Slow Sunday Stitching

  

A few finishes this week. 

The THANKFUL Doodle from Heart in Hand is fully finished. I say this idea first when a friend brought hers to Show n Tell at our Thursday Stitchers.  I’ve learned, since then, that Heart in Hand calls it a FRILL. They have a tutorial on YouTube. 

Frill Finish from Heart in Hand   I don’t follow all her steps, but it is very close. I had a slab of green florists foam from Hobby Lobby that Mr. Busy cut for me on his scroll saw. An electric knife works or a serrated knife from the kitchen drawer. I wanted this thicker so we glued 2  pieces together. I used a scrap of fall colored fabric and a piece of 2” wired ribbon rescued from a floral bouquet a long time ago. 

Then I finished  HELLO AUTUMN into a larger than normal dough bowl filler. There is no real technique, but there are several videos on YouTube for finishing dough bowl pillows. No room on the buffet for my dough bowl, so I propped up AUTUMN against a paperweight. :)

I work on the octopuses at my stitching group on Thursdays. It’s getting closer to the finish line. 

And the Gingerbread Saltbox from Melisa at Pinker n Punkin Quilts at home in the evenings or during football games on the weekends. 

 There is always another design calling me. 

I’m linking up with Kathy’s Quilts, Slow Sunday Stitching event 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful.

Table Scraps Challenge

 

October is nearly over. Time for the Table Scraps Challenge. This month the “color” was Light and/or Dark NEUTRALS. And the TSC prompt was denim.  I haven’t made a couple of denim button front shirts that I like to wear over tanks in the summer, over tee-shirts in the fall and spring and over long sleeve shirts in the winter. 

A favorite well used one with a Fall theme had seen better days. 

Faded is ok with me, but holes in the elbows…..not ok. 

So I went to my crumb blocks box and found a light neutral piece and a dark neutral piece. I put a scrap of light weight Heat n Bond on the back of both pieces. I rounded the corners of each one and ironed one on each elbow of my faded denim shirt. 

I whipped stitched each one into place. Then went back and blanket/buttonhole stitched both. I began practicing some embellishment stitches.      ⤴️

       Looks like I need more practice ⤵️

I finally ended up using a small embroidery hoop to save my left hand. Stitching on a sleeve takes constant rearranging of the fabric and your grip!

I preserved, even adding an embroidered butterfly to a worn spit on the sleeve placket. 

This is the left sleeve. 

And finished.    Maybe it’s just mending, but I used an interfacing, so it’s 3 layers and I “hand stitched/quilted”  them.  And I used up some of my scraps and save a shirt from the landfill. 

Sharing with like-minded quilters/makers at The Joyful Quilter for Table Scraps Challenge. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

I LIKE Thursday.

 

 

LeeAnna’s conversation starter, will you had out candy this year. Yes we do every year. We don’t get many Trick or Treaters. But a few. I have one bag of candy, with Snickers because those are Mr.Busy’s favorites. We will have leftovers. Our community does a Main Street candy handout for the littlest ones,  before supper. Then many businesses sponsor Treat Street, where all the businesses have booths in our Events Center and hand out treats as the kids walk by. Our great grandkids will do those things then come by here and visit. They both like to hand out candy at our door. We have worn masks or costumes in the past. Not this year though.  

Other likes:  I made a batch of a favorite snack. Candy Corn and Dry Roasted Peanuts.

The trees are still looking like Fall. We finally had a freeze. Very late this year. We often take a drive-thru lunch to a city park on errand day. This was Tuesday. 

I’m sure most of you saw this on Alycia’s blog last Friday. I had to share!

Mr Busy is spending some time on a paint by number that he got for his birthday. It’s not much yet. But I think it will be so cool. Can you guess what it is?

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful

Slow Sunday Stitching the last of October.

 

    I’m linking up this morning with Kathy and other stitching friends at Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching. 

I’ll be able to finish the stitching on Hello Autumn today.

 I think I’ll finish it similarly to the photo on the front of the chart. 

Then I’ll have to decide on the next one. I have a small start on Melisa’s Gingerbread House.

Just barely:

 

And I acquired this new cute one. 

Decisions, decisions!

Enjoy your Sunday!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

It’s almost the end of the month.

 

And you know what that means. Finishing up! (Or at least trying)

Getting to the sewing room has been difficult. Between cardiac rehab 3x a week for Mr. Busy and other medical appointments, tests, etc. and the daily cooking, laundry, and grocery shopping it seems there is no time. 

I was able to get the side borders on my string quilt. The pieces are cut and sewed to each other to make the top and bottom. Mr. Busy helped me measure it on Monday, but that is as far as I got. Maybe tomorrow. 

Seems like both our hobbies end up in the family room. There is one of Mr Busy’s airplanes!

I was also able to work on the Table Scraps Challenge. It was mostly hand work that could be done in the evenings as we sat together. 

No potato chip blocks were made. I wanted to lay them out on the floor for a photo to see what colors might need more blocks . Just before I was ready to get a photo of the potato chip blocks, I went into the laundry room to check on the rugs from the bathrooms. There was water seeping out from under the dryer. We have a sump pump down there and periodically tree roots grow in the pump tub and keep the water from being pumped out. So a halt was put on every other project while we attended to that.

Just now, as the laundry room has been recovered I took time to lay out the potato chip blocks. 

Looks like I need at least one more orange one. And maybe hold off on the brown because this will be narrow and tall. The blocks are 9” finished so that makes it 45’across and 72 “ long without the brown. Maybe a different arrangement or only lengthwise sashings. It will require more thought. I will make one more orange block. 

Hope you all have a great rest of your week. I’m linking up with Angela at ScrapHappy Saturday

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

I LIKE Thursday

 

It’s feeling like Fall. Lots of trees are changing to gold. Leaves are needing to be raked up. This was LeeAnna’s conversation starter for this week. Do you rake leaves or blow them?  We still rake mostly. Our city provides a Yard Waste dumpster til the end of November. So every weekend we try to fill it for pick up on our regular garbage day , Tuesday. We don’t have to bag them. We own a leaf blower, but it’s used infrequently. Sometimes just to clear a light dusting of snow!

It’s cool enough for jeans and tee shirt with a shirt jacket. 

Found on Pinterest 

My holiday cactus is going to bloom.

I made potato cheese and broccoli soup. It wasn’t pretty to look at, so no photos. But it was really yummy. 

Nothing real exciting happening. I just keep on keeping on. I’m stitching in the evenings. Here’s a sneak peek.

There is more to tell this weekend. So come back if you are curious. 

Hope you all have a great weekend no matter where you are. 

Go check out the links at Not Afraid of Color

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful.

ScrapHappy Saturday 10-18-25

 

 Happy Saturday. I’m linking up with Angela for Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2025. I’ve been making potato chip blocks in the monthly colors. Angela suggested neutral for October. And I have 2 blocks completed. 

I haven’t laid all my blocks out on the floor to see how they look together. I should do that soon. I may have to fill in some colors. 

I’m starting to think about 2026. Although I really like using up my scraps in specific colors, I’m starting to get little pieces left over. So I need to come up with a plan. And I need to get the previous years’ blocks into tops/flimsies. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful.