To-Do Tuesday and Weekly Progress #14

Every Tuesday, Home Sewn By Us, gives us this forum to record a list of things we want to accomplish and to share them and check them off. No worries if they don't get accomplished. Thanks to Roseanne and Sue for this. This is my 14th link up. 

Last Weeks To-Do List

Nov 3 - Nov 9

1. More Heartland Block, maybe 4?   Done

2. Sew a small zipper pouch.  You can't have too many!   Done

3. Make Christmas fabric masks for Mr. Busy and me.    Done

4. Write November OMG post  and link to Elm Street Quilts.  Done

1.  More Heartland blocks. Maybe four?

October 30th there were 9

Now there are 13

2. Sew a  little zipper pouch.

 

Mostly green with a little pink. 

And a cute starfish charm! 

3. Make Christmas fabric masks for Mr. Busy and myself. When I asked if he would wear a Christmas fabric face mask, he looked at me like I was off my rocker..so now I have 2 new masks. 

 

I used two different, new to me, patterns found on YouTube. 

4. Write  November OMG post and link to Elm Street Quilts. 

Post and Link   Mine is #43

Next week

Nov 10 - Nov 16

1. Continue to make Heartland Blocks.

2. Start to “stage” the stuff that we are taking to our son! 

3. Stitch on November OMG embroidery project. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy! 

RSC20 November / December Scrapbasket Challenge!

 I’ve been chilling,  waiting to see what Joyful might do about our scrap basket challenge! I only have 12 days until I’m away from my machine till the end of the year. So I’m taking the leap of faith that she will accept my challenge. Anyone else want to join in?  Please do. November will be a neutral scrap basket. Your choice of size to fit your allotted space. You pick the technique. There are tutorials out there and there may be one in the making! 

I got an early start!  Slabs and crumbs and strips and pieces all started to puzzle together. Then frakenbatting happened and a piece left over from a worn and stained holiday table cloth became the backing or inside of the basket! 

You can see bits of pink from great granddaughter Miss B’s Welcome quilt, There some black on white that was in a step granddaughter’s college graduation quilt. There’s text fabric and a bit of aboriginal fabric! 

I started by dividing the slab into fourths with the large serpentine stitch on my machine using this thread. It’s a variegated ecru/tan.  Then stitching “snakey” lines the width of my walking  foot!

The lavender dots to the left and the Australia n fabric near the bottom of this section. 

There were some extra crumb blocks and this zipper pouch happened. Truth be told there are more extra crumby blocks to go into the finished basket!  LOL

I hope Joyful will be OK with me starting on my basket! And I hope we get some other takers on the challenge.  So end of November, let's show and tell our Light Neutral Scrap Baskets and then the end of December we will show and tell our Dark Neutral Scrap Baskets!  Deal?

I'm linking up with Angela at her ScrapHappy Saturday!   See you there. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy! 

Finished or Not Finished Friday!

 

I’ve been sewing crumb blocks. Light neutrals in anticipation of the last two months of RSC20. I had some that looked like this. 

Chunks and  odd size pieces. So I made a zip bag using this pattern. 

The pattern uses string blocks. But I had crumb blocks, no problem. I had a white 9 inch zipper,  so the big bag  happened. 

Then I spied this bright green zipper in my tote. 

It’s called a skirt or neck zipper. 7”. The price was 30 cents. This must have been in my mom’s stuff! So I gathered some green strings and 2 pink ones just because. The pattern suggest paper foundation or interfacing. I decided to use interfacing. I have an old stash of that too. It’s not fusible, but for string piecing it doesn’t need to be. 

This is the result. 

The inside is a yellowish neutral that was already cut to the correct size, because......

The zipper pull tab on this zip is little. So I searched my drawers of buttons and baubles and found this starfish charm.

I couldn’t find my jump rings, but I know I have some. Temporarily it is attached with a gold foil twist tie. I think it closed a gift bag of specialty candy once! 

The bigger bag has a scrap of the cut off nylon zipper teeth. Have you ever used the remains of a zipper for a "pull"?

So two zipper pouches are finished and ready to  be added to my bags for our holiday road trip. 

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

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Wear your mask!  Wash your hands!  Stay safe!   Cases are rising all over!

I LIKE THURSDAY #17

 

I'm linking up with LeeAnna at Not Afraid of Color with other bloggers to focus on the good stuff! 

And heaven knows I need some good stuff to focus on considering the Election News that just overwhelms the airwaves!

I like ironed pillowcases....and so does Mr. Busy!    So I iron pillow cases.  I always have!

Especially with Linen Fresh from Best Press!

You all probably remember that my great grandkids live far away.  Thank goodness their parents are good about sharing their adventures with the great gramma and Pa.

I like photos shared on Facebook. JR as Ghostbuster Luigi.  He and his daddy made the Ghost sweeper from a vacuum cleaner found in the trash. They painted it and gave it lights! 

And Miss B as a ballerina!  Because who doesn't want to be a ballerina!  Especially,  if you have pink glittery shoes!

I like scraps of fabric turned into jewels. I need more yellow, more orange, more turquoise.

ENTERTAINMENT:

This is Us is back on Tuesday nights.  Just not this last Tuesday because of the Elections. Some of our other favorites have not started yet!  Like...Chicago Wednesday! (Chicago Med, Chicago Fire and Chicago PD. )

We watched 3 movies last week,  because neither of us are vested in football this year. We are Bronco fans, but they are in a rebuilding phase!  Not a winning season!

The Queen with Helen Mirren

Moneyball with Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill

And Motherless Brooklyn with Edward Norton, Alec Baldwin, Willem Dafoe! 

And I finished my ninth book.   Temptation by Nora Roberts. I've read lots of  Nora Roberts books. This one is an older one!  And it is typical Nora Roberts. 

Now I have to find a book to read for the next week or two. I have lots to choose from. Maybe Robert Galbraith's  The Silkworm.  Or maybe Death on the Greasy Grass by C.M. Wendelboe.

Til next Thursday

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy. 

November OMG Link Up

My One Monthly Goal for November involves some handwork. I  hope to be able to get these embroidery designs done and ready to be made into a Christmas table topper.  Most is hand work. And by Thanksgiving I will be in California without my machine. 

This one is nearing completion. 

These haven't been started. Can you even see them?  A Star and A Heart! They will be sewn into a Hexie patchwork. Like this only Christmas themed,  not Fall themed. 

I have the charm squares packed with the selected embroidery floss for the other two designs. The pattern is in my go-bag too! The top is put together by hand.  The quilting and the backing was added by machine on the one above. 

Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal November Link-up

Click on over to Elm Street Quilts and see what others are working on for November. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy

To-Do Tuesday #13 And Weekly Progress Report!

 

I'm Linking up with Home Sewn by Us....Linky Party for To-Do Tuesday.  Roseanne and Sue host this party to help us be accountable. I think it helps me!

This weeks TO-DO List. 

October 27 - November 2

1.  Make more "fabric yarn"    ✔️

2.  Make two more Heartland Blocks   ✔️

3.  Make a zip bag for a travel jewelry pouch    ✔️

4.  Bonus:  a yellow/gold string block   ✔️

#1   Fabric Yarn to crochet another rug!

A heaping basket and another partial tote. I sew the strips end to end overlapping with a forward, backward,forward stitch. My preferred size is less than an inch wide. But, I'm flexible. In the big scheme of things, it doesn't matter if they are 1" or 1.25"  Much bigger is hard to crochet, they go in the string block bucket!

That big mess became this!  This will go with me on our road trip. I can crochet in the car. I cannot embroider in the car. 

#2. I had 5 Heartland blocks now there are 9. 

#3  Sew a zipper pouch for travel. 

You may remember I started sewing scrap of light neutrals. I made too many!  Some became the outside fabric for this pouch. I used this pattern.  String Block Zipper Pouch. I have used it before and I had a tote full of scraps and strips and interfacing and paper cut to size and even some odd zippers. It went together quickly. 

For the inside I used a tiny print that has been in my stash since I began to quilt. It's little flower buds. I bought way too much back then and have been trying to use it up. It works here. 

Bonus #4    One yellow string block. 

I have been doing string block sporadically for the last year......

I need more yellow, more aqua more orange. My green and blue are mixed of light and dark. No plan as to what these will become. I also have some that are multi colors......just waiting in the wings for inspiration. 

Next Weeks To-Do List

Nov 3 - Nov 9

1. More Heartland Block, maybe 4?

2. Sew a small zipper pouch.  You can't have too many!

3. Make Christmas fabric masks for Mr. Busy and me. 

4. Write November OMG post  and link to Elm Street Quilts. 

Until next time....

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy