The 100 Day Project 2026 - #100Days100ThingsDecluttered - Week 3

Welcome to the 2026 edition of #100Days100ThingsDecluttered, a new mini-series here at The Joyful Quilter!!  I started The 100 Day Project last week.  I'm excited that I've committed to it, again.  It's particularly popular on Instagram.  I was hesitant to participate before last year.  I'll be releasing weekly updates on Tidy Up Tuesday for those of you who might be interested in seeing what goes out the door.

What did you say your project was, again, Joyful???

I signed up with a different idea in mind than most.  You can read about it HERE.  That link will tell you all about my project.

The gist of my focus...

Decluttering my home and studio in an effort to free up space for MORE creativity.

Here's my progress for Week Three:

I'm trying to identify a single item each day that can go.  If I miss a day or two, I try to gather a few items each day when I jump back in, as I find decluttering less overwhelming using this method.

I got rid of the following items:

1 cardboard box

7 T-shirts (from the offspring's old room)

1 bag of trash and broken items (collected from DH's shop)

Week 3 Total:  9/100

Updated 100 Day Project Total: 44/100

Thank you to those of you who encouraged me in my decluttering efforts as I kicked off this challenge!  I appreciate your kind comments and your willingness to cheer me along.  Cherie @ See More Quilts commented by reporting her own decluttering progress:

I passed on a bag of mixed sized fabrics, from 2 yard cuts to 4” squares. By weight it was 6 yards total. In other areas I trashed 2 pair of used up shoes and mailed off a box of vintage McDonald’s Happy Meal toys to a youngster who is having fun with them as I type! 

 

Way to go, Cherie!

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Come back next week to see what goes in the box during the next 7 days.  You can also follow me on Instagram @thejoyfulquilter, if you are there more often than in BlogLand.

Until next time...

Do the 100 Day Project!!!

ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC26 - Week 11

Welcome to Week 11 of the 2025 Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This is going to be another mixed up week.  Wanna see???  We'll get to that momentarily.  Let's start with a bit of...

URGENT Scrappy News!!!

I contributed a block (3rd from L in 5th row down) for the first Scrap Club Group Quilt.  The group's leader assembled and quilted it.  The quilt, titled Window Seats, hung at the Scottish Quilting Show in Glasgow, Scotland from Thursday - Saturday, March 3 - 7, 2026.

Photo credit: Kristen @ Scrap Fabric Love

Come on!  Let's see how the last 7 days unfolded ...

SUNDAY - ProjectQUILTING

My Weekly Morning Art Zoom time was spent on this page in my Collage Scraps journal...

Later a Zoom call with Knittingsuek followed:

MONDAY - Art Day

Tammy Kaye hosted another FREE watercolor workshop on painting her Loose Florals:

Since that was a midmorning class, I decided that I had time to get to the grocery store and back before time to meet for my Weekly Zoom Call with LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color:

TUESDAY - TidyUp Tuesday

I went to Britt's house for another ART-venture.  She has other plans for Thursday so we worked in our Ledger journals again this morning...

During Tuesday Explorers Open Studio at Get Messy, I put the finishing touches on my QuiltCon page in my personal journal:

WEDNESDAY - Wonderful Wednesday

During Midweek Meetup I used bits from an old Vicki Boutin paper pack to create another page in my Collage Scraps journal:

After lunch I enjoyed another Art Zoom with my friend Belinda...

I worked on the Watercolor lesson from last month's Season of Fertile Ground at Get Messy.  It was a challenging painting for me.  I'm not one to paint animals, but I really like how the person's face and hair turned out:

THURSDAY - Weekly Quilt Group met at @ Lynda's, but I stayed home since I drove to "Hboro" on Tuesday and will be heading to Raleigh tomorrow.  It was a good call, as it poured rain today!  Instead, I attended another FREE watercolor workshop hosted by Tammy Kaye.  Here is my (somewhat imbalanced) floral arrangement based on our reference image found in the book Flower Color Theory:

This is Tammy's interpretation, adding blue flowers to her twigs, based on a class vote:

Later, I watched the replay of a class I missed early in the week with a new-to-me artist.  Chicago-based artist, Nicholas Holman, taught a class called From Blank Page to Simple Landscape.  Here are my light and cloudy landscapes from the lessons:

FRIDAY - Knit Group

We're heading out on a field trip to Carolina Fiber Fest in Raleigh:

I skipped Get Messy's Friday Friends Open Studio and my Weekly Evening Art Zoom today.  I wasn't near a computer in the early afternoon and was visiting DS1 tonight.

SATURDAY - It's LINK PARTY day for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!  I hope you will join me in visiting Angela @ So Scrappy to see what the RSC Quilters have been up to this week.  I was late to the party, but I'll fill you in on Wednesday's post.

In the meantime, here are the RED scraps that I've been playing with this week:

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!

Wonderful Wednesday - Art Feeds the Soul - Elon Quilt Show

Welcome to another edition of Wonderful Wednesday!!  Today I'm here to share some of the quilts from last week's Art Feeds the Soul Quilt Show in Elon, North Carolina hosted by two area quilt guilds.  The Alamance Piecemakers and Burlington Carousel Quilters team up to raise funds and food for the Alamance County food pantry run the the Salvation Army.

These three friends from my Weekly Morning Quilt Group met me there:

Are YOU ready to see the quilts???

Let's start with this summer quilt (no batting) made from vintage Italian linen and lace:

Along with that one, there were many other projects in the Mostly Recycled Challenge.  Here are a few that captured my interest for one reason or another:

Oh, shiny!  I wander off to the perimeter of the show...

Before returning to this sweet use of vintage hankies in the Mostly Recycled Challenge aisle:

Here are other entries that caught my eye...

Two interesting takes on the Potato Chip quilt:

and...

A brilliant use of a panel:

A fabulous use of Flying Geese blocks in a border application:

A few colorful quilts caught my eye...

Including this Kaffe quilt:

along with...

and...

This modern Hexie Quilt reminded me of my recent visit to Quilted Needle Fabrics in Pittsboro, NC, as several of the prints were offered there and my friend Cindi wanted them all:

This may have been my vote for Viewer's Choice.  Rainbow, you know:

Not rainbow, but excellent use of color:

My photo doesn't do the quilt justice.  It's an inventive use of fabric and the appliqued fish really take this project to the next level...

The fish print is what caught my eye, as it is on the back of DS2's River Ocean quilt:

I thought of Preeti @ Sew Preeti Quilts when I saw this one, as she did a whole thing on her version of the African Queen block used in this quilt.  You can read about Preeti's International Sister Block adventure from back in 2019 at the link provided:

More quilts with great use of color:

And one done in a rainbow of color...

Just LOOK at this incredible art quilt...

And another interesting one using non-traditional materials.  Artificial flowers fill the vase below:

There was also a display of patriotic quilt...

Along with a selection of quilts for sale:

Our afternoon wrapped up with an old fashioned "bed turning" of antique quilts...

This was my favorite:

Oh!  There might have been a fabric haul, too...

It's all Britt's fault!  I was only petting the sale prints and planned to put them back before leaving the vendor area.  The books were definitely coming home with me:

Until next time...

Go to a (QUILT) Show!!!