To-Do Tuesday #16

  

Each Tuesday, I try to participate in TO-DO Tuesday hosted at Home Sewn By Us. Roseanne and Sue give us this format to commit to and to be accountable for a to-do list! No pressure though! It’s all good! 

Last Week’s list, 

1. Continue stitching on Christmas designs. ✔️

2. Start on fabric yarn crochet rug! ✔️ 

I just barely got started! I chained 40. And then started back across, but it twisted badly, so I put it away till I was out of the car!  I did finish one that I had started a few months ago. It’s now finished! 

Well, almost! I have to tie off and weave the tail back in! 

Next week:

1 . Finish the embroidery and post OMG for November link up.

2. Start cutting hexes for the Christmas table topper. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy 

ScrapHappy Saturday Late Posting

 Well, here we are almost to the end of November. We arrived safely at our son’s house. We are staying in, except for neighborhood walks. He lives alone, works from home and is in a very small town. 

I have a bit of scrappy light neutral sewing to show! 

There was a slab, trimmed to size! 

Then some quilting was done.  And a seam sewed and then finished with a zigzag stitch. Times like this I wish I had a serger! 

We saw several overhead signs on our road trip!  I tried photos, but they were both a fail. They said , “Arrive Alive! Then Wear Your Mask”  The weather was fabulous, so there was no need for weather warnings! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy! 

I Like Thursday # 19

 Sharing today a few photos and items I am grateful for this week! Check out the other posts at Not Afraid of Color to see lots of “Likes” today! Thanks LeeAnna for giving us this place to be Thankful!

1. Last week our “beverage/party” fridge failed. It was the fridge that we used since we moved into this house in 1988. We replaced it about 8  10 years ago and put it in the garage, thinking it would last 6 months or so!     I am THANKFUL for friends that came forward and offered us this wonderful replacement! 

2. We normally ZOOM with kids and grands on Sundays. But our youngest granddaughter called me Tuesday after she got home from work. It’s good to talk one on one! She is my "Miss Sunshine"! So GRATEFUL that she is happy and well. 

3. I spoke with my friend and long arm quilter that had been diagnosed with COVID-19. She is feeling much much better and says she’s back to 100%. THANKFUL!  

 

4. As you read this we are on our way to share the holidays with our son. He was going to be alone...I couldn’t let that be the case! We are taking extreme precautions as we drive West.  Masks, hand sanitizer, Clorox wipes, 6 ft apart, no crowds.  We are so EXCITED to be able to see him!

4. We had a little “oh no!” happen Sunday. As I started my car, the check engine light came on. Mr Busy added the diesel fuel additive, that the owners manual stated may be the  reason. Nope! So he immediately called the dealer and they got it in at 7 am Tuesday. By noon we had it back in the driveway, all better. Nothing serious, it was low on coolant! What! Oh well, they added coolant and did not bill us!   I LIKE THAT!

No" Check Engine" light

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy 

To-Do Tuesday and Weekly Progress #15

 Each week, Roseanne and Sue provide this platform to share a to-do list and then report how we did the next week. It really is keeping me on task. So, I’m linking up with Roseanne and Sue at Home Sewn By Us! 

Last week.

 1. Make more Heartland blocks. ✔️

2. Stage stuff ✔️

3. Work on embroidery blocks ✔️

1. There were 13, now there are 20.  Because my design wall is in the hallway, this layout is horizontal. The quilt will be 4 blocks wide by 6 blocks tall! But now I have hit a wall. I don’t have enough fabric to make 2 more large bordered squares. Unless o piece the leftovers  with extra border fabric. Mathematically I should be able to do that. I haven’t yet. I will wait until these are sewn together and remeasure. 

2. I’ve been gathering and organizing. Two black bags are my handwork projects and the supplies needed. 

3.  The star is almost done. I need to decide on the stripes. I had planned on gold, but the contrast isn’t enough. Maybe aqua, maybe lime green.....I have to get out my floss stash! 😀

Next week, a smaller list. 3 days will be on the road. 

1. Continue stitching on Christmas designs.  (In the evening when we get to our destination.)

2. Start fabric yarn crocheted rug. (I can do this in the car, as long as I’m not driving!)

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy! 

ScrapHappy Saturday

 There has been some scrap sewing!

Mostly neutrals! 

With a variegated neutral that has been in my stash for awhile. 

Some multi colors!  There has to be a project in this tote, don’t you think? 

I found two large  triangles.....bias binding perhaps?

Some dark scraps! 

Nothing to show and tell, just yet! 

I still haven’t found background for these scrappy sprouts! It’s the same old story! No shopping being done, I’m reluctant to purchase  online, for fear of not being satisfied! My LQS has limited selections. And my focus has been elsewhere lately. So these were labeled and put back in a project box for safekeeping! 

I did make these...

Four hollow 9s. ....In browns and beiges. I have lots of brown.....cause several years ago this walk hanging happened! 

And to round out the neutral theme!  This today! 

I'm linking up with Angela at ScrapHappy Saturday!  

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy

Finished or Not Finished Friday

 I’ve been trying to straighten my sewing room. I don’t have lots of room, so I try to stay sort of organized. That project is NEVER FINISHED. I’ve also been doing some “secret” sewing. I will be away from my machine for all of December.  You’ll just have to be patient. 

Just a "peek"

Quilting my go-to serpentine stitch in dark blue thread. 

I do have this small finish. The first Christmas embroidered motif that will become a hexagon table topper! The colors may seem odd....

but I am hopeful that when used with the fabric line Holly Jolly, it will be a fun happy table topper! 

So just a  little bit of sewing done this week.

 We purchased license tags for our car, they expire the end of November. We got our flu shots. The Public Health office here is not giving them at this time. 6 of their 13 employees are out with COVID.  So we ended up at Walgreen's. The Pharmacist was a lovely young lady but not as good a "shot giver"as the Public Health Nurses!  My arm is "sore"!

And I am making plans for our road trip!  All precautions in place. Sanitizer, wipes, masks, supplies to eat in the car and in the hotel room.  We are good.!

I leave you with these two photos taken out the back door at my brother and SIL's house just outside of Rapid City SD.  This huge ram just wandered past as they were having morning coffee. 

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

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

I LIKE THURSDAY #18

I'm joining I LIKE THURSDAY at Not Afraid of Color again this week.  Several good things to like this week. The weather has been mild. Mr Busy and I are walking every day. Earlier now, that it gets dark at 4:45!! But right after lunch the sun is usually shining and the infamous Wyoming wind isn't blowing. 

 Beside my chair:

It's a bad photo. But there is my embroidery project. Free of the hoop!  Do you take your stitching off the hoop when you are not stitching? It's a habit I developed a long time ago when I did a lot of counted cross stitch. 

A basket of stitching supplies. Floss and needles. A scissors on a lanyard and magnifying glasses that fit over my regular glasses. The small spiral notebook is a hand written reminder of which floss color I had decided to stitch where. 

Also my phone, because you can't be too far from your peeps! And a cute tiny tin with a Turkey on it!

Some Thanksgiving wall decor. 

This turkey was fun to do!

I'm especially fond of this one. 

And on my buffet :  Table runner plus some  ceramic figurines I painted many years ago, when ceramics was a passion.  

Entertainment:

THIS IS US   is  back....

How can  you not love Mandy Moore and Milo Ventimiglia?

 it’s still a favorite .

Season 5     Sterling K. Brown and Susan Kelechi Watson - Randall and Beth

                    Milo Ventimiglia and Mandy Moore - Jack and Rebecca

                    Justin Hartley - Kevin

                    Chrissy Metz and Chris Sullivan - Kate and Toby

   

No movies to review or point you to this week.  WE( Mr Busy, mostly) have been glued to the news stations. We are pleased with the election turnout mostly. But wanting the nation to get on with the business at hand....transitioning to a new administration. This is hurting us all!

We do break  to watch JEOPARDY. It's been a favorite for many years. Our supper hour is planned around a local Denver News magazine called NEXT and JEOPARDY.  We were so saddened to learn of the passing of Alex Trebek. He fought a brave fight!

I’m reading a book on my tablet! I downloaded Libby that links to my local library. I checked out Born A Crime by Trevor Noah. So far it very interesting! I have it for 14 days. 

And I have started reading On Borrowed Time  by Jenn McKinlay, in paperback. When I entered it to my Goodreads page, I realized it was Library Lovers Mystery #5. I usually will not read a series out of order. But I have started and I don't have the others in the series. So  I will finish this one. And it is kind of good, so far..  I probably will go back and look up the others. A typical Cozy Mystery, but I like that genre. 

I apologize for the fuzzy photos. I saved them from Goodreads.  Usually that works for me, but not this time. 

I hope you will go check out all the other posts on the I Like Thursday post at Not Afraid of Color. LeeAnna does a great job posting her likes and giving us all a place to post ours. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy