Finished or Not Friday! This week a definite NOT!

I am linking this post to Alycia Quilts. 


Nothing has been finished this week. Some starts have been made.

I dug out the garlic knot blocks and put them on the design wall with the intent to rearrange them to a more pleasing setting. This is what I got!

Not more pleasing and not what was in my mind. And I noticed some ODD configuration of colors. Ummmm!  Back to the drawing board, sort of.

I fiddled and fiddled and finally it dawned on me what was the matter. Every other row doesn't change direction every block changes direction. So..... the first two columns are webbed and on the design wall. The rest of the blocks are in the project box, clipped in column order!  This will be completed in February!

Also there are 7 hollow 9-patches in the January color of light/bright green. 

And there are 2 geese migration blocks in green ... but I am unhappy with my execution of the geese parts.  More practice I guess.

And a start has been made toward digging through the orange scraps. In anticipation of February Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

Lately, finding sewing room time has been difficult. I keep trying, though.


Stay Busy and Stay Happy

January OMG Finish - Temperature Quilt 2019 to quilt top stage

Linking up to Finish Link Up at Elm Street Quilts. Pop on over there to see what everyone else got done in January!




My January OMG is to the flimsy stage!

This was my goal. To complete December and add it to November and put a black border around the whole thing.

Not much else has happened in my sewing room. I did get my garlic knot blocks out of the project box. More on that fiasco later.

I am searching for backing and trying to line up a quilter to get this temperature quilt to the next stage and ready for binding (or facing) and embellishment!. Soon I hope!


Until next time
Stay Happy and Stay Busy

Small finished and the next step to a bigger finish.

A couple of finishes and one not yet!

Some time ago,  I mentioned a use of flannel scraps. I had bits and pieces of leftovers from several baby quilts. So, I can't throw them, I made a good sized square.

Then it went back in the drawer.
Now that our great grands have moved it, and Miss B received another baby for Christmas......Gwamma needed to finish that project. I looked through my bin of larger flannel pieces and found a cute pink monkey print. It was big enough.

So I cut it to size, put right sides together, left an opening and did a flip and turn.  Then put bright pink thread on the machine, and did some decorative stitching around the edge and a serpentine stitch, in thirds.

It's being used and that is the goal, always!

And the only other "finish" was to get the label on my Bowtie quilt. Mr Busy and I took a quick road trip to South Dakota last weekend. A chance to get away for a bit and rest. So no sewing was done, but this hand work was completed yesterday at my Thursday Stitchers group!

There is a scrap of washi tape over the quilters last name and mine. Just for privacy!

Last but not least the final borders are on my 2019 Temperature Quilt. It needs to be backed and quilted. Then I will applique the year in the upper black border and add tiny buttons on the family birth dates. I am thinking about a stripe of the color range on the back. That isn't done yet, as I haven't decided on backing fabric and who will quilt this 51 x 52 quilt.

This is hanging in the hall at the bottom of our stairs. I can't get far enough to get it all in one shot. So here is the top 2/3s and:

here is the bottom 2/3s. You can see the end of the railing on the right! GEE!

None of these are necessarily post worthy, certainly not Whoop Whoop worthy, but at least they are documented.

I'll link up to Finished or Not Friday at Alycia Quilts
and to Can I Get a Whoop Whoop at Confessions of a Fabric Addict.    (I apologize for the linky photo, the crop confused me!:(

Stay Busy and Stay Happy

A New Chapter, New Goals, New Adventure

Happy New Year to all!!

I am excited to be setting goals again this year! It really helps me stay on task! I have had to leave a local group that has been my main group of quilting friends. Maybe I’ve gotten too old? Too set in my ways? Too selfish?

Whatever the reason, I don’t look forward to the gatherings, so I “took my leave”. I am looking forward to connecting on this and other blog posts.

Some of you know Mr Busy and I have house guests for the next several months!  Our oldest granddaughter and her husband and their 2 children have moved in with us! It has been an adjustment for all!

I have only been to my sewing machine once, to stay-stitch around a large flannel crumb block, that will become Miss B’s babydoll blankie! And I have stitched up a torn sleeve seam in Jojo’s winter coat and restitched the Pom Pom on Mama’s knit hat!

My January One Monthly Goal will be to finish the December row on my temperature quilt and add it to the rest, to make it to “quilt top”, or “unquilted wall hanging” stage. That is, not quilted and bound, but ready for those steps. I think I want to try facing it, so will read up on that technique. It's not a lofty goal, but doable under the circumstances.

This is a poor photo, but I am in the basement, trying to be quiet and getting this post ready! 

                November is the long strip to the right. December is in pieces and not complete.

I'm linking up with Patty's January Goal Setting Post at Elm Street Quilts. And I'll be checking out the other goals being set and cheering you on.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy

December OMG, Done and Done!

Well, after the snafu ( see this post) with the batting and the backing for my December OMG ( my scrappy Bow Tie quilt), I got it back from the quilter. She picked it up from me on Sunday and Thursday it was delivered back to me.  The binding was ready. I cut the strips for the binding from the leftover backing fabric. Lots of seams. I worried about a seam landing on a corner. I measured quickly and decided to add a piece of navy grunge to the end so I wouldn't be short.

The binding went on and guess what, not one seam ended up at a corner.  Some were close, like 1.5", but that worked. And I did not need the added navy piece.

The binding angels were looking over my shoulder!

This  post was written on the 17th of December. On the 19th, our grands and great grands moved in to our house. The first night at Granma and Pa's was a bit of a drama. It's was strange for the littles,  they are 6 and 3.  Different routine, different bed and they have "pink eye"!!!!

Our house guests (our granddaughter, her husband and her two littles) will be moving in sometime before Christmas, then we will have an additional guest( our daughter) for a few days at the end of the month. I hand sewed binding while watching Goliath on Amazon. It was not a binge session, but several 2 episode sessions. I can't sit in a chair longer than a couple of hours without having to get up and move!

And here is the entire quilt, not the rolled up version!

It is done as of Dec 16th. I also got our tree up. Our daughter's birthday is the 16th, so that is always my goal. From her first Christmas, 55 years ago, to now!

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to all!

I'll link up with Patty's OMG Finish post after the 24th 26th!

I completed every monthly goal this year!  Not so much with some of my other challenges. But it's all good. I am going to try to catch up on my challenge and goal recaps, after Christmas.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy

ScrapHappy Saturday

It’s almost the last Saturday of 2019! A new decade starts in a few days! What will 2020 bring? I pray that peace, love, kindness and hope are involved!

I promised to show my one completed RSC19 project. I worked on bow tie blocks in a Rainbow colors. The backgrounds are scrappy too! I’ve named my quilt, “We Switched to Chevy”.  In late November, 2018, we bought a new car. A black Equinox. It’s a Chevrolet! I love it, it’s only the second brand new car we have owned in 55 years of marriage. No doubt it will be the last!


In early 2019 , I started seeing commercials that used the “we switched to Chevy “ tagline. The Chevy emblem on the grill is referred to as a bowtie! My quilt idea was born! This quilt will be a car quilt. To throw over my knees if the A/C is too chilly, to spread on a bench if we stop for a meal, whatever.

The backing is dark so the dirt won’t show so badly! I had to piece the backing, there was a post about that snafu a couple of weeks ago. The binding is left over scraps from the main backing fabric.

I also worked on the Tiny Tuesday blocks and some Scrappy Spouts. Neither of those are to a point of completion. Maybe my TT blocks will be one of the first UFO's I work on for the new year.



I'm linking up with Angela's ScrapHappy Saturday post.


Stay Busy and Stay Happy

Finished or Not Friday 12/20/19

Last week, I showed progress on my Winter QAL.  This week I can show you that I have the rows together. I did have a couple of little issues with some points. I unpicked a few, resewed and they are better. Some are just going to have to be "not perfect".

I did not measure this quilt top. But Mr Busy is 6'1" ( he has shrunk a bit as he has gotten older) is standing on a dining room chair and holding it up!

And my Bow Tie quilt is complete, except for a label.

A pieced backing, lots of strips to make a binding and finally done. It is washed now and all wonderfully crinkly!

I'm linking up with Alycia for Finished or Not Friday!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy
(it gonna be busy and I hope happy here)