy

Finished or Not Friday March 15

Click on the button in the sidebar and it will take you to Busy Hands Quilts. 

This week has been one of starts and stops, starts and stops. 

Mr Busy is still recovering from his unplanned gallbladder surgery. It's slow going when your in the "elderly patient" category! We were sent home with a oxygen concentrator and that has taken some getting used to! Boy, is it noisy!  Making for sleepless nights and foggy mornings. 

I did manage to get the last seven rows of tumblers put together and then added to the two sections to make a square lap size top. 

Please forgive my slippered toe in the photo.   I selected 4 possible fabric for a border. I laid them out on the family room floor and took a photo, posted it on Facebook and asked for opinions. It was pretty even for the teal, the brown and the yellow. Not many liked the lavender. The teal fabric is leftover from my garment making days and I do not believe it is 100% cotton. I was reluctant to use it because of possible shrinkage problems. Maybe it would have been alright, but I was unwilling to try. So I went with the dark brownish/black mottled. 

So here is the top square ( 60 X 60) top done and waiting for backing and batting and a trip to my favorite long armer. I am really happy with finally getting it to this stage. It has been in my leader and ender box since 2015.

I also finished putting borders on this Nativity panel I have had since.....forever. I purchased it from our LQS and it has been closed for nearly 5 years. I actually bought 2. This is the second one that got borders. Now I need to find some fabric for the back and the binding. My stash is lacking sufficient yardage for both of them. I haven't been able to run to JoAnn's or out to our newer LQS since the 1st of March. (with nursing a damaged spouse).  I'll get to it sooner or later. We survived the last blizzard, so now maybe the longer days and some sunshine with smile on me and I'll have some actual finishes.

I will be linking this post to Myra's Finished or Not Friday !  This link will take you to Myra's page today and you can check out everyone's finishes!



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Green Multiply for Tiny Tuesday #10

Tiny Tuesday's are great fun.

 In addition to all the other challenges I have signed up for this one is providing me a bit of instant gratification. I set to work on the Multiply block designed by Jo Butterfield. https://jobutterfield.blogspot.com/2019/03/multiply-green-rsc19-tiny-tuesday.html


My green scraps were already on my cutting table so I found 4 small pieces and cut them to 1.25" square. That's tiny! In fact they were in my "probably throw away basket"

Then 3 pieces @ 1 5/8"!  That's still little in my book! And finally 3 @ 2 3/4"!  I have a lot of 2 .5" scraps cut, but still it was easy peasy to find some slightly bigger chunks and square them  up to 2 3/4". Now sew!

Mine is in 10 different greens, just like Jo's,  and set on the diagonal as directed. In the quilt this one will not be oriented like this. It will be so:

Multiply next to Lemon Peel!  Aren't they lovely?  When these tiny gems are photographed on my design wall, every little thread shows up. I think I had better get out the lint roller! 

I will link up to Angela's linky party and get busy on the next Tiny Tuesday block!.  FUN!


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March OMG Tumblers Tumblers Tumblers!

March has come "in like a lamb" here in NE Wyoming.....according to the old adage it will "go out like a lion"  I hope that doesn't prove true. The sun shone today, and the temperature was a high of 27!  I know that doesn't sound great, but compared to -11 with snow and wind, it was almost balmy!


I wanted to get my goal posted, I will be gone all next week. I am going to stay with my sister as she goes through Chemotherapy Round #2.  I am taking hand work for the hours of sitting with her, and of course we will talk, talk, talk as sister usually do!

Several years ago I started a tumbler quilt as a leader and ender project. It was the Leader and Ender project for 2015 at Quiltville.com.  I cut and cut....using small strips to get lots of variety.

First I made lots of twosies, then made rows. I finally got some rows sewn into a sort of table runner size. I still wasn't sure how big I wanted to make this quilt. I finally just stopped at 34 tumblers wide.

 Originally I was going to put dark tumblers two wide at each end, to make a sort of faux border. For some reason, I forgot as I was sewing and then did not want to rip out or add on. So I had a "table runner"?  Then since so many tumblers were in my " already cut" box....I made another "table runner" or more like bed runner:  34 X 13 rows .


Now my goal for March is to make 7 more rows of 34, add them to two "tablerunners" to make an almost square quilt top.

You can barely see the two sections here. But 34 tumblers wide is approximately 56".  So I measured the two sections and figured that I needed 7 more rows to make an approximately 56" X 56" square quilt top. That is my goal. To make 7 more rows of tumblers and to join them all up to make the top! 

I have lots of tumblers already cut!

Darks and lights and small strips to cut more if needed. 

I am excited to get this one to "flimsy stage"

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I will be linking this post to Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal March Link-up.

February OMG Goal has been met!

My February OMG goal was to make 4 bowl cozies. I gifted some at Christmas and had a request for more. So I scrounged through my larger scraps! Tried to find something fitting for each recipient and made sure I had 100% cotton batting and thread. Assembly line sewing sometimes makes you think of a faster method. There are 8 angles to cut and sew in each bowl. Times 4, which turned into 5, that is 40 angles!  I after the first 8, I decided to make a template.

 Not pretty, it's part of a facial tissue box, but it worked great!

 Angles marked, stitched and trimmed!

More angles being stitched.

 First one done, 4 others on deck to do the final joining of the lining to the outside!

Here are all five. Four outsides and one inside. Both white ones have turquoise outsides.

I mailed them off for Valentine's Day. One to my daughter, one to my sister, 3 to my granddaughter
and her fiance! (Because the fabric was so cute and I had enough!)


I will link to Patty's
 Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal - February Finish Link-up


Now to decide what I will do for March???


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The Last RSC So Scrappy Saturday in February!

Wow!  Even though February is a short month, I am ready for it to be over. Record cold and snow in my area and today is my birthday.....! 🎂  Just FYI....there would be a lot more candles on my cake than this emoji shows!!!!!!

I finished my Yellow Bow tie blocks and Yellow Sprout blocks  and decided to join the Tiny Tuesday group. The blocks are 5" and then they are framed to become 7.5".  I showed some of my others in this post but here is the tiny flower block I made this week.

I am not particularly fond of tiny little squares and HST. I mean I like them, I am just not good at making them.  But the directions from Academic Quilter made it fairly easy. Especially when I remembered to read every line and trim the blocks as directed.

 These little leaf parts were  to trimmed to 1-1/4 inches and then sewn to make a 2 inch square!

 Not much trimmed off, but some tiny little triangles and some slivers!

That's a nickel to give some size comparison. I worried when I selected the pink fabric. It had some flowers that were kind of yellowish....they did not show at all, by the time I trimmed to size. Just a lovely dusty pink!
I lost one little point when I put the diagonal setting triangles on, but I am happy with this lovely block, so outside my comfort zone!

I'll be linking up to So Scrappy Saturday for RSC 19.


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