I LIKE Thursday

 I needed this reminder today! I can only control my emotions and my response to triggers!  I’ll join LeeAnna and others to share the little things. The little things I’m grateful for. 

I sewed some this week.  I finished 3 zipper blocks. 

And three trial block of BH Square Peg. This block is not for me! I have some pieces cut, so I’ll sew til those are gone , then into the orphan block box they go! 

And this greeted me this morning! Not exactly a “like”, but it is fun discovering the pretty darks hidden away in my scrap basket. 

In between I stitched scraps into crumb blocks. 

I worked a Wordle every day. Wednesday was a head scratcher!

Wordle 1,124 6/6

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Holey Moley! I almost blew it! 🤬

We lit the deck fire table ! It was a beautiful evening, the only thing missing was a glass of wine. I was not prepared. 😉🍷

 

We watched a good movie on  Netflix. 

have you ever gone to an outdoor play? tell us about it.... Or a concert? do you like outdoor performances?

My favorite recollection was seeing the outdoor production of The Passion Play with Josef Meier in Spearfish South Dakota. That was a long time ago and Mr Meier is deceased. But it was very impressive. The real people, the outdoor venue. I hadn’t been exposed to much theater! 

Because we lived in the Black Hills of South Dakota and much family visited. We attended The Passion Play every year. Below is a link to an article if you are interested. 

Article from the South Dakota Magazine 

The closest I’ve come to an outdoor concert was “Concerts in the Park”. Local talent in our City Park on Summer Thursdays. Families and couples on blankets or lawn chairs on the grass. Very enjoyable. I’d love to go again, but Mr Busy is a curmudgeon about all the people and I’m unsteady on my feet lately, so that’s out! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Slow Sunday Stitching

Joining Kathy for Slow Sunday Stitching.

I finished Spring String

I can’t decide if I like the Bunny, or the Nest better. Whichever one I’m in love with this stitch. Now to Fully Finish! It’s long and skinny, so I need to find a place for it. 

And I finished the July bird on Woven Wreaths.

This was a fun , fairly fast stitch. 

My plan for this week is a new start. 

Fall is my favorite time of year. And I love the colors used in Autumn Bell Pull I from Stoney Creek! Lots of brown and gold and copper! Yum! Another long skinny project but vertical! :)

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful! 

I LIKE Thursday

 

I need to focus on my gratitude! This week there were some things to celebrate!

Mr Busy and I have 5 great grandchildren. Two live just minutes from us. That gives us the chance to celebrate moments like these.

A great grand girl making her own birthday cake. 

Then the results: 

She did the decorations herself. It may not have been “beautiful” but it was delicious! There were fairy wings to wear and flower crowns. 

Do you see the flower crown on Pa’s (Mr. Busy) ball cap? The balloon garland was a hit too!

Her  “Ya Ya”, our daughter, wore wings and flower crown! The woman in the pink shirt is her Gramma Wendy!

And there were presents, of course!  I am grateful to be able to share these happy occasions! 

Monday,  I finished the stitching on this Lizzie Kate design called Spring String. 

Yikes, the glare! Here’s a closer look at the actual stitching!

I couldn’t get a close up if the entire thing it’s only 10.5 inches but…..

Not sure how I will Fully Finish it. I like the looks of the white frame on the chart cover. But I don’t really have a place for that size on a wall, so I may just do a flat finish, if I can get my friend Christine to walk me through it!

I’m reading this book this week. It’s about the plight of women committed to insane asylums in the 1860s.  From the back cover: Kate Moore recounts the stunning true account of one women who fought back against a tyrannical husband, a complicit doctor and nineteenth-century laws that gave men shocking power to silence and confine their wives.”   It’s chilling to me, to understand how shockingly close we may be to this kind of thing again! 

Yesterday was my State’s birthday. July 10, 1890.

During the same time period as the book I am reading, Wyoming was granting women the right to vote!  For that I am grateful! 

Lately a step backwards has been taken. I won’t elaborate here! 

 

LeeAnna asked this week: 

do you have a favorite summertime drink?

At home, I mostly drink iced tea in the summer. Sometimes Crystal Light strawberry lemonade is  in my bottle! Out for dinner, I’ll choose a Moscow Mule, a Margarita shaken, or a local (from South Dakota) wine called Red Ass Rhubarb! Don’t be put off by the name it is a great red with summery fruit touches! 😋🍷

Joining LeeAnna and friends at Not Afraid of Color for I LIKE Thursday. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Heathy and Hopeful!

Slow Sunday Stitching 7-7-24!

 

Today I’ll be joining Kathy and others for Slow Sunday Stitching!  And there will be a birthday party for certain very special 8 year old! 

She and her Daddy baked her birthday cake! 

I think I need to stop making plans for my stitching! Last week, I did watch the Kathy Schmitz video for the July part of Woven Wreaths! But I didn’t lay a single stitch! 

This is technically the second week on the July calendar, so I hope to finish Spring String 

and I’ll play catch up on the bird on Woven Wreaths. 

Mr Busy and I have completed our binging of Your Honor on Netflix, and last night we watched Fancy Dance on Apple TV+.  I recommend them both. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Scrap Happy Saturday. First Aqua blocks

 Luckily there was some sewing this week

I had a goal of 4 Split 9 blocks! But the parts for eight blocks were cut and on my sewing table, so why not? 

I also finally cut one inch 😳 sashing pieces to make a trial block called Square Pegs! In the event you can’t tell it’s a Bonnie Hunter pattern! 🙂 I struggle with little pieces! What was I thinking? Do I need new glasses? A better 1/4” guide? Yikes!

I'm going to have to redo that bottom row. My verticals are way!!!! off! 😖

Then I set a One Monthly Goal for July! I failed April and May, though I finally did get the shower curtain finished and hung up. June I was just lazy! My OMG for July has some aqua, I will quilt this small quilt!

Linking up with Angela and friends at Scrap Happy Saturday   Sharing aqua, teal, turquoise, ocean. pool??? colors this month. 

 Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

July One Monthly Goal!

 I haven’t been making any goals, since failing in April and May!  If you don’t set a goal you can’t fail. But then again, if you don’t set a goal, you won’t succeed either! 

So for July my OMG is to get the Princess Jasmine quilt quilted. I’ll use my Bernina using a wavy stitch or a straight stitch or a combination. 

I have the top done, 

the batting cut and the backing constructed. No possible reason not to complete it! Right?

Linking up with Anne Marie at Stories From the Sewing Room. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful! 

A Finish but not a Quilt!

 

I had a Seasonal finish, but it wasn’t a quilt! You’ll forgive me, right?

I started it on Thursday the 27th. It looked like this on Sunday. I know, I know! I’m not a fast stitcher. But I enjoy the slower pace of not always in a hurry. 

Tuesday the 2nd of July, it was a FO!

And Wednesday I watched several YouTube videos on finishing small pillows or dough bowl fillers and taking steps from each one, I completed the little pillow!

A closer look. The other 3 little stitches were finished last year!

I’ll link up with Alycia at Finished or Not Friday! And I have taken note of her flag block directions and plan to make a quilt like that! To keep me focused in the upcoming year! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!