Good-Bye, Blues!

Can you believe it? I'm here again with a new post. But it is Scrappy Saturday so I thought I'd share the final two blue Tiny Tuesday blocks.

The classic quarter-square triangles. I chose to use only two blues and spun them around to make a pinwheel in the middle! Classy, right?

And the Quarter Log Cabin block. I think this turned out really pretty but don't look too closely because it's slightly wonky. That's OK with me though.

Now here are all four August light/bright blue Tiny Tuesday blocks together. Pretty!

It has been announced that the color for September will be purple for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Bring it on!

I don't think you've seen my grandson for a little bit so here was today's adorable picture. My son (Daddy) thinks he looks like Al Boreland here. Lol! Do you remember Al Boreland from Home Improvement?

Have a great weekend!

Linking up with Angela at So Scrappy. Stay safe, Angela. We're all hoping that Hurricane Dorian heads back to sea instead of hitting the USA's East Coast!

Been Travelin' & Still Got a Few Things Done!

My hubby & I have returned from our trip to Colorado to give his sister a hand with a few things. On the way out I finished my pair of socks for Camp Loopy - August. The pattern is called Tea & Scandal by Very Busy Monkey. You can catch my project page on Ravelry here.

The yarn is superwash merino, cashmere, and silk. It's going to be a wonderful pair of socks to wear this winter!

Lori at Humble Quilts is looking for photos from her "stringers" so here's mine. Take a look at what Lori and others have been sewing with strings here.

I see I posted this block on August 10 so I obviously had a good jump on it this month. It's for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge and our color for August was light/bright blues. The pattern is Bonnie Hunter's  freebie called String-X. I really think this is going to be a pretty quilt when all is said and done.

Speaking of Bonnie Hunter, on the return trip I sewed down the binding to her Leaders & Enders quilt from 2014. She called hers Lozenges, I call mine "I Spy". Just needs the label. You can find this free pattern here.

If you look closely, you can see that the main part of my quilt is quilted with orange peels. I just love quilting that pattern. The back of the quilt is Jungle Book fabric. LOVE!!!!

I think that's enough for today. Enjoy this evening going into Labor Day weekend!

I Had the BEST Time!

What a wonderful day we had yesterday. It was in the works for a bit due to many schedules to check and adjust. You'd think we had "jobs" but we're still busy folks.

At 11:30 my husband & I drove down to Mother's, about 1/2 hour away. We waited until she got home from her hairdresser appointment. Looking lovely, we loaded her in the car and off to St. Louis we went. We arrived at the St. Louis Art Museum around 1:00 and had a hard time finding a parking spot. The lots were packed! Understandably so since it was FREE FRIDAY and there was a special exhibit of Paul Gauguin's work! Inside it wasn't so bad. Not sure where all the people actually were but it is a large museum. Anyway, here are a few of my favorites.

My absolute favorite!

Did you know he dabbled in pottery?

What about wood carving? He would then add paint to his sculptures.
This is Eve in the Garden of Eden

His life story was interesting. His father was French and his mother was French-Peruvian. He married a Danish woman with whom he had 5 children. He was a successful stock broker and art was merely a hobby. After the Paris stock market crash, he decided to pursue art as a career. He started in France but soon felt he needed to go to the French colonies of Tahiti, Marquesas, and such. His wife did not accompany him. While in these "primitive" (his observation) locales, he lived with very young women. One was as young as 13! And these women bore him more children! Needless to say he ended up getting syphilis and you can see that in his later works. During this time, he also seemed to get more religious.

On the way out of the museum, I spied this tile work. I absolutely LOVE mosaics and this one was gorgeous. I've got no details on it because we were on our way out but I did manage to snap a picture.

We thoroughly enjoyed our afternoon. Hubby & I were home by 5 and it was time to get dinner on since it was also Friday Night Sew-In for me! While preparing dinner, I was mentally going through my projects, trying to decide what I wanted to work on

I ended up pulling out my Tiny Tuesday blocks. One last pink TT block didn't have its frame on and there were two blue TT blocks to be sewn. And before going to bed, I had them done.

I must leave you with one last picture. My DIL sent me this one of Brody the other morning. She said he was getting in good tummy time while enjoying/studying the quilt Grammy made for him. Isn't he the cutest??!!?? (I may be a bit biased! Ha!)

Have a great weekend!

Linking up with Wendy for FNSI at Sugarlane Quilts and also with Angela for Scrap Happy Saturday at So Scrappy! Jump on over to both of these sites and be amazed at what other quilters & embroiderers are doing!

Rainy Days & Mondays

Man, oh man, did we have some storms roll through last night around 3am. I could hear them even over the box fan and ceiling fan that my husband insists on having turned on. BOOM! BOOM! In spite of all the fans!! Hahaha! So what did I do? I meandered downstairs around 4:15 to work on my Dirty Dozen #3 UFO, the Dresden Sampler project. More on that in another post though ...

Today is Monday and that means Movin' It Forward. Remember these prepped and partially appliqued Hospital Sketches blocks?

I finished all four and decided to see how they would look with the others.

Whew, baby! That's what I like! (Me & Big Bopper singing out loud!) Now this might not be the final order but I think we're movin' it right along! What are the others working on and moving forward? Check in HERE with Em's Scrapbag to find out!

Scrappy Saturday & Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!

Every day from Tuesday until today I've been looking for the Tiny Tuesday block for this week. I know Angela (our fearless leader) has been super busy with selling her old house, buying her new house, setting up the new house, getting her kids ready for school/college, and getting her-teacher-self ready for the new semester. I totally understand that Tiny Tuesday slipped her mind. It's truly OK, Angela!

In the meantime, I've kept myself out of trouble. I sewed up my light/bright blue String-X block for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge this month. I'll be linking up with Angela's Scrappy Saturday as will many others. Hop on over and see what everyone else scrapped out this week!

I've also been fortunate to win a couple of prizes recently. Last week I was notified that I'd won a prize in the Summer's Last Blast Yarn Crawl that I'd participated in a couple of weeks ago. I mentioned it on this blog post. Just look at the bag of goodies I won!

Monday morning I was breezing through my favorite bloggers' posts and discovered Norma of Timeless Traditions was back from teaching & retreating. If you are unfamiliar with her patterns, you are missing out! She is a fabulous designer and an interesting blogger. Check out her blog by clicking on the link above. I think you'll like her beautiful patterns and inspirations.

Anyway, she was happy to be home finally and offered a pattern to her first responder. You guessed it -- it was me!!! Thank you, Norma Whaley for offering this pattern! I can't wait to tackle it!

I love her works so much and I'm still happy-dancing over this win! I've done a couple of Timeless Traditions designs -- two pillows as a matter of fact. Here are pictures I dug up from the blogging archives! Ha!

All in all, I'd say I had a fantastic week. Here's to a fantastic weekend and I hope you enjoy yours too!

Movin' It Forward Monday

Ahhhh, the start of a new week and a new color for the new month. Let's recap.

Five Tuesdays in July meant there would be five Tiny Tuesday blocks.

And here are all five. The flower in the middle still needs the confetti frame. It'll happen.

Hospital Sketches has been moving along. Friday night I prepped four blocks. This weekend I got a good start on them.

The two pineapple blocks at the top got the pineapple & first set of leaves appliqued down. The one on the left has the rest of the greenery glued down and ready to be appliqued. The bottom left is done except I think it may get a little more added to it. Looks a bit plain. The bottom right needs the flower center sewn in and then it's done. Feeling pretty good about this project so far.

I don't remember sharing the little sweater I finished last week. It's from the pattern Abate by Alicia Plummer. You can check it out on my Ravelry project page here.

I recently saw that the Dirty Dozen UFO Challenge chose project #3 for this month. That is my Dresden Quilt Workshop QAL. I started this gung-ho using mostly French General fabrics. I love it but somehow still managed to fall off the wagon. I'm off to reassess where I am on it and to start moving forward on it.

Get yourself moving too in whatever direction you need to take. Don't just sit there! MOVE!

Linking up with Em's Scrapbag for Movin' It Forward Monday! Lots of talent & sharing at the link. Check it out!

Saturday Morning Post

Last night was Friday Night with Friends. I was pretty sure I was going to be appliqueing, at least that's what I told Cheryll who runs this Internet Party! I didn't applique but I prepped four blocks so that surely must count, right?

I printed out the last two blocks of Hospital Sketches patterns by Barbara Brackman, decided on what colors I wanted to use, traced the pieces out, and trimmed them up. The next step I like to do is to fold each applique piece along the traced line. I find it makes it easier to needle-turn. I got that tip from Gail Hatcher when she visited our guild a long time ago and I took her class. It takes some time to do but I've always thought it worth the effort. After all that, I glued down my pieces and am now ready to take up my needle and thread. 

Block #7 Tennessee Rose

 There is a big yellow center that will need to be added after this much gets done.

Block #6 Mountain Laurel

I finished one pineapple block but have decided to do three more -- one for each corner. So I prepped two more.

Pineapple #2

Pineapple #3

The "sprigs" which go on top of these pineapples will be added after this much gets sewn down.

I was tired of all the fiddly work at this point so put it aside and picked up my knitting. I just started a two-at-a-time pair of socks. The pattern, Tea & Scandal by Very Busy Monkey, can be found on Ravelry. Her patterns are so well written! This is my August project for Camp Loopy 2019 at The Loopy Ewe.

And lastly my Scrappy Saturday post is my final pink Tiny Tuesday block. It was an easy one and I still need to "frame" it.

The color for August has been decided -- Light, Bright Blue. I hope I've got some of that and didn't use those colors in the previous two blue months, Aquas & Darks. Time to go raid the stash bins!

Linking up with So Scrappy and Stitching Cubbyhole!