It's A Happy Flimsy!

Happy Scribbles

42.5 x 60

It's a flimsy!

A year ago or so someone gave me some sets of 2.5 inch width pieces cut at 5 and 9 inches - perfect for Happy Blocks. Some had what looked like crayon scribbles to me and others had paint splotches. At the time I put them in a plastic grocery bag with a few different pieces of novelty fabrics I had with crayons and colored pencils. That bag then went into the Happy Place - a big box filled with a few bags with fodder for different Happy Blocks quilts. 

I didn't have frame pieces enough for a child sized comfort quilt so I added in a striped fabric in similar colors as well as that scribble fabric with crayons (next to the stripe) to add to the 2.5 inch width frames.  There were some 2.5 x 5 inch frame pieces that didn't have matching 9 inch pieces so that's where I decided to use the crayon with scribbles fabric. 

I cut my novelty with crayons fabrics into 5 inch squares and didn't have enough for the quilt so looked through a little bin of 5 inch squares for something to use and decided to use some mottled fabrics that looked kind of like watercolors to kind of go with those frames that had paint splotches...

...but I didn't have enough of those "watercolor" squares so added in four squares with circles. I guess they kind of reminded me of those old Spirographs and kind of went with the circles in some of the scribble frames. 

It was something easy to work on off and on between gardening when the weather is nice and other stuff I've been doing around here lately. 

WITB (What's in the Box, Bin, Bag) is the theme in my sewing space for the month of March. I'm wondering how many boxes, bins and bags I can empty.  

With this quilt top I was able to empty a grocery bag of Happy Block parts that was in the Happy Place.

I'm keeping score:

Boxes:

1- Coins

2 - Legos

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

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 using some of those! 

And sew on...

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

One of these days I will catch up and blog about all my recent gardening exploits. 

Today I will mention a couple of recent books I've read. 

Send Down the Rain by Charles Martin. - It seems every time I read a book written by Charles Martin I shed a few tears. From the summary at Charles Martin Books website: " At the story’s center lies the question: What does it mean – and what level of sacrifice does it take – to truly love someone?"

Last Patient of the Night by Gary Gerlacher. This was one that popped up on my Kindle as one I might like. After I read " Last Patient of the Night is M*A*S*H* meets Detective Harry Bosch. It's a thriller that won't disappoint." -Gregory D. Lee, author of An International Thriller.  Since I liked M*A*S*H*  and read most of Michael Connelly's mysteries featuring detective Bosch (and later watched the Harry Bosch series on Prime TV) I decided to read Last Patient of the Night.  I guess this is book one of four in the A.J. Docker Medical Thriller series so I guess I'll read the next one in the series.  Most of my reading takes place in the middle of the night when I can't seem to sleep.