ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC25 - Week 25

Welcome to Week 25 of the 2025 Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  Four days after its release, this week's was obliterated by a technical glitch.

I've done my best to recreate it in the entries that follow...

SUNDAY - Weekly Morning Art Zoom was Roll the Dice:

Later I caught up on last week's Get Messy lesson...

As well as the current Catalysts & Curiosities prompt from Meg Journals:

MONDAY - Work

Roofing on House #17:

Weekly Zoom Call with LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color:

TUESDAY - Day Off 

Open Studio with Barb and friends found me layering up this month's Postcard Swap:

WEDNESDAY - Day Off

I did some sewing, but not with ORANGE scraps:

THURSDAY - Day Off

Weekly Morning Quilt Group came with a tour of DeeDee's lovely garden...

That was followed by Curiosity Collective where I made this Love & Tacos journal page in response to this week's Get Messy lesson:

Followed by ransom note letters for my swap buddies:

FRIDAY - Work Day Off

No Knit Group, but I attended Open Studio with Deandra.  Today's project?  

Britt and I chatted while waiting for our friends to join the Weekly Evening Art Zoom...

I know I worked on something, but at this point I don't know what that was.  Sigh...

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.

Zoomed with Knittingsuek this afternoon:

About that technical glitch...

One might call it Operator Error.  Whoops!

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!!

ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC 25 - Week 23

Welcome to Week 23 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 decorated my "Meg journal" for her new(ish) Catalysts and Curiosities program.  She's 6 weeks in and I was too engrossed in Messy May to get started with her fortnightly (every 2 weeks) prompts which began on the first Friday of May.  Here's the LINK for her announcement, if you'd like to find out more about this more relaxed journal prompt offering:

Britt and I stayed after to chat for a little bit...

MONDAY - Day Off

After breakfast, I did a little bit of art in the journal I decorated yesterday.  Prompts and color palette on the left and palette knife flowers on the right:

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:

Although Angela posted the Color of the Month yesterday, I only verified the news today:

ORANGE!!! 

TUESDAY - Tidy Up Tuesday

Day Off 

I brought out my ORANGE Quilted Scrap Basket this morning.  Here are the scraps that I have available to work with during the month of June:

This afternoon I met my Get Messy friends for Open studio with Barb.  I worked on setting up the journal that Quilt Dive Julie sent me some time ago...

And created cards for the first few Index-Card-a-Day prompts:

WEDNESDAY - Work

But first...

An airport run!  DS2 is going on a well-deserved vacation...

This roadway sign is now posted on the approach to our old town.  Not a minute too soon, as there have been several accidents with trucks getting stuck beneath the bridge:

Since I built in a bit too much extra time before work, I decided to stop by The Pig Rig for "second breakfast" on the way to work...

Thanks for the tasty food, Matt!

When I got home I worked on... NOTHING at all!  However, there is a bit of neighborhood news, House #17 is now underway:

THURSDAY - Work

I missed Curiosity Collective, but watched the video from @Ammie Ya'll and finished off the following page from her Your Story Your Way lesson for the Season of Goodness:

FRIDAY - Day Off

Knit Group was a hybrid meeting today, as Linda was able to join us via Zoom from her new home in Alabama:

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

Later, while visiting with my Weekly Evening Art Zoom friends, I did some stitching as a nod to the EMBROIDERY prompt for ICAD...

After that was done, I created a pocket/tuck spot in my Happy Mail journal to house the ephemera that accompanied my ATC Swap from Debbie.  I also worked on the right hand page of the spread, but didn't glue anything down.  I'm thinking of adding a clear vellum page or pocket to house the sweet ATC:

Thanks for a wonderful swap, Debbie!

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.

While the first load of laundry was washing, I went up to the studio and decided what I would do for the ARROW prompt for ICAD.  Yes.  I am working ahead.  Why do you ask?  I began with a quote:

This afternoon, I visited with Knittingsuek during our Weekly Zoom Call:

Whoops!  No ORANGE scrap sewing for me this month, but I might have a plan.  I'll let you know what I decide.

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!