ScrapHappy Saturday - Orange you Glad?

 

I am so sorry for saying last week that August was going to be dark. Dark is next month! I completely zoomed past orange. August is all about the orange. I worked ahead on the Hen & Chick blocks, so in my mind, I am already thinking ahead. I have scraps of ALL colors strewn around my sewing studio and it is delicious and chaotic.  Honestly though, I have just been hand sewing hexies and soaking in the Olympics. 

My weekend promises to be frantic as well. We have a couple of weeks ahead of children in transition. Sydney has a 3 week gap between her old college apartment and new, so we will head to Gainesville to bring her home for a few days and then she has to couch surf during her sorority recruitment event which happens before the move in day of her new apartment. Ryan is able to move in and out on the same day, so we just have to go up in a couple of weeks and schlep all of this things 3 blocks from one apartment to the next. Anna isn't moving, but she had to join into our happy confusion and is flying back from her nanny gig in Boston tonight. Because Kurt took her to the airport in DC, he now has to pick her up and take her back to her car before hopping on a plane to come home so we can drive over to start with the Sydney migration.  I love having kids, I just wish they would take turns.  After August I think they will be self sufficient again for a while. 

We are officially back in school again, so sewing time is going to be harder to come by and so much more appreciated as a result. I hope that you can find some orange scrap with which to play. Orange used to be a rare shade in my stash, but I have made some deliberate efforts to bulk up this happy color. If you want to sew dark instead, please feel free to save your oranges for one more month, It's all about doing what works for you. Orange and dark go great together, it would also be fun to mix and match!

ScrapHappy Saturday - Wrapping up Aqua

It is the last aqua Saturday, and somehow I am just now starting to feel the vibe.  Mostly, I have been busy trying to finish things up before school starts. 

I got the dark blue row finished for the hexie quilt last night before Friday margaritas!  It just needs to get sewn on. When I moved this quilt from the design wall to the floor, it opened up  more real estate on the design wall. 

There are still two partial rows hanging out next to the leader and ender collection of plus blocks. I've got more to add to the pink and purple when the dark blue is complete. No rush here, I have probably been working on this quilt for the better part of a decade. I started trying out some border ideas. Again, no rush here. 

Then I used the newly opened up space to pull out a UFO. These are 5 inch blocks I think. I might mix up the churn dashes with a couple of similar patterns. If I prep some of the cross blocks those would also work great as leaders and enders for next month. 

I am trying to finish more than I start right now knowing that things will get busy when school starts again. I have started some graduate classes, so I am trying to make sure that I have some nice simple projects without deadlines that I can chip away on slowly.  

How is your aquamarine month wrapping up? August will be orange! It is one of the few colors left, so I know that most of you had already guessed that!