shoofly done

It's official, I have used all the 1-1/2 inch hsts that I cut and made for shoofly. I have 170 blocks of last year's leader/ender challenge. Bonnie Hunter does a challenge every year. This year is easy breezy. I have a few sewn of easy breezy, but, I wanted to sew all the shoofly blocks before I get busy on those.

the last ones..finally

and a few easy breezy

I am linking:

midweek makers 

boms away 
Oh scrap

I am linking to:

creative compulsions

needle and thread Thursdays

shoo shoo

I have more shoofly blocks finished. I have at least 100 of these, and, my goal is 160. At this point, most of my corners are cleanups, and, not necessarily matching. All my favorite sets have been made, and, I am trying to use the last of the hsts. I am not wasting any of them. Once I trimmed a gazillion 1 1/2 inch hsts, I wasn't about to let them go to the infinite string/ crumb bucket of shame.

I, occasionally, add an easy breezy little block as a leader /ender, just to see how it looks. Since my Linda friend gave me a big bag of 1 1/2 inch squares, I have had great choices from which to choose.

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Monday Making

design wall monday 

oh scrap

progress

I must press on with these little shoofly blocks. I will get them sewn. This was last year's leader/ ender from Quiltville. 

Many if these hsts came from an orphan adoption.

I also have these star blocks cut and kitted that I wanted to catch up.

Sometimes progress doesn't seem like much, but, it is still moving forward.

I am linking:

midweek makers 

boms away 
Oh scrap

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creative compulsions

needle and thread Thursdays

more shoofly

I am still working to finish up my kitted shoofly blocks. This was last year's leader/ ender from Quiltville. Just when, I think I am getting closer to finishing, I find more of the dreaded hsts. The blocks are 4 1/2 inches. and, Bonnie Hunter used 190 in her first quilt. She used sashing, and, I am not sure I want to do that. So, I will make however many I have the parts to make. And, that will be the size of the quilt....if I ever make them all.

I am linking:

Monday Making

design wall monday 

oh scrap

main crush monday

Purple stars

Last week, I stopped getting comments in my email...again. It took me three days to figure it out and change my settings again. I was using the new blogger. Was anyone else having that problem?

I have collected little bits of triangles, mostly, for the shoofly leader/ ender from last year. The size I am making uses 1 1/2 inch hsts. I am getting very close to finishing all the blocks I have kitted for that quilt, so, I can, with great abandon, use these little bits in a few of my rainbow projects.... or get rid of them.

One of my rainbow projects this year, is my wonky stars. The little bits are perfect for them. I won't have enough blocks by the end of the year for a very big quilt, but, I don't think I want to do them again next year.

They are very cute ...

I searched through my ufo projects for a quick finish that might have purple in them. I found two, that I hope to sneak in and finish. This is an older ufo, pumpkin patch, that I have all the blocks made. I spread it out on the design bed. I can get the top finished in August, but, I have a longer list of customer quilts, so, that, I might not get it quilted. I'll see.

I hope you are up to some purple scrappiness and are well. I am so glad I have scraps to play with in these interesting times.

My rainbow projects for 2020 with links:

 Irish chain
Shine
row by row
scraptastic star
country road
and now
postage stamp

I am linking to:

rsc20 super saturday
oh scrap
UFO busting

shoofly too

We had a bit of storm damage Monday night, and, some of our city was without power.
we had a tree fall on our pop up camper.

And our poor catalpa tree was ripped a bit. We saw hunks of leaves 2 houses down from  us.

It looks like we cleaned out some of the dead branches from the trees.

I am working at the longarm, and, haven't had time at the machine, but, I am still trying to get through the shoofly blocks.

more  here and here and here

I am linking:

midweek makers 

boms away 
Oh scrap

I am linking to:

creative compulsions

needle and thread Thursdays

piecing progress

I've been trying to move a few projects along. I am not sure why it is taking so long. I have been a little flighty with other sewing.

I have a few more words together for my quote quilt.

And, I am trying to catch up my shoofly blocks. I had a lot more sets cut than I thought. I may be at this awhile.

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TGIFF

TGIFF different     here  and here

Whoop Whoop

peacock party
oh scrap
from bolt to beauty
UFO busting

to do: shoofly shoo

Nothing like a new leader/ender project ( easy breezy ) to motivate making the old leader/ ender project ( shoofly). I feel a little pressure to finish the shoofly blocks I have kitted, before, I forget, and, move on to something else. These are the 4 1/2 inch size, and I don't think I would have another use for the tiny HSTS pieces. For a few years, Bonnie Hunter encourages us to try a new leader/ender project.

more  here and here and here

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to do tuesday

chameleon color linky _
oh scrap

odds and ends

Oh my, I see in the picture, one of my shoofly has a HST turned the wrong way. sigh... I didn't see it before blogging about it.
In an effort to tidy around my sewing machine, I made a few random blocks. I need to attach a binding and if I don't clean everything will end up in a jumbled mess on the floor. haha
These shoofly blocks are made with the gifted hsts from the orphan adoption at Oh scrap.

I am linking to:

creative compulsions

needle and thread Thursdays

Oh scrap

old world mystery

We made strip sets and did more cutting for the old world country fantasy mystery from Quilted Twins.

clue 1
clue 2
clue 3

I have a few more shoofly blocks. They were made using the gifted triangles here.

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creative compulsions

needle and thread Thursdays

Oh scrap

this and that

I am working on a customer quilt to pass the time. I really like her colors.

I have the border pieces done for frolic mystery quilt. I just have to get brave enough to cut/trim the edges to add the borders

And I have made more shoofly blocks. Working with tiny scraps has been therapeutic, but I also realize, I don't need any "real" fabric. I could make a million quilts with just tiny little scraps and never see the end of them.

I am linking:

midweek makers 

boms away 

orphan triangles

I won a quilty orphan adoption from Erin Hutchinson From My patchwork life
I asked for the little bag of HSTS 1 1/2 inch size for my shoofly blocks. Aren't they wonderful? Thank  you Erin - great fun

Remember as a little child, playing with paper dolls or colorforms or mosaics. I felt like that, as I ironed and sorted all the little triangles. I trimmed them, and, I was entranced with sorting them into color groups. So pretty, and many I had not seen in my own stash, So much happiness in a little zip lock bag.

And when I can, I hope to turn them into these cute little shoofly blocks.

The rainbow scrap challenge color for April is light blue. All I did with the color is scrounge some of the littler pieces to use in some of my projects.

I am ready to begin in earnest cleaning out some of my light blue scraps. I hope everyone is staying well and sane. We are pickng up some groceries today at walmart, and it almost seems like we should dress up, with fancy hat and white gloves, to go out for such a big event.

My rainbow projects for 2020 with links:
 Irish chain
Shine
row by row
scraptastic star
country road

I am linking to:

rsc20 super saturday

oh scrap

UFO busting

I'm linking to:

TGIFF

TGIFF different     here  and here

Whoop Whoop

peacock party
oh scrap
from bolt to beauty

irish chain quilt

This week I worked on the rainbow irish chain blocks for the rainbow scrap challenge. I have been able to stay current with this quilt.

I found some little bits of teal/ aqua that I made into more of my little blocks.

I think I have everything done for March in teal /aqua, and I am ready for a new color.

My rainbow projects for 2020 with links:
 Irish chain
Shine
row by row
scraptastic star
country road

I am linking to:

rsc20 super saturday

oh scrap

UFO busting 

shoofly box

I went to Sam's club Tuesday for, of all things, prunes. I was pretty sure they are not flying off the shelve and I would find some. I stopped at Aldi's first looking for prunes, and, found to my surprise, fresh produce and some canned fruit and vegetables, but, no prunes. It takes awhile after surgery to  - you need prunes.
I found them at Sam's, and I found this great plastic storage container begging to come home with me. It didn't have a fever so I brought it home.
Each container in the set of 4 is smaller than a shoebox.

Two of them have removeable dividers. Each compartment is about 2 1/2 inches - hmmm

I just knew it would be great for shoofly blocks. I could keep the finished blocks in a plain container and the pieces in the  divided container.

And I can keep the set together.

I have made 40 shoofly blocks. I read that Bonnie Hunter has started to web her shoofly quilt together with 194 blocks. I guess I have a few more to make.

I'm linking to:

TGIFF

TGIFF different     here  and here

Whoop Whoop

peacock party
oh scrap
from bolt to beauty

UFO busting

more triangles to do

Just as I was running out of triangles for shoofly, I found this cute little gifted pack of triangles.

I sewed and sewed ...

And then I started trimming to 1 1/2 inch.

Last week's to do:
1. go home from the hospital - done
2. rainbow row by row in teal - some progress
3. border pieces for frolic mystery quilt - some progress

Dare I even hope to get something done next week? Staying home is my normal, so it doesn't seem like a burden yet. Jeff was supposed to stay in for 2 weeks anyway.

next week's to do:
1. quilt Linda's quilt
2. take Jeff to 2 week post op appointment
3. teal row x row
4. border pieces frolic mystery quilt

I am linking to:
to do tuesday

chameleon color linky
oh scrap