Every color of candy is my favorite after I make them. All the purple sweet tooth blocks are finished for the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy. I am thinking that I have too many rainbow scrap projects. I am struggling at the end of the month to get them all done. But, I really like them all. Maybe next year I will exercise a little more sense.
I am happy to dig around in my green scraps for the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy. This week I made green crumb blocks and added HSTS to make my sweet tooth blocks. I found this quilt on sane crazy crumby quilt blog here. The crumb centers are 4 1/2 inches with 2 1/2 inch HSTS. So, the side pieces are 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches and the top and bottom are pieces are 2 1/2 x 6 1/2. I think Jenny Doan did a you tube video.
And it was finally plant shopping day. I look forward to this every year. We didn't buy anything we could not eat this time. Our new adventure was a jerusalem artichoke. We had read about this years ago as a potato replacement, so it was a surprise to see a plant for sale after all this time. - just had to have it. The project manager at the greenhouse chased us down to ask us to let him know how it does for us this year. How fun. I am starting a new strawberry bed, so I was glad to get strawberries. We haven't had much luck with strawberries here. But, I love them, and I keep trying.
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My 5 quilts progress report. My last report March 21
1. Rainbow scrap challenge - pink- I cut and sewed all the yellow hunter's star blocks for March.
3. rhododendren mystery - hunter - I have started block B - I am sewing the center part and will add the framework when the centers are done. There are a lot of the little hourglass units. I cut the neutral squares, and garnet squares I will need.
4. Love jelly roll This is the 4th jelly roll used for the year. I am aiming for 12. I don't really like making this quilt. So, I have set the goal to add a round each time I work on it. It is taking a little longer than I had hoped.
5. DSP9- I had a box of 9 patches that I had set aside to make disappearing 9 patches. After I cut them, I was thinking I would just put them in an orphan box, but I didn't. I started sewing them with all the same orientation into rows. And I liked them better. 3 rows of 3 so far.
1. shine -on the frame - quilted - trimmed -binding done - finished here - hooray
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2. bricks in the barnyard -found - back- binding
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3. tiger, tiger
4. EPP green
5. lotus flower?
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I have my candy blocks ready for April and the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy. Angela dropped the hint for the color a little early, so, I quick made crumb blocks and tada.. candy. I have baggies of strings sorted by color for the year.
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| 2 1/2 in drawer - pretty pink |
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I woke up one morning, and, I wanted to make noodles. That was odd. Who wants to make noodles when you can open a bag from the store. The house was quiet, and, I cracked open a few eggs and started. It was a very sentimental time, and filled my heart with love for all the really great women who had taught me how to make noodles. I first thought of my Mother, who has been gone for 20 years. I could see her unrolling those long noodles and she talked about her Mother teaching her. It was an art to my Grandmother's generation. Pat Burton, taught a Relief Society class at church when I was a young homemaker, making it look doable. And Linda Phipps had me come to her home, and we made them her way together. I made them with my daughter, and we had a flour fight. But, I know she is not the type to make homemade noodles. I made them with my Granddaughters. They thought it was messy. haha. If I ask my children their favorite meal that they want me to make for them, they request chicken and noodles with homemade noodles. I have an attachment for my kitchen aid mixer, but, I can do them so much better, the old fashioned way. A bowl, an egg, some flour, a rolling pin, and some sentimental thoughts.
I made some candy blocks for the month of March and the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy.
The yellow strings just lined up this way, all straight.
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Covid has come to visit and I am not very perky. I think we are holding our own, but who knows.
My 5 quilts progress report.
1. Rainbow scrap challenge - color aqua/teal. I have candy made from crumbs and strings.
2. full stop quilt that Angela is doing for the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy.- I have 2 rows finished
3. rhododendren mystery - hunter - I haven't done anything on this project. I think I have some cutting I need to do for clue 6. I haven't looked.
4.. too many circles - the top is finished. I am looking for a back and binding. I used the random number generator and I drew an older UFO using moda maypole. I think I have decided to not finish this UFO. It isn't my thing, and, I have so many other projects I would rather do. I am only going to live so long. haha
1. row rainbow rsc -on the frame -started quilting - quilted -needs binding
2. gray baby flannel -on the frame -started quilting - quilted -needs binding
3. Pineapple blossom - hunter -need to find it - I don't like it so I am waiting until later to quilt this one
4. Christmas sparkle
5. shine
6. EPP green bright
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We have had a winter snow storm that has been very beautiful.
I have cut for easy breezy, fish school, and the stashbuster 2022 in aqua/ teal for the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy. I can sit and do that.
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| what color is this one? I wish it could make up it's mind |
I am so thrilled to finally move this project from the 'maybe someday' to the wip list. I have a few string/crumb blocks made over the years by color and enough strings to add to them this year. These pieces of candy are sugar free,, so I can have as many as I want.
My 5 quilts progress report.
1. rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy - color red -candy - All the string blocks are sewn, trimmed, pressed and ready to sew into blocks. I trimmed them to 4 1/2 inches
3. rhododendren mystery - hunter - After a count of finished hourglass blocks for the mystery, I was 60 short.
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4.. too many circles - inner border is finished. I started sewing the 1/4 circles into twosies for the outside border.
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MY next on the longarm of my own quilts in the 'to be quilted' closet
1. hourglass leader ender challenge - hunter - on the frame - quilted - needs binding - trimmed -preparing to bind
2. end of the rainbow rsc - on the frame - no change- started quilting -quilted - needs binding
3. row rainbow rsc
4. gray baby flannel
5. Pineapple blossom - hunter
We are still battling this flu thing at our house - going on 4 weeks - stay safe out there.
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I worked on crumb stars last year for the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy. I have 72 blocks made which will make a nice lap size. I am moving it to the ufo list since I don't know what I want to do with them yet. I thought I might make a straight setting until I took the picture and then I like them on point. we shall see
I am anxious to move on to something new.
I want to make 5 quilts for the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy. I seem to have a thing for the number 5.
1 .sweet tooth, inspired by Cathy at sane crazy crumbly
2. razzle dazzle, a bonnie hunter pattern that I haven't found yet
3. cut hunters star, I think I will just cut this year and sew next year
4. boho heart - Jen Kingwell
5. blossom time a bonnie hunter pattern
This year, I have filled a good size rubbermaid with scraps in various colors and I hope to use that for the scraps I will need for my projects. If that is not enough or adequate variety I can go to my scrappy wire bins for additional goodies.
And since this is the first day of 2022 I have chosen a quilt to finish for my one monthly goal at elm street quilts. It is an older ufo from 2016 - Bonnie Hunter of quiltville leader/ender challenge hourglass in rainbow colors. I have the top together and it needs finished. I can't find a picture of it as a top.
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