What's in the hoop?
Fan Flowers
It was a free pattern called Fan Flower Quilt from Tilda's World.
And now I'm big stitch hand quilting it so maybe 2026 may be the year of the finish.
And sew on...
Sunday, August 16, 2026
Saturday, August 15, 2026
Sunshine Almost Always Makes Me High
It's a top!
99 Charms
40.5 x 49.5
Yellow and orange charms/squares. I think most have been given to me over the years.
It has been raining, raining, raining here all week and little Cathy wants to go out and play. Sunshine almost always makes me high and I haven't gotten high in a week and the itsy bitsy spider wants to go up the spout again.
Yellow is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color of the month.
And sew on...
Thursday, August 13, 2026
Happy Scribbles
It's a finish!
Happy Scribbles
42.5 x 59.5
I had a few different crayon fabrics to use as Happy Block centers.
I quilted it on my sewing machine with some scribbles...
...in a variegated thread...
...on a gray backing.
And sew on...
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I finished a book! I've Got A New Complaint: Essays on Aging Disgracefully and Other Small Disasters by Laurie Notaro. I was looking for some light reading that might make me smile. It wasn't a laugh out loud book but it did make me smile some.
Other things that made me smile the last couple of weeks...
- I am the historian, record keeper, genealogist for John's family. John's brother wanted to know if I had his dad's recipe for Tomato Jelly. Yes, I do.
- I always have to laugh when someone says "that's a nice quilt for a man". What? Men don't like flowers? Maybe watch a few episodes of Gardner's World. And that reminds me...one time when we were at Walmart (I think) John saw a fabric I just had to buy for a quilt for him. He said it reminded him of his grandmother. Well, it was what I would consider a pretty darned ugly old lady type floral but to each his own. I did buy it and I did make him a quilt. I used it as the center string in a string quilt where it fit right in. He used his "grandma comfort" for years.
- I always have to laugh when someone thinks it is work to do a few loads of laundry. I have a wringer washer - two tubs with a wringer in between. And my dryer is a clothesline outside or drying rack and clothesline in the basement. (I gave up on washers and dryers because my basement is too damp for the electronic components they put in them nowadays.)
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Oh joy! I received a surprise package of goodies from Karen Z. with batting pieces for Frankenbatts as well as some scraps. It was indeed a surprise...her sister Sandi told her about me, the collector of comfort quilt fodder. And Sherron who is a blog reader started it all when she sent me some beautiful appliqued blocks and then told her friend Sandi about me. How nice. Karen wondered if what she sent might have some pieces that are too small. Nope...I use anything down to 1.5 inch squares and go down to one inch if it is a strip. Every little bit counts!
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Happy Scribbles and 11 other quilts are now boxed up and I will drop off at UPS Friday morning. They are going to Oglala Sioux Head Start at Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, SD. According to the Sew For Kids website Headstart is looking for 300 Blankets – For naptime, Children were given their blankets to take home at the end of last year. (Blankets aren't their only needs).
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It has been raining every day for about a week now so I've been unable to get out to the gardens. I know there will be bucket and wheelbarrows full of weeds to pull! More rain in the forecast through Sunday. Guess I'll go sew.
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
It's A Finish!
It's a finish!
Snowballs and Rails
36 x 42
Someone gave me a lot of 6 inch finished Snowball blocks with red corners. Last year I made three different tops with them. This one has a toy theme and I combined the Snowballs with Rail blocks.
I quilted it on my sewing machine on the diagonals.
The back. I had just enough fabric for it!
And sew on...
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Charm Tuesdays
Two Charm Tuesday quilt tops 58.5 x 84.
The one on the left has the dark/light layout in the pattern.
The one on the right has light and darks reversed.
I did some scrap processing last December and kitted up all the parts for the two quilts back then.
I used 2.5 inch scraps for the rectangles instead of cutting charm squares in half. I had a box of charms/5 inch squares received from others over the years that I sorted into piles for a few differen quilts including these two.
I had so many scraps I decided to make a version reversing lights and darks.
I pulled out and sewed up the kits for some mindless sewing. I think it took longer to cut all the pieces back in December than it did to sew parts together.
I think I like the reversed version better although both make for nice comfort quilts.
And sew on...
Monday, August 10, 2026
No Longer Under Construction. It's a Finish!
It's a finish!
42 x 60
This one started with a large print of construction vehicles.
Following the SAHRR prompts I added in more construction print novelties.
I quilted it on my sewing machine with swirls. I bound it in "concrete" (gray).
And there's a construction print on back that I had to fill in with a little "concrete".
And sew on...
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This quilt and others I have on hand will soon be heading to Oglala Sioux Head Start at Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, SD. I saw on the SewForKids recent blog post that they are asking for 300 blankets for naptime. The kids were given their blankets to take home at the end of last year.
My favorite place to donate kiddo quilts, Wrap-A-Smile, is on pause for a bit so I was looking for new places to donate quilts so I can keep on making scrappy comfort quilts!
Sunday, August 9, 2026
And Now For A Couple of Hat Tricks
My husband is having a mandibulectomy one of these days if they quit moving him around on their schedule. (Right now he is scheduled for Sep. 1). Well, anyway, it will involve at least a week in the hospital which is an hour away so I will probably be an overnight visitor staying with him. I was thinking of things to take with me to do other than read books on my Kindle. I have one small box of yarn for making washcloths and dishcloths and I have a box of yarn that's been around since I used to make things like hats, scarves and sweaters for the grandkids and shawls for me (shoulders get cold in winter).
Ok, so anyway, I decided to take a look in the box of yarn thinking of making hats and eeeek! a mouse jumped out and traumatized me. Maybe I should store the yarn in plastic bin or use the yarn? Oh, yes, that's what I can do while with hubby in hospital!
I happened to come upon a Ravelry group called "For the Children of Pine Ridge and Rosebud" (actually they have projects for the elders too) and saw that one of their projects was making 300 hats for Christmas for the children at Rosebud School. So, I'm in! A use for the yarn before a mouse shreds it for a nest or something!
I decided to see if I remembered how to crochet so pulled out one of my books on hats, found my bag of hooks and pulled out some yarn and, yes, I do remember how to crochet! Now I will put yarn with patterns so I can work on hats in the hospital.
The hat above was one of my granddaughters' favorites when they were pre-teens.
This wild and crazy one should have a pom pom but I didn't have enough yarn for that so maybe down the road after I finish a few hats I will buy some yarn for pom poms and add before I send them off for Christmas.
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