Slow Sunday Stitching 7-7-24!

 

Today I’ll be joining Kathy and others for Slow Sunday Stitching!  And there will be a birthday party for certain very special 8 year old! 

She and her Daddy baked her birthday cake! 

I think I need to stop making plans for my stitching! Last week, I did watch the Kathy Schmitz video for the July part of Woven Wreaths! But I didn’t lay a single stitch! 

This is technically the second week on the July calendar, so I hope to finish Spring String 

and I’ll play catch up on the bird on Woven Wreaths. 

Mr Busy and I have completed our binging of Your Honor on Netflix, and last night we watched Fancy Dance on Apple TV+.  I recommend them both. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Scrap Happy Saturday. First Aqua blocks

 Luckily there was some sewing this week

I had a goal of 4 Split 9 blocks! But the parts for eight blocks were cut and on my sewing table, so why not? 

I also finally cut one inch 😳 sashing pieces to make a trial block called Square Pegs! In the event you can’t tell it’s a Bonnie Hunter pattern! 🙂 I struggle with little pieces! What was I thinking? Do I need new glasses? A better 1/4” guide? Yikes!

I'm going to have to redo that bottom row. My verticals are way!!!! off! 😖

Then I set a One Monthly Goal for July! I failed April and May, though I finally did get the shower curtain finished and hung up. June I was just lazy! My OMG for July has some aqua, I will quilt this small quilt!

Linking up with Angela and friends at Scrap Happy Saturday   Sharing aqua, teal, turquoise, ocean. pool??? colors this month. 

 Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

July One Monthly Goal!

 I haven’t been making any goals, since failing in April and May!  If you don’t set a goal you can’t fail. But then again, if you don’t set a goal, you won’t succeed either! 

So for July my OMG is to get the Princess Jasmine quilt quilted. I’ll use my Bernina using a wavy stitch or a straight stitch or a combination. 

I have the top done, 

the batting cut and the backing constructed. No possible reason not to complete it! Right?

Linking up with Anne Marie at Stories From the Sewing Room. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful! 

A Finish but not a Quilt!

 

I had a Seasonal finish, but it wasn’t a quilt! You’ll forgive me, right?

I started it on Thursday the 27th. It looked like this on Sunday. I know, I know! I’m not a fast stitcher. But I enjoy the slower pace of not always in a hurry. 

Tuesday the 2nd of July, it was a FO!

And Wednesday I watched several YouTube videos on finishing small pillows or dough bowl fillers and taking steps from each one, I completed the little pillow!

A closer look. The other 3 little stitches were finished last year!

I’ll link up with Alycia at Finished or Not Friday! And I have taken note of her flag block directions and plan to make a quilt like that! To keep me focused in the upcoming year! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful! 

I LIKE Thursday. July 4th, 2024!

 

I almost didn’t write a post today! I have been feeling walked on and hopeless in the last week. I didn’t go to our 4th of July Parade. My excuse was it was cool and I didn’t want to walk several blocks and then stand for an hour. 

As we were on the phone with our son, a B1 Bomber from nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base, flew over the parade and then our house. It was deafening! I am hoping our military is strong and resolute in the coming days! 

But I must be hopeful! I must believe that we as an American people will be ok. So I will try to tell you about some likes. 

I finished this little stamp stitch and it joined others on my buffet. You can see all the little stitches above. ⤴️

I’m reading The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore. I’m just getting started and it’s not exactly an easy read, but important!

I hung some of my other July, Independence Day patriotic decor. 

This is a Patchabilities Design. I have made one or two for each month. 

An older embroidered piece. My first attempt at coloring before stitching. 

A favorite Kathy Schmitz mini wall hanging. I did all 12 of these back when! 

The local committee that organizes and runs our Quilt Show

 in October posted this on their Facebook page.

 

It made me grin! 

I learned that our oldest great grandson, his mom (our granddaughter) and his grandma (our ex-daughter-in-law) went to see Hamilton at the Gammage Theatre on the ASU campus in Tempe AZ. 

He loved it according to his grandma and our son, his “Pa”!

And now, I’m off to my sewing room, my happy place! I’ll be working on some Aqua HST and some split nine blocks! So I have something to show for ScrapHappy Saturday! 

There is Always, Always something to be grateful for! 

My front porch this afternoon!

Happy Birthday America! Long May She Wave!

Slow Sunday Stitching…the real LAST Sunday of June!

I’m having a discombobulated June! Last Saturday and Sunday, I posted that is was the last of June! I’m not sure why I was anxious for July! But I was wrong!!😑 

Last week I said my plan was to stitch on my Winter QAL because it was the week of the 25th. I did not stitch on this at all!

Instead I started a small filler pillow with a Fourth of July theme. It’s this one from Melisa at Pinker n Punkin Quilting that she featured last year. But I love it!

 Pop Goes the Fireworks Truck

And I didn’t even begin it until Thursday. When I finish, it will join these 3 dough bowl fillers and my Patriotic Chicken Pincushion! 

I’m linking up with Kathy at Slow Sunday Stitching. Grab your needle and thread and a project and join us!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and most of all Hopefully Grateful!

Table Scraps Challenge for June ‘24

 

It’s the end of June! I was mistaken in my RSC post last week, when I said the 22nd was the last Saturday for blue sewing. Maybe I was thinking of only myself! Haha! We have the 29th to sew blue! I’ve been sewing all the leftovers of the blue on my cutting table! Well, maybe not all the leftovers!  But blue crumb blocks were constructed! And blue 5” wide chunks were sewn together. 

The chunks were laid on 9.5” x5” pieces of batting..and loosely quilt with X’s . The navy blue star is 5”x5” and quilted to a piece of batting. Then crumb blocks cut 5x5 were layered to plain 5x5 pieces, pressed wrong sides together to make 4 pockets. Those were basted to the bottom of the 5x9.5 chunks!

Then I went looking for watermelon fabric. Because the prompt for this month was “Watermelon” and blue fabric! 🤔🙄

Whoo Hoo! I found some! 

So, I’ve been wanting a small but not too small crossbody bag to carry my cellphone, wallet, a hankie and maybe some gum or breath mints. I also have a small collapsible hair brush! You know the essentials but not all the other stuff!

What better way to use up my blue scraps! I found this Whistle Pig pattern in my pattern tote. I made the small one. It calls for a charm pack, but I cut my blue scraps and crumb blocks to 5x5. 

This is what happened!

A buttonholes was attempted…..

It’s finished! 

The back↗️

The front↗️

And the watermelon print inside! A win-win! 

Amended:Sorry for the dark photo, I’ll try for a better one this morning outside! 

I’m sharing this project at Table Scraps Challenge and at Finished or Not Friday!

PS:   You know I hate selfies,  this is what you get! 

Also: I’ll share this post at Scrap Happy Saturday! There were 2 more blue zipper blocks made as leaders and Enders while I put my bag together. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy! 

And Happy 4th of July to my friends here in the USA! 🇺🇸