Quarter Stars and Monkey Wrenches

 

I worked with some brown scraps this week because dark neutrals is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge color of the month. 

I finished  80 more brown Quarter Stars. I now have met my goal of 320 Quarter Stars to make 80 whole stars. The quilt will measure 64 x 80 in an 8 x 10 layout.

I will probably start assembling Stars as a leader/ender project. 

I finished making 4 brown Monkey Wrench blocks that finish at 7.5 inches. That completes my goal of 35 blocks. 

Now I need to make more brown Hollow Nine blocks with 3 inch squares. They will be the alternate block in the quilt. 

And sew on...

Rainbow Scrap Challenge ScrapHappy Saturday

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I finished a book! The Moonshiner's Daughter by Donna Everhart. It was about the effect of generational trauma, evil people and kind people on a family. Of course it was also about moonshiners. I did not expect the ending. 

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My granddaughter let me be one of the first to know she is engaged to be married. She will be 21 years old on Halloween. They will probably wait a couple of years to be married. Gosh I remember the day she was born like it was yesterday! 

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John's youngest sister thought she was having a stroke. She went to the ER and they found a brain tumor, transferred her to specialty facility and operated the next day which was Monday. They did some type of GPS guided surgery. She was up walking a few days later and now has been transferred back to the original hospital for care. Just before they found the brain tumor she was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma in lung stage 4.

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We contract with neighbor to farm a couple of small fields we own. This year's crop is soybeans and with China not buying I am not sure there will be any money to be made. We actually don't make that much in a good year. I feel bad for farmers especially our neighbor. 

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I shipped two boxes with a total of 16 ( I think. I kept squishing them in there) small quilts to Wrap-A-Smile. For what I think are significant cost savings on shipping I use third party software Pirateship.com. I weigh and measure box, buy label, print label and then take box to a UPS drop off. I calculate box weight by weighing myself then weighing myself holding box then I subtract the two. I need to ship more often because that is the only time I step on the bathroom scale and each time I have shipped boxes this year I have weighed a few pounds less than the previous time. 

More Brown Quarter Stars

 

And now I have enough Quarter Stars for 60 Stars. I am aiming for 80 Stars so now I have only 80 more Quarter Stars to make before I start putting my whole Stars together.

And sew on...

Rainbow Scrap Challenge ScrapHappy Saturday

Where the color of the month is dark neutral

Dark Neutral Goodies

 

Dark Neutral is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color of the month so I dug into the dark neutral scraps and added blocks to some of my collections. 

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

Quarter Stars

 

Quarter Stars

Last year I started making Quarter Stars with brown scraps. Since neutrals is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color of the month I decided this is one of the projects I would work on this month. I have accumulated a big baggie of 2.5 inch width brown scraps I want to use up first before I cut into scrap chunks. I am making the quarter star parts before I assemble the stars. 

I made parts for 29 blocks last year and now I have parts for 40 blocks so I am halfway toward my goal of 80 blocks.

As my brown 2.5 inch width scraps get too short for star parts I cut them into other lengths for other scrap projects. 

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

Bits and Pieces

It's been a busy couple of weeks; however, in bits of time  I have worked on a few Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) blocks. 

I had accumulated a lot of brown 2.5 inch width scraps. I've been making quarter stars to be turned into full stars later on. I think this is the last of my longer scraps so now I need to see how many stars I can make from the quarter star pieces. 

I made a few Boo Boo Patches from gray 1.5 inch scraps. 

And I now have met my goal of 300 - 4 inch finished Windmill blocks for a 15 x 20 block layout which will make for a 60 x 80 inch quilt. 

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

 

Stars and Windmills

Brown is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color of the month. I have several blocks in the works that are only made of brown scraps.  These 8 inch Stars are one of the blocks. 

I made a lot of quarter sections of the Stars this week from 2.5 inch width scraps of browns and creams. 

After I empty my bag of brown and cream scraps set aside for these blocks as I've sorted scraps, I will assemble the Stars. 

I assembled a few Stars in the past. After I finish up these Stars from my bag of scraps I will see how many Stars I have and then decide on a quilt size. 

Another RSC project - 4 inch Windmills

With some more colorful 2.5 inch width scraps I made a few Windmills to add to the collection. 

I think I've been making these for over a year as scraps happen. Maybe now is the time to count these up and decide upon a quilt size. Then I'll know how many more are needed. I usually like to make a BIG quilt with the little blocks.   

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

CELEBRATE! (my word of the year)

Oct. 4 --Hubby's G-tube fell out again. The water balloon that holds it in place was no longer holding water. I had to put in a new one. I'm really not nurse material. I'm not a blood and guts or vomit kind of person. I don't like looking at holes in people that other people don't have. But I was able to stay level--headed and not panic and put in a new G-tube to replace the old. "For better or worse", you know... (maybe 51 years ago if they told me what "worse" would involve I might have thought twice!!)