ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC26 - Week 3

Welcome to Week 3 of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This week we have a guest arriving.  That means extra cleaning needs to happen and some of my usual events may be altered or canceled.  Will any BLUE scrap sewing take place??  That remains to be seen.

Here's how the week passed...

SUNDAY - ProjectQUILTING

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Weekly Morning Art Zoom found me grabbing my Care December journal for a quick little collage.  A few pieces of paper for Day 11's prompt.  Since there's no Junk Journal January from Meg Journals this year, I'm slowly continuing with the prompts I missed last month:

Day 11 of the Declutter Challenge at Just Get It Done Quilts - The IRONS, RULERS & MATS - I focused on my pressing station during the HOTSPOT day.  That leaves the cutting station for today's efforts.  There are no tools to go, so I'll try to clear away some of the mess on my cutting table.  No guarantees about success.

No Weekly Zoom Call with Knittingsuek, but we enjoyed a phone call instead.

MONDAY - National Gluten-Free Day... Who knew?!

My day began with a few errands before lunch and a quick bite prior to Tammy Kaye's FREE Watercolor Workshop.   No added pen marks this week.  We stared with a beach scene.  My horizon line is straight, but the page curled:

AND...

Moved to this beautiful floral bouquet:

 After the class, I focused on cleaning the house for the arrival of an overnight guest, but took time for an abbreviated version of my Weekly Zoom Call with LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color when she was texted that she was ready to visit:

Day 12- The SEWING MACHINES - Clear up some space around it.  Give yourself a little more room to work.  If there are random machines that you no longer use, consider moving them along.  Either to a long-term storage area or out of your house completely.

TUESDAY - MAJOR Laundry Day

Lots on today's agenda.  This morning, I enjoyed  chatting with my SIL who stopped over on her way to Florida to visit my MIL, but as today's heading indicates, there was laundry to be done.

Yes.  There's a story, but it's not mine to tell.

Suffice it to say that I ended up doing no less than SIX loads of laundry, but took a quick art break between loads and joined Collage Breakthrough LIVE with Cat Rains,  Along with her collage techniques, she also shared this fun way to frame 4"  x 4" art pieces with magnetic acrylic frames:

Later I dropped by Open Studio with Barb.  I opted to work on a mini quilt for January's Rainbow Scrap Challenge:

Day 13 - The NOTIONS - If it's damaged or deteriorated, toss it!  Karen said that it's also the day to remove the vestiges of other crafts that you no longer actively participate in, if you didn't do that on a previous day of the Declutter Challenge.

Enjoyed a beautiful winter sunset this evening on my way to...

A (Delayed) Holiday Dinner with (a few of) my Knitting Friends:

WEDNESDAY - More loads of laundry and a NEW Joyful Art Zoom...

With my friend Belindybe in Maine:

Day 14- Karen declared this as CATCH-UP day - Work through a prompt you might have missed, one that needs further attention, or even a day to catch your breath and relax a bit.

I actually ended up staying up until 2:30AM to try to finish all the laundry so that my SIL could repack her RV and be on her way.  Machine errors delayed the process.

THURSDAY - Weekly Quilt Group @ DeeDee's, but no photo today.

I had a quick errand to run afterwards, but headed to Britt's for a quick lunch first.  Thanks, B!  Sorry that I didn't have time for arting today.  I made stop at the Hillsborough Yarn Shop and headed home for...

A fun FREE Loose Watercolor Workshop with Yana Ivannikova to paint Northern Lights:

I dipped into my big box of scrap binding to see if I could find something to go with this week's RSC project which will  soon be revealed:

Day 15- The KITS & PRECUTS - Tackle these with the same question Karen offered in previous days.  How much storage space do you have for this category?  Do you even like working with the precuts and/or kits you've used?  If not, they are often great for resale. I don't have many of either variety and have one small shelf for my precuts.  No kits.  I finished up my last QFK kit last year.  I'm going to work on a UFO this evening, instead of revisiting another prompt.

FRIDAY - Knit Group met this morning... 

I switched to a smaller size needles, but two things went wrong.  First, when I transferred the stitches, I had the needles going two different directions:

And then...

SNAP!!!  My brand new needles broke after only a single round:

Later, after a few errands, I spent the afternoon at the NEW Friday Friends Open Studio on Get Messy.  I worked on another page in my Collage Scraps journal:

Later, during my Weekly Evening Art Hangout, I worked on yet another two pages in my Care December journal which began with hand painted flower stickers from my art table:

Day 16 - The UFOs - Fortunately, I finished my UFO Challenge quilt for January a week ago.  I'm not willing to put more effort in until next week's ProjectQUILTING entry has been started and finished.  I've got a list of 15 projects in a variety of sizes and stages of completion on my UFO Club list.  That's 3 more than the challenge list. I'm working through them and don't plan to part with any because I fully intend to finish them all at some point.

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.

In scrap sewing news...

I did THIS over the course of the week and bound it this morning.  A BLUE scrappy mini measuring ~ 4" x 5" made from scraps received from Maggie not long ago:

AND...

Day 17- The FABRIC SCRAPS - I knew this day would arrive!  Today is the day Karen asked that we climb Mt. Scrapmore in our sewing spaces.  As many of you know, fabric scraps are my jam.  Nearly EVERY project I make uses fabric scraps.  In the spirit of the challenge, I'm going to go through this giant tall kitchen garbage bag:

The bits that I know I won't use will go back in the bag to be taken to the next stop on the Fabric Scrap Express....  Yes. It's coming for you, Carol.  The ones that I believe I will use will be filtered into my Scrap Center once some sorting takes place within its cubbies:

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!