November OMG Goal Setting Link Up

Here we are!  November already! Time to set another goal! I thought about several. But I chose to work on my Temperature Quilt. I got behind in  October and now we are in a new month. So my OMG for November is to catch up with the October blocks, get the separating black strip attached to the bottom of the October strip and keep up with November. 

The year is almost done and I have enjoyed doing a little bit every day! ( except October....)

This is through September! It was unseasonably warm, see the orange rectangles. Those are 90's. Not 100's this year at all!!!!

And the first 6 days of October! Still with their chain stitching, but not sewed together. I did record the temps every day. They are on a chart on my iPad, so its only a matter of cutting the proper colors of pieces and getting them together. There are going to be lots of blues and maybe even a few purples. It has been COLD!    I can DO IT! 😁 

I'm linking up with Patty at Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal November Link-up.


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Retreat Project 10-2019 and some RSC19 sewing

I did not get the last 3 Tiny Tuesday blocks done. I will work on them soon. I was at a retreat for a few days the 3rd week in October and some scrappy sewing was accomplished.

First and foremost was the completion of the quilt top for my RSC19 Bow Tie blocks. Mr Busy held it up from behind the back fence. Wish I would have pushed the gate shut....then you would not have to look at our trash cans!

I had made black bowties all along, because I knew I wanted to feature them. This will be a car quilt, to go in my "new last November" black Equinox.  Chevy logo=bow tie. Maybe you have to be married to a car guy to "get it", but it works for me. I'll be looking for a dark backing so we can use it for a picnic quilt and not have to worry too much about getting it dirty. Plus we have " littles" in the car sometimes, so you know it will get used. Some of the blocks seem a little light in the big picture, but it is what it is and they were all from my stash. But a lesson to remember.


While at retreat, this happened too!

Lots of squares and strip piecing to make 9-patch and rail blocks. Here are 6, I made 14. I haven't put them on the design wall yet, I may need 2 more for a 4X4 layout for a good size kid quilt. Again, only scraps from my stash!  And the novelty bin is still "full"

And these 2" squares became:     I used Bonnie Hunters Essential Triangle Tool to make the 2" HST from 2.5" matched strips. Some neutral and blue, some neutral and red and some red/blue.  The layout on my portable design boards was a bit tricky. We were limited in space, but I just did the 4 quadrants , one at a time and that worked.

I'm early for 4th of July!  There is a sashing strip of neutral down the middle with a red square in the center. I kind of like it this way though. Guess I'll make the sashing strips and then decide. It's a pillow cover.


That's it for my scrappy October sewing. I'll be linking up with Angela at Scrap Happy Saturday and spend November working on my Tiny Tuesday blocks.

I'm also linking up with Can I Get a Whoop Whoop! over at Confessions of a Fabric Addict!


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Finished or Not Nov 1 2019

I’ve been a bit absent here lately. I havebeen sewing, but not enough progress to post about. I spent 3 days last week at a retreat. My OMG was completed. See my post about it. And some other blocks were assembled. I'll show those in a day or two.

 Also back from my quilter were these two wall hangings. They have been UFO s for a long time. The first one is totally done. The second on will be completed this weekend.

#1

This was a panel that I added to to make it 36 X 54

The back has hanging triangles in the corners. Do you add triangles or a hanging sleeve to your wallhangings?

#2

 I used a pattern called Sidelights for this one. The same panel, slightly different fabrics.

Can you see the snowflake pattern my quilter used. Because I will donate these to our local library's Silent Auction Fundraiser, my quilter generously donated the quilting!  Thank you MJ.

This one has hanging triangles also.

My hand has been giving me some pain recently, so I work on it in small chunks of time.

And this was a UFO challenge for APQ for October. I hoped to finish it by the 31st. But tiny ghost and goblins and a chili supper took precedence . One more side to hand stitch the binding and a few more threads to bury and that makes 3!

The pattern is called Wrapped and the colors are non traditionally Christmas. 

I did some straight line "channel" quilting on my Bernina. It's certainly not perfect, but it will be staying with me. Lots of thread ends to bury. Thanks to Patty for the tips here. I knew how , but the reminder was just in the nick of time!


I'm linking up with Finished or Not Friday..  Pop over and see all the finishes and nearly finishes.


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OMG for October

I've been on retreat!  We, of course, had a great time. There were 13 of us in a not very large convention room. We were coxy!   I took no pictures except of this range of the Big Horn Mountains on my way home.  Yup, that is snow! We had lovely driving weather to the retreat and great weather coming home. While we were there, the temperature dropped, we had intermittent snow flurries and some freezing rain. But we just sewed and sewed!  No problem.

My OMG for October was to get my RSC 19 Bow tie blocks together into a flimsy/quilt top!

Mr Busy donned his Carhart jacket and gloves to hold this against our back fence for pictures. It is cold today, 27 degrees with a windchill to feel like 18 degrees.
But it is done. I haven't picked a backing yet...I looking for something dark, as it will be a car quilt. I titled it "We Switched to Chevy".  My new Chevy Equinox is black.  Chevy grill symbol is called a bowtie.  Get it???

We have snow at home too!


So my goal was accomplished

I did get some other things done at retreat. I'll save those for another post.


I'll link up with Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal - October Finish Link-up



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ScrapHappy Saturday October Dark

October color is dark: browns, blacks, greys

I already made black Bow Tie blocks for my "We Switched to Chevy" quilt! There are 8 black blocks here.

And the first Tiny Tuesday block:

When you cut for tiny blocks, sometimes you can't include all the fabric= (Cho)colate!

Then I did one more purple sprout block, because all the pieces were already cut and ready to go.

I wasn't sure I wanted to make brown/black/gray scrappy sprout blocks....but I have a large basket of brown fabric. Some yardage, some fat quarters, some scraps. So I dove in, cut 2.5" squares, 2.5" strips of light and dark to make HST and some neutral 2.5" squares. Two done and they aren't too bad!

My first week of brown is in the books. Not sure about more brown/gray/black sprouts, but I can always do some string blocks.

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I'll link this post to Angela's ScrapHappy Saturday link up party as soon as she posts in the morning. It's 8PM in Wyoming and it's raining. No snow yet, so that's a plus. Tomorrow is our local NEW (North East Wyoming) Quilt Show. I entered 2 small quilts. I'll try to remember to take photos of the spectacular ones and post them next week.

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.

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One Monthly Goal for October- Bow Tie Quilt (flimsy)

I’ve been making bow tie blocks as part of RSC19 at so scrappy. I wasn’t sure of the layout I was going to use, but I knew it was going to be a throw for my new (then) car. It’s a black Equinox, the Chevy logo is referred to as a Bowtie, so I knew I wanted to include black bow tie blocks.

My OMG goal is to get this flimsy put together.  You can see that I need one more pink and one more yellow block. In the 6th column!

OOPS!  This can happen when your use directional fabrics and you don't know what your layout is going to be. I cannot live with this, even though it will be folded up in my cargo area, or secured in a bag, it's not right. So I will make one more yellow bowtie block.

 So I made 1 pink and 2 yellow. I’ll use the “wrong way” yellow one as a label. I will take this to my October retreat on the 22nd. That may be cutting it close, but I will make it my first project of the time there.

We woke up to this:

It will be a good day to stay in and get projects ready for retreat. I am sure we will have a few good days to put the deck furniture and the baby pool away!  At least I hope so.

I am linking up this post with Patty's October link up:


Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal October Link-up.



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