Onward toward my OMG! Chapter 1,2 & 3 : The Final Chapter

OMG. September   Chapter 1, 2 & 3

I want to clean out this tote of donated scraps and strings!  

So far:   September 1 through September 7th. 

2 Gold, 1 Green, 2 Brown, 4 Black, 2 Beige or neutral, 1 Aqua, and 3 Dark Red = 16  15. 7.5” blocks

Plus 4 multi colored with consistent cream center diagonal. Also 7.5” blocks.

A total of   19 in one week!  Corrected! 

Chapter 2…

September 8 through 15th!

37   blocks all with cream diagonals!    ⤴️.     

56   That’s enough for a quilt!   Yes, but JUDY , your count is wrong! Only 4 of the previous 19 have cream center strips, so you really only have 41!

And my tote still isn’t empty! ⤵️ But closer ! I have been tossing squares and triangles and too short strings in color based bins. 

I’m getting there. The month is half gone!

Chapter 3.  9-23-22

Ta-da! Here is the tote. It’s finally EMPTY,  

I have sewed 23 more string blocks. 

For a total of  64.  I  want to do 7X8 so I need 56.  49 by 56, then a border. I'm happy.

The leftovers were sorted into color piles. They are now in zip bags in the green bin. Only the white and neutral strips and aqua strips are in separate containers. I will continue to sew monochromatic string blocks to add to ones in my stash. I need to cut  more telephone books! 

As I was sewing, lots of the strips and pieces were “thready”. So I neatened them up. Any strip, that when de-threaded and straightened, was less than 1 inch wide was tossed in my “yarn” basket.

I sew these short end to short end and will crochet another throw rug.

I’m sharing this continuing post at Finished or Not Finished Friday! 

And today is 9-25-22...... SEPTEMBER OMG FINISH LINK UP is live! I'm linking up even as I continue to make string blocks and crumb blocks to use up the color sorted strings!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

 

I LIKE Thursday ~. CLOUDS

Some likes for this week!

I made a Zucchini Cake with a large zucchini from a friend's garden. Wish I’d taken a photo when it was just out of the oven. But today, it looks like this! 

Clearly we are enjoying it!!  Vanilla ice cream is good with it. As is whipped topping or cream cheese icing!! 

We partied on Monday, Labor Day! It was our great grandson’s 9th birthday! Unbelievable! Just family, but his Grandma, they call her YaYa, played Wii games with him most of the day! There was cake and ice cream. Except he didn’t want ice cream. Silly boy! 

This was on the sidewalk by my back gate!  A gift from my neighbor.  Received on the day after I learned a dear friend and fellow quilter, stitcher and breast cancer survivor had passed away. She had diabetes and was in kidney failure. We will all miss her very positive attitude and deep faith.

Clouds:  photos from my camera roll in no particular order~~ 

California…Winter clouds, hanging low in the valley, covering the top of the mountain! ⤵️

The sun changes, the clouds lift!

Early morning fog or low clouds?

Winter in N. California.  sunrise!

Split layer clouds at Mt Shasta! ↑

Winter blue skies and fluffy white clouds in 

N Calif!    ↑

Summer skies in Wyoming. Cirrus clouds, ever present.  ↓

August 13 Veteran's Memorial

Other summer time clouds in Wyoming! Very humid this particular day! July 29th!

Devil’s Tower WY  June 1st

The vistas are fabulous…but almost always clouds!

Sunsets with clouds! My favorite I think! This photo from my front porch!

January 29th

January 15th

My most recent cloud photo! Taken during a Fun Fly at the Sagehoppers Airfield in Gillette. That’s a radio controlled aircraft in front of the cloud! 

                      Not many clouds in the sky that day! Just a few!  August 27th

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

 

To-Do Turesday. Some Stitching and Some Partying!

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! Linda has a double post today!  Let's go look!

Last week I made this to-do list:

1. Sew light blue strings and crumb blocks ✅. Two String Blocks! Mostly light blue!

2. Keep stitching. Boo Crew! ✅.  A witch hat!

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

Success!  

It was a Fortnight Theme!   Do you know Fortnight??

Yes!!!  There was cake!  Chocolate with chocolate frosting!! 

4. Decide on One Monthly Goal for September!  ✅

My post is here!  There will be strings and crumbs!

Next weeke there are more small goals!

1. Keep working on the scrap tote. Some fabric just doesn't fit into a color family, so I will have some multi colored strings with a consistent cream center diagonal!

2. Half square triangles into a Zigzag Row. 

3. Finish the first O in BOO CREW and start the second O!

4. Give some thought to Light Blue Pumpkins!!!  For the Table Scraps Challenge!

That should keep me out of trouble!!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

 

Still Stitching “BOO CREW”

Joining Kathy and friends at Slow Sunday Stitching. 

I’m still stitching on this Halloween themed counted cross stitch. There won’t be lots of stitching today, but some. 

There will be birthday party prepping ! The helium for balloons is ready and waiting. Most of the food is purchased. The banner and cake topper arrived from Amazon yesterday! Phew! His gift is bagged! 

I’m sure there will be photos for I Like Thursday! 

But this evening I should have some sit in the chair stitching time! LOL! I’d like to get the witch hat finished!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

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!