SoScrappy Saturday 8.24.2024

Today is the fourth Saturday of August of the color orange. Normally I would write about the Meals on Wheels/ Table Scrap challenge but Joy is waiting until next Saturday (the fifth one!) to post the link. So today is my bonus project, the Orange Splash quilt. I pieced orange as the main color because, well, I had ALL the orange out, so why not? 

pattern inspiration: Splash in Sunday Morning Quilts by Amanda Jean Nyberg

                                            and Cheryl Arkison

panto: serpentine

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Finish or NOT Friday 8.23.2024

I'll take a *sorta* finish today. I did finish the piecing my 'Splash'. It's a pattern found in Amanda Jean Nyberg and Cheryl Arkison's book Sunday Morning Quilts. I wanted mine a little smaller as it will be part of my Crumb lecture trunk show. 

pattern inspiration: Splash in Sunday Morning Quilts by Amanda Jean Nyberg

                                        and Cheryl Arkison.

So what did I do instead of quilting?

I volunteered to work Thursday at the Quilt of Valor Booth at the AQS Grand Rapids Quilt Show! I enjoy talking to the show's attendees and hearing their stories. My viewing of the show is limited to glimpses on breaks...

photo credit: FB Michigan Makers member. 

(I really liked this photo and next year, I hope to remember to take my own like this!)

Here are a few of the booth this year. We were lucky to be given two booths! One for the area to have Signature blocks signed and one for the Fabric Relocation Station.

This is Tammy at the Fabric Relocation Station. She is so good at matching colors and fabrics that attendees would pick up what she put together and take the fabric home. Any fabric that is donated to the Michigan group that is not suitable for Quilts of Valor is cut into 1/2 yard cuts (or sometimes bigger or smaller depending on the donation) and offered for $1.00/cut suggested donation. It is one of two major fund raisers that the Michigan Quilts of Valor does. The other fundraiser takes place during the Original Sewing and Quilting Expo held in November at the Novi's Suburban Collection Showplace. 

I'll be watching the free table at guild in the coming months!

This is the entrance picture that I took. I always liked the structure attendees pass through to get to the show exhibit hall.

Road update: The first layer of asphalt was laid while I was away yesterday! Yea! I wasn't trapped in/out of my house. I was told once the first layer is laid that there is a 3 hour waiting period before driving on it. Today the closest entrance to my house is getting asphalt laid and the other way, the old asphalt is being removed. Good thing that there is always something to keep me busy in the sewing room...I don't feel trapped at all. LOL

Thanks for sticking with me on this long post. <grin>

Sharing with Alycia at Finish or NOT Friday.

WIP Wednesday 8.21.2024

 I finished the Double 4 Patch: Trip Around the World in plenty of time to take to the Scrap Lecture/Show and Share at the Howell Melon Patchers. I still have quite a few of these blocks so I have more yellow/flower quilts in my future. I bound it in a medium blue even though it looks darker in the picture.

pattern: Double 4 Patch

panto: trailing vine

I worked on my Splash from the Book Sunday Morning Quilt book by Amanda Jean Nyberg and Cheryl Arkison. I decided to make orange as the main color and blue as the contrast. Oh no! My math seems to be a little off...I wanted to make this quilt a little smaller than the directions in the book.

I made a few adjustments and now the columns line up. Trust me... the columns are pretty close in length.

Our road is getting re-paved or rather re-asphalted. Monday the old was scraped off. Today I hope they will put more rocks down and Thursday put the first layer of asphalt on.

Sharing with Susan at MidWeek Makers.

Design Wall Monday 8.19.2024

I do have a little something on my design wall this week.

Wednesday is Scrap Day Quilts at the Melon Patchers. I was asked to bring in a quilt with a pattern. uggghh. Lots of time, I just look at a quilt (Hello Pinterest and dead links) and adapt it to my needs/wishes/wants (???). Enter Friend 'K' who has a handful of green/purple 2.5 inch squares leftover from her chandelier quilt and wanted ideas to use them. I piped up 'Double 4 Patch' quilt. I was trying to explain but 'K' is a visual learner. 

So I found my Double 4 Patch blocks that I made as leader/enders in the winter.

I twisted and turned the blocks into a few different settings.

Trip Around the World:

All Diagonals the Same Way aka Streak of Lightening:

This setting is like a Chevron:

or X's and O's:

I also started another Slab quilt Splash from the Sunday Morning book by Amanda Jean Nyberg and Cheryl Arkison. I blogged about my first one here that I gave to my brother last year during his hospital stay. This one will be orange with one blue block, the orange is in honor of the RSC color of the month!

Sharing today with Judy at Design Wall Monday.

Finish or NOT Friday 3.24.2023

I've been saving my finishes for today's post!

First: 

I finished my brown/tan crumb square in a square. I really like the 'looks' of this one but with all the bias...well, let's just say I was trying to quilt down a few c cups. LOL

pattern: Square in a Square

panto: serpentine

Second:

My regatta quilt. The seagull fabric is so much calmer than the yellow sun!

pattern: sailboat row...but I've misplaced the pattern (ugh) and bricks for the sea

panto: popcorn in the 'sky' and serpentine in the 'sea'

Third (and last one for today!):

My green Splash.

pattern: Splash by AmandaJean Nyberg in Sunday Morning Quilts

panto: vertical serpentine

Sharing with Alycia at Finish or NOT Friday and

Sarah at Whoop! Whoop!

WIP Wednesday 3.22.2023

For my next project, I decided to make Splash from Sunday Morning Quilts by AmandaJean Nyberg and  Cheryl Arkison. Here is one place that you may purchase the book from, if desired. This is the original Splash found in their book.

Since my green scrap bin is overflowing, I decided that green would be where the aqua is located. I then went round and round on what color for the orange space. Should it be orange? yellow? purple? white? black? In the end, I chose to cut apart a little chunk of the yellow sky from my sailboat quilt. I blogged about the yellow brick sky here.

This is where I started my journey.

Amanda Jean's pattern calls for the making of larger segments and then columns.

I was trying to 'stick to the spring greens' but I realized that I just didn't have the 'right' scraps for this project. So as any scrapper would do, other greenish fabrics joined into the mix. I was struggling to make the third column as stated in the directions when I had the realization...'It's my quilt and I can make it a little different'. I then started using smaller pieces of the green and sewing the smaller bits to get bigger bits. Not exactly the look but close enough for me! LOL! It's measuring in the neighborhood of 48 x 65 (I think) before quilting. 

pattern. inspiration: Splash from Sunday Morning Quilts by Amanda Jean Nyberg 

                                        and Cheryl Arkison.

Sharing today with Susan at MidWeek Makers

WIP Wednesday

I finished the binding on my friend's quilt this morning and at lunchtime, I delivered it.

She was very surprised by my visit and delighted with the quilt. You see, my friend is DS's ex-girlfriend and she is very sick. She was so very excited that I made her a quilt because she feels that the blanket in the hospital is just too warm and the sheet alone is too cold and,of course, quilts are just right!

I'm glad that I made this quilt for her. It is a little splash of color in her otherwise drab hospital room.


I quilted it with Happy Times panto from Willow Leaf Studio.

I pray that there will be Happier Times for her when she recovers.

Quilt pattern: Just Can't Cut It by All Washed Up