ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC26 - Week 31

Welcome to Week 31 of the 2026 Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This week has all the usual errands, classes, and meetings on the calendar.  My goal for the week is to circle back to the sweet AQUA baby quilt that I started at the beginning of July.  What do YOU think?  Will actually happen?

Read on to see...

SUNDAY - At Weekly Morning Art Zoom, I worked on the CHANGE prompt for ICAD:

After lunch, I went back upstairs to ponder additions to AQUA Baby:

MONDAY - Art Day

The day began with errands and moved on to this week's Library Crawl over on Get Messy where we revisited Shawn Petite's lesson from the Season of Do It Scared and her 3-step process for "breaking" the blank page:

I later met with LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color for our Weekly Zoom Call...

During our chat, I kept my hands busy by working on the MAGNET prompt for ICAD inspired by one of the rewards in the Block Mania game from Loop Games:

 

TUESDAY - Stay at Home Day

Chores, paperwork and a bit of YouTube filled my day, but after tea time, I visited with my Tuesday Explorers friends at Get Messy.  I finally figured out what to do for the COBBLESTONE prompt for ICAD:

When the art was done, I gathered items for my Monthly Evening Quilt Bee meeting.  There were five of us in attendance.  Alas, I neglected to take a photo before Sue went home:

Sorry, Sue!!!

Storms rolled in during the meeting and fortunately, we all avoided the tornado in the area.

The photo below was taken when I arrived home:

WEDNESDAY - Art Day

I was SEW in the zone that I completely missed the Jen and Joy Show! moved off Get Messy this week.  Formerly, know here as the Midweek Meetup will no longer be available to me.

Later, I met my friend Belinda for our Watercolor Zoom:

Remember that photo from last night???

I decided to paint it into my watercolor journal:

Once that was done, I switched to one of the last ICAD prompt remaining for me to interpret.  Here is what I did for the TETRIS prompt:

THURSDAY - Quilt/Art Day

Weekly Quilt Group met at Cheryl's today and, wonder of wonders, everyone was there:

Once the meeting was over, Britt and I had an errand to run before heading to her house for lunch and an ARTventure.  Both of us focused on ICAD prompts.  Here we are with our cards for SHIBORI (me) and BEATLES SONG (Britt) when we were done for the day:

If you take a closer look, my "tree" appears to be made from Shibori dyed fabric.

FRIDAY - Knit Group

We were back at Beth's house this morning.  It was nice to have Tracy with us and Linda join via Zoom.  Our live wire, Stacy was busy with family celebrations:

A quick stop at the store and some lunch I went upstairs for Deandra's Art Zoom.  I developed a plan for the ATRIUM prompt and completed the background during the session.  The card was completed during the time normally spent with my Weekly Evening Art Zoom friends:

Why is that, Joyful???

My Get Messy membership is expiring and I've opted not to renew.  It's been a good run, but there are other art communities that I want to try.

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.

In AQUA scrappy news...

The scrappy AQUA baby quilt pulled my attention this week.  Midweek found me auditioning scraps for a pieced backing using more of my friend Ella's scraps along with a couple of scrap chunks from my stash:

Anyone else wondering what the Color of the Month will be for August???

In today's Rainbow Scrap Challenge post, Angela announced that we will be playing in our YELLOW scraps to reflect the summer sunshine.  Here's what I have available to work with:

In case you didn't know...

While not one of my favorite colors, YELLOW is one of my happy colors and the scrap stash confirms it.  I'm looking forward to digging in and seeing what I come up with.

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!!

Wonderful Wednesday - An RSC Finish in AQUA

Welcome to another edition of Wonderful Wednesday here at The Joyful Quilter!!  Today I'm here to share my latest completed project.  It's not a UFO quilt this time.  Angela at So Scrappy set the RSC Quilters on a path through our AQUA scraps this month.

So...

I grabbed that basket, started sorting through:

Not far from the top of the basket, I found something that sparked my interest and before long I was happily stitching a batch of scraps from my friend Ella:

Using her leftover strip sets, I developed a plan...

Which quickly resulted in this AQUA table runner:

The pink and paisley in the photo above is the backing which was another random strip set of Ella's.  It was just the right size for my project so I pinned it up...

And got right to work using two different colors of thread and minimal quilting:

Here it is, quilted and bound...

And since some of you like to see the back...

This is the reverse side which could totally serve as the "right side" of the runner:

The little runner will live on my bedside table during future AQUA months for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  Thanks for the encouragement to USE our scraps one color at a time, Angela.  Your method really works for me.

Until next time...

Make it SCRAPPY!!!

ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC26 - Week 30

Welcome to Week 30 of the 2026 Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This week has all the usual errands, classes, and meetings on the calendar.  My goal for the week is to do a bit of AQUA quilting.  What are the odds that will actually happen?

Your guess is as good as mine, but let's see what transpires...

SUNDAY - During Weekly Morning Art Zoom, I worked on fussy cutting a flowering plant to add to the garden-themed scene that I started during last night's GM Midmonth Gathering:

MONDAY - Art Day

The day began with a Landscape Watercolor Workshop with Tammy Kaye:

At this week's Library Crawl over on Get Messy, I enjoyed going back in time to the Season of Renewal with the Gel Plate Printed Vintage Books class from Andrew Steinbrecher.  In the photo below, you can also see the bunch of flowers I cut yesterday:

I later met with LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color for our Weekly Zoom Call , as you might notice, I started the meeting in the kitchen.  I apologized profusely, but I needed to get dinner going since I another call tonight:

After dinner, I headed back upstairs for this month's local Quilt Guild meeting featuring Theresa Benson known as the AI Quilter, none of my photos turned out well.

TUESDAY - Stay at Home Day

Chores, paperwork and a bit of YouTube filled my day, but after tea time, I visited with my Tuesday Explorers friends at Get Messy.  I finally decided what to do about the CANDELABRA prompt for ICAD.  Using an image found on Google, I drew the card below and traced over the pencil lines with my favorite fineliner pen:

WEDNESDAY - Art Day

I saw this Art-O-Mat at the local frame shop.  I stopped in on my way to the bookstore and the library:

Midweek Meetup was canceled this week.  Jen had a business meeting and I signed up for a Watercolor Portrait class with Elana Mahoney.  All I managed was the sketch:

When the class was over, I switched gears and quilted another AQUA project for the RSC:

THURSDAY - Quilt/Art Day

Weekly Quilt Group was hosted by Candy, but we met at the Chapel Hill Library.  It took nearly an hour for me to get there due to an accident north of the I-40/I-85 split :

Once the meeting was over, I headed to Britt's house for lunch and an ARTventure.  Both of us focused on ICAD prompts.  Here we are with our cards for MARGIN (me) and STREET (Britt) when I was ready for the day's grocery run:

FRIDAY - Knit Group

We met at 1928 Mill House Coffee, but we weren't able to have Linda join via Zoom:

A quick grocery run for the dregs of yesterday's list and lunch was followed by Get Messy's Friday Friends Open Studio and then Deandra's Art Zoom.  I developed a plan and began mapping my layout for the 35mm ICAD prompt during the first session, while gluing the letters happened during the second and the finishing was done after dinner when my Weekly Evening Art Zoom was going on:

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.

In AQUA scrappy news...

I've been  enjoying this scrappy color study Lady of the Lake quilt on my bed this month:

Anyone else wondering what the Color of the Month will be for August???

Angela will be announcing it soon enough.  I'm wondering if she will tell us before next Saturday.  In the meantime, I've got PLENTY more AQUA scraps to play with.

Oh! And the reason this Post went live later later than I would have liked... 

Craft day at the bookstore with my friend Tracy: 

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!

ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC26 - Week 29

Welcome to Week 29 of the 2026 Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This week has all the usual errands, classes, and meetings on the calendar.  I hope to do a bit of AQUA scrap sewing, but only time will tell if that will actually happen:

Let's see how my week panned out...

SUNDAY - During Weekly Morning Art Zoom, I worked on the DIAGONAL prompt for ICAD with a mix of paper and a scrap of selvage fabric from Britt...

Then circled back to Day 15 of Messy May because I finally found an image of some dirt for the EXCAVATION prompt:

MONDAY - Art Day

At this week's Library Crawl over on Get Messy, I added a portrait into my journal from a class by artist Jane Davenport...

The face sparked a memory so I took an explore through last year's journals and found another iteration from the same class in an entry from April 2025:

In the late afternoon I met with LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color for our Weekly Zoom Call:

TUESDAY - Stay at Home Day

Some AQUA (teal and turquoise) scrap sewing filled a portion of my morning:

This afternoon, I visited with my Tuesday Explorers friends at Get Messy.  This month's "Playing in the Garden" lesson with Johanna Clough was today's focus:

WEDNESDAY - Art Day

I was the only one who showed up for Midweek Meetup so I assembled the background for the BEATLES' SONG prompt for ICAD...

And watched a few of the Make Create Express Taster Sessions.

Later...

I joined my friend Belinda for our biweekly Watercolor Zoom:

I worked on embellishing this abstract watercolor piece to complement the flower painting on the opposite side of the page shared in last week's Wednesday entry:

Once that was finished, I circled back to the Index Card a Day challenge and completed the lettering on that Hey Jude card shown above.

THURSDAY - Quilt/Art Day

Weekly Quilt Group met at Ella's today.  It's closer to my house so after lunch I headed to Britt's via Zoom...

Scouring a children's dictionary provided the following photo for the GAMEBOARD prompt for ICAD, but it begged for a background.  An old Southern Living magazine provided just the right image to complete the scene:

FRIDAY - Knit Group

We met at Beth's house, but Tracy didn't get the message so there were only three of us:

Once home and fed, I headed upstairs for Get Messy's Friday Friends Open Studio.  I started on the BACKGAMMON prompt for ICAD and during Deandra's Art Zoom I marked off the triangles and painted them.  The game pieces were cut out and applied later:

As I enjoyed time with my Weekly Evening Art Zoom friends.  I also mapped out my HARMONY card...

Along with a quick collage for the LIGHT & SHADOW prompt for ICAD:

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.  In case you've got the following question circling your brain...

What about your AQUA scraps, Joyful???

I stitched a new AQUA table topper this week using bits remaining from the project of a friend, selected a leftover strip set for backing and found a scrap of batting that was just the right size and now it's ready to layer and quilt:

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!