Scrappy Saturday

There hasn’t been a lot of sewing happening lately. Life is busy! I have been working on the Stay at Home Round Robin, and I was able to get the borders finished and get it on the frame.

I’m really trying to get it quilted and bound by March 25th or whatever the deadline is but I don’t know. ??? I know I can get the quilting done, but I’m not feeling too confident about the binding. I’ll go as far as I can. 

I’ve worked some on my RSC blocks. In fact, I still had some green strips cut that didn’t get sewn in February so I finished those two blocks. 

Then I did a red one.

I like the red. It’s my favorite color. I remember when I was a kid and my mom bought me dresses that were blue or green or worse yet, blue and green plaid. LOL. I wanted red or pink! 

I made a couple of the corn and beans block

and I hope to get a few more done. I just need to cut more red strips. 

I just feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done that I want to do! I still need to get started on the BOM from A Quilting Life. I have the pattern printed out and the fabric chosen for the block. 

I went to the Shiner quilt show today, and I will post pictures as soon as I get them uploaded from my phone to Google. They had it at the Shiner KC Hall, and the lighting was not at all good, so I will have to do some editing.

I Was Confused

You won’t believe what I did! I looked at the wrong week on my planner and thought I had bunco yesterday. I fixed sandwiches and drove to the location. I got there a little early because I was a hostess, and there were no other cars. I looked at my watch, and the date was the 12th. I have Bunco on the 19th. It turned out I had nothing yesterday and nothing today. I might actually get some of my stuff done!

I got the side borders made for the SAHRR, but not sewn on yet.

I hope I can do it this evening. I am so close to finishing; I plan to add one more border after this one, but it won’t be pieced so it will go fast.

I also worked on binding on a couple of baby quilts.

The back: 

And this one:

The back is Shannon cuddle.

These are both Rhonda’s. I have a couple more to finish for her. The quilting is done, and I just need to do the binding. I hope to get it done today. I still haven’t worked on the red RSC blocks—maybe this evening.

Making Progress

I was hoping to get at least one side of the next border added to my Stay at Home Round Robin, and I did! It has taken more time than I would like to admit but I’m finally seeing some progress. 

I laid it out on my family room floor—I like to take pictures there because 1) it’s a pretty big room, and 2) I have skylights so the lighting is pretty good. I took this picture after dark so not so good lighting, and the top has gotten so big, I am running out of room. Here’s a closer view:

Yes, I’m standing on it! I still need to get the two sides done, but it’s coming along, and I’m happy with the progress so far.

I have been totally neglecting my RSC blocks; I have a few red strips cut, and I hope to get some blocks made before the weekend. But if it doesn’t happen, oh well! There is always next week. 

Tomorrow is bunco, and I signed up for sandwiches. I’m thinking turkey and Swiss. I will need to go by the store today and pick up fresh bread. Rye would be good. A friend I haven’t seen in a while texted yesterday to see if I wanted to meet up today for lunch, and of course I said yes. I’m looking forward to catching up. 

Weekend Update

Oh my, where to start? Betty and I went to garage sale Saturday. We normally don’t go to garage sales, but her sister texted her and said they had a lot of fabric. Well, ok. Off we went. I bought a bag full for $4.50. I failed to take a picture of it; I’ll do that later today. 

I worked on the picket fence border I want to put on my Round Robin quilt. It’s slow going. Since I decided to do scrappy, I feel like the cutting took longer than I had hoped. I have been putting them in stacks of ten. 

I need around sixty total. I want to get to the point where I can at least get a side sewed on so I can see if I am going to like it. I’m pulling colors from the focus fabric. The one in the star centers.

I straightened up my sewing space a little and found this:

Two tops I made and never finished. I think I got stalled out on borders. They are really too small for anything except baby quilts. I’m a little more motivated to make some bigger quilts, especially since I dropped off the ones for the Day1 graduation project. I feel like I want to get a few more made while my motivation is high. I ended up using the two small tops to make one pretty good sized top.

It’s currently 54” x 72”, but I want to add a couple of borders. I got the inner border cut out. It will be black solid, and the outer border will be a black and white print. I want to get the borders on this week. I found another top that I want to finish, but it will also need borders to make it bigger. 

I think I will remove that dark pink strip between the panel and the charm squares and replace it with a strip of orange. I’m still thinking, though.

The best news: It rained yesterday! It was supposed to rain Saturday, and it never did. I had a splitting headache all day—that happens to me with extreme barometric pressure changes—so I thought sure it would rain, but it didn’t. Sunday morning it was thundering a lot and rained a little. I checked the rain gauge and it was about 1/8”. My dad used to say “We got two inches of thunder, and a half-inch of rain.” Haha. He said a lot of funny things. Later in the day, it started raining hard and rained quite a while. I had 1-1/2” in my gauge. Thank God for that. We needed it so badly. We could use quite a bit more, and maybe will get some Wednesday, but probably not enough to alleviate the drought conditions.

This and That

Hi all! I’m just popping in for a quick post. It’s been a hectic week, but that seems to be a pattern right now. I went to Shiner Tuesday evening with another guild member to sell tickets for our guild’s opportunity quilt. 

The Shiner guild meets at 5:30, and they seem to have a really good group with good participation. They also support the Day One Graduation quilts for graduating foster kids, and I was told they donated 50 last year. That means they beat us by at least 20 quilts! 

I am dropping off our 2026 quilts today. The lady from Region 8 is meeting me in Cuero, which is nice because I thought I would have to drive to Sequin. Betty helped me get all the quilts measured and documented and put into clear plastic bags. There are 27 of them, and we pledged 25. Here are some collages I made of the quilts:

You can click on the picture if you need to blow it up to see the quilts. This one is my favorite:

Donna made two from this pattern; I made one but mine is not quilted yet….it will have to wait for next year’s donations.

The pattern is free on Tiffany’s Quilt Life; I think it’s called “Weave It”. Something like that! We both changed it up a little to make it bigger than the original. We have to meet a minimum size of 50” x 70”.

My grandson had a birthday Wednesday. We all went out to his favorite restaurant.

Twelve years old, and a perfectly delightful young man! I still remember the day he was born, and it doesn’t seem that long ago.

He was a couple of months old in this one:

SAHRR Round #6

So the last round is “Quilter’s Choice”. Let me just say that clue is easy and hard at the same time. I knew after Round 5, my top needed something more. 

I felt like another narrow border of the blue would help enclose the lighter yellow and white colors, so that was an easy choice.

Yes, that definitely helps. A quilting friend suggested I add another purple border, and I have enough purple to do that. I was thinking of something like a picket fence-type border. I made 10 or 12 of the purple blocks, and started doubting myself. 

This is where I started thinking about what I was doing. Everything was looking a little too matchy-matchy for me. I am primarily a scrap quilter. I started with a scrappy center, and I think I need to get back to that. 

I am planning to continue with the picket fence blocks, but make them in more colors. I have started pulling out more of the orange, yellow, and blue. I can still use the purple ones I have made. It will take a little more time, but I think it will be worth it. I’m not sure what the final dimensions will be. I may just keep going until I decide it’s “enough”.

I’m linking this post to Anja Quilts.

Weekend Update

I’m including Friday in my update since Friday, Saturday, and Sunday all kind of blended together. I had grandma duty, but he stayed with my mom on Friday night since I had to be at church early Saturday morning. I picked him up at 11:30 and took him to his soccer game. He is playing goalie again. 

They won 8 to 2. The other team only scored one point while Roger was the goal keeper. About 10 minutes before the game ended, they rotated in some other players, and the opposing team scored another point. 

I really didn’t think about how hot it was going to be since I had left the house early, and I didn’t have sunscreen or an umbrella or anything. I’m a little sunburned, but it will be okay. I am a big fan of youth sports, so it’s well worth a sunburn! 

Needless to say, not much sewing was done, but I do have two of the poppy quilt blocks sewn into tops. 

There is another one on the sewing machine right now, but it’s not finished so no pictures. I hope to get it done today. I brought seven home with me, and I will have another four to do once I get finished with the one that’s currently on the machine. Connie has started adding the white squares as alternate blocks to make the poppy blocks go farther. That actually makes it easier for the person assembling the tops.