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 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.

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!!

ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC26 - Week 28

Welcome to Week 26 of the 2026 Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This week has all the usual errands, classes, and meetings on the calendar.  I don't know if that will allow for any AQUA scrap sewing, but I gathered my AQUA mini quilts to begin adding them to the gallery wire:

Let's see how my days passed...

SUNDAY - During Weekly Morning Art Zoom, I worked on the MINIATURE prompt for ICAD...

And...

Took a look at some threads for quilting my July UFO and was AQUA among them:

MONDAY - Art Day

At this week's Library Crawl over on Get Messy, I used inspiration from this Painted Galaxy class by artist Katie Smith as my jumping off point my own journal pager (not shown):

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

TUESDAY - Stay at Home Day

Here I am auditioning AQUA (teal and turquoise) binding scrap options:

This afternoon, I enjoyed working alongside my Tuesday Explorers friends at Get Messy.  The FARMER'S MARKET prompt for ICAD was today's focus:

WEDNESDAY - Wonderful Wednesday

The MIRROR prompt for ICAD was today's focus...

For some art done during Midweek Meetup which I playfully refer to as The Jen and Joy Show since we are the only two members who consistently show up:

In neighborhood news...

I noticed movers were FINALLY delivering possessions to the house at the end of the street:

I was on my way to this Dog Rose class with Olga Koelsch when I spotted the truck:

THURSDAY - Quilt/Art Day

Weekly Quilt Group met at Cheryl's today and I headed to Britt's for a short ARTventure the meeting.  We each took on the FROST prompt for ICAD:

FRIDAY - Knit Group

We met at 1928 Mill House Coffee this morning.  It ended up just the two of us today, as everyone else had other places to be.  Please notice Tracy's new Woolen Pond Farm t-shirt advertising her recently opened Etsy shop for her handspun yarn made from the wool of her very own sheep:

Once home from a quick grocery run, I headed upstairs for Get Messy's Friday Friends Open Studio.  ICAD's prompt of ORIGAMI drew me in and resulted in the following card:

During Deandra's Art Zoom, I composed what I'm calling "Collage of Regret" for the CASINO prompt for the Index-Card-A-Day challenge:

After dinner, I met with my Weekly Evening Art Zoom friends.  I decided to tackle the ICAD prompt of BIOMORPHIC SHAPE.  The card may need a bit of embellishment:

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 you AQUA scraps, Joyful???

Besides the use of the RSC Color of the Month in some of the week's artwork, I finished adding my mini quilts that included sea colors to the gallery wire this week:

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!

Wonderful Wednesday - Kaffe Runner/Topper - Summer 2026 (Ravelry) UFO Club Finish

Welcome to another edition of Wonderful Wednesday!!  I'm here to share my 1st UFO finish of the Summer 2026 UFO Club. This quilt has been on and off my list since I received its component parts in a scrap bag from my friend Diane back in 2022.  It was added to my quilt bee's UFO Challenge this year, as well as my UFO Club list.

When the year began...

This quilt was one of 12 quilt projects in the running for finishing.  I held high hopes that when it rose to the top of my UFO List and I might actually find a way to complete the quilt.

7. Kaffe Runner/Topper (2022)

The quilt top...

Was considered part of the "low hanging fruit" category for the (Ravelry) UFO Club, even though 4 years worth of listing it hadn't produced a completed project.

This year I'm really trying for one finish per month...

So when its number came up, I threw it on the design floor to see if I could decide how I might quilt it.

Then, wonder of wonders...

I chose a scrap of backing and layered it up:

Next, it was time for thread selection:

Then, I quilted it up, but two of the last three rows wanted their own thread colors:

With the quilting done, that only left the trimming and binding!!!

Here it is all squared up with binding options being auditioned:

And...

That binding was attached during this afternoon's art time and was sewn down just after lunch.

Here's the picture proof that it's DONE!!!

This photo shows off the matchstick quilting...

And this one gives a more accurate look at the coloration:

I'm SEW pleased that this quilt has been completed.  I'm not sure it would have been without the UFO Challenge hosted by my Bee.  Thank you again, Maggie, for suggesting we play the UFO Number Game and thanks to Britt for taking the lead.  This is my 1st finish for the Summer 2026 session of the UFO Club on Ravelry.  It's my 6th finish of our Bee's UFO Challenge and I couldn't be happier that it's been such a good motivator.

And...

Two days later, here it is with its new owner:

Happy Retirement, Tracy!!!

Until next time...

Mark another UFO off the List!!!