September Table Scraps Challenge

  The month is over - Wow!  It was an eventful September. We had the hottest week starting on Labor day. It was a sweltering over 100 degrees each day - 110+ days.

I got heat exhaustion and that slowwwed me down a lot. I can't do anything when I have HE - just sit and chill. I went online and checked out the temps in Baghdad. They were way hotter than us and their nights were in the 90s!! Made me be thankful for the temps we had.  It could have been worse. I don't know how they do it!!

 But I got my table scrap challenge done about 10 days later. This month the prompt was pumpkin. I found in Quilt World's latest issue a quilt with a pumpkin block in it. Okay I made a trial block.

It's a 12" table topper. I'm going to use it during the month of October as my salute to Autumn.

I also finished a ufo flimsy.  

That's all folks.  How are you doing?  Let me know and I'll visit your blog to take a look. You can see other post of what quilters made out of their table scraps at the Joyful Quilter.  Blessings,

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.