To- Do Tuesday #81

 

Good Morning! I’m linking up with Linda at Texas Quilt Gal, hosting To-Do Tuesday. Here we share our list of projects to work on, and other chores to do, so everyone can see! Want to join us?  Please do! 

March 1 - March 7

1. Cut batting for Ninja Friends and Chunky Churn Dash! ✅

2. Continue blocks for placemats in aqua and March color! 👎🏻

3. Use 2" squares as leader and enders to make the 9 patches for  Growing Up Odd ( I need 7 more blocks)✅ 

4. Watch for new color announcement from Angela at RSC2022 and technique/idea prompt announcement from Joyful at Table Scraps Challenge. edited: RSC2022 color for March is Yellow and Table Scrap’s prompt is Flowers! ✅ 

Portable design board with the pieces for the 3rd block for the yellow zigzag row

I cut the batting for the two small quilts. Then discovered my spray baste was empty! I have replaced it but have not progressed. 

I did not sew any more placemat blocks! I totally spaced out that to-do item. Doh! 

I am using 2 in square as Leaders and Enders as I sew yellow HST and Happy Blocks! 

Next Week  March 8 - March 14th.

1. Try to get 2 small quilts spray basted! It will depend on the weather.

2. Finish constructing yellow zigzag row.

3. Sew 4 Happy blocks for ScrapHappy Saturday! 

4. Sew at least one yellow placemat block! 

Hopefully I’ll have a modicum of success this week. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy 

Judy

Slow Sunday Stitching 3-6-22

 I’ve started a new block for an old UFO project!       Several years ago, 2018, 

I downloaded the stitchery patterns for a special quilt from Jennifer Reynolds, Jenny of Elefantz! I gathered fabric. Selected floss and got busy! I wish I had kept better records. But something kept me from finishing. It might have been a new project, it might have been that my arthritis flared up! I don’t know. But I got stopped! 

Cross stitching on Santa Baker, 

got me sort of back into hand stitching. 

During the Winter Olympics, I worked on this little bread cloth. 

And then I worked on this while binge watching 1883! . 

I’ve finished this into a smallish dough bowl filler. Though I don’t have a dough bowl yet! So it just on my buffet this month! 

So, back to A Year  in The Garden. I’m just getting started on August!

I’m linking up with Kathy's Quilts and Slow Sunday Stitching.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy, 

ScrapHappy Saturday 3-5-22

 

I’m linking up late this Saturday afternoon. I had to spend a bit of time playing with yellow! Come see what others have been doing,ScrapHappy Saturday  where Angela hosts the Rainbow Scrap Challenge! 

The new color for March is Yellow. A sunshiny happy color if we ever needed one. And it is one of the national colors of Ukraine. I'm sure there will be lots of yellow sewn this month. Some for our own regular RSC projects and blocks, but there will be some added block drives and donation quilt drives. Participate if you can. 

 

Here is a photo of my yellow scrap basket!   I think I may have to go shopping!

I was able, on Saturday, to cut 24 individual yellow squares and sewed 1/2 of them. Then cut, trimmed and pressed 4 different ones to put up on the design wall! 

Guess I’d better get busy! I need 24 HST and some Happy Blocks. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy! 

Finished or Not Finished Friday! 3-4-22

 

I wish I had a quilt finish to show! I hoped to have two small donation quilts at least basted and quilted! 

But it was not to be. My usual method is to spray baste outside. On the porch or in the garage. I couldn’t get the legs of my small collapsible table to extend. The strength in my hands is not what it used to be. So I forged ahead bent over the low table! Ugh! 

I unrolled the smaller quilt and started to spray! I knew the can was almost gone. Curses! I ran out of basting spray! So I put everything away, intending to get a new can while I was out on Thursday! My senior brain let me forget! I will stop at JOANN'S today, when I go pick up my groceries! 

So the only finish I can report (in the quilting category) is that I FINISHED OFF the can of basting spray! Next week, I’ll return. The cold weather is coming back, but I’ll try to get it done even so. Fingers Crossed! 

I did get the stitching done on this little gem and picked a backing fabric.

My Shamrock banner is hung on the wall. 

 And I finished reading this book! 

I’ll link up with Alycia Quilts and Finished or Not Finished Friday. You can click her Linky party and check out some other quilter’s “real finishes”!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

I LIKE Thursday #85

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 Good Morning Positive Thinkers!  Thanks LeeAnna, who posts at Not Afraid of Color for this opportunity to share the positive good things in our lives. Join us, won't you?

I have a few "Likes" to share today!

Words of course!

I've been playing WORDLE:  Have you tried it?       Here is a link:

This is my board from yesterday!

Wordle 256 4/6

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Entertainment.  Mr Busy is working his puzzle.  The blue trays are sorter trays. He added a set of 4 more, the white ones, that he made out of Dollar Store foam board. 

It's a tough one, but cute. Dogs, dogs, dogs and a football!

We have been watching 1883 on Paramount +.    It is awesome!     Sam Elliott, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Isabel May!   Great story, great cast!

If you don't know, it's the story of the settlers who travel across our country and some are the Duttons from the Yellowstone series!  

Misc:

I picked up my regular Friday grocery order at WalMart. Some of my groceries were in Home Depot bags!!  How funny is that?  Several friends told me that they( Walmart) had run out of regular plastic bags, which I hate anyway. So they purchased some from  our local Home Depot. Way to be a good neighbor, HD!   But I wish they had just asked me to bring my own fabric bags and loaded them from the totes into my bags in the back of the car.  That's how they do it in California!

I learned how to make a collage photo for my Google profile!   Fun! 

Food:  I made quiche for supper one night!  Yup, that's a Christmas coffee cup but I like the shape so I use it occasionally! 

It's a recipe from my mom that I tweaked a bit. I used bacon, left-over broccoli, onion and peppers. 

Today I will sew with friends at the library. We call ourselves the Thursday Stitchers. We don't carry our machines, just embroidery, or stitching on binding. We have some that work with wool or felt, one is working on a Kawandi of sorts. I have an embroidery project that it ongoing. And there is always Show and Tell. And we visit and,visit and visit.are 

Today the weather is good. A high of 66 today!  That is unseasonalby warm for out area. Then back to more winter like 46 on Friday, then a high of 28 on Saturday. Typical March!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy

March OMG Link Up 2022

 

I'm linking up with Patty at Elm Street Quilt to set my goal for March!

Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal March Link-up

I’ve been sewing 2” square into 9 patches (3x3), 21 patches (3x7) and 49 patches (7x7). Then sashing them . Following a pattern from Wedding Dress Blues called Growing Up Odd. The link to her blog is here!

There are 9 big blocks on my back up design wall. It’s located in the downstairs hallway. The lighting is poor! 

I don’t think this is as big as I want it, so I’m increasing it to 4x4. I need 7 more blocks! There are 91 ~2" squares in each big block, plus internal sashing.There will be sashing between the blocks also. 

So my OMG for March 2022 is to complete 7 more blocks! It seems like it takes forever! I’m using them as Leaders and Enders, but at some point I have to stop and put the rows together! So now I have a goal! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy 

To-Do Tuesday #80

 

I'm linking up with Linda at Texas Quilt Gal to keep track of my goals and in-progress projects. Heaven knows I need all the help I can get.  I seem to be "stirring my chaos" as my sister used to say!

Last week I hoped to:

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

Ninja Friends, from this book! ↓ The pattern is called  Simple Gifts. It's a great book, recommended to me by Nancy at Grace and Peace Quilting. 

2. Finish posts for TSC (Table Scraps Challenge) and OMG(One Monthly Goal)  ✅ done…see here and here

3. Get one more Growing Up Odd block made and decide if 9 blocks plus sashing are ENOUGH! ✅

I completed the block on the lower left and decided that 9 blocks is not enough. Even though they are large, it would be a short square lap quilt and I'd like a more rectangular one. So I will make it one block bigger all around and then add an extra border top and bottom to get to a rectangle. I have lots of 2" square cut and bought enough fabric for sashing to make the original quilt size.  It's 90x90 or 5X5 blocks.

 But I'm getting tired of doing this block so 7 more it is!

4. Sew something else at Mini Retreat.✅ 

Odd pieces of flannel, pieced to make a backing for Ninja Friends.  Yes, it needs to be trimmed up!

Upcoming week~ March 1 - March 7

1. Cut batting for Ninja Friends and Chunky Churn Dash! 

2. Continue blocks for placemats in aqua and March color!

3. Use 2" squares as leader and enders to make the 9 patches for  Growing Up Odd ( I need 7 more blocks)

4. Watch for new color announcement from Angela at RSC2022 and technique/idea prompt announcement from Joyful at Table Scraps Challenge. edited: RSC2022 color for March is Yellow and Table Scrap’s prompt is Flowers! 

That should keep me out of trouble and maybe elevate my mood!  

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!