SAHRR 25.4

 

Stay at Home Round Robin. Round #4

   

Wendy at Pieceful Thoughts brings us Round #4.  She calls it a Sliced Square.  I like the way hers zig zag along the outside edge. I have lots of angles and didn’t trust myself to make the points match. I got an early look at this prompt….I was scrolling on my iPad in bed late on Sunday night and the blog post was up. I read it but was thinking of another way to do the slices. 

Monday morning while enjoying my coffee and a bit of quiet time, I read Kathleen’s post. Hey, that’s what I was thinking and she assured me that there are no quilt police!.

If I could use the Sliced Squares to fill in the spaces between my stars, that would keep my top from getting bigger than I had planned.  But what colors? Cream with green, it was kind of blah! 

I sure didn’t like the big chunks of green. I used the cream background with a green strip. I tried a charm square I had cut (red plaid, I’m fond of plaid). I inserted a 1 1/2’ piece of green print. I like it. I think. I slept on it. 

I decided on the red, when I realized I had only 9 squares in my charm pack collection. I didn’t think I had any more of that fabric, but I searched my reds. Hooray! I found a 1/4 yard. It’s karma. The red it is. I cut, sliced and sewed, til I had 16-

5” squares.  I sewed each pair together, then attached them to the center stars on each side. Can you guess what happened?  

I guess my B in Advanced High School Algebra and Geometry, didn’t help much! 🤪. Too long ago, I guess!

I need added fabric. Top- dark green, Middle - cream background or Bottom-the red plaid? Which would you do? 

Here is a rather wonky photo of the three options. Top left corner= cream. Bottom left corner=dark green, Bottom right corner =red plaid. 

Guess I’m done for now. I’ll pause until round 5 and 6. ‘Cause I’m befuddled.

Linking up with Wendy at Pieceful Thoughts 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful.

Slow Sunday Stitching 2-9-25

 

Sharing with Kathy and friends at Slow Sunday Stitching. 

It will be good to take some time today. Lay some stitches. Drink a cup of tea and try to relax and remember it will be OK.

I’m still working on my Octopus Biscornu from Tiny Modernist. You can finally see the first octopus. 

I think he looks just like I pictured Marcellus in Remarkably Bright Creatures. One of my favorite books from 2024. 

Another book I just finished that I found to be very interesting is The Secret War of Julia Child by Diana R. Chambers. About her life before she became the celebrated chef. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Stay at Home Round Robin. Round #3 Stars

   

Round 3 is hosted this week by Gail at Quilting Gail. She challenges us to add stars. 

I decided on 4.5” finished Friendship Stars for SAHRR. I used a chart I found at Generations Quilt Patterns  I wasn’t looking forward to  cutting and sewing all those small HSTs. I read that some participants used their AccuCutter. I have one, but don’t have a lot of dies. I find them to be very expensive. However, a blogger friend did send me some used ones that she ended up not wanting. I gladly and gratefully accepted them. I have one that cut triangles and squares for 2 1/2 inches pieces making a 6.5” star. I had decided that was too big . But I could cut them, sew the HST and trim them . That seems to work better for me anyway. 

But I took a break to go renew my drivers license and when I returned to my machine I just sewed the pieces I had cut. Egad  Judy!!. I wondered if I could use the correct size little ones in the corners. I’d need 2 more and then use the big one in the middle of the top, bottom and sides. I was planning on rectangles to complete the round. 

Yuk!   Nope!  So back to the drawing board. I printed the chart and grabbed my seam ripper.

The two that were too big were taken apart and the pieces cut to two inches. Then I recut all the accucut pieces. It was a project. But as of 5:30 pm on Saturday, they were all resewn together. I still don’t like the big rectangles of green to complete the round. And it’s just about as big as I want it. So I’m waiting to see what the Round 4 will be. I’m hoping I can use that prompt in this same border. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Helpful 

ScrapHappy Saturday

 

Happy Saturday!  The sun is shining and I’m happy about that. It is cold, only 26°. There is a breeze so it feels like 20°. I’ll be linking up at ScrapHappy  Saturday with our hostess, Angela. 

I used my blue and white rectangles as Leaders and Enders this week. I was sewing on a couple of other challenges. 

Only one is finished.😟 

Just something I found on Facebook. Wanted to share. 

I truly believe this, and will be practicing it with fervor in the next several months. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Helpful!

Finished and Not Finished

 Last week I worked on 2 different challenges. Obviously I’m not as good at multitasking as I once was. 

For Project Quilting 16.3 the prompt was use 3 common blocks in your project. ✅

For Stay At Home Round Robin (SAHRR) Round 3 was ‘use Stars”

PQ needed to be completed by Sunday. So I mostly worked on this placemat. It is done and I posted it to Quilting Gail on Thursday. I finished the binding at my Thursday Stitchers group. 

I also decided on 4.5” finished Friendship Stars for SAHRR. I used a chart I found at Generations Quilt Patterns  I wasn’t looking forward to  cutting and sewing all those small HSTs. I read that some participants used their AccuCutter. I have one, but don’t have a lot of dies. I find them to be very expensive. However, a blogger friend did sent me some used ones that she ended up not wanting. I gladly and gratefully accepted them. I had one that cut triangles and squares for 2 1/2 inches pieces making a 6.5” star. I had decided that was too big . But I could cut them, sew the HST and trim them . That seems to work better for me anyway. 

But I took a break to go renew my drivers license and when I returned to my machine I just sewed the pieces i had cut. Egad  Judy!!. I wondered if I could use the correct size little ones in the corners. I need 2 more and use the big one in the middle of the top, bottom and sides. I was planning on rectangles to complete the round. 

Yuk!   Nope!  So back to the drawing board. I printed the chart and grabbed my seam ripper.

SO ONE FINISH AND ONE NOT!

I’m linking up with Alycia’s Finished or Not Friday

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Project Quilting 16.3. Three Common Blocks

 

This week Trish has challenged us to use 3 common quilt blocks in our entry. Two years ago for Rainbow Scrap Challenge I started making placemats using this pattern that I found on a guild exchange table. 

I went back to this pattern for this challenge. I’m not good at the math needed to decide how big the blocks need to be and then cut the proper sized pieces. I’m usually not math challenged but for some reason I have trouble just ‘winging it.’

I started by selecting blue fabrics, but they were not speaking to me. I switched to browns. Browns will fit better in its destination, the GO bag in my car. There is placemat, extra napkins ,straws, etc.for grabbing takeout and eating in the car. 

I made 3 blocks. An hourglass block, a churn dash, and a friendship star. 61/2 inches by 6 1/2” each(unfinished).  I had some of this moose fabric in my stash and decided to set the blocks in the center. 

I quilted it with serpentine lines. Used a dark black and brown for the backing and the darkest brown in the churn dash was used for the binding. 

I’m linking up at Persimon Dreams  #pqSeason16

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful.

I LIKE Thursday.

 

LeeAnna at Not Afraid of Color hosts this event on Thursdays to give us a chance to share the good things that have happened and maybe commiserate just a bit.  

I went to the DMV to renew my Drivers License on Wednesday. I didn’t have to take a test , just fill out the form and get my picture taken and pay the fee. Amy asked me if I was planning on flying anywhere in the next six weeks. Nope, I am not, I answered. And she punched (VOIDED), my current drivers license. I asked her why she asked. TSA won’t accept a voided DL, they will accept an expired one. Luckily I have a passport, in case I need to fly!

It’s been really cold here lately. This is the year I should have done a temperature quilt or stitch. There would have been several below zero entries already. Brrrr!

Mr Busy and I caught up on the Chicago Wednesdays we had missed, and the crossover event that was last Wednesday.  Because we stream it on Peacock. We have to wait until Thursday to watch it.

We are watching Season 2 of The Night Agent, and waiting for the next season of The Lincoln Lawyer. 

I’m nearly finished with  The Secret War of Julia Child. 

Then I will listen to  

 Lee Anna often provides a prompt to get us thinking. This week she asked :

• What’s one of the most exciting things you’ve done in life so far?

That’s a hard one for me. I haven’t skydived, or gone zip lining. I haven’t traveled the world or very many other countries. I have lived 79 years, so I think I’m done with exciting things. I have ridden a motorcycle across the suspended bridge over Royal Gorge in Cañon City CO. 

That was scary. 

I rode a boat under Niagara Falls and got soaking wet. THAT was fun.  I don’t have photos of that adventure. 

One last good thing to share. During a quick trip to Walmart I spied these. 

My heart is not broken, they are very good. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!