A small Finish and two Not Finished

I’m linking a little finish and two other projects in the race but not to the finish line. Alycia @ Alycia Quilts hosts the Linky Party. 

This little pillow wrap was finished because a squirrel that hopped up on my cutting table. I wrote more details about this last Sunday here. 

This pieced scrappy backing. 

And now it is finished and wrapping the solid dark red pillow. 

And the back….the most military looking buttons in my button jars. No buttonholes. The buttons are stitched through both top and bottom overlapping flaps with  perle cotton. 

Hollow Nines is  quilted and ready to be trimmed and bound. The binding is ready to be attached to the quilt as soon as I get the batting and backing trimmed. 

And a newly finished quilt top, ready to be sandwiched. Hopefully next week I’ll get it to a long arm quilter. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

I Like Thursday #94

Good Morning!  And Happy Cinco de Mayo!   

I'm posting a short I LIKE Thursday today. If you'll click on over to Not Afraid of Color

you will find that LeeAnna has listed the links to lots of bloggers who have gratitude today. 

I usually start my I LIKE posts with words I've found on the internet that speak to me. Here is the latest. Isn't that drawing of the hedgehog with the dandelion the cutest?

I've started a new quilt. This one is NOT scraps. Now you know I LIKE scraps, but I needed something to "get started and get done".  The top is done. 

On the left is the pattern cover. I bought a kit from a quilt shop in Minnesota back in 2007! The kit had lovely fabrics to make version 2 which is shown in the upper left of the pattern photo.   I am pleased! I think I have a great backing choice and the binding was included in the kit! It is the black oriental writing print. It is 36 x42. I will put hanging triangles on the back, 

Also I have binding to make for this scrappy cutie! I’ll be excited to get this one done too! 

Mr Busy has an appointment at the eye institute this afternoon. So we are probably driving as you read this.  It’s a 2+ hour drive depending on the weather. The forecast is good. And we have plans to meet my brother and sister-in-law for lunch. I have this cute little sticker for her car window. 

My SIL is a great advocate for Peace ( she boasts  about being a hippie) and Love, ( she collects all things heart shaped and signs all texts and notes with a Purple Heart 💜). She also loves to seek out baby bison born in the early spring in Custer State Park near their home. I thought this was absolutely perfect! 

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May One Monthly Goal Link-up ~ Bind Hollow Nines!

I finally decided on which project to list as my May 2022 OMG. 

I have lots of items to work on. Some not even quilt related. But a friend offered to quilt one of my “flimsies”  She has had her long arm about a year and is finally feeling confident enough to quilt for “piecers” like me.  

I gladly accepted and searched my stash for a backing. I started to piece a backing from some appropriate fabric. Then I made a miscalculation! Ugh!  So a quick trip to JoAnns yielded this multi-colored “sprinkle “ fabric. I like it. 

The quilting is very subtle. A daisy meander with white thread. When it's all finished and bound, I'll try to get a photo outside. Today and most of this week, it has been dreary and rainy. We need the rain so I am not complaining. 

 My goal for May is to find a binding fabric, construct a binding and get it machine attached to the quilt. Make it ready for hand quilting the final step! 

Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal May Link-up

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TO-DO Tuesday #89

I'm linking up my to-do list at Texas Quilt Gal's blog, and To-Do Tuesday. Thanks Linda for giving us this place to commit to some plans and then see them through. And if we can't get that done every week, we'll try again! Let's see how I did.

Last week  April 26- May 2

1. Publish a post for April Table Scraps Challenge.  My post is here!

2. Write an entry for OMG Finish !  And the post is here!

3. Make Growing Up Odd block.  #15  Not done. Though I did sew some 2" squares together 

4. If the new RSC color is announced, sew some HST for Zig Zag rows.  I did not see a new color posted until Monday evening as I was preparing this post. So nothing done on HST. Watch for green next week! 

5. Continue stitching on Year in the Garden - September

This is where I am….just a bit of blue and the finish on the sign. . 

Next week: May 3-May 9

1. Finish Patriotic Pillow Cover that was probably a Squirrel. I posted about it a little bit here for Kathy's Slow Sunday Stitching on May 1st

2. Sew something in the RSC color for May!  (I know now it is Sage or Forest green.)

3. Table Scraps Challenge is SQUARES!!!  What to do?????

4. Borders on small UFO found!  Its called FRAMES from Maple Island Quilts. 

5. Hollow Nines is back from the quilter:  Trim and get the binding attached to the front. 

I hope I can accomplish all these items. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Slow Sunday Stitching and Happy May Day!

I'm joining Kathy and other Slow Sunday Stitching stitchers to share what I am working on during the sit-down part of the day. And maybe while we zoom with our kids and their families. Sometimes there is so much conversation, I just have to be still and listen to the love.

This project is an old UFO. It is a preprinted panel that was purchased along time ago when we crafters were embellishing sweatshirts and denim vests. I didn't do either, but bought the panel because our family room was/is decorated in old red, cream and blue.   I ran across it again while looking for a kit I bought in Minnesota at Gruber's Quilt Shop in 2007. That's a story for another day. 

It will be a pillow wrap. I had a booklet of those too!  I added some blue star fabric that very nearly matched the blue star fabric that surrounds Uncle Sam on the old fashion bicycle. Joined some batting scraps, constructed a backing from various pieces of patriotic type fabric and got it quilted up. I'll bind it today.  Next week , I'll show the finish. 

You can barely see the footrest part of my blue recliner in the picture above↑↑ I've got my feet up ready to stitch. Happy May Day!💐

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April OMG Finish Post

My goal for April was to work on finishing 2 more Growing Up Odd blocks. I had 11 blocks on my design wall, when I wrote my goal setting post. I need 16 blocks to make the quilt. One was completed early in the month, I finished one last week and the third one just in the nick of time for this finish post. So I met my goal + one!

Two more needed for a total of 16. I'm almost there. 

This will obviously be an on going maybe never ending project! I am determined but it will not be a OMG for May. I'm getting a little (no, a lot) tired of this one. So I'll keep sewing 2" squares till the last 2 blocks are done. 

Hop on over to Patty's blog and see what goals were met for April.

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

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Finished or Not Finished Friday. 4-29-22 and Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2022. 4-30-22

I haven't had a finish in recent weeks that I could show you. I was saving it to link to Table Scraps Challenge for April at The Joyful Quilter.   And now I can show it here. 

It's a casserole mat. Two pieces of batting AND a layer of insulbrite. It is fluffy. But I like it and it will get used'

I also dug out an old UFO project and finished it!  A fabric covered clothesline bowl!  Have you ever attempted this type of project?

And, I finished two placemats for the RSC 2022 for April and February.  The aqua scrappy blocks were made in February but not assembled til last week. When I was assembling the pink placemat I decided to assemble the aqua ones. Because when you finally decide to get your quilting/walking foot attached to your machine and wrap your head around what you are going to do, you might as well do 2 mini toppers/placemats, right?

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

And I’m going to be lazy today and repost this for RSC22. There was some pink and my design walls are both full of “in progress”projects. So can’t do a recap. Thank you Angela for hosting Rainbow Scrap Challenge every year.   This link is to her blog, I'll update it to the Saturday post as soon as her post goes live.  It's a busy time of year for teachers/moms!  See you there, fellow RSC'ers!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!