I'm Giving a Whoop

because I finally figured out how to make my "something big" I started to make the other day actually get bigger with what I have on hand.
Life is good.

I'm linking to Myra's Finished or Not Fridays and Sarah's Can I Get a Whoop, Whoop.

Some of This; Some of That

 Destashing - 1.25 yds for something big I've started.  0.01 yds for something small I've started, but I can't show them to you yet. But I bought some fabric in CO, so zero destashed. MyYTD remains the same - 46.51 yds destashed out of the 64 yards I need at this time to meet my year-end goal.


Photo wise - all I have to show you is the first tiny house I've ever seen in person


and the pink ladies I found blooming in my kitchen garden when I got home.
Days have been spent unpacking and recouping from my trip. Also getting back to my old routine.
What have you been up to?  

Friday Finish and Day Three and Four

Another Meadow applique flower:
although a bit dark, done.

Day Three = went to the Peach Festival and it rained - loved it.  Country music, all things peach and interesting booths. Went with the this darling new brown eyed little one in our lives:

and then off to the Fig Leaf Quilt store. Again, I couldn't resist a few purchases:

Day Four  - spent around the house working on a quilt with the new quilter in my life, and  I made a peach pie.  The peaches there are so delicious!!

Next day was flying home. My short visit was wonderful.
Downtown Phoenix from the air - stopover on the way home.

I'm linking to Finished or Not Fridays and Can I Get a Whoop, Whoop. Go on over and visit.
Blessings,

Day Two and I Like Thursdays

First we went to lunch at Mojo Taqueria in Lyons. What a fabulous menu this place has. Out of the ordinary food. Pictured here are fried Yuca -so gooood!  Great chicken enchiladas too and a kale salad I could eat every day. Here's my DS#2 partner and her mom. What a treat to be with them.



Then we went to Lyons Quilting "-one of the largest quilt shops in the state of Colorado with over 7,000 bolts of fabric  - over 2,000 batiks, a great selection of novelty fabric and flannels, the largest selection of Kaffe Fassett in the area and  carry all of the Kona solids." Ooooh - I had to buy something!
We were there for nearly an hour.


I liked everything about that day! Do visit Lee Anna's I Like Thursdays to see what others found this past week.

I Like Thursdays

Off to Colorado to visit DGS#3.  He's nine and just started 4th grade.  They grow so fast! DH is staying home. He no longer likes to fly.

I like that I will have a three day weekend to get acquainted with him this coming week.  I also like that the temps have dropped to the mid 90s. Such a nice change.

Don't forget to go to Lee Anna's and see what everyone is sharing from the past week.

Blessings.

Some of This; Some of That

Back to the destashing.  In trying to empty some boxes filled with quilty stuff, I found 4.5 yards of fabric I am liberating from storage and to perhaps find its way into a project with another quilter.
That and the 1.41 yds from the start of a new baby quilt, 1 block and the back of another baby quilt gives me a YTD total of 46.51 yds destashed out of the 62 yards I need at this time to meet my year-end goal.  That's what happens when one spends over 2 months with little sewing and quilting.

Here's the block I made as mentioned above.  It is for my NSO (newly started object as of January) called Meadow by Michelle McKillop of the Jen Kenwell Designs Collective. 
I now have a corner's worth.
Along with another one, I  have 4 of 24 applique blocks done.  What I do is make a copy of the template page and then cut out the pieces leaving the outline of the shape as my placing guide.  Here's a sample:
Makes it easy to assemble the block.

Off to prep a block from Anna's Garden.  That one is hand appliqued so I'll be working on it today.  Don't think I"ll get much more than start it.  I'm off to Colorado for another short trip to visit DS#2.
I'll try not to forget my smart phone this time so I can post a photo now and then.

I'm happy to report the temps are near normal again for a little while ( 98- 104 degrees).  So much better. I'll be linking to BOMs Away, Slow Sunday Stitching, Sunday Stash, Moving it Forward, and Main Crush Monday
Blessings to you all.

Quilted, Bound and Delivered

This Friday finish began as a baby quilt top made by my Mom.  I quilted it
Bound it by bringing the back forward
Then delivered it to our church group at our monthly meeting.
Quilt all from leftovers.  I'm linking to Myra's Finished or Not Fridays, Let's Make Baby Quilts, Can I have a Whoop, Whoop? and others.  Happy quilting this weekend.

I Like Thursdays

It has been a different kind of week. I got back from my visit to Vancouver Aug 1st.  I liked my visit - a little shopping, a little sight seeing and a lot of family time.  Here's DGD#1 at Target where we were buying new kitchen curtains and school supplies. They have a Starbucks in the one they go to. Cute and yummy cookie.

Once home, it took me a couple of days to get back into some of my routine, and the weather didn't relent.  Monday was 110, Tuesday - 107 - today 99.  Under 100 you say? But not for a good reason.
The Holy Fire (named because it started in Holy Jim Canyon in the Cleveland National Forest) started three days ago in the early afternoon. This is about 30 miles South of us.  When my husband and I first saw the plume it looked like a mushroom cloud from an atom bomb.  You can see the winds here keeping the smoke to the right (West to us).  
The smoke didn't affect us that day, but as it moved northwest, it blocked the sun and the temperture dropped 2 degrees in a matter of minutes. Here's the sun behind the dense smoke.  You can see the sun's halo.  So it was dark way sooner than normal and then once the sun got under the smoke we had a normal sunset. By the end of the day our sky was mostly normal as the smoke was west of us.
Tuesday there was a bit of smoke still moving northwest, but this morning the smoke was back with the wind change. My husband found ashes on his truck and I have a fine dusting on my car which is in a carport. So now besides an excessive heat advisory, we have a smoke advisory.  All throughout the day the sunlight had an eerie color to it - like a muted peach color instead of a bright and sunny look. Don't know what tomorrow will bring - depends on any winds. Approaching from the south Hurricane John may bring us humidity (no rain) which the firefighters need to fight this fire - no containment, still going strong as of this evening. I pray for their safety.  Again, not close to us except for the smoke.

In the meantime - I go out in the early mornings - the only time it's cool and in the 70s and walk among the cactus.  Here's one I found and liked.
I'm going over to LeeAnna's I Like Thursdays - see you there.

July in Review

Most of the month was spent in vacation mode, but I did accomplish a bit of sewing:
First, taking Alan to Dinosaur Camp
here's a metal brontasaurus
and then to swim lessons
He's the one left of the instructor.
Followed by a short trip to Vancouver, WA to visit my older son and family.
Visited Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge.
So in between these activities I put together a 2000 UFO Christmas top  along with the table runner (which I showed in a previous post) for Christmas in July.  I was suppose to do UFO #11 as per my list for Judy's UFO challenge, however I decided to this one instead - long buried.
This had been for the longest time in three sections. When I laid them out on my design floor I realized it was too long and too narrow.  So I took them apart and changed it so it would fit a twin bed. The pattern is called Stardust Quilt by Gail Abeloe of Back Porch Press.  It's suppose to be a fat quarter easy quilt. The Guild did a Christmas fabric swap of 6" squares to give us the variety of material needed to make it.  It's much brighter in person.  I hope to have it quilted by this coming December.  So that was my UFO project for the month.

As to a new project, I did start a new baby quilt
It's only 21 1/2" at this point.  I'll need to add 15" more.

What have you done during July?  Head on over to Meredithe's 6 and 6 in 2018 to see what others were doing.

SAHRR Round 5 and 6

  Ready to show rounds 5 and 6. Actually, the prompt for 5 was make 4 of something. So I chose four patch, and actually since that made my q...