I LIKE Thursday #84

 

Good Morning! 

I have only a small list to share today! It’s not that I’m not grateful! I am! I just didn’t take photos  this week!

First of all, I’m grateful that I survived another year! Every one is a gift! 🎁 

Second,  I’m thankful for my family and friends! I got calls and well wishes yesterday! My kids and grandkids! Both my brothers reached out to wish me a happy birthday! 🎈 

It’s been bitter cold here. Minus temperatures and then wind chill! A neighbor shoveled our driveway, and front walk and porch on Tuesday!  ❄️ 🥶 

A birthday card from 2 of my great grandkids with their handwriting! 

Thank you LeeAnna for this place to sit and take the time to remember and be grateful! Go to her blog, Not Afraid of Color and check out what others have found to like this week.

 Today I have a chance to spend another day with friends, visiting and 🧵 sewing! And then Mr Busy will come to help me load my machine and all my stuff back in the car and back into the house. Another good thing to LIKE!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy! 

February OMG complete

 

My goal was to finish an age old counted cross stitch UFO. This is where I was on Feb 1st. So close and yet lots to do, to call it done! I carried this one forward from January. My January post is here!

It is finished. Laundered, pressed and framed. Ready for Christmas 2022! ⤵️

I’m sharing at Elm Street Quilts.  Thanks Patty for continuing to provide this place to set a goal and try to achieve it!

                      Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal - February Finish Link-up

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy 

To -Do Tuesday #79

Good Morning! I'm checking in with Linda at Texas Quilt Gal for To-Do-Tuesday. I had moderate success this week.




To-Do for Feb 15th- Feb 21st:

1. Continue on Table Scraps Challenge. Decide on binding. ✅

quilting nearly done, binding is too!

2. Make 2 more string blocks in Aqua. ✅

current two to match last years two

3. Mail CiL blocks to Kat. ✖  The package is ready to go to the post office, but it is too cold to shovel the 1.5" of snow. It's -9, as I write this.  Our schools are on a two hour delay! The wind chill or feels like temp is -32! 

I should have gone Saturday morning. But......I must go out tomorrow, so I will take it then. 

4. Find or  construct a backing for a small donation quilt. ✅ I sorted through my tote of donated pieces and found this !  I think it will be just right. It's flannel. 

And here is my list for the upcoming week. My regular monthly sewing group is meeting for a two day mini retreat, Wed and Thurs.  I have a small plan. 

Next week: 

1. Put together a top for donation  through H2H at Mini Retreat. 

2. Finish posts for TSC and OMG! 

3. Get one more Growing Up Odd block made and decide if 9 blocks plus sashing are ENOUGH! I’m getting tired of this block! 

4. Sew something else at Mini Retreat.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy 

ScrapHappy Saturday! President’s Day Weekend!

 

I didn’t think I had sewed on teal/ aqua this week. Except I finished my Table Scraps Challenge project. But it will be revealed during Joyful’s Linky Party next Friday! 

Then I remembered I did make a couple of string blocks! Did I do it this week or last week?  

Four string blocks! 2 made last year, two made last week. If you look closely, lots of the same fabrics! Not much added to my stash. The top two were last year’s, the bottom two this year! 

I’ve started another cross stitch. A small blue teapot on a bread cloth. My patterns are old, so the colors suggested are very dated! 80’s maybe. Country blue and pink!  But  my hoop is aqua and so is my needle minder!  And my cutting mat!

So, that’s all the aqua/teal sewing at this house! I’m linking up with Angela’s party, ScrapHappy Saturday

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!   

(Finally) Finished or Not Finished Friday

 

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

This counted cross stitch project has been ongoing, set aside, picked up again, stitched on, put away, and so on and sew on for years! Now it is done. 

 

It’s laundered, pressed and mounted in a red lacquer tray frame. It will hang on the dining area wall during the Christmas holidays, 2022. For now it is packed away with other Christmas decor. 

It has a glass in the frame to protect the stitchery, but I won’t use it as a tray. The tray frame was purchased from Sudbury House, when I started the stitching in 2001. It was recommended for the stitching by the magazine the cross stitch chart was published in. They still sell tray frames, but not this style. I am very pleased with the finished product! It took Mr Busy and me, 4 tries to get it centered, square and straight on the backing board. He even go out his micrometer, to measure from the frame inside edge to the red X’s surrounding Santa Baker! Love language comes in lots of different forms! Not always chocolates and roses!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy 

I LIKE Thursday #83

 Good Morning All! Hope you will go check out LeeAnna’s blog, Not Afraid of Color and the other blogs she has listed. You are sure to find a smile or a giggle or maybe a tear to share!

Here are some things I LIKE: 

You know I like words-

This is a variation of words my mama lived by. “You don’t appreciate the mountains(highs) if you don’t experience the valleys(lows)!”

This is true of many makers in our midst! I’m thinking of you LeeAnna and you too, Joy! 

And the very old UFO is finished! Getting it mounted and framed was harder than I had imagined. Bonnie Hunter says fabric is fluid. And 20 years of handling this fabric, putting it in a hoop and taking it out of a hoop, poking a needle with floss in and out a zillion times distorted the design a bit. It took Mr Busy and I several hours to measure and mark, position and reposition to get the design centered. It’s still not perfect. There is a bump or wrinkle in the upper right hand corner and I couldn’t bring myself to ask hubby to take the frame apart again. It’s  past Christmas so I will pack it away and next fall I’ll ask again. He would have done it, but I was feeling a bit “crazy”. Ever time we slid the back board, the mounting board, the stitchery, the red wooden mat, and the glass  into the tray frame it skewed somewhere. This was the best of all the tries! 

This is it hanging on the wall in the dining area. 

I really like pictures like these. My two youngest grand nephews. My brother’s grandsons. The little ones turned 1 on Tuesday!

 

For Fun: 

We finished watching Cobra Kai on Netflix! I give it 3.5 stars. I love that the original actors from the Karate Kid movies, appeared as the grown up Daniel LaRusso, Johnny Lawrence and John Kreese. Even Terry Silver and Ali Mills make a cameo appearance! I hated that there were so many bullies and the solution was karate! I didn’t like that there were few societal consequences for most of the acts of vandalism! But I’m an “old lady” like that! 

We (meaning me, Mr Busy plays Sudoku on his tablet) have been watching season 2 of Sweet Magnolias on Netflix! It’s a “chick flick” for sure. But enjoyable!  Season 2 is done, fingers crossed for a 3rd!  

I finally finished my Christmas read!  It’s a  cozy mystery, one of my favorite genres. I rated it 4 out of 5 stars. 

And now am working on this one. It was on the FREE table at our local quilt show last fall! My friend brought it to me! I didn’t sort through all those books and magazines! 

There are actually 4 short stories! I’ve just started the second one and there is a connection to the first story. I wonder if all 4 have a connection! I think maybe! 

I made brownies for Valentine’s Day.  I’ve had to freeze 1/2 of them. Too much for just the two of us. I meant to take a photo, but didn’t! 

Until next time, 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy 

To-Do Tuesday #78

 

Another Tuesday another To-Do list! I'm joining Linda and friends to share what I did last week and what I hope to get done this week. Come join us.  Linda is at Texas Quilt Gal. 

Last weeks list:

Feb 8 - Feb 14th.

1. Launder and mount Santa Baker. I'll need Mr Busy's help for this one. 

1/2 done. I couldn’t lace the fabric around the mounting board. I had to wait for mounting tape to arrive from Amazon.  Hobby Lobby did not have it, nor did JoAnns. It arrived Monday evening at 5:30. But it was Valentine’s Day, so there was dinner and a movie and a special dessert! I’ll get it done this afternoon. 

2. Continue working on TSC for February. Aqua and Improv.  Take photos for post at the end of the month. 

✅ I’m in the quilting stage. The post will be done soon. 

3. Make balance of HST in red and aqua for the first two rows of Zig Zag Quilt.

✅ The aqua HST are joined into a row. The red ones are 6 blocks of 4, ready to be joined together. 

4. Start a new slow stitching project. ✅ 

It’s a counted cross stitch Teapot in the corner of a bread cloth. Why? Because it was all in my stash. Except for DMC 3756, needed for 8 stitches. Thank goodness my friend Connie had a skein of that color and gave me 12 inches. Gotta love friends who share your hobby.

To-Do for Feb 15th- Feb 21st:

1. Continue on Table Scraps Challenge. Decide on binding.

2. Make 2 more string blocks in Aqua.

3. Mail CiL blocks to Kat.

4. Find or  construct a backing for a small donation quilt. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!