ScrapHappy Saturday March 8th

It’s been a busy  week  here at Casa Busy Hands! I worked on the current Project Quilting. If you are interested  my post is Here. 

It had been fairly nice early in the week. I had to get some routine blood work done , so I decided to stop by the hospital lab on my way to Thursday Stitchers. That went well, the young phlebotomist was amazing!  Quick and painless. 

Then it snowed. When I got home from the library, our back deck looked like this!  By morning there was 5 inches. 

I fixed the blue potato chip block that had same fabric touching!!🫣

Three potato chip blocks in yellow, March’s color for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. 

I sewed them as Leaders and Enders while sewing the PQ wall hanging and finishing up the final borders for the Stay At Home Round Robin. 

Those kites look a little like bunny ears! Totally inappropriate for a Christmas themed quilt. I was hoping for tassels!. Oh well!

I’m linking up with Angela for ScrapHappy Saturday !

I leave you with a gorgeous photo taken in 2019 in Yellowstone Park. We celebrate 307 Day here in Wyoming, on March 7th .  307 is our area code for the whole state

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

And Happy International Women’s Day! We are Awesome!

Project Quilting 16.5. Follow your Arrow

 

So many possibilities. I really wanted to make a baby quilt for a friend, using the pattern  Follow Your Own Path by Sandra Walker of  mmmquilts,com. 

  But I knew I couldn’t do it justice in just one week. It has to be something smaller, something I can quilt and finish. 

A while back I thought it would be fun to hang a plaque on the wall at the bottom of our stairs with arrows going left and right. There is a hallway there, so you have to make a decision. When I was thinking about arrows I remembered that idea. A wall hanging would work. So I got out the pattern for Follow Your Own Path. 

The blue scrap bucket from February was still on my cutting table. I had already dumped the yellow one for March. 

I found a cream almost white grunge with some white and gray streaks. It’s # 30150. 

After deciding if I wanted 1 double arrow each way or 2 arrows I set to work cutting the pieces. I thought while I was sewing. Something that gets me into trouble. Some time with the ripper happened. Then some tracing and coloring and looking for a backing. In my basket of miscellaneous novelties, look what I found. It’s not blue and yellow, but it will work on the back. 

And  now it’s done, hanging on the wall at the bottom of the stairs. 

Bad lighting at the bottom of the stairs. It is still snowing outside. 

I put triangles in the corners, it hangs on a push pin with a chopstick in the back. 

I'm linking at Persimon Dreams, Project Quilt 16.5. Follow Your Arrow. 

And Finished or Not Friday, hosted by Alycia Quilts. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

I LIKE Thursday. First Thursday of March

 

I follow Wild Woman Sisterhood on Facebook and she shared this artwork from Fox Under the Moon, from the UK.  The artwork and words are inspiring to me. 

Some likes this week:

The weather has been warmer, no more snow to shovel or icy roads to worry about. Nothings popping through the earth yet, but it will!

I like that Daylight Saving Time happens on Sunday the 9th at 2 AM.

I finished this book, I gave it 5⭐️

Tonight I start either, 

  or….

Have you read either? 

3-6-25

I meant to finish and schedule this last night. But I forgot. There has been a lot of that lately.!  😞

So here is the edit:

I got up early to get ready to go to Thursday Stitchers. Then I remembered I had planned to go get some needed blood work done this morning. I had dessert last night at about 8:30.  🍨

That meant I couldn't get my blood draw til 8:30 or after this morning. I was going to put it off, but snow is scheduled for this afternoon and evening and tomorrow.  So I showered, did my hair, then went to my sewing room so I wouldn't be tempted to have coffee and breakfast. 

So as I was leaving the house it started to snow. Not hard, not flakes, more like frozen rain. Wet but white on the grass. Got my blood drawn, grabbed a coffee at the kiosk in the hospital waiting room and headed to our meeting. I was late, but it was OK. We had a good gathering. 

I'm home now, I finished my Project Quilting = Follow Your Arrow.   See my post here later this evening. 

Prompt from LeeAnna:

as a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?   it may be more than one thing as you got older how did it change? Did you bring any aspect of that into your career?

Early on I wanted to teach deaf children. I thought the ASL was fascinating.  But as I grew older, jr high age maybe, I decided I wanted to be a pharmacist. I worked as a pharmacy assistant in our hospital one summer. I was fascinated. When I was a Junior in HS, a career test or aptitude test was given. The results were that I should be a scientific bookkeeper. I thought that was a perfect description of what a pharmacist was. But I got married instead and never went to college. I did go to work when my kids were school age and I worked as a bookkeeper,  office manager. So I guess the aptitude test was partly correct.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful.

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!