ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC25 - Week 25

Welcome to Week 25 of the 2025 Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This week is going to be a mixed bag of work, art, errands and sewing.  At least, that's the plan.

Here's how my days passed...

SUNDAY - Weekly Morning Art Zoom found us playing Roll the Dice.  In an effort to conserve space on the final spread of this Hangout Journal, I opted to merge the two sets of prompts and ended up with the following collage:

After lunch, I returned to the studio to work on last week's Get Messy lesson titled Step Into Yourself with @ sarajohanneart:

I also completed the ROOTED theme from Meg Journals in my Catalysts & Curiosities journal:

MONDAY - Work

After work, I was relaxing on the couch when I got a text from LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color wondering if we might be able to have our Weekly Zoom Call today.  Sure!  I opted to stay parked on the couch which, as it turned out, was unfortunate for this week's photo:

We enjoyed a relatively short call with LeeAnna since I needed to grab a quick dinner and leave for my monthly Quilt Guild meeting.  Remarkably, I took ZERO photos during this evening's "Keep it Simple, but Pack a Punch" presentation by west coast quilt artist Rachel Derstine via Zoom.

TUESDAY - Day Off 

Day 1 of my mid-week weekend.  I'm not scheduled to work again until Friday.

I attended Open Studio with Barb and layered up my cards for the Get Messy June Postcard Swap.  When it became apparent that the cards needed a little something more, splatters were added later, thanks to a suggestion from Britt during an "art by committee" texting session:

In neighborhood construction news...

After 2 weeks of waiting for inspections, the foundations for House #18 and #19 (the final two houses!) have been poured:

WEDNESDAY - Day Off

Day 2 of my mid-week weekend.  The task of the day?  Groceries.  On the way out, I noticed that roofing was being done on House #17:

Once groceries were put away and lunch was done, I worked on quilting my contribution (made with scraps) for Kristen @ Scrap Fabric Love's Scrap Club group quilt:

THURSDAY - Day Off

Day 3 of my mid-week weekend was spent with my Weekly Morning Quilt Group friends, but I neglected to get a photo.  I stopped for take-out at the newly opened Love & Tacos restaurant down the road.  The authentic tacos and guacamole came in an adorable gift bag which was immediately transformed into this journal page at Curiosity Collective for today's Life's Little Layers lesson with @ andreaokesonart:

I left early for a doctor visit (No, I'm not sick. Yes, I finally reached out for a referral to a pulmonologist about my stupid cough that's been going on for nearly 14 months.)  Before leaving, I cut out ransom note letters for my swap packets and added them when I got home.  They are ready to be mailed off tomorrow: 

FRIDAY - Work Day Off

I had been scheduled to work today, but got a message saying that my shift was canceled.  There was no Knit Group today, but I was able to run some errands and get home in time to attend Get Messy's Open Studio with Deandra.  I worked on the REVERSE prompt for ICAD thanks to helpful suggestions from those in attendance...

Then moved on to adhering the clear page into my Happy Mail journal...

I decided on using painted paper strips to accomplish that:

Thank you again for a fun ATC trade with all the yummy ephemera, Debbie M.!

Later, at my Weekly Evening Art Zoom, Britt and I chatted while waiting for the others to arrive...

Lacking inspiration for a few cards, I jumped ahead to the PINK prompt for the Index-Card-a-Day challenge from Tammy @ Daisy Yellow Art:

SATURDAY - Work

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.

Next week there will DEFINITELY be some ORANGE scrap sewing, as I will need to complete the entry I've planned for the TABLE SCRAPS Challenge.  As you saw in an earlier entry, I did set my machine back up.  It's primed and ready to go.

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!

Wonderful Wednesday - May 2025 - Evening Bee Sew Day

Welcome to another edition of Wonderful Wednesday!!  In this post, I will share the very first Sew Day of my Evening Quilt Bee!!  We've been meeting as a group for many years, but had never had a Sew Day before this lovely Spring day in May.  Yes, it's been a month since the event and we're already planning another for late-Summer.

Here are the the attendees...

Joy:

Sue:

Dawn, already quilting:

Maggie:

Britt:

And Joy.  She was pleased to finish this mini mug rug before lunch time:

Photos from the day...

Maggie and Britt shared space at the cutting table:

Maggie...

And Sue working side by side on the panels for their Mondo Bags:

Carol stopped by for a quick visit after her grandson's baseball game:

Mary Ann joined us after lunch - and the yard sale at the Passmore Center:

Britt made more blocks for an age old UFO project:

Mary Ann struggled through her first paper piecing project:

After the quilting, Dawn moved on to making the binding for a baby quilt...

And she soon had a completed quilt:

Here's Britt, fiddling with her quilt's layout and checking to see if she needs to make more blocks:

Maggie, taming "the octopus" lining that will (eventually) be the inside of her Mondo Bag:

Joy made progress on her latest mini quilt:

Assembled and ready for the next step:

Dawn got the binding sewn on and down.  Congrats on her 2nd completed project of the day:

Here are the few who stayed til the bitter end:

Thank you to our "clean-up" crew!  Britt, Joy, and Dawn reset the room for the next guests after getting to a stopping point on their projects.  Special thanks to Sue for securing the space for this event!

Until next time...

We had SEW much fun!!

ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC25 - Week 24

 Welcome to Week 24 of the 2025 Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This week's activities are up in the air.  Art is sure to feature prominently.  Beyond that, it's anyone's guess.

Let's see how it all played out...

SUNDAY - Playing with paint and paper at my Weekly Morning Art Zoom, I worked in my Happy Mail Journal to finish up the spread made with items from Debbie's ATC swap.  It included ORANGE as a nod to my RSC friends, since she's playing along with the TABLE SCRAPS Challenge where we follow Angela's Color of the Month:

After lunch, I went back up to tackle the TWIG prompt for ICAD beginning with a pencil drawing and cutting slits to insert a collaged twig as well...

Followed by the IRIDESCENT prompt which I layered with modeling paste, the iridescent watercolor that my friend Belinda sent me some time ago, and two shades of iridescent acrylics in my stash:

MONDAY - Day Off

After lunch, I ran errands and when everything was put away, I went up to the studio for my Weekly Zoom Call with LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color:

TUESDAY - Day Off

This afternoon I met with some of my Get Messy friends for Open studio with Barb.  I've been running a bit behind, but I worked on adding Meg's color palette to this  page in my Catalysts & Curiosities journal...

And I was pleased to attend this month's Prompt Deck Playground - following along and interpreting each prompt in my own way is so much fun.  Here's my completed page:

I stayed at my art desk afterwards to do some catch-up work in my Catalysts & Curiosities journal.  The theme was CONNECTION and the elements we were encouraged to include were slow stitching, translucency, and patchwork.  I started with (paper) patchwork...

And ended up with the following composition:

WEDNESDAY - Work

Nice and steady flow of customers to help the time pass quickly.

THURSDAY - Work

I missed Curiosity Collective again  :o((

FRIDAY - Day Off

Knit Group this morning reminded us that summer is here.  How?  Tracy was in the house:

Get Messy's Open Studio with Deandra found me working on the LEOPARD prompt for the Index-Card-a-Day challenge:

Later, while visiting with my Weekly Evening Art Zoom friends, I knocked out another page in my Catalysts & Curiosities journal.  The theme for this one was MOMENTUM and Meg suggested using line work, layers, & waves:

I also got a start my interpretation of FRIENDSHIP prompt for ICAD.  I still need to add some hand lettering in the open space between those rainbows:

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.  Hopefully, they've done more with the RSC Color of the Month than I have!

Any ORANGE scrap sewing this week, Joyful???

Umm...  No, but I did select theses strips for my TABLE SCRAPS Challenge entry:

I uncovered the following ORANGE scraps from last year's orange month:

Edited to add the Weekly Zoom Call that I enjoyed with Knittingsuek shortly after this post went live:

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!