2nd Week of Advent

 Come, Lord Jesus

November Table Scrap Challenge

 This month I made a scrappy Trip Around the World, but before I get to that I'd like to show you my dear daughter, Emily's minis with a dark backgrounds:

The one on the left measures 3 & 1/4" with the block in the center measuring 2& 1/4".  The other to the right measures 3 & 1/4 " square. I call those minis.

Now my scrappy entry is a baby quilt. It's that scrappy and colorful.

I made the binding scrappy also.

The back was a flannel on which I did a rectangular quilt pattern with my walking foot.

What have you been up to?  Leave me a message and I'll visit yours. I hope you had a happy thanksgiving.  Blessings as we begin Advent - O Come, O Come, Emmanuel!

I'm posting on A Joyful Quilter and Oh, Scrap.  See you there.

the Eleventh Month..

 I have another UFO finished.  Made with red work blocks my mother embroidered,

 and completed with my Irish chain blocks, I'm happy to report this 25" x20" wall hanging is done.

I also worked on another scrappy UFO and made it into a WIP. Here is Quarter TATW

Measures 36" square. It will go to St Anne's for a first time low-income mother.  I'm posting these in Cynthia's Oh Scrap and Judy's Design Wall Monday.  Leave a comment and I'll visit your blog and leave a post too.  Blessings and prayers to you all.

October Table Scrap Challenge

Joy and lime green?  Joy and lime green - hmmm. What could I do with these parameters? Then I got it.

Finishing a quilt top for Jo's Country Junction, I remembered the table scraps I had left over from finishing off this quilt top.  I added a lime green border after a tad of black to finish this one off. And it reminded me of another UFO I'd been working on. It would be a "biggish" entry but it did bring me joy working with all those flowers and birds. And the lime green would make it pop! Measures 35" square.

These were blocks from an exchange that my daughter participated in, and she gave me the blocks several years ago. So I took care of a UFO and the challenge.

Energized by this finish I took another set of blocks - these from my Mom - and got the flimsy done. Now it needs quilting. Here is a Bit of Red Work by Mom. She did the embroidered blocks. I did the Irish Chain ones. Measures 25" x 20".

What are you up to?  Leave me a comment and I'll check out your work. Always fun to go on over and have a look see. I'm linking to The Joyful Quilter, Angela's RSC challenge and Design Wall Monday.

Blessings to you all - prayers for those who need them.

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,