Stop Tossing...A Military Mystery...Clues 3 and 4

As I was waffling on my background choice, I feel behind on the clues. <sigh>

I settled on the light blue since Alycia used the light blue in her mock up of the clues...imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

Here is my progress after Clue 3.

 pattern credit: Stop Tossing Clue 3

Here is my progress after Clue 4.

pattern credit: Stop Tossing Clue 4

Believe it or not, it's measuring pretty close to Alycia's size in the clue directions! Whoop! Whoop!

Maybe I'll make a light blue D9P with the red accents and tan background...time will tell.

The next clue will be out on Wednesday...I wonder what the border applications will be?!

SoScrappy Saturday 3.12.2022

Today is the second Saturday of March of the color yellow/gold! 

One of the blocks I am making for 2022 is the wonky star. 

First up is the selected color with white background. 

Sew...yellow stars with white background

 Next are the white stars with the yellow/gold background.

pattern credit: either 'Pinterest search' or 'Google search' wonky stars and you will

                        be treated to many tutorials!

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Finish or NOT Friday 3.11.2022

I finished piecing the Amazing Grace panel this week. This fulfills my low key goal of piecing one quilt a month for potential Christmas gifts. I used green as an accent with the paver blocks around it. I first placed a light blue as the top border, thinking to simulate the sky.

Well, I wasn't feeling it. So I took off the light blue and replaced it with more green. Much better!

pattern inspiration: Sew Yummy's paver blocks

The local Historical Society is having a display about the Casual Quilters Guild. I have kept a pictorial notebook of the guild QOV's I've quilted in 2020 - 2021. I thought our guild historian might like to add it to the collection so I made a cover for it! I then promptly forgot to give it to our historian...Duh!

pattern: shared by PatR at the Oconomowoc Quilt Guild circa 2010.

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WIP Wednesday 3.9.2022

I've made the paver blocks, the corner turner blocks and added an inner coping border. Just a few more paver blocks to go.

I'm liking where it's heading. 😍 I'll need to add a little something to the top and bottom to get it more rectangular.

 pattern inspiration: Sew Yummy's 'paver blocks'

In other happenings around the sewing space, I was long arming my last guild quilt in the current batch. I was really struggling with it when the top thread came out of the tension disk and I actually needed to un-pick a partial row. I got that done and fixed the thread path problem only to roll the quilt on the next quilting pass to discover this:

I was NOT a happy camper! When I looked closer, I realized my cut off threads had somehow gotten caught in the needle pick up and were sewn onto the quilt. WHEW! All I had to do was simply tug and cut (carefully) at the loose threads and the quilting was fine!! Thank Goodness! I was very very happy when I did the final pass on this one. In case you are interested in the front:

pattern: sewn by a member of the Casual Quilters...unknown pattern

panto: serpentine

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Design Wall Monday 3.7.2022

I found this Amazing Grace panel in a bag that was given to me after our guild tag sale. The instructions were, ' Everyone take one bag of fabric NOBODY wanted to buy and throw it in your trash. That way, we will spread out the trash and one member won't be overwhelmed.' Dutifully, I took a bag and to my surprise, I found a few things that I could actually work with. Would I pay for it, 'No' but I could make a quilt with it! LOL. Here is the Amazing Grace panel and some fabrics I pulled as 'go withs'.

In my mind, I see a path around the panel. Grass, sand, pavers...you get the picture.

Something similar to the blocks found here at Sew Yummy's blog. This is Sew Yummy's picture that I boosted from her blog. Sew Yummy states in her post that she found the original post by JudyL but there is no picture.

Linking up with Judy at Design Wall Monday.

Stop Tossing...A Military Mystery...Step 3

 Alycia released Step 3 last Wednesday. Now I have a little dilemma...

This clue calls to start using the background fabric. I was originally going to use this tan fabric I have.

But in Alycia's mock-up, she uses a medium blue as background. That got me thinking...

I really, really like the blue. As Little Penguin has noticed, I use this blue A.LOT!

While I'm noodling this over, I'll go work on something else. Either the tan or blue will work and look nice but right now, I'm leaning towards the blue so I can quilt with blue thread...

Stop Tossing Clue 3

SoScrappy Saturday 3.5.2022

 Today is the first Saturday of March of the color YELLOW/GOLD.

First up: I made two crumb hearts and their bottom cut-offs. I actually went to the closet and found the baggie of yellow crumb blocks and had enough to make these two hearts! Yay for parts ready to go!

pattern: scrappy improve hearts

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Finish or NOT Friday 3.4.2022

I have a finish to share today!

pattern: Naptime by Debby Brown

panto: halcyon...but the light blue thread really blends...LOL

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WIP Wednesday 3.2.2022

Easy Peasy was right on!

One session at Baby Brother yielded all the blocks made.

My next time sewing at Baby, yielded a flimsy! It really sped up the whole process by having the 16 patches already made, they have been a leaders/enders project and the 6.5 inch squares already cut!

pattern: Naptime by Debby Brown

Linking up with Susan at MidWeek Makers.

Happy March! 3.1.2022