ScrapHappy Saturday - Blue Skies

Not lots of blue scraps yet, but plenty of blue skies.   We have worked so hard at the cabin for the last two weeks and it has been so much fun!  I sleep like a log every night and then wake up ready to start again the next day.   Much of the work is just new house things like cleaning and organizing, picking out paint colors.  All much fun.  Then there is the land that has been sadly neglected.  So much trash to haul away and lumber from old out buildings to be burned.   So far we have only dealt with the main three acres.  The upper seven remains untouched.   I haven't taken many photos because everything is half done.  These are a few of the structures which have been taken down.  I am watching the fire now as we try to burn the last of what can be burned and Kurt hauls a load of the rest to the dump.  We have made quite a few trips to the dump and had quite a few fires!   Still more to go, but progress is being made.  

Ready to head home again and switch gears.   I will be working some this summer with the new job and I have a couple of T-shirt quilts to make.  One for commission and one for Sydney to take away to college in the fall.   

ScrapHappy Saturday -- Week 3

 

What a long strange week it has been. Today I am thankful for three day weekends. It means I might make it though next week. As you might guess, COVID is in full swing here. Because the schools are prohibited by law from doing anything to mitigate the spread, it is running through fast and hard. Some kids choose to wear masks, but mandating of masks and quarantines are both forbidden here. And so we cover for sick teachers when the sub pool has been depleted and hope that it gets better soon. There is a daily influx of emails from students about makeup work.   I am also thankful for Google Classroom so that I can post everything digitally.  I can't imagine trying to keep up with emailing work to 20 kids every day with three different preps.  For the most part at least one member of each lab group has been present and able to share lab data with those at home. I am also thankful that they all stay in contact digitally so the absent kids are aware of what we are doing.    

 Just as I was settled into the new COVID routine at school Sydney decided to fall down at Lacrosse practice and may have fractured her wrist. They had her casted and ready to discharge before the radiology report came back. He thinks it is a bone spur and not a fracture at all. So on Monday we will see a hand surgeon and he can break the tie. A fracture would probably be the end a season yet to begin.  She is in good spirits and finds it all incredibly funny so far.   That might change it it last for longer than the weekend.

I am caught up on my reds for the most part and hope to make some progress on these Irish Chains.  I need more alternate blocks and then I can dig into the partially assembled nine and four patch bins to puzzle some more of the main blocks together.   It is strange to work with randomly scrappy blocks after spending so many years on one color at a time.   I also have a bag of red crumb blocks for placemats and some tiny scraps to use for little log cabins.  

I hope you have some fun sewing plans for the weekend as well.  Mr. Linky is below.  We would love to see what you have going on with your red scraps so far.   

  

Sunday Wrap Up

The sunrise was subdued this morning.   It is a bit chilly so far but promises to warm up as the day progresses.   

I am making good progress on my red scraps.  I dreamt last night about making placemats out of crumb blocks.   Here is my wall so far:  starting at the top, I've got bulls-eye blocks which are a courthouse steps variation from 1.5 inch strips, Carpenter's Star, which is just HST units from 2.5 inch strips with a few squares, and finally Blackford's Beauty blocks from 2 inch strips.  These are my 3 main Rainbow Scrap Challenge projects for 2022.   I've saved the tiny scraps for paper pieces mini log cabin blocks.  

While working through my red scrap bin, I've also been adding some alternate squares to these scrappy Irish Chain blocks.   So many scraps all used up!  How is it that I haven' run out yet?  Visit Oh Scrap!  for more scrappy projects.   

 

Week 2 ScrapHappy Saturday

It is red week number 2 already!  I hope you are all getting a chance to dig in and play with your scraps.   I have worked my way through the 1.5 inch collection already so today I will tackle the 2 inch strips.   Blackford's Beauty is my plan for these guys. I've been saving the solids specifically to unify the star points.   Looking forward to seeing what scraphapiness everyone else is up to.  This is the awkward time of the year when I try NOT to start every new project I see on someone else's blog.  

As far as local news, friends have been sending me this link to an article about our little corner of Florida.  Covid is in full swing here, hoping for a quick spike on this one as the numbers are just unimaginably high.  I'm starting to run in to a lot of people having their second case.   I am in the minority so far having not been pulled on my planning to cover for sick teachers without subs. I think they have sympathy for the batch that had Covid over the break as we aren't all fully functional again.  Thankfully it was a short week though and I have a weekend to rest and recharge before heading into the battle zone again.