ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC26 - Week 44

Welcome to Week 44 of the 2026 Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This week is a mixed bag of art, errands, and meetings.  Will there be time for Angela's chosen Color of the Month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge???  If so, these two are prime targets:

Read on to see what happens...

SUNDAY -  During my Weekly Morning Art Zoom at Get Messy I happily painted the following page for the Circles prompt for the 21 Day Painting Challenge from Sarah Martinez.  It makes my heart sing:

MONDAY - Errand/Art Day

I headed up to the studio right after breakfast to work on Day 9 of #PaintPlay21.  Here is my interpretation of the Plants prompt:

Later, I meant to take in another Free Watercolor Class from Tammy Kaye, but today's lesson didn't interest me.

After lunch, I went back upstairs for this week's Library Crawl at Get Messy.  Today, we was a continuation of last week's class from Barbara Graham.  Here is my resulting journal page:

TUESDAY - Art/Errand Day

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During the Early Explorers hangout, I did today's Colors in Curves prompt for #PaintPlay21:

Afterwards I painted last week's tutorial from Tammy Kaye.  Whoops!  I forgot all about it until the replay arrived in my inbox:

Tonight was my Monthly Evening Quilt Bee meeting.  I shared my UFO finish with these lovely quilters.  Please look for the accompanying blog post in tomorrow's entry: 

WEDNESDAY - Wonderful Wednesday

During Midweek Meetup, I intended to worked on Day 11 of The 21 Day Painting Challenge.  No one showed up so I tidied up my table a bit.

No worries...

This afternoon was my Watercolor Zoom with my friend Belinda in Maine...

I caught her up on my recent paintings and here is my interpretation of  the Monochromatic Painting prompt made during our call.  Yellow ochre was my color choice, paired with black and white for this abstract landscape:

THURSDAY - Quilt/Art Day

Today I attended my Weekly Quilt Group at Maggie's.  There's no photo to share, but

here's one of Britt and I after our ART-venture at her house afterwards.  We each worked on a tutorial from Tammy Kaye that I missed earlier this week.  Here is the LINK which produced these floral vases...

And here's a closer look at mine:

After returning home...

I tackled the Non-dominant Hand Floral Painting prompt for #PaintPlay21.  While clumsy to do, I enjoyed the attempt and really like how this turned out:

FRIDAY - Knit/Art Day

This morning's Knit Group was held at Beth's house.  Tracy was away, Stacy had a hair appointment, and I woke up to a sick vertigo attack.  :o((

Before Lunch...

I was feeling better so I layered up this month's Rainbow Scrap Challenge project with a chunk of batting leftover from the making of THREE other quilts.  I'll share a photo when the pins are in.

After lunch...

I headed up to the studio for Deandra's Art Zoom.  Today, I focused on the Pour Painting prompt for the 21 Day Painting Challenge.  This was my interpretation using more water than normal and a variety of inks:

After dinner, I went upstairs for my Weekly Evening Art Zoom.  I painted the following page in my Watercolor Journal, taking inspiration from a recent YouTube video from Denise Love @ 2lilowlsstudio that I watched last night:

SATURDAY - It's LINK PARTY day for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!  I hope you will stop by for a visit Angela @ So Scrappy to see what the RSC Quilters have been up to this week.  As you saw, I  managed some Light NEUTRAL scrap work this week, but I also had some art to do today...

Day 14's Eyes Closed! prompt for #PaintPlay21 happened during a morning blogging break.  We were instructed to draw our face with our eyes closed and then add paint.  I used the wrong pencil part of my lines didn't show up and some of the ones that did were difficult to follow, but I did the best I could and then filled in hair afterwards: 

Afterwards...

This month's RSC Challenge project was pinned and is now waiting for quilting:

It was a full week.

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!!

Wonderful Wednesday - A Fall 2026 (Ravelry) UFO Club Finish

Welcome to another edition of Wonderful Wednesday at The Joyful Quilter!!  I'm here to share my first finish of the Fall 2026 UFO Club.  My list incorporated this month's number for my Bee's UFO Challenge.  The number Britt pulled was #10, but I finished that one earlier in the year.  I selected from the three items remaining.

9. Aboriginal Runner (2022) - OCTOBER (Replacement) -  Here is what my project started the month looking like.  It came to me in a gifted scrap bag:

Backing and batting scraps were located...

Thread options were next on the list of design decisions:

Binding was predetermined.  The winning scrap chunk is shown below:

Let the quilting begin!!!

Each session brought me a little closer...

 To a completed project:

Several days later, the binding was being applied:

Here is the completed Aboriginal Runner on the driveway:

Thank you for sharing this project with me, Diane!  If it wasn't you, my apologies to the person who actually passed it along.  I love those little hut-shaped patches appliqued in opposing corners.  They made for a fun place to begin and end the quilting of this piece.

Until next time... 

Like another UFO off the list!!!

Let's not forget a front porch picture:

ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC26 - Week 43

Welcome to Week 43 of the 2026 Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This week is a mixed bag of appointments, art, and errands.  Will there be time for Angela's chosen Color of the Month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge???

Read on to see what happens...

SUNDAY -  My Weekly Morning Art Zoom at Get Messy found me beginning the 21 Day Painting Challenge from Sarah Martinez.  My interpretation of the Grid of Color prompt done in watercolor, the medium I plan to focus on during the event:

MONDAY - Errand/Art Day

After errands and lunch, I went upstairs for this week's Library Crawl followed featuring a Color Mixing class from Barbara Graham, sans video.  This is my interpretation of the lesson presented, but done more in the style of Norma Chung from Saturday's lesson:

Since I wasn't ready for a cup of tea, I worked through Day Two's #PaintPlay21's Blotch Bouquet prompt which resulted in the following painting:

Later...

I caught up on the Crystal Tan class that I missed last night:

And finally...

I made my way to my Monthly Quilt Guild Meeting.  It was presentation night for this year's Snug as a Bug on a Quilt challenge.  More on that in Wednesday's post!

TUESDAY - Art/Errand Day

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During the Early Explorers hangout, I did today's Scribble Session prompt for #PaintPlay21:

Along with this page in my Collage Scraps Journal incorporating a collage cluster from an ART-venture session at Britt's, along with some suggestions from the assembled group:

Afterwards I painted the Bonus Lesson from Yana Ivannikova.  Here is my interpretation of her Sketching Heather tutorial:

Caylee missed yesterday's Library Crawl so offered it again today,  I went with making collage papers similar to those made by the teacher with watered down acrylic paint - minus the marks she added to her pages:

WEDNESDAY - Wonderful Wednesday

During Midweek Meetup, I worked on Day 4 of The 21 Day Painting Challenge. Here is my interpretation of  the Color Fields prompt, along with my color inspiration Kleenex box flap:

Later...

I began quilting on my October UFO Challenge project:

Pieced by my friend Diane H.

THURSDAY - Quilt/Art Day

Well... I was supposed to be at my Weekly Quilt Group at Deborah's.  There's no photo to share because I overslept and  needed a breathing treatment before breakfast.  By the time that was done and I'd eaten, it was too late to make my way to the meeting.  :o((

Instead...

I went shopping and tackled the Fish prompt for #PaintPlay21 when I returned:

FRIDAY - Knit/Art Day

This morning's Knit Group was held at 1928 Millhouse Coffee.  Here we are, Tracy in her Good Witch shirt and me in my sheep cowl with the Woolen Pond Farm sticker she brought:

Thanks, Tracy!

Next, I made my way to the pharmacy for my annual flu shot.  We'll see how that goes...

During Deandra's Art Zoom after lunch, I focused on the Splash & Scratch prompt for the 21 Day Painting Challenge.  It might have worked better in acrylics, but I'm enjoying seeing how far I can push watercolor:

Tonight while attending my Weekly Evening Art Zoom, I remembered the quick dahlia tutorial Tammy Kaye recently posted on Instagram.  Here is my version, sans splatter:

SATURDAY - It's LINK PARTY day for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!  I hope you will stop by for a visit Angela @ So Scrappy to see what the RSC Quilters have been up to this week.  As you saw, I  managed some Dark NEUTRAL scrap work this week, but I also had some art to do today...

Day 7's Line-scapes prompt happened during a blogging break this afternoon.  I used watercolor and acrylic inks for these two.  I was going for a seascape in the first and a landscape in the second.  I have a favorite and I'm wondering if you do as well:

Afterwards...

This month's UFO Challenge project was waiting for the corners to be quilted:

You may have noticed that I was late for Angela's party...

Sorry it took so long to complete my post.  The flu shot had me achy and feverish overnight and by the time I finally got up and moving this morning, it was nearly time for lunch!  At the time I released this, I was ALMOST feeling human again.  That's a good thing because I need to so scare up some dinner.

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!!

Wonderful Wednesday - Snug as a Bug Quilt Challenge

Welcome to another edition of Wonderful Wednesday!!  It hasn't been too long since I last released a post for this series.  I thought you might like to see photos of the 2026 Snug as a Bug on a Quilt Challenge entries from our local Quilt Guild.

Am I right?

First, you might like an idea of the rules.

1. Include a bug somewhere on front of your quilt.  Anything goes!

2. Limited to 36" on any side.

There were suggestions offered in our monthly newsletters leading up to the event and the resulting quilts were incredible!!

Monday was the entry deadline...

As you will see, there was a TON of creativity on display.  I apologize in advance for the hastily taken photos.  You will still get a fairly good idea of how each quilter interpreted the theme.  I'm pretty sure that you just want me to stop talking and let you see the quilts.

If so, keep scrolling...

Entry # 1:

Two:

Number 3:

Four:

My most sincere apologies to the maker of this missing entry!!!  :o((

5:

Six:

#7:

Eight:

Entry 9:

#10:

Eleven:

Number 12:

Thirteen:

#14:

And...

Entry Fifteen:

Did YOU make a quilt for the challenge, Joyful???

Of course, I did!!

If you know my style or if you've been paying attention to my last several ScrapHappy Saturday posts, you might have spotted my entry in the photos above.

While this journal page was the jumping off point for my quilt...

Here is my resulting entry:

Which quilts won the challenge, Joyful???

I thought you might be wondering about that.

The winners, by popular vote, were as follows...

Photo from Facebook, compliments of Guild Social Media Chair.

Here's a closer look at the quilts in the photo above:

3rd Place:

and

Yes.  There was a tie for 3rd Place (which seems to happen often in recent years.)

2nd Place:

1st Place:

Editor's Note...

Congratulations to each member who completed a challenge entry.  Well done!  They were ALL fantastic!  Thank you for looking!  I also want to offer a special thank you to Irena, Jr. for taking over the hosting of our Guild Challenge.  It was a fun one and more so since I didn't have to concern myself with coordination of this year's event!  It was a good 5 years, but I'm happy to have stepped back to let someone else take the lead.

Until next time...

Be SEW creative!!!