August Table Scraps Challenge

Here it is the last Friday of August and time to post my Table Scrap challenge. I got it done!

I knew as soon as I saw the technique for this month was "embroidery" that I would pick a fun pattern from Jenny of Elefantz one of many free patterns she has offered us. Gosh, I hadn't done embroidery in a while. It took ages to get this done.  And the RSC color was orange, so that was easy. My favorite flower that is orange and pink is the cosmos.  The Autumn scrap item is done.

 I'm linking to Joyful quilter for the Table Scrap Challenge and also to Angela's Scrap Happy Saturday. What have you've been up to?  I love to know. Blessings,

July Table Scraps Challenge

The Table Scraps Challenge theme for this 7th month was Circles, Spots and Dots / PURPLE.  I remembered that I had a UFO that had circles, so dug around and found it. Eureka - a UFO done! This was going to be a full size quilt (48" lap) turned out to be just a 12" topper. One of the prints I used had some purple, so I was able to satisfy that suggestion for the month also.

Circles are hard for me. I'd only done 2 of the 8 in this piece.  What helped me out was acquiring and reading about circles in Ruth B. McDowell's Piecing Workshop. 

I wanted to buy this book way back when, but by the time I found it back in 2009 it was already sold out and copies could only be had for twice the price when it first came out. As much as I wanted it, I wasn't about to pay nearly $60 for it. So I checked it out from the library. That was great! Turned it back in and the next person apparently never returned it, so no book. Ugh. Recently, I checked my go-to online book seller to see if they had it - and they did! For the regular price and new!  I ordered one. If you've always wanted one, they still have some.  This online source is DiscoverBooks .  Well back to circles, Ruth has you clip the concave piece and put it on the top to sew the two pieces together. It worked.  I may practice making a small block with one curve once a week just to get more adept at these. Could be my next leader/ender project.

I FMQed it and followed some lines. The quilting went fast. Here's the back:

For some reason two of the corners don't look quilted, but they are. Now I have four small projects done due to the Table Scraps Challenge. Should have seven, but such is life.

I'm entering the link party for the Table Scraps Challenge and Susan's RSC link party. Also Cynthia's Oh, Scraps on Sunday.

I hope you have something to share. Looking forward to it. Leave me a comment and I'll try to visit to see your goodies. Blessings.

Some of This; Some of That 7/10/22

 Wow, another week gone? Time is getting away from me.  I made a bit of progress on my projects.  But before I show you those, here's a quilt ( I didn't make the top) that I quilted for St. Anne's.  It's rather a coverlet as really it's too hot here to have three layers. So the cotton top and flannel on the back make this quilt covering.

What you can't see here is that this top is quilted.  I think it's because there isn't any batting that the quilting sinks right in and is not that visible. Debby Brown's first quilt in her Color Block QAL (it's free)was like this, but it had a border. She quilted it in a spiral. I did the same, so this time I thought I'd do something a little different and I made the spiral into a cabbage rose outline. Here's a photo that shows some of the curvy petals. This is a photo of the back.

I used a Superior Thread medium gray Microquilter thread - it's 100 wt.  Really like how it blended with all the color on the front as you can see.

Think I'll buy me a cone of this color! Now to the projects:

 On the top left is my Squirrel distraction - caught it and finished the first blue/white block.  To the right of it is my flower centers quilt - added another row. I only had time to make one 9 patch (r/w) for the redwork quilt.  To the left of my leader and ender blocks I pinned the next HSTs for that yellow block. I only need to do some cutting and I'll be able to make another square for some L/E progress.

How did you do? Were you able to put in 15 minutes of progress on some days? I'm going to link to Oh, Scrap! since my projects have a lot of scraps in them - especially that Squirrel one -hehe.  Also linking to Design Wall Monday. Check it out.

Have a blessed week,