Song Sung Blue Neil Diamond

Neil Diamond keeps running through my head lately. April's color is blue and I am feeling blue.


I’ve made a few hollow 9 patches

The bottom two are a bit dark, I'll put them in the box for when Angela picks DARK BLUE!






and I’ve made some face masks in blue.















And there are blue scraps everywhere!


              Two more square facemasks for the 2 great grands in Florida.


I’ve cut some blue pieces for 2 Geese Migration blocks!


 And put them together.

I have some trimming to do on these blocks, but I'll wait til I get ready to put them all together. Sometimes my flying geese can fly out of formation and get a bit wonky! 

Yes, I'm feeling a bit blue lately. It's been cold and dreary, that doesn't help.  This week my husband's beloved cat had to be put down. Yes,it's been blue around here. 

I'm linking up with RSC20 at Angela's blog today. 

 Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy

Judy

(my google photos have disappeared from my laptop)  so no photo of my signature. Weird!

April OMG Link Up

I'm having trouble staying focused on any one thing. OMG is usually good at keeping me motivated so I will commit again this month. It's gonna be a long month, I'm afraid.

This has been on the design wall since the 27th when I posted it to Finished or Not Friday. No progress!!!    My goal is to get the sashing squares cut and arranged, sewed together and this whole top put together - minus an outside border.

I would like to use one of these fabrics for the border, but I don't have enough.

When I began this project I knew I would have to purchase fabric when I got the blocks all together. Now with the stay-at-home orders in place, several online outlets closing their warehouses and retail stores closed too, I know I will not be able to select a fabric. If the world situation changes, things could change.
This is how it looks now.

All of the embroidered and appliqued blocks have a partial sashing attached. Check the block with the camper on the right. There is a row of 2.5" block between the words that say "Merry Merry" and the cute little camper. The blocks at this stage are 12.5" unfinished. There is pieced sashing between each block and of course between the rows. Also the same top, bottom and on each side.

I also will commit to making at least 6 more face masks. I sent 5 to our daughter and family in Florida.  I'll take pictures as I complete them, but they will be donated as I finish them. I don't like making them, but the need is out these. I am out of elastic, almost have depleted my bias tape stash and will have to  make more fabric strips.

Two I made for myself. The top one fits over an N95 mask. 

Over the past 2 days, today is April 2nd. Our county has gone from 1 Covid -19 positive case to 5. I know it is because they tested all the contact of the first case and had to wait for all this time for the results to come back. That is unacceptable in my book. But I can't change it either. As of last night, and I have not looked at the news this morning, we as a state have had ZERO deaths. The state has 137 positive cases. So much better that other parts of our country.

OK, I'm done lamenting and I need to get to my sewing room and get busy.


I'm linking up with Patty at Elm Street Quilts, OMG for April. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy.

Not finished but...........

... it’s on the design wall! That’s a step in the right direction!

I’ve been working on these blocks for a year, slow stitch mostly at a weekly gathering of other stitchers. We meet in a smallish room in a Catholic school. No machines. Just hand embroidery, stitching down of binding, crocheting, knitting, hand piecing.

So now is the time to make the sashings and then I’ll have to decide on a border. I have squares cut and lots more available to cut. The pattern is Hometown Christmas by Sweetwater. It was lots of fun!  A combination of embroidery, applique and now the piecing of the sashings.

I used Christmas fabric from my stash. I "heart" Nancy Halvorsen fabric and her Christmas lines are favorites.

I'm linking up with Finished or Not Friday at Alycia Quilts.

 

Click on over and see what everyone is up to!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy (and Healthy)

March OMG Goal Met Plus One

My goal for March was to make two Easter Bunny table runners from Kristina's original pattern shown at the top of this blog post.  That post also had the tutorial for the carrot block,  so I made the third one with the carrot. I like them all! 

I finished the two for my daughter's daughters first, then went on to do another for my son's daughter. We have 3 granddaughters in 3 corners of our country. Florida, Arizona and Vermont. They couldn't be anymore spread out if they had tried!!

The top one is bound in pink, the middle one in yellow and the bottom one in green. All fabrics from my stash, of course. Now I am going to make one for myself. Heaven knows I've got the time and most likely I can find some fabric too!!!!LOL

I'll be linking this post up at Patty's blog, on her One Monthly Goal March Finish Link Up . 

Thanks to Patty and her sponsors for doing this OMG every month. It really keeps me on track and focused.  A side note, last month I won a prize. A cutting mat set from ecopeco.  The mat(s) arrived and they are great. One is 36 X 24 and the smaller one is 24 X 18! 

Such a pretty color!  Double sided....this darker turquoise on one side and a paler aqua on the other. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy ( and Healthy)

Another Shade of Teal!

I got one more teal geese migration block done and 3  hollow 9 patches!

current blocks 3-21-20

The geese migration solid was a gift from a friend! It is very similar to my stash teal, but slightly darker, I tried to use different prints, but there are some duplicates.

Previous blocks

And I added a teal/ aqua bunny to table runner #3. This one is a bit different from the other 2, it has a carrot block! I like them so much. I hope the girls will like them too! A little bit of love from grandma.

I think I will make one for myself now!

And another bit of aqua arrived on my porch on Tuesday. I won a ecopeco cutting mat set from One Monthly Goal challenge. Aren’t they pretty! I’ve already made a few cuts and it’s very nice. I like the fact that there is a light side and a darker side.

 The light side

And the darker side. And some more teal scraps!  They don't really go away!

You can see my February goal here.

 You might want to join in one OMG for April! Check out Patty’s blog, Elm Street Quilts.

I'm linking up with Angela at So Scrappy for SoScrappy Saturday.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy

And stay Healthy!  We just had a report of our first cases of COVID-19 in our county. There are now 20 in Wyoming!  We are lucky, I know, to live in such a rural area.  My kids and grandkids are not. Daughter is in Lakewood CO ( Denver), son is in Phoenix and a granddaugter and great grands there too. Another granddaughter and family in the Orlando area in Florida and a third granddaughter in a ski area in Vermont. She and her fiance are both now unemployed or furloughed or whatever. Hugs to all of you fellow bloggers around the world. We will get through this! And hopefully be a  better world for it!

Quarantine results

Yes, there is a finish!


I did  show my progress on these Easter Bunny table runners last week. I made them for my granddaughters.  All three who are adults and live in different corners of the country. One in Florida, one in Arizona and one in Vermont!

This week I worked on #3. Now you would think that after completing 2 of the same pattern, nearly same colors that I would have it down pat!  Right?  Not!!

Last week, I mentioned that I had not used any teal ( the RSC20 color for March).  Joy from Joyful Quilter, called me out!  She said, "You could have made a teal bunny." She was correct. So as I was pulling fabric for runner number three, I found a piece of Aqua ( not teal but related!).
I also had a variation by Center Street Quilts. She had a tutorial for a carrot block. I used different fabrics for #3. The yellow bunny was my "doh" moment!

The pattern says cut background first. 1" x 5" strips for between the ears and 10 squares (for each bunny)1.25" x 1.25" for the stitch and flip corners to shape the face and ears. Draw diagonal lines on each. Done! 

Not sew fast , Judy. First corner stitched, its not right! I cut all of them at 1.5"!!!!! Luckily I had enough of the yellow to cut another ear piece.

And then I trimmed all 30 little squares, cause there were going to be 3 bunnies on this one!  Luckily I have a Creative Grid ruler ( no affiation) that is my go to trimming tool. 

It has a 1 and 1/4 mark and a really good diagonal. I just lined up the diagonal mark and the 1 1/4 mark in the bottom left corner and trimmed the top and right side.  whew!

Looking at them all on my dining room table has convinced me that I need one too! So that will be a project for one day soon. 

Thinking of all of you out there. Hoping that your and your family are doing fine. Yesterday, they finally closed all public buildings in our state. We have 15 known cases so far. None in our county. 

People are heeding the social distancing mostly. It's hard to go to the grocery store and stay 6 feet away from everyone. The aisles are narrow and the checkouts are close together. Our 2 smaller groceries, Albertson's and Smith's have implemented special shopping hours for 65 and older. There were more folks there than usual, so I am not sure that helped. Maybe as we "settle in" to this new normal it will be better. 

I'm linking up with Alycia at Alycia Quilts for Finished or Not Friday. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy! 

And Stay Healthy!  Wash Your Hands and Practice Social Distancing!!

No teal this week

I have been sewing, but no teal. Only Easter  Bunnies in Easter like colors

 Finished!

Under construction!

Til next week  I'm linking up with So Scrappy, cause I like to stay connected to all of you!

Stay busy and stay happy

And stay healthy! And Happy Pi Day!