ScrapHappy Saturday

 

It feels like fall in Florida. I was at car loop yesterday and wasn't sweating!  Then this classic car came through all decked out for Halloween and I just had to smile. 

I couldn't do any graduate school work on Monday when the AWS outage affected Canvas which is the learning management system that we use. I took advantage of that down time to play with hexies a little bit. I didn't get any new blocks finished, but I fondled fabric and did organizing and planning. 

Today we are watching the tropics. Florida is fine, but Jamaica is not looking good, and we have a trip booked there in just a few weeks. That will be interesting!

How is your weekend shaping up?

ScrapHappy Saturday - Home Again

The hexie snakes are growing slowly. I added a few more to even out the short rows. Eventually they will catch up to the two long rows. 

I was at school late on Thursday for FAFSA night when my neighbor texted to ask If I wanted some fabric. She found a bunch at an estate sale and wanted to share!  I am finding a lot of great tone on tone shades that will be lovely for my rainbow quilts. 

And here is the view on our walk home from date night last night. Sometimes I just remember to take some time to appreciate the view. I have a bit of schoolwork to do today and then I would love to turn some of the new fabric into some hexies. How is your weekend shaping up?

 

ScrapHappy Saturday - The Beginning of the End of the Year

We are at the cabin this weekend because Monday is a teacher workday. It has been raining constantly in Florida and here it is crisp fall weather with meadows of prancing deer. We had spirit week as school and then had to cancel the flag football game yesterday. We will try again next week. My seniors should be busy finishing up early action applications this weekend. Three Florida schools have moved to October 15 deadlines which does a great job of getting the kids moving early. 

This was our sunrise this morning. We have some trees to plant this afternoon and then will take some time to enjoy fall color and perhaps clear the driveway a bit of fallen leaves. I also have a literature review to write for my dissertation concept paper, so there will be some inside time next to the fire as well. 

I love the end of the year at the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Even though it hasn't been a hyper productive sewing year for me, I still love to think about rounding out block collections and finishing up quilts. 

Last weekend I finished sewing together my leader and ender project for this year which I think shall be called Starburst. Doesn't it look like the multicolored square candies? Also, the sunrise kind of colorwash idea is also a starburst. So it works on two levels. 

I also added some more hexie snakes to the collection and started to pay with the layout. I am thinking of rotating the dark sides of adjacent colors toward the center to create a kind of seam. Then the next thought was that I might run the rows vertically instead of horizontally. I didn't actually change them on the design wall, I just rotated the photo to try out the plan. Plenty of time to make those decisions though. For now I am just slowly making each row longer. The summer Alaska rows got a lot of love during days watching glaciers and riding on trains. The others will slowly catch up during quiet days at home. 

ScrapHappy Saturday - Fall Fun

 

Yesterday was flag voting! This was one of my favorites. I still need to tally votes. Several classes turned in paper ballots because of the new cell phone ban, so I still need to add those in to the digital vote tally that happened automatically. I will share photos of some of the winners next week. 

I realized last week that I had almost enough blocks for a complete quilt with this years leaders and enders project. I decided on a colorwashish sort of sun bust arrangement with amorphous edges. I didn't have equal numbers of all blocks because some months were busier than others. I realized that I needed a few more purple and blue blocks to complete my quilt and then whipped those up in a hurry. 

Then I failed to get a photo of the final layout before starting to web the top. I have three more columns to add before I can start sewing the rows together. It feels so good to see a random assortment of blocks collected throughout the year turn into a quilt. We need another not too large lap quilt for the cabin, so this one will get put to use right away. 

How are you blocks rounding out as we get a bit closer to the end? This was obviously not a hugely productive year for me with graduate school going on, so I am pretty proud to be able to make one full quilt from start to finish while moving a few more along the road. It isn't a lot, but it is what I can do  right now. On the graduate school front, I got my dissertation topic approved this week! Now I just need to flesh out the details today and start digging in a bit. It looks to be a rainy and windy day here. We worried last weekend about a hurricane only to have it go the other way and then some sort of tropical mess just popped up right over us. Sounds like a good excuse to stay in a sew!