Scrappy Happy Sunday

 

I set up the quilting frame yesterday, which took most of the morning.   When Sydney is off to college in the fall it can live in her room on a permanent basis, but until then it gets temporary real estate in the family room as needed.  With a long weekend to enjoy and another one coming up for President's day, I should be able to finish a few quilts.   I chose this one because it had backing and binding ready to go.  If I can get the top trimmed and machine stitching done on that then I will have something to do during family time for pizza night.  I suspect we will watch some Olympics together.  

Next, I pulled everything out of the closet to decide which is next.  There are only 4 with fabric for backings together with the finished flimsy.  I guess I will have to keep my eyes open for more backing fabrics!  I've been burning through stash much faster than I have acquired new fabric during COVID, so I don't feel bad about a little shopping.   

So instead of grabbing something ready to go, I started puzzling together 10.5" squares to make pieced backings for two more quilts.  These are solids to use as the backing for #FullStop.  I would like to get this one finished up to bring to a faculty and staff art show that we are having at school.   I'll have to play with the color placement and do a bit of pressing, but I was able to find enough solid scraps to cover the quilt.   

Then I started working on this random collection of floral prints that I had set aside for Garden Trellis.  It is a really ugly collection so far, but I will see what I can do to make it more cohesive.   I was thinking of adding a border or two to this quilt as it is set on the diagonal with bias edges.   

For now though, the sewing space needs a bit of organization. It looks like a fabric bomb exploded in there will all the digging for fabric and quilt frame pieces.   Happy Sunday! I hope you are all up to something scrappy as well.  I am linking to Oh Scrap.   

ScrapHappy Saturday - Blue Skies

Welcome to the weekend!   Just three more weekends before AP testing starts, and 8 more before school ends.  The seniors had their "prom" last night.   It was a formal dinner with speeches and videos.  No DJ or dancing allowed.  What a long strange year this has been.   
We saw the first sea turtle nest of the season today!   The sea turtle preservation group is out on beach buggies every morning scouting for them, but this is the first marked nest we have seen.   

I plan to sort through some more blue scraps this morning.   If I can get some leaders and enders set up, then I can work on those between sewing the rows together for the red lightning quilt.  

The garden lattice blocks might be first up.   I didn't make any flower blocks in green, but blue will make a nice addition to the collection.   

How are your blocks coming along?    The linky tool is below, so please share your progress and plans.  

 

RSC21 Week 1

 

I have started off the new year with a blast by completely forgetting that it was Saturday!  I've been happily sewing the morning away thinking that it was Friday.   What a funny way to start 2021.   I have been avoiding the thought of returning to school with a lingering thought that I need to grade some essays before Monday.  I am enjoying pink far to much right now though.   I've finished off 10 Garden Party blocks using a design by Bonnie Hunter.  As much as I searched, I could not find the quiltmaker magazine in which the pattern appeared.  I saved it carefully for years knowing that this quilt was definitely on my someday list.   I might switch to a contrasting color in the centers, but other that that, I am enjoying this pattern very much.   I read through the pattern several times, and I think I have all the measurements right, but if now, these dimensions work out nicely I think.  

So what pink scraps have you pulled to play with this year?   The linky tool will be available each Saturday so that you can link to your blog and share your scraphappy progress with us all.