Blogger Is Giving Me Fits

So I’ll do some Slow Stitching today. It calms me. 

  Suddenly I’m not getting comments via emails. I was starting to get my feelings hurt!  lol. Just know that I am not getting your comments like I used to. I’m working on finding a solution. 

I will respond in the comments section of  the blog until I find a solution 

This is not happening with all bloggers. Nancy and Diann are two I often hear from and now do not. 

Grace and Peace Quilting

Little Penguin Quilts 

But on to better things. 

I haven’t done much slow stitching since I posted on the 16th of February. The binding was done on these two projects. 

Project Quilting 16.4.  Birthstone using a pattern from Pieced Tree.  The Understudy.

Table Scraps Challenge for February. Blue and NEON/or Brights,  an improv mug mat using bright colors from my scraps and some sparkly thread. 

And I Fully Finished the Shamrock Alphabet Sampler from Melisa at Pinker n Punkin Quilting. Fully Finished might be stretching it a tad. I used a piece of cording from my ribbon stash and can’t decide how to finish it off, so it doesn’t fray. It’s rayon I think, but of course’s no label. I tried melting a scrap, but it was very successful. So it’s still attached! LOL. 

I’m trying to locate my other St Patrick’s Day tschotskes. Maybe I ‘downsized’ them, right out of here!

I’ll have to improvise. 

I hope to finish December temps on this Temperature Heart today. It’s lovely outside and I may be tempted to take a walk later. 

Linking up at Slow Sunday Stitching

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful! 🇺🇦

Challengers Met and a New Month!

I had a finish yesterday. But I was participating in the Economic Blackout . So no Amazon, no Google , no retail purchases using debit or credit cards.

I finished the Table Scraps Challenge for February. We are to use the color from Rainbow Scrap Challenge - blue and use the TSC prompt, which was NEON. That gave me a fair amount of angst. 

 When I think NEON, I don’t think ‘blue’. I don’t think I own neon fabric.  I thought and pondered and wondered. Then I had a thought. In the past I have used crumb fabric in my table scraps projects. Maybe I could use blue crumbs on the back.

 

So I went scavenging. I found bright orange, bright yellow and lime green, and a  swirled blue fabric. 

And this mug mat was created…….I quilted it with my regular serpentine lines with a sparkly white thread. It quilted beautifully! I was holding my breath!

So I sewed some blue scraps (the backing), I found some Neon-ish scraps (the front) and I finished it! Challenges Met!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

 I’m linking this post at Finished or Not Friday.Table Scraps Challenge 2025 and . ScrapHappy Saturday

I LIKE Thursday…..last Thursday of February !

 

Can’t identify where I found this meme. But I like it. Not my words, but I wish I had thought them. 🙂

Lots of things to like this week. Sunday was my birthday. As my brother reminded me “ it’s my last year in my 70s”!  Stinker!!  He’s younger than me, so he can tease me, I guess. 

Steve got me a cup warmer for my sewing room. I sew in the basement. My coffee cools off quickly down there in the winter. Now it won’t!

do you compliment your mate/partner and does he compliment you? What kind of compliment feels best to you, and to him?

Stay At Home Round Robin. Round #6

 

This week’s hostess for the last round of SAHRR, is Emily from Darling Dogwood.  Emily suggested the kite block. I perused the internet, You Tube, some books I own. My blocks need to be 3” finished. Most pieced blocks I found were paper pieced. I did find one I could copy for free, but I don’t really like paper piecing. Then I found a tutorial using a square and two rectangles to make a 6 1/2” block. I thought, I should be able to just do 1/2 measurements. Maybe cut a smidge bigger so there is wiggle room for trimming. Then last night while reading emails and blogs, I ran across Diann from Little Penguin Quilts’ post for Midweek Update!  Hooray. She’s doing little kites too!

She used a 4” square and 2 rectangles 2.5” x 5”. So using the tutorial from Scrapdash.com, called Catch That Kite, and Diann’s adjustments, I cut squares and rectangles. I did a test block because it’s a bit fiddly. 

I won’t accidentally use this one in this Christmas themed quilt!

Then I proceeded to sew 4 kite blocks, 3 1/2 “ unfinished. I’m using the same colors, cream, reds and greens. Varied pairs of kites. 

Which way do  you like them? Skinny points touching or fat bottoms ( actually the top of the kite) touching?

I’m linking up at The Darling Dogwood. If I get the rest of the kites done and complete the border, I’ll edit this post. 

Left border, pieces stitched together, not attached. 

bottom border, pieced but not attached.

You will have to wait for the Parade, on March 24th.  I ll construct a backing  and then try to find an available quilter. If not, it will have to wait its turn. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

ScrapHappy Saturday

 

This week I was busy creating  challenge piece for Project Quilting. It was not blue though. The prompt was Birthstone.  That easy as far as colors go, my birthday is in February, tomorrow in fact.  So purples is was/\. 

There were lots of seams. So I used my blue and white 2x3.5” rectangles to make another potato chip block. There was lots of chain piecing as this block came together. So only 1 blue potato chip block resulted. 

As I took this photo…. I noticed the 2 matching fabrics in the upper left corner. And it looks wonky.   Think I’ll be fixing this one!

 

Linking up with Angela for ScrapHappy Saturday. 

Stay Busy and Stay Healthy and Healthy and Hopeful

Stay At Home Round Robin. #5

 

Monday Feb 17. 

Boy, am I jealous of those of you who have EQ8 or other design software. Round five has me scratching my head. My wall hanging/table topper is nearly as big as I want to go. It’s 33.5”X33.5” after round 4. 

Brenda at Songbird Designs is the designer  of Round 5. Her post was stubborn and did not post when she had scheduled it when I looked first thing Monday morning. So I visited the other designers. Wendy used a 3” paper-pieced whole log cabin block. Others used a partial log cabin block. Some 1/2, some 1/4. I had intended to make my next border, the last one, by combining Round 5 & 6.  And to do it at 3.5”.  So for now, I will contemplate color choices and possible placement of a 1/4 log cabin. A 3.5’ quarter log cabin. 

Friday, February 21st

After finishing and posting Project Quilting 16.4 = Birthstone, I started thinking about the 1/4 log cabins for SAHRR. Maybe I’ll make 3three and see how they look on one corner. Well, several chapters of my audiobook later, I have this. Hmmm!

I think I like it. I used fabric that appeared previously. I found another scrap of the lighter leaf print, but only enough to do 12 1.5” squares as the second log. I added the green used in the Sliced Sqaure blocks from Round 4 as block 3, then blocks 4 & 5 were the background cream. I think it works. 

I’m linking up at Songbird Designs. I hope Brenda agrees that the corner quarter cabins will do. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful.

Project Quilting 16.4

Trish (aka QuiltChicken), the challenge mistress at Project Quilting, usually likes the Pantone Color of the Year and builds a challenge inspired by it. This year she was “underwhelmed “. 

Design With Pantone Color of the Year 2025

Learn more about applying the Color of the Year 2025 across various industries, determine color values across our color systems, explore palettes and color harmonies, and more.   Mocha Mousse

So she chose  Birthstone instead. 

Although I’m ok with brown, see my Three Common Block challenge….I really really like purple.   My birthstone is amethyst.  I have lots of purple in my scrap buckets. As I was sitting in my purple chair in my sewing room, contemplating what I should make, I spied a drawer under my cutting table that has unfinished stitchery in it. I opened the drawer and found…

It’s been waiting to be finished for years. Hard to see, but there are tiny lilac buds . Also I was sorting through some possible patterns, and came across this one. 

I knew what I would do. 

It wasn’t without issue!   Ooops!!

Sewing the parts together, correctly this time!

Final. The binding was stitched on at Thursday Stitchers today. 

Lots of purple with a smattering of red on the back.

Linking up for Project Quilting 16.4 at Persimon Dreams. 

This challenge is due February 23, which happens to be my birthday. Cool coincidence !

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful.