ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC22 - Week 24

Welcome to Week 24 of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This week was about art and quilting.  Not SEW much about scraps.

**First off, my apologies for last Friday's shocking announcement about the "family emergency".  I meant to edit that out/tone it down, but forgot before releasing the post.  Thank you for the well wishes!  Things have very nearly returned to "normal" now.  You may be wondering...

What happened THIS week, Joyful???

SUNDAY - It was a Zoom-y kind of day!!  The morning started out with a call to Knittingsuek:

In the middle of the afternoon, I did an Open Hangout over on Get Messy Art.  Caylee jokingly calls it Artist Speed Dating:

Later in the afternoon, I gave LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color a break from gardening with a quick Zoom call to make up for the one we missed last week:

MONDAY - I spent time with Alice Sheridan @ Soul Rocket Studio this morning.  She's hosting the Midsummer Creative Refresh and Reset Retreat.  Today's nugget of inspiration was "If you want something, you have to make it a priority!"  Alternatively...  "Don't pretend that something is important, if you're not going to make time for it!"

To that end, she shared a story about her husband and (not) going to the gym.  After 15 years of him saying that he wanted to go to the gym, she had enough one day and flat out told him that if he wasn't going to stop talking about it and actually DO IT, that she didn't want to hear about it!!  (Now, he goes cycling instead.)

TUESDAY - I worked on a paper collage which included some fabric scraps and a little bit of BLUE.  This is just the beginning, I had fun mixing up the background paint color, but it seems to "need" a bit more SOMETHING in the middle:

WEDNESDAY - No Zoom-ing with  LeeAnna today.  She's fully involved in the Embroidery Summit with Rebecca Page.  (There were only a couple of classes which interested me, but I'm looking forward to seeing what will be included in the upcoming Paper Crafts Summit.)

While she was doing that, I was burying the last of the thread tails on my friend Carol's quilt - too bad I apparently deleted the darling bunny photo, so you get another look at the fox:

THURSDAY - I opted out of Weekly Quilt Group today.  Hanging close to home due to last week's Covid exposure.  (There.  I've said it.  It was WAY too close to home!)  Isolation isn't so bad when you're a quilter.  In fact, it felt rather like a staycation!  :P

Summer has come on with a vengeance!  96, feels like 101... was followed by this:

The storm blew through quickly and a while later this was the view out of my studio windows:

Since there was no sewing during the storm, I decided to ready the next quilt for the longarm.  This was a beautiful collaboration between Preeti @ Sew Preeti Quilts and "The Piecing Fairy" during the 2021 Positivity QAL Block Drive hosted here on the blog:

Once the quilt back was cut and loaded, I wandered over to the Rebecca Page website...

... To take in one of the only videos of interest to me.  Rainbow, of course:

FRIDAY - Wonder of wonders, since I developed no symptoms, I was able to attend Knit Group today.  It was good to spend time with Tracy...

... And with Hilary:

This evening, I enjoyed watching another of the Embroidery Week classes:

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 thinking of you all when I snapped the photo below:

This week's scrappy (washi tape) efforts:

I'm having a lot of fun playing with a different sort of scraps.  Never fear!  There will be Bright/Dark BLUE fabric scrap sewing to share for next week's TABLE SCRAPS Challenge post.

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!