ScrapHappy Saturday - Last Pink Saturday

How has another month rushed by? There wasn't much time to sew this week, but I caught up with a few things from the ironing basket and the sorting piles to come up with some more blocks to add to the wall. 

There were some beautiful sunrises this week. 

Also a lot of end of year rushing at work, which made it nice to take a deep breath and find a  minute every morning to just take it all in. 

My main goal for this morning it to get the log cabin blocks done and off of the frame. Anna will be here on Friday to stay with us until the wedding and it would be nice if she had a place to sleep. I got to the end of the batting that I had cut from the roll. I think that was 90 inches and the quilt is 110 inches. So maybe 20 more inches to quilt? I will have to cut piece of batting to move on. I was sure that I could puzzle together some frankenbatting, but I seem to be pretty low on leftovers right now. Honestly, being pretty low on leftovers is a good thing. It means that I am using things up efficiently. Its been over a decade of using up things and it suddenly seems to be making a dent!

Mister linky is below, please share your pink progress for this month. May starts on Friday and it is going to be orange! I made sure to choose a small color because it is going to be a crazy month. End of the year festivities and AP testing at work, graduation for Sydney, Wedding for Anna. Deep breath for me? Time will tell!

ScrapHappy Saturday Pink

 I haven't make much more progress on pink. There are always a couple of leader and ender blocks to add to the wall as I sew other things. Most of my sewing time has been taken up with the log cabin quilt. 

I quilted the first 90 inches. I know that because my batting is 90 inches and I need to add another piece. Extremely large quilts take an very long time. I am using freehand Baptist Fans which is one of my favorite traditional all over quilting designs. There are about 6 inches at one end that the machine can't reach even though I stretched the frame as far out as I could, I will reload it to get to that part as soon as the main surface is done. I need to get this done soon because the frame is taking up most of the room and blocking space. Anna and Sydney will both be here for the week between Sydney's graduation and Anna's wedding, and I think they would both like a place to sleep. Wedding plans seem to be coming along nicely. We all have two more weeks before things get very busy! 

Today Kurt is at tennis and I am going to go to an estate sale to look at a sewing machine for the makerspace at school. I took in my old Kenmore machine, but it wasn't working well. Yesterday I left work early to take it to a sewing machine repair shop. They are only open on 10-4 during weekdays, so I had to rush out early to get there in time. Hopefully they will be able to figure out what is going on. I was planning on letting Sydney have that machine when she moves into her new apartment in July. She thinks that she would like to modify vintage clothes as a hobby when she starts her new job. 

Tomorrow we are going to see the all school musical which is Les Miserable. Today I need to buckle down and get some school work done. A new term started on Monday and so we are all in the starting phase of figuring out the expectations for all the new classes. Somehow I ended up with three classes again this term, even though it is usually two. One is about technology, one is about human resources and the other is for my literature review. Time to stop procrastinating and jump in! How are your weekend plans shaping up? Hopefully you have found some time to sew. It's good for the soul. 

Spring Rains

 

It has been cold and rainy in Florida. Kurt has been gone all week for work and to visit his dad. Sydney is home for the weekend. She is starting to count down days until she graduates from UF next month. Anna is polishing off all of her wedding plans. The first week in May is going to be a lot!

I spent some time sewing together 10.5 inch squares from men's flannel shirts to make a backing for the log cabin quilt. 

This is the last giant quilt that I want to get finished before I collapse the film down to a smaller size. I need to get that one loaded up and then start to work on the binding for Dear Jane. 

It has been years since I did a scalloped binding, that will take a bit of mental effort. I see that the Artemis II astronauts splashed down. That is nice to hear. I am looking forward to a quiet weekend much closer to home. 

How are your weekend plans shaping up?

Long Weekend

 We had Friday off of school for Easter weekend. We don't always get religious holidays, but they gave it to us this year. It is the last long weekend until Memorial day at the end of May, so I am trying to enjoy it.  Thursday, also known as fake Friday, was trivia. We won! It always comes down to the last question, we didn't know it and bet zero. 

Yesterday I brought up the fabric basket where I dump all the leftover fabric for later. I sorted and cut and put things away. It felt good to start fresh again. 

Then I celebrated by sewing some pink. Look how happy those blocks look? Such a softer and less angry version of red. Have you started on pink yet? 

PINK!!

 

Are your ready for pink? A new month means a new color and I am ready for something new. How about you?

I've been trying to get out in the mornings a bit. I had a late start on Tuesday and spent a few minutes to enjoy the sunrise.

A sailboat got stranded on the beach Saturday night. It was stormy with big wind gusts. 

Then we went out tonight to enjoy the Artemis II launch. It was packed!