Light Blue ScrapHappy Saturday! Welcome September

I did dig out the scrappy blue blasket. But only these four Happy Blocks were completed.  

HSTs were sewn but not yet cut apart and trimmed and pressed open. I really wanted to have them on the design wall. But life sometimes gets in the way. 

I'm linking up with Angela at ScrapHappy Saturday for RSC Challenge 2022. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

OMG September Link Up

My One Monthly Goal for September is to empty this tote of donated  scraps. 

It’s been in my space for two years and it’s time for it to be gone! So I will sew string blocks, monochromatic if possible. Then crumb blocks with the leftovers. Some pieces are big enough to go into a scrap bag of the appropriate color.  For example……That piece of black and white gingham will go into the dark scrap basket! 

I’ll keep a running total of the blocks that this tote produces! 

I’m linking up to….

Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal September Link-up

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

 

I LIKE Thursday ~. In My Backpack!

Happy Thursday!  I'm joining LeeAnna at Not Afraid of Color this Thursday morning to talk about and share good things. And things I like. LeeAnna gave us a prompt of School Supplies at a jumping off point for this week. 

First Day of School was a big deal. I loved new crayons, new pencils, fresh new paper and three ring notebooks. 

I have always said my "dream job" would be in a Stationery Store. My brother worked at an Office Supply store when I was a young mom. One of the best gifts he ever gave our son, and DS will confirm this, was a box of colored pencils, markers, scissors, colored paper, bottles of glue. (this was before glue sticks)

I still like to buy: colored pens

glue sticks, colored pencils, markers, washi tape, 

notebooks, stickers, shopping list pads. Oh ,and don’t forget push pins and bulletin board stuff! 

If I have a bit of spare time these days, I like to wander ( in person) the aisles at Office Depot. They have the best stuff!!!   Barring extra time to be out and about, the websites are almost as good. This is a great time of year to add to my stash of notebooks, folders, 3-ring binders, etc. 

I finished this book , no review! I give it 3.5/5.0. It was predictable! But fun! 

And started this one! I’ve read only one other title by Alice Hoffman. The Dovekeepers! It was amazing! So I have great hopes for this one. 

 

Today I get my haircut.  I'm posting this early Thursday, but if the trip to the salon is successful, I may post a photo next week. Maybe not though, I'm not fond of selfies. 

Tuesday night we were invited to a friends home to share their fire. 

We had a great visit!

My neighbor’s flower forest is amazing.

Pink….And yellow…..With lots of green! It makes my heart happy!

Last weekend, Mr Busy participated in the Annual Fly-In for his RC Aircraft Club

Can you spot the airplane in front of the cloud?p

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

To Do Tuesday. Setting Some New Goals

I’m joining Linda at Texas Quilt Gal and some friends to share my to-do list from last week. And then make a list for the upcoming week. Come see what everyone has been up to! 

Aug 23-Aug 29

1. Sew orange and neutral HSTs into a row and make a ScrapHappy Saturday post! 

Done! Post is here!

2. Make 4 orange string blocks.

There are FIVE!

3. Keep sewing on Triple Treat the Leaders and Enders project. 

I’ve mostly been sewing twosies of 1 colored 1.5” square and 1 neutral 1.5” square. They are then combined into a 4 patch that is 2.5”. Each Triple Treat takes 3 four patches. It’s a slow process.

4. Monday is my annual Medicare wellness exam! I hope I pass!

 Rescheduled by the clinic at 8:15 AM Monday.  I see an APRN, and one of her kiddos was sick. So now I have to wait til Sept 14th. 

Next Week

August 30 -  September 5

1. Sew light blue strings and crumb blocks

2. Keep stitching. Boo Crew!

3. Plan birthday party for great grandson! 9 is Huge!  

4. Decide on One Monthly Goal for September! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Slow Sunday Stitching

Linking up with Kathy’s Slow Stitching Sunday. 

I’ve picked up cross stitch again. Enabled by some YouTube videos, and some local stitchers that I’ve become acquainted with. 

I’m working on Boo Crew from The Fat Quarter Shop! 

I wasn’t able to download the link in the image but here is a different link.. There is a small quilt pattern too!

My YouTube friends would never pair a pink flamingo needle minder with a Halloween themed stitch, but I’m just getting back in the game. I have started used Floss Drops. Pluses and minuses to those too! These were shared by some friends. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Scrap Happy Saturday. The Orange Finale!

I know! My title sounds like it should be epic! But, sadly, it is not!  I'm linking up with Angela's Linky Party anyway! 

Orange and neutral HSTs are on the design wall! 

My scraps looked like this, 

Then became  this…

And four happy blocks got added to the mix. 

Not much for a month’s worth of work. But there was icky-ness, and company and then there was housework that seemed overwhelming. And cooking and laundry and blog-reading! 

So, at least some orange was used. 

The rest of the month, I’ll build string blocks or crumb blocks! Cause I must! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Finished or Not Finished Friday!

This is a twofer post! I will copy the Table Scraps Challenge post here. I have to take like successes where I can find them!

My scraps started out like this…not cohesive at all. I could have gone to my Halloween basket of fabrics but Halloween is more than two months away! There were some crumb block beginnings. 

But I should decide how the embroidery will go. I keep having visions of LeeAnna’s creations. You know, beautiful improve piecing, gorgeous fabrics and fabulous embellishments with embroidery threads and beads! But alas, I’m too OCD or controlling or boring or something!

So I paged through my embroidery patterns. A pumpkin? 

Or maybe this one!

A sunflower? 

A poppy?

I finally settled on this design from Gum Trees BOM 2011.  By Vicki Tucek

I left off the heart shapes in the steam and the ruffle like edging on the coaster , selected two different  orange threads, black for the mug, a mocha for the coffee and a bluish gray for the steam. I had  a large piece of slightly peachy mottled fabric for background. A scrap of Pellon  SF101 ironed quickly to the back and in two evenings I was done.  (Sorry, no photo of just the stitching!)

I sewed some crumbs together, 

found some long pieces for borders, because they were there and they are easy. There was a long pumpkin colored fabric strip that I thought would work for a narrow binding. Sew, trim, add some more. The size it ended up being was decided by a piece of batting that was in the batting scraps bin. And there was a piece  of orange pumpkins for the backing. 

Ready for quilting with Orange Zest thread!

I straight line quilted horizontally and vertically with a spool of Orange Zest, a free gift last year with an order from Missouri Star Quilts.  Then thought I’d give some big stitch quilting a try. I had a spool of 12wt Sulky thread in reddish orange tones.  

 It doesn’t have a color name only a number, 712-4006.  I’d call it rhubarb crisp. 😀

The binding strip got ironed, pressed in half and applied to the back. It’s narrow, so I machine stitched it on the front. Every time I practice this I get a bit better! Not perfect, but it’s a mug mat! 

Photo: outside on a small table that need restraining, badly!  Fall project!!

 This is the back. I figure I can flip it over for Halloween week! I’ve had this fabric forever! 

Can you read the label? Written with a green ZIG pen. 

It says:: 

Table Scraps Challenge ‘22

August- Orange- Embroidery 

I Love Coffee stitchery in orange 

       & black

Crumb blocks added to make 

mug mat size  8 1/2  X 10 1/2

JKB 8-5-22---8-22-22

I posted this in the Linky Party for Table Scraps Challenge and now in Finished or Not Friday.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!