A Framed Squares (aka Happy Block) Flimsy!

Framed Squares

I usually call them Happy Blocks.

It's a flimsy!

42 x 54

Last year I blogged about a baggie I received with a partial block set - 22 six inch (finished) blocks plus a few parts for more blocks. I made more blocks from scraps in similar colorway to those blocks received so that I had a complete block set of 63 for a child's comfort quilt.  I put all blocks in a baggie and then into the SAR (some assembly required) bin. 

And now the top is complete; bag is empty. 

And sew on...

Oh Scrap! at Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework

  WITB (What's in the Box, Bin, Bag) is the theme in my sewing space for the month of March. I've been trying to see how many bags, bins and boxes I can empty to move a few UFOs forward. 

I've also been working with yellow scraps this month because that is the March Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color. 

And I don't always follow the challenges issued by the Scrapbuster group but this month the challenge is 1.5 inch scraps. I have been trying to empty a couple of boxes of those this month.

And now that the Happy Blocks are in a top I'm left holding the (empty) bag! 

I'm keeping score of what bags and boxes emptied this month:

Boxes:

1- Coins

2 - Legos

3 - 1.5 inch width scraps

Bags:

1 - Kaleidoscope

2  - solid 1.5 inch strips for 51 Waffles

3 - 1.5 inch strips for 9 Legos

4 - Windmill blocks

5 - Happy Block parts

6 - Posies

7 - 1.5 inch strips for 78 Rail Fence blocks

8 - Four Patch parts

9 - 1.5 inch strips for 92 strip sets for Boo Boo Patches

10 - 1.5 inch width strips cut into rectangles and squares

11 - Tumblers

12 - Four Patch parts

13 - Sawtooth Stars 

14 - Sawtooth Stars

15 - Switch Plates

16 - Happy Blocks

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REMEMBER, TREASURE, GROW, READ (my words of the year)

I've been enjoying my Ephemerals that are popping up everywhere.  There's something new to see every day. Oh, joy! 

Species or Botanical Crocus are the first flowers to bloom here in Spring. 

These have been growing for many years in the lawn near the clothesline outside the back door. There are so many little patches of them now so the area looks like a sea of purple. 

These are Giant Crocus (believe it or not) and they start popping up in the cottage garden a few weeks after the Species Crocus start blooming.  The Faeries planted them next to their little gazing ball and under a rose bush. 

The Siberian Squill also forms a sea of blue in the cottage garden and now I even see it popping up here and there in the lawn. 

There's also little patches of Iris Reticulata starting to pop up here and there along the paths in the cottage garden.

Iris Reticulata in blue. 

A few more Giant Crocus along the cottage garden pathway.

I cleared this area last year along the pathway down to the woods. I cleared the opposite side of the pathway a few years ago. I planted a lot of different ephemerals last Fall in this area and the yellow Species Crocus are the first to pop up. I don't remember what all I planted so I'm looking foward to what appears next if the squirrels haven't dug everything up and moved it somewhere else. 

Here's a close up of those yellow Species Crocus dotting that area.