Slow Sunday Stitching. September 1st

I'm popping into Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  I'm still around, just not very productive. 

Some stitches were placed in the second U in Autumn for the bell pull. This will make me happy when it is finished. But there are lots of color changes and that slows me down. 

No stitches were placed.in the Temperature Heart. But I'll catch up this evening. 

Same place as last week!🤔

And I want to start a new Christmas String from Lizzie Kate, but feel like I should continue on the Winter SAL that I have already started.  I may be getting in over my head!!

September is a busy month in our family.  4 birthdays and I have a volunteer afternoon with the Friends of the Library to get ready for the annual Craft Swap!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and HOPEFUL!!

Table Scraps Challenge ~ orange and basket!

 

  It’s time to show off your Tables Scraps Challenge projects for August. Based on the color selected for August by Angela from Rainbow Scrap Challenge and So Scrapoy- Orange and a prompt published by Joy from The Joyful Quilt - Basket, I started with crumb blocks as I have been doing this year.  My cutting table and cutting surface looked like this several times! 

As the month progressed I searched for ideas! 

 I finally settled on this basket pattern from Ayumi Takahashi. It has been in my pattern notebook since 2009. If you go to  Pink Penguin, there will be a list of her tutorials. She doesn’t post any more but several tutorials are still accessible. It’s called Patchwork Fabric Basket.

I look some liberties with the pattern, instead of patchwork and linen I used “ made fabric” by sewing a plethora of orange and orange like scraps together. 

I used this variegated thread that’s been in my stash forever! One day maybe I’ll use it up!

A close up of the serpentine quilting. 

And my ugly fingernails!  If I do this again with crumb fabrics I will probably just use a medium weight iron on interfacing. The bulk of the batting and all the seams in the crumb blocks made it a struggle to turn right side out! It’s a little basket! 5”wide x 3.5” high x 4” deep.

I didn’t need another little basket so decided to add 2 sets of seasonal napkins made from four fat quarters.

See this Midweek Makers post.

I’ll put this little “surcee” in the mail soon to our youngest granddaughter and her fiancé!

Linking up with Table Scraps Challenge hosted by The Joyful Quilter! 

Also Finished or Not Friday hosted by Alicia Quilts

And ScrapHappy Saturday hosted by Angela at SoScrappy! Phew!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

I LIKE Thursday 8.30.24

 

We’re sort of in the “dog days” of summer! Not a lot happening! We are glad that most of the fires that were burning around us are now between 5% and 88% contained. Total  acres burned is almost 400,000. But no loss of life! 

Mr Busy and I are binging on a series on Netflix called Dark Winds! 

It is set in New Mexico and Arizona on the Navajo Nation Reservation. It’s a well told story I think. We are enjoying it. 

I borrowed this book from the library last week. Homecoming by Kate Morton.

I’ve been listening to the audiobook for our book club. We go back to meeting monthly, in September. I’m looking forward to meeting again. 

I haven’t tried any new recipes, but hope to make a zucchini cake this weekend. 

And I finally was able to pick some tomatoes! One at a time. These are #2 &#3! We ate the first one right away! 

And I got my hair trimmed up. I’m letting  it get a little longer. Then maybe a perm!

Gosh, I really don’t like pictures of myself!

Hop on over to Not Afraid of Color to find links to other bloggers who write posts for I LIKE THURSDAY. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Mid Week Happenings

 The weather has cooled a bit. We had a bit of rain, but it’s still windy, so the rain didn’t help much . Fires are still burning in our area, none of them fully contained. No loss of life or homes, but grassland grazing areas are devastated, many ranchers lost cattle. Cattle are important , it’s their bread and butter! 

On a brighter note, I got a haircut! Well a trim, actually. I’m going for a different look. Wish I’d taken a photo when Cassie finished with me. I was pretty pleased! This morning however, we are back to flat and a bit longer. I’m leaning toward a perm! Hmmmmm? 

No makeup, wrinkles and all! Why is it the camera pic looks worse than how I see myself in the mirror!?

Today would have been my mother’s 102 birthday.  I miss her lots! Especially today!

I actually got to spend some time in my sewing room. I made 2 sets of 2 seasonal napkins for my youngest granddaughter and her fiancé in Vermont. 

I’m trying to use up this variegated thread that has been in my stash a long time.  The directions were shared from Little Penguin Quilts.  That Moxie Girl’s instructions are here!  I made 7 napkins for our oldest granddaughter and her family, and two for our daughter for Halloween last year. They are reversible rectangular napkins from 2 coordinating fat quarters. You can see that post here!

Halloween themed

And Thanksgiving too!

These will go in the mail to Granddaughter #3!

Linking up with Susan at Midweek Makers

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful! 

Slow Sunday Stitching - Looking Forward To September!

The Temperature Heart is an ongoing project!   I try to stitch a week at a time. Here is where I stopped..August 18th is partially completed, marked with a pin. 

You can see it’s been hot here. Of course there has been Wyoming’s famous but unwelcome wind. This is what happened this week!

Fires are still burning. Ranchers have lost grasslands, outbuildings and some livestock. We need rain! Luckily no lives have been lost and at last count, no residences! 

I’ll spend part of today, quietly praying and think of those affected by these fires, and of the brave selfless firefighters from our community and from far away communities. And I will stitc more on the “U” in my Autumn Bell Pull!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!  I’m linking up at Kathy’s Quilt’s Slow Sunday Stitching. 

 

ScrapHappy Saturday’s 4th Orange Saturday

 

 Linking up with Angela at ScrapHappy Saturday

Working on my orange basket entry for the  TableScraps Challenge. I’m using crumb blocks as I hav3 all year. Crumb blocks are great ways to use up all the bits and pieces of fabric too good to just toss in the trash! At least, IMO! I’m also using up partial spools of thread and partial bobbins.  

Just some of the pics of my cutting table ⤴️.     and sewing surface. ⤵️

I’m also trying to listen to an Audible title, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store!  I can listen when I’m hand stitching, but not when I’m at my machine. And not when I’m tired. The narrator has a calm soothing voice, wonderful in the inflection of the different character’s voices,  but I’ve fallen asleep and then had to back track. Not the story’s fault, mine! 

It is one of 2 summer reads for my F2F Book Club. I’ve finished The Covenant of Water! Also very good! We meet again in September. 

I’ll be back next Saturday to share my Table Scraps Challenge entry!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful! 

Slow Sunday Stitching

 

I’m late! But will Slow Sunday Stitch this evening! 

I had company over the weekend! Our daughter drove up from Loveland after work on Friday. It was dark by the time she got here. I always worry about the last hour and a half of her trip coming north. It’s a two lane, with lots of big truck traffic. In the dark always the possibility of antelope, deer, or rabbits on the highway. But no problems. 

She came to attend the funeral of her best friend from high school’s younger brother. He was 57. Her daughter and her BFF’s daughter were also friends until they became young adults. So there was a good reunion. Needless to say I didn’t stitch this morning. All have left our house now and I will pick up and do dishes, then get out the Temperature Heart  

( the white headed pin is marking July 22nd, so I need to finish July and get started on August,)

and the Autumn Bell Pull! I’ve barely begun the second U in Autumn. I’m a middle starter, so have marked the middle og my fabric and will do this letter. Then I’ll probably do the T next. Are you a center starter or do you start at the top?

I’ll be stitching while watching TV this evening. Join me won’t you? Check to see what others are doing at Kathy’s Quilts - Slow Sunday Stitching

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!