ScrapHappy October 2024

Welcome to ScrapHappy day.  Be sure to check out what everyone else has done with their scraps this month - 

Kate, Gun, Eva, Sue, Lynda, Birthe, Turid, Tracy, Jan, Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys, Claire, Jean, Dawn, Gwen, Sunny, Kjerstin, SueL,  Vera, Ann, Dawn2, Carol,  Preeti, Viv, Karrin, Amo, Alissa, Lynn, Tierney and Hannah

This month I managed to get the remaining jumbo flying geese blocks made and sewn together.  Top finished up at 40" by 50".  I'm debating about adding 2 more FG blocks to make it 60" long.   Need to see how many blocks I have left and think about the final design first thought. 

Gratitudes:
1. Bubble in the eye is gone and I've been approved to get the cataract removed.   Hoping that happens sooner than later and helps to improve my vision.

2. The weather finally seems to be cooling down a wee bit here in the southwest where it's been running at record high temps the last month.

Bee Kind Blog Hop - My Day

The Challenge: September is the time to remember that a little kindness goes a long way.   Share your "kind" projects.  Your favorite charity project, a free online pattern or anything that shows you spread a little kindness, everywhere you go.   The Bee's are an important part of life as well, and we all need to be kind to them too!  This makes this hop the perfect place to share your Bee Quilts!

And don't forget to check out what everyone has posted for today - 

Tuesday Sept 24

Patchouli Moon Studio

Quilted Snail

Quilt Schmilt

Quilted Delights

Hazels Daughter

Over the last few months I've been able to work on a number of things meant to spread a little kindness. 

First up is this momma bear and cubs quilt that I made for a sweet friend.   When I saw the panel while on a shop hop with a friend up in Prescott AZ, it just called out to me that it needed to go to my friend who loves bears.  I've known my friend for many years now, but she has been such a help and encouragement over the last 3+ years as I've dealt with all that has come from both of my parents passing away in those years.   I'd been wanting to do something special as thanks to her and this just had to be.

And yes, those are her legs there as she holds the finished quilt....lol.

One of the things I've been working on sewing up this year are the trimmed scraps that I was given by a dear friend.  The scraps had been in the stash of her MIL who was one of the sweetest people I've been blessed to know.  I was blessed to call her Grandma V and have her as an adopted Grandma.   

A couple of years ago I had finished 5 lap quilts - 1 each for her two living sons, and 1 each for three grandkids.   I let my friends husband (grandma V's son).   These 5 did not dent the amount of trimmed scraps that I had.  So this year I started making more tops from them - and so far have made 6 more tops this year.  

This first one also used up a big piece of solid color that was in the box I was given.   The quilts below have had WOW and COC scraps added for the settings, but the rest are all out of the scraps.  I've managed to finish off the 2.5", 3.5", and 4.5" cut squares.   Still have a lot of 6.5" squares to use yet (at least enough for 2 or 3 lap quilts), but am thinking of how I want to set them because I'm trying not to duplicate settings.   

Once totally finished, I'll give all of them to my friends to decide who to give them to.

This one the red plaid was also added along with the WOW in the 6 patch blocks.  

I've started the next memory quilt using the 6.5" cut squares and am making scrappy flying geese blocks.   The blocks finish at roughly 20" by 10" so it won't take many to make a lap quilt.   If I add a border, I figure I'll only need to make 9 more blocks.   Will still have leftover squares for yet another quilt from the inherited stash.

Gratitudes:

1. Seeing progress in the rebuild at the house......I might actually get to move in before Christmas this year....sigh

2, For the healing in my retina....even if there's still a ways to go AND now there's a cataract that has to be dealt with at some point so that I can see properly again.

Bee Kind Blog Hop Coming Sept 23rd

 The Bee Kind blog Hop starts on September 23rd.   Come check out what everyone has done for it.

Monday Sept 23

MooseStashQuilting.com

Words & Stitches

Selina Qullts

Just  Sew  Quilter

Scrapdash

Tuesday Sept 24

Patchouli Moon Studio

Quilted Snail

Quilt Schmilt

Quilted Delights

Hazels Daughter

Wednesday Sept 25

BeaQuilter

Karrin's Crazy World

That Fabric Feeling

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Quilting Between the Rails

Thursday Sept 26^th

Just Let Me Quilt

Ms P Designs USA

Quilting Gail

Songbird Designs

Work on the House

15 months ago when my Dad passed away I inherited the house he and my mom (who passed away in 2021) had lived in since 1978 when we moved out here from Southern California.   In the years since then not a lot had been done to the house...........and before I can move in 

Kitchen cabinets have been installed.   Waiting now on the countertops to be measured and final electrical work in here.   Appliances have been selected, but final measurements are still needed to make sure they will fit correctly.

Bathroom cabinets have been installed.  And although not shown here, they've also been pained.   Shown here is the master bath.

And the hall bath.

Shelves are up in the pantry and the room has been pained.

Laundry side of the pantry.

And perhaps the biggest thing I've done on this project (well other than continuing to go thru stuff and clean things out) is getting all of the remaining mirrored tiles off of this wall in the master bedroom.

Ceiling and the end wall have been texturized, room has been painted (well the walls.........baseboards still need to be painted or replaced).

So thankful for the progress that gives me hope I'll be able to move into the house before the end of the year.

Gratitudes:

1. For the progress made in the last couple of weeks on the house.

2. For the temps starting to cool down here in AZ

ScrapHappy - September 2024

 This month has been one of those month when not much has gotten done thanks to the continued healing of my eye after the retina surgeries back in August and July.   This has definitely been a slower process than I'd expected, and it's still going on.

During the month I did see a picture of a quilt that I liked and  it will work great to use some of the remaining 6.5" squares from the inherited stash.  And with that decision I've managed to make some of the needed HST's for the blocks and trim the scrap squares needed to 5.5" instead of 6.5 they are currently cut at.    Had to recut the HST's because I managed to cut them at 5.75" instead of 5.5"......sigh gotta love having lousy depth perception currently.

From the bits and pieces made so far I've managed to make one block.   Finished size of the block is 20" by 10".   From my figures I'll need 9 more for a lap quilt.    Hopefully I'll have all of them make and together by next month.

Don't forget to check out what everyone else has done this month.

Kate, Gun, Eva, Sue, Lynda, Birthe, Turid, Tracy, Jan, Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys, Claire, Jean, Dawn, Gwen, Sunny, Kjerstin, SueL,  Vera, Ann, Dawn2, Carol,  Preeti, Viv, Karrin, Amo, Alissa, Lynn, Tierney and Hannah

Gratitudes: 
1. Eye is healing slowly

2. Work on my inherited house is finally moving along, hoping to move in by the end of October.

 

It's a Jungle Blog Hop - My Day

 

This months challenge is - Animals, plants, trees...what's in your jungle?  

My Jungle starts with this quilt top that I put together a couple of months ago.  The only problem is that I'm stalled on what I want to do for borders on the top and right sides   I've plenty of leopard prints left, and of course lots of COC's to use.....Just can't decide what I want.   Only thing I do know is that I want an asymmetrical layout to the quilt, so will only do a 6" border.

The blocks were some from a long ago fav fabric sway where I sent out leopard and tiger prints.   The panel was bought about 10 yrs later.

I really had to work to finish up this quilt top after 2 eye surgeries in the space of 3 weeks and what has turned out to be almost 2 weeks of face-down or on my right side.   With only 15 minutes up out of every hour it's hard to get much done other than making necessary trips when I actually rememebered to get up.   However, once  I started feeling better I did realize that even 10-15 minutes sewing time would make progress.   Thankfully I only needed to finish 3 blocks for the bottom border, then attach both top and bottom borders....phew!

Details - 

8 pieced blocks from the same fav fabric swap the ones above came from.  Scraps used to make the remaining blocks.  Panel used was bought at the same time as the leopard (about 2 yrs ago).

Fabrics leftover from the 2 quilts so far.   Some of teh stack on the right will be used as the remaining border for the first top.   Then, may piece bindings or make another quilt with the remaining ones....who knows 

Gratitudes:

1. For good retina specialists thru the last month, 2 surgeries, and what has seemed to be unending downtime.   Here's hoping I don't fall into the 5% that need a 3rd surgery to get the repair to finally last.

2. For insurance paying for the surgeries (even if they are balking at the cost of a prescription eye drop)