To-Do Tuesday #110

I’m joining Linda at Texas Quilt Gal to share what I am working on and what I hope to accomplish in the next week. 

1. Get Boo Crew mounted on display board! ❌ 

The beads are painted! 

That took awhile! I had to order some sticky mounting boards. They should be here today!


2. Finish 3 more CiL blocks and mail to Kat! ✅

All 4 are done and a mailing label was made. I bought an envelope at the P.O. And mailed at the same time, yesterday afternoon. 


3. Cut QOV geese parts! More blue with white sky, then white with red sky, and then 72 red with white sky! I hope I’m getting better at making flying geese, but I’m not convinced !✅

Some pieces are cut, but I’m still woefully behind!

Next Week:   10-18 to 10-24

1. Try to get Boo Crew on the display board.

2. Make more Flying Geese in R, W, B. 

3.  Stitch on the Autumn Stamp SAL and also on the Fat Quarter Shop Christmas Mystery. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Kathy’s Slow Sunday

Popping in to share my Slow Sunday Stitching with Kathy's Quilts and friends. 

I have a new slow stitch going on! I’m a bit late to the party, but I wanted to do this!  And if I don't get it done before the end of November, Autumn will come again, right!

Because I always start from the center, this looks s bit unorthodox. I also cut the fabric a bit skimpy. I counted carefully, I thought. But didn’t add enough margins for good hoop placement. It’ll be good! 

I finished this Halloween stitch.  But a YouTube video reminded me that I forgot the date and my initials near the bottom right corner. I’ll fix that tonight! 

I’m waiting, rather impatiently, for the sticky mounting board to make this Fully Finished. I had to order it from Amazon, nothing at our Hobby Lobby. Should be here this week. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

ScrapHappy Saturday! A tad more green

It's Saturday!! And it's windy in Wyoming!  Fall is in the air and that means Rainbow Scrap Challenge is coming to a close. A time to finish up the light/bright greens and think about final constructions. I'm linking up with Angela at So Scrappy to share my greens and my other projects. All my ZigZag rows are in a box, ready to be laid out on the floor to get the color layout just right. Then I'll sew them together, find a backing and get it quilted. I have a place for this one, so it shouldn't languish in the UFO pile!

Last week I showed my design board with green squares and light and gray rectangles. This week they became 4- 12.5” blocks for CiL. That's all the gray I could find in my cavern of scraps. 

Even my light neutral scraps are getting low. I cut into some  fat quarters for a few of these. If you are interested in how these blocks could be arranged, check here. Andy of A Bright Corner calls them Scrap Bin  Geese. Her tutorial called for grays on the left ot right, bit Kat from Kat and Cat Quilts, specifically wanted grays all on the same, right hand side. 

Other than putting a label n Baby Pop Star, my weekend will be spent cutting more goose parts for Alicia’s Mystery QOV. Only 170 to go!  Did you catch that! The special little pumpkin, due the end of October, came early! So now I have her pertinent information and a label is in order. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

I LIKE Thursday & Snack Food!

Joining the gratitude gang at Not Afraid of Color and sharing some things that make me happy!

Thank you LeeAnna for continuing to host this event! 

In September, Preeti Harris hosted a Topsy Turvy block hop for 5 lucky quilters. Turid of Den Syende himmel presented her version of Topsy Turvy on September 11th. I commented on Turid’s post. I liked her lime and aqua version. On September 23, I received an email informing me I’d won a selvage pincushion made by Turid! Then last week I received this cute little pincushion all the way from Norway!

  

  It’s made with selvages and embellished with a tiny pink heart-topped pin. Also tucked in the package was a card that shows a stunning hexagon quilt. And lastly an itty bitty card with even tinier strips of 

orange, red, and yellow fabrics  inset in the card. It makes my heart sing! Thank you,thank you, thank you, Turid! It’s fabulous!

We watched DOG starring   Channing Tatum on  Apple TV+ .  It was very good! Mr Busy wasn’t as pleased with it as DD and I. 

Last Saturday we made a trip to Rapid City So. Dakota to get some supplies for Mr Busy’s hobby! There is a great hobby store there, Who’s Hobby, that stocks the things he needs to complete his airplane! We came home "the long way" through Spearfish Canyon in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Not lots of gold color, but we had a wonderful day. 

Wednesday it was windy and rainy , so I think we made a good choice to go last weekend!

This photo makes my heart full! I’m not a Vikings fan but my brother is! 

LeeAnna’s prompt for this week is: 

Do you have a favorite snack food? Or a chip?

My go-to snack is Chocolate! Chocolate anything! Right now we have chocolate covered peanut clusters with caramel  in the candy dish. There are also peppermint patties in a different candy dish I try to limit to one a day! 

Tortilla chips and salsa are a non guilty snack! I count out the chips, I can have 15 of the small round ones and salsa is “free”!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

To Do Tuesday # 109

I’m checking in here with Linda and the gang  at To-Do Tuesday! A place to make a list and check it once if not twice! You should check out the others at Texas Quilt Gal! 

Last week’s list

1. Keep working on the flying geese for Alicia’s QOV Mystery✅

I worked on them, but I’m falling so far behind! 25 geese, only 15 trimmed. I need 60 of this color combo! *sad face*

2. Sew some bright green for Rainbow Scrap Challenge. ✅

And one complete CiL block!  If you are interested in joining Kat and Covered in Love, check out her blog and related posts at Kat & Cat Quilts. There is lots to see there and tabs at the top of her page to learn more about Covered in Love.

3.  Maybe, just maybe finish stitching Boo Crew! ✅

The stitching is complete. 

Next week - 10-11 to 10-17:

1. Get Boo Crew mounted on display board!,

2. Finish 3 more CiL blocks and mail to Kat! 

3. Cut QOV geese parts! More blue with white sky, then white with red sky, and then 72 red with white sky! I hope I’m getting better at making flying geese, but I’m not convinced !

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Bright green October’s 2nd Saturday

Happy blocks, HST and some 2 1/2” squares! 

 The light/bright green zigzag row is ready! Now it’s time to lay it out and get it together! Should I do it ROYGBIV?  If I do, then where does aqua and the pink go and there are 2 greens……I’ll get it figured out! 

And there are 4 happy blocks to add to the collection. Did you notice the green parallelogram?  HST cut too small! (Head slap)

And I hoped to get to this stack of squares and rectangles this weekend!  

I was going to make that happen today, but Mr Busy needs to drive to Rapid City SD to buy some supplies for the airplane he is re-building. He offered me a stop at one of the quilt shops as a bribe. But I need nothing, so we will go, maybe take a drive through Spearfish Canyon to see the fall colors also! Who turns down a drive through the Black Hills of South Dakota? 

Wishing everyone a pleasant weekend. Are you sewing, cleaning out the garden, remodeling or sightseeing? Enjoy. 

Linking up with Angela at ScrapHappy Saturday!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

 

I LIKE Thursday!

Some likes and one particular "not like".   This mushroom (fungi) growing in our yard. It's very interesting but when I tried to remove one just like earlier in the week, there was black oily icky all over my hands. I washed well immediately. 

This tiny quilt block was in the quilt to be raffled off by our Wyoming State Quilt Guild. This block amazed me. All the tiny hsts are pieced in this star. 

Here is a photo of the flyer with the quilt on it.   

I'm still trying to wade through Jane Green's  Sister Stardust.  I am not relating to Claire or Cece as she prefers to be called. 

We are still watching THE OFFER on Paramount +.  

We have one last episode and are waiting for an evening when we are all available.  We watch it in sync with our son in California and our daughter and DH and me in Wyoming.  DH and I and just our son  are also watching Season 3 of For All Mankind on AppleTV+.  

Daughter didn't watch Seasons 1 & 2 and doesn't want to catch up. 

Tonight, we will probably watch Thursday Night Football. The Denver Broncos are at home. We are disappointed in the season so far. But to be fair, it's a building year. New coach, new Quarterback, lots of new players. It will take some time. 

This happened Wednesday morning. This is only the 8th time in 258 games that I guessed the word on the second try. 

LeeAnna at Not Afraid of Color hosts this fun place to tell your likes and maybe even a bit of  of something you don’t particularly like.    This summer she has been adding some prompts. Today..

let’s talk about APPLES!    My favorite apple used to be a Jonathan. It was crisp and tart to taste and was a pretty shiny intense red! But in recent years we have discovered Honey Crisp. A combination of tart and sweet. Still crisp but a bit easier to eat. Mr. Busy and I are big apple lovers.  We often eat them fresh, sharing one,  with lunch.  Mr Busy is the official apple cutter. . He likes wedges with salt and lemon juice. I like mine that way too , but sometimes just salt, sometimes with peanut butter, or chunks of sharp cheddar.  Lately a friend recommended Cosmic Crisp apples. They are good too and not quite as expensive as Honeycrisp. 

Apples do grow here In Wyoming, but we don’t have a tree. A friend will share hers if she gets a bumper crop. I have made crabapple jelly in the past. Lots of crabapples in our small city. And the ones on public lands are free for the taking! If you are up for the work. 

I like apple pie, apple crisp, apple butter, apple cake, and especially my Mom's apple coffee cake. Very simple, really good!

Apple Raisin Coffee Cake

9X9 pan

3/4 cup sugar

1/4 cup shortening ( my mom always baked with Crisco, but you can use 1/4 cup softened butter)

1 egg

Mix well. Stir in 1/2 cup of milk

Sift together, then add  1 1/2 cups flour

                                      2 teaspoons baking powder

                                      1/2 teaspoon salt

Add last: 1/2 cup raisins

Pour batter into a 9x9 pan. Arrange apple slices ( either peeled or unpeeled) in a fancy design on top of the batter. Then sprinkle with 1 teaspoon of cinnamon mixed with 2 Tbls sugar. 

Bake at  375 degrees for 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cut in 9 pieces approx 3" square. 

                                   

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!