ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC24 - Week 43

Welcome to Week 43 of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This week, it's going to be all sewing all the time.  Will scraps be involved?

Read on to find out...

SUNDAY - The week began with Weekly Morning Art Zoom where we played Roll the Dice.  Here are the two pages that I created...

Prompt Set One:

Prompt Set Two:

MONDAY - The car was packed and I headed to the mountains for my third annual Pedal Pushers Quilt Retreat:

The altered directions took me under the (closed) Blueridge Parkway seen in the distance...

This is the view from a scenic overlook when my GPS lead me astray:

Later than expected, I felt lucky to have arrived:

TUESDAY - Day Two of Retreat began with a glorious sunrise seen through the window screen in my room:

Today's project was my Sweet Kisses quilt (blocks pieced by Britt).  I arranged the blocks and cut the setting triangles before moving on to the assembly.  The photo below was taken once all of the rows had been joined:

Yes.  I'm in the Smokey Mountains at sunset:

WEDNESDAY - Day Three of Retreat began with a "smoky" sunrise:

Tiffany shared this sweet journal cover with me.  I get to choose my own lining and pockets for the interior:

Not long after lunch, my Sweet Kisses project is a completed quilt top:

Here I am modeling Tiffany's latest jacket creation:

The fall colors are getting more beautiful as our time here passes:

In the early evening, I took Sweet Kisses out for a look at the view...

Tiffany and I got a photo, too:

What started out as eight has now become four panels of my Circle Denim Quilt:

No Zoom with LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color this week.  :o((

THURSDAY - Day Four of Retreat.  Good morning spectacular sunrise:

Today I laid out the blocks for my Snow Stars project...

After stitching my Circle Denim Quilt into a (nearly) completed top...

I got started on sewing the Snow Stars project into rows:

FRIDAY - Day Five of Retreat provided this lovely sunrise:

I packed my suitcase while waiting for the orange ball to appear on the horizon...

Not long after breakfast there were only three quilters left at the lodge:

I was home in time for dinner and was able to attend my Weekly Evening Art Zoom afterwards.  I worked on cutting out pieces for a collage based on this week's lesson with Ika Vantiani:

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.

Today began with my weekly Zoom call with Knittingsuek...

Which was followed by lunch and a Get Messy Host meeting.  In the interim, I completed the collage that I started last night:

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!

October 2024 - TABLE SCRAPS Challenge - Link Party

Welcome to the October 2024 edition of the TABLE SCRAPS Challenge here at the Joyful Quilter!!  I'll start with a little backstory, in case you are new here.  (Apologies to my regular readers since you already know all about it.) I'm a scrap quilter who had been setting up individual challenges for several years in conjunction with Angela's (RSC) Rainbow Scrap Challenge @ So Scrappy.  Participants from around the corner, across the country and around the world have been having SEW much fun and we all have MORE scraps to use, so I am pleased to offer the...

In 2024, we have a broad range of quilted items that are appropriate for linking to the Challenge.  Baskets and bins, along with pillows and pin cushions, are all qualifying projects.  Not just the toppers, runners, and mug rugs.  Basically, ANY small quilted item qualifies.  The main premise is that you USE the (new or old) SCRAPS from your cutting table (or your friend's cutting table - since that's where the majority of my scraps come from!)

There will be a prompt each month to help get your creative juices flowing.  While you are NOT required to use it in your project, the guiding word will be revealed at the end of each month's LINK PARTY post.  Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the following month's focus.  It, along with the RSC Color of the Month (as soon as Angela releases it - around the 1st of the month.) will also be added to the 2024 TABLE SCRAPS Challenge page at the top of the blog.

The theme for October was...

CAT

This was a month where I had NO CLUE was going with the theme, but...

The Color of the Month was Light and/or BROWN and when I rummaged through that basket to see if I could find what I was looking for, I came up with a bunch of scraps, but not the ones I was hoping to find:

The project was begun with the following small squares...

And then I expanded on the theme:

Next came these house-type blocks...

Which were arranged like this:

Next, the two blocks were arranged into the following pattern...

And stitched together:

After several days of work, the block parts were sewn together into a top:

My entry was ready for quilting with the addition of batting and backing:

The challenge came in when it was time to locate a binding fabric.  Fortunately, that task was aided by Britt who had just the right fabric in her stash.  Thanks, B!

Here is my completed entry:

How does that relate to this month's theme, Joyful???

There may be ZERO cats in my quilt, but the pattern was adapted from one called Kitty Kitty, which was showcased on Jordan Fabrics:

My mini quilt was the first thing I finished while on retreat in the mountains this week:

What's next, Joyful???

There's nearly a full week before the new month begins.  Angela isn't assigning a Color of the Month for November on her Rainbow Scrap Challenge, as she has set the month aside for block set completion and assembly.  That means that I get to choose and my choice is...

MAKER'S CHOICE

November's theme is:

TREES

And now...

It's time for YOU to link up your LIGHT and/or Brown CAT project in the LINK PARTY below.  All entries MUST be submitted by Wednesday, November 2nd @ 11:59PM (EDT).

Until next time...

USE those table scraps!!!

#tablescrapschallenge2024

ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC24 - Week 42

Welcome to Week 42 of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This week was a prep week for my upcoming Pedal Pushers Quilt Retreat in the mountains of north central North Carolina.  With the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, I wasn't sure that it would still take place.

SUNDAY - Weekly Morning Art Zoom found me creating a page to house the mini accordion journal that I made in yesterday's class with @karenlizcreative:

Britt and I stayed after for a few minutes of visiting:

After dinner, I enjoyed some art time with my friends at Get Messy during Collage Club.  I worked on finishing a page in my Get Messy Art Journal:

MONDAY - Day Off!!!

Sewing, some housework, and preparing for my upcoming retreat kept me busy all day.

But... I took time out to attend Curiosity Collective and made the following page during our exploration of Messy Recipe #9:

TUESDAY - Work

Errands kept me busy beforehand, but afterwards, I was too tired for much of anything.  No sewing.  No art.  No nothing!

WEDNESDAY - Wonderful Wednesday

This morning a ran a couple quick errands.  I had a payment to drop off and a purchase to make.  The nights have gotten colder and we needed new flannel sheets for our bed.  The good news?  They were on sale for 40% off!!!  :o))

Apparently, we have new neighbors:

 

Work (and another near miss of an accident!)  This one was closer to home and was a closer call than the one I avoided last week.  Police were still on the scene and no clean-up had begun.  I didn't get a photo today, but suffice to say the full-sized pick up truck involved had its front end completely smashed in (possibly by a dump truck.)

No Zoom with LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color this week.  My work schedule interferes with our timing.

THURSDAY - Work...

... Was flanked by a trip to the pharmacy for DH and a trip to the Big Box craft store for Knittingsuek.

FRIDAY - Work

It was a full day today.  The new girl had the day off.  She's working all next week while I'm away at Quilt Retreat.

After dinner, it was up to the studio for my Weekly Evening Art Zoom.  I worked on this watercolor page in my Get Messy art journal using all four of the pinks in my palette:

Britt and I chatted for a little while afterwards concerning the projects I'm planning to take to retreat:

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.

Quarterly Weekend Quilt Bee resumed today with the following members in attendance...

When the quilters departed the paint and paper came out to play:

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!

Wonderful Wednesday - A Fall 2024 UFO Club Finish

Welcome to another edition of Wonderful Wednesday!!  I'm here to share my first UFO finish of the quarter.  I finished the quilt top at the NT Nights Retreat over Labor Day weekend.  And then it sat, in typical Joy fashion (as did this post.)

If you're on Ravelry you may have already seen it...

This donation quilt was made for the Quilt For Kids Challenge in conjunction with the DOQ Quilt Show held last weekend two weeks ago.  Here is the completed quilt on display:

Thank goodness for quilting friends!!!

I couldn't locate my crayon fabric when packing for the retreat.  :o((

As it turned out...

Stacy was finished with her entry and had some scraps that were perfect for the narrow border I had planned.  When I was out of projects, Mary decided that she didn't want to make her challenge entry.  Her FQ of crayon fabric became the center of my design.

My contribution to the quilt was a couple yards of Moda Grunge that went coordinated well with the challenge fabric.

But...

My design wasn't big enough for the quilt I was hoping to make.

What then???

As luck would have it, Britt had just the right fabric in one of her project boxes!  Being the good friend that she is, she donated it to the cause so that I could stretch the size a bit:

Here is the resulting quilt top on the design wall at retreat:

Special thanks to Stacy @overthemoonquilts, "Scrappy" Mary, and Britt @britt_quilts for making this quilt become a reality!

Only a few steps left!!!

The quilting, the squaring up, and the binding.  It all happened so fast that I missed taking any photos.  My finish came complete with a game of "Binding Chicken" that I didn't realize I was playing.  Whoops!  There were only 6 inches leftover!!!

Here is the porch swing photo:

The Crayon Challenge Quilt was completed October 3, 2024 - ZERO DAYS prior to the Quilt Show hang.  Whew!!  I'm SEW glad that I was able to get it done in time to be displayed with the other challenge quilts.  Apologies for sharing it, again, but it insisted on having its own post.  :o))

Until next time...

Mark another UFO off the list!!