Project Quilting 17.3. The Year of the Horse

 

PQ Challenge 17.3 - Year of the Horse

Rule One: find your inspiration from the turn of the year, in the animal, in our hopes and desires for the near future.

I wish , a hope or desire had occurred to me on Sunday when I opened Kim’s blog for the 3rd challenge. Sometimes I am so literal when I first think about the prompt. I live in Wyoming, we have horses everywhere. They are on our license plates:

There is highway art:

The Steam Locomotive and the railroad were called the Iron Horse in the 19th century.

Statues in front of businesses, (though this is technically not a horse, but a cross between and horse and a donkey, I think)

Even the Chistmas trees sometimes wear cowboy hats.

I don't normally buy horse, western, cowboy fabric. I grew up in the city. A South Dakota city, but city none the less.

I went into the sewing room and spied a charm pack of fabric called Cowboy. I think I won it in a giveaway.There are horses, horse accoutrements (horseshoes, boots, pickup trucks, sheriff badges and of course guitars!)

My brother sometimes wears a cowboy hat.  Though in this photo his grandson has the hat on. 

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When dressed up my BIL wears a cowboy hat though he doesn't have a horse.

Long story short I decided on larger than average mug rugs.  And this is the result. 

There has to be room on the mug rug for a big mug of coffee and a cookie, right?  Or a slab of pie or an order of biscuits and gravy. 

Backing is a piece from my stash. Kinda looks like hay, don’t you think?

Linking up at Persimon Dreams for Project Quilting 17.3.  the Year of the Horse.  I’m linking up today, so I don’t forget tomorrow. I’m sitting in the ER with Mr. Busy. He had an anaphylactic reaction to some candy. These 2 big mug rugs are completed. If I get the binding finished on the other two, I’ll edit my post. 

He’s home, he’s fine and I finished the binding on the 4th and final mug mat at 10:00 pm MST Saturday night. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

I LIKE Thursday # 268

  

Shared from Sweatpants and Coffee. - not recently. 

It feels like Spring. I know I should not be optimistic.  But I even have tulips coming up. I haven’t walked to the backyard to get a photo, but I will. 

At Stitching Group we had the door open all day. It was wonderful. Here are two projects that were shown. 

 

A counted cross stitch project that I finally Fully Finished.  And a wool appliqué project that Donna says is a FO. A found object in the closet. She is doing a wonderful job. There were more, but I didn’t get photos. My bad!

LeeAnna asked about Valentines exchanged in elementary school. I’m pretty sure that yes we did. But I remember more helping my own kids decorate shoeboxes into Valentine Mailboxes. Red and pink with cut out hearts. We did Valentine Parties. As Room Mother, I made sure there were cupcakes, conversation hearts in tiny baskets.  All kinds of fun. ❤️🧁

My youngest granddaughter had a tendon repaired in her right thumb today. She is home and doing well.I LIKE that. 

Here is my February buffet decorated:

It’s confusing, but the small heart topper is on top of two side by side while placemats. Otherwise it looks too small. The candle in the warmer is peppermint, the tall bottle is ChocoVine. A blend of red wine and Dutch chocolate. I haven’t tried it yet. It was a gift from my friend at Christmas. She puts it in her  coffee!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

SAHRR Round #2. “Make It a Double”

 

Kathleen at Kathleen McMusing is our host for Round #2 . She chose “Make It a Double “. Her post gave dozens of possibilities.  If you click the link above it will take you to her post. She showed a selection of double blocks from Electric Quilt. In row 4, the double tulip caught my eye. I don’t own EQ, or many books of blocks, but the WWW offers lots of info. When I googled Double Tulip Quilt Block. There were 

a few variations. Most of them, I chose this one from Teresa DownUnder on YouTube,

 made a 6 1/2 “ uf block. I needed it to be a little smaller. I am keeping my project wall hanging size. So the graph paper came out along with the calculator. 

Last week I placed the larger hourglass blocks at the bottom. They were not sewn together or attached to the center square. I have changed my mind . Now my block looks like this. The correct size hourglass blocks are sewn to the top . The too small hourglass blocks are still waiting in line to see if they will be called upon. 

I didn’t want them on point, or facing downward. As I look at it in this picture, I might unsew and turn the right hand tulip to face out. I put a small coping strip so the white of the tulips were not touching the white background of the stitchery. So here is my Round #2. Two Double Tulips, or if you would like, a tiny floral border and a tulip border. Either works in my book!. 

I’m linking over at Kathleen McMusings blog. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

Slow Stitching Sunday #26.5

 

Linking up with like minded slow stitchers at Kathy’s Quilts today. 

I’m making slow progress on all my WIPs. 

The biscornu is at a stand still. So no real progress there. 

The February stitch is getting there. I hope I can get it done before Valentine’s Day.  This is a chart from Primrose Cottage Stitches called Sweetly Sayin’.  It was their free chart in January. I don’t see it on their website today, but there are some other Valentine smalls. And some for March.

And Winter Row is a S-L-O-W one. I don’t have enough light at home, so am only working on it when I meet with my stitching group on Thursdays.  Got the arms on the middle snowman. So now it looks like something is happening. 

Soon he’ll have a nose , then his head will take shape. 

I’ve been doing some sewing at the machine, but nothing to brag about. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

ScrapHappy Saturday

 

  The last Saturday for blue. I did cut a block for The ScrapBusters Challenge to see if I liked it. It’s ok, but I’m not sure!  I’m linking up with Angela for Rainbow Scrap Challenge. 

So I continued to make crumb blocks . I think I’ve used up all the Eat My Dust fabrics and the blue with yellow stars, then I find another strip or chunk! So I keep using it up. 

My Stay at Home Round Robin project is on round #2.  “Make It a Double” is the prompt. I’ve spent considerable time trying to decide which block to do, then more time drafting it so it will fit. It’s still a work in progress.  Not blues but purples and lavender.

I’ve been seeing the State Birds of Resistance decals on Facebook, and Instagram. This is the one for Wyoming, the Western Meadowlark. 

Have you looked up your state?

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

I LIKE Thursday #267

 

This isn’t exactly a LIKE cartoon, but it’s how I think a lot of us are feeling. You?

 Join LeeAnna at Not Afraid of Color and see what others are sharing. 

LeeAnna suggested this conversation starter …… Do you like puzzles? what kind? jigsaw, things like rubiks cube or slide puzzles, written ones like crossword or sudoku ?

We do like puzzles in our house. I’m partial to word puzzles like Wordle, 

Wordle 1,684 4/6

🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨. Raise. The R and the E are in the puzzle , but in the wrong place

⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜. Could. The U is in the puzzle and it’s in the correct spot.

⬜🟨🟩🟩🟨.  Bluer. B is not in the puzzle. New letter L but it’s in the wrong

                              place. U and E are placed correctly .

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 . CRUEL.  Is correct. 

and Daily Crosswords, but Mr Busy and I both play Sudoku.  My iPad wouldn’t let me share my morning puzzle!  😧

He plays Expert levels, I just stick with the daily ones  and once in a while a Hard one. 

I like the idea of Jigsaw puzzles but Mr Busy really likes them. He finished this one  a week ago

And now is working on this one. 

Do you see his setup? A large board, blue plastic sorters, a ruler to make sure it starts out the correct size, and magnifying lights. He is a serious puzzler!. 

We have been trying to find something to watch in the evenings. We tried Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 

It was alright! We will watch the next episode and then decide. 

and then A Million Ways to Die in the West. 

NO NO DON’T BOTHER!!

It stars Seth McFarlane, Charlize Theron. Liam Neeson, and Amanda Seyfried. Stupid, dumb and definitely rated “R”. 

I’m still getting acquainted with my air fryer. Tuesday night, I  quick fried split chicken breasts, did sweet potato fries in the air fryer and served a cabbage and kale and tomato salad. It was pretty good. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

Slow Sunday Stitching 26.4

 

I almost forgot it was Sunday.  I planned to stitch during the Bronco game today. But it was a tough game and needed to  cheer and yell. LOL  I did get some stitches put in Sweetly Sayin’ . 

I’m linking up late to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Sunday

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful.