Purple Haze (4.5 edition)

Purple Dresdens

Wedges on the Dresdens are 4.5 inch pieces.   Each month I make 4 Dresdens on gray - one in color of month, one in color of month plus b/w, one in color of the month plus w/b, one in color of month plus its complement.  I add polka dot centers surrounded by gray rick rack.   I use the EZ Dresden ruler to cut my wedges and I applique to the background. 

Purple is the color of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  With my projects this year I've  been starting with the biggest scrap pieces and then worked toward the smallest pieces, strings and crumbs. 

Purple Chevrons 

4.5 HSTs 

Purple HSTs. 

Got Scraps?

Purple ones?

Use them up and show us what you've done each ScrapHappy Saturday. 

Road to Lampasas

Road to Lampasas 

75 x 90

Ready for quilting which is my April Goal for A Lovely Year of Finishes. 

I used a McCall's antique quilt pattern for the blocks that finish at 15 inches. 

I'm now going to Whoop, Whoop it up over at Confessions of a Fabric Addict. 

Thirties Thursday: The Story of Old Dan Tucker's Combs

Old Dan Tucker was a mighty man

Washed his face in a frying pan

Combed his hair with a wagon wheel

Died of a toothache in his heel. 

Get out of the way old Dan Tucker

You're too late to stay for supper

Supper's over breakfast's cookin'

Old Dan Tucker standing lookin'

For Thirties Thursday I made four nine inch Wagon Wheel blocks (aka Dan Tucker's Combs)  from my 30s and solids stashes.  I THINK that makes a total of 16 blocks now. 

And...wagon wheels remind me of a song we sang in chorus when I was in grade school...maybe the sixth grade...could have been fifth...it was long, long ago. 

   I have a dirty little secret...the reason I remember that Dan Tucker folk song is because a couple of my friends and I sang that song at recess one time when we thought we were not within hearing distance of an adult but substituted the words "Old Damn F-----"("f" word rhymes with Tucker" ) for the words "Old Dan Tucker".  An adult (a nun) WAS within hearing distance.   A call was made to our parents and later that day my mouth came in contact with a bar of soap.     Ah....memories!

Every Once in Awhile A Girl Needs a Quickie

On my UFO tab I have "box of various themed Happies and orphans for donation quilts" listed.  I probably have enough bits and pieces for about 20 quilts in that UFO box alone.  

Since I signed up for the Hands2Help Charity Quilt Challenge I hunted around in the box for the makings of a quickie quilt or two.  I found about 25 Owl themed 8 inch Happy Blocks in there and some 4.5 inch strips of Owl fabric for the makings of a few more blocks.  (Blocks are 4.5 inch centers and 2.5 inch strips for sides)

Ten additional blocks later I had 35 blocks in a 5 x 7 layout for a 40 x 56 quilt top.  I also found some dotty  fabric in the stash suitable for the backing but after I took this picture on Sunday I found a piece of Owl fabric big enough for the backing and was too lazy to take another pic.  Whoooo knew that with this quickie I could kill two birds with one stone...I'll soon be able to mark another UFO off my entirely-too-long  list and I'll soon have a quilt ready for Happy Chemo. 

Hands2Help Charity Quilt Challenge 

I Kind of Spaced Out for a While

I'm making an Attic Windows quilt for my grandson. 

I felt the urge to work on a quick, easy and whimsical quilt. 

These are nine inch blocks and I need several more. 

Design Wall Monday at Patchwork Times

Miscellany

My hand hurts after all that hand quilting on Wild Thing so for hand stitching projects  I'm working on a variety of different projects and won't be hand quilting any quilts for a while. 

I just finished the embroidery on a dishtowel.  This one will probably be for me and not make it to the Christmas gifts box.   A couple of cherry themed hot pads and a red crocheted dishcloth should complete the set. 

I'll probably stamp a few other dishtowels to work on when the urge strikes.  I think I need to wash up a package of towels first.  The transfers work better on laundered fabric. 

And in my bag of crochet I have a shawl I've been working on for one of the granddaughters for Christmas.  Sometimes I take it to work to work on during lunch break.  When this one is finished I'll be making a pink one for the other granddaughter.  

And finally, I'm going to start working on my version of the The 1718 Coverlet.  I want to make it all by hand like the original.  I thought it might be a good summer project for many summers to come. 

Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts. 

Yellow Stuff

This is the last week of yellow for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. 

I'm finishing up with four 9 inch Wonky Log blocks sewn together into an 18 inch block...

... four 8 inch string blocks using scrap paper as the foundation...

...and two Vintage Butterfly (Beggar) blocks as well as several 3 inch spool blocks. 

All of these projects are from last year continued into this year. 

Got scraps?

Use them up and show them off each ScrapHappy Saturday.