August One Monthly Goal Wrap Up: A Finished Flimsy

With just 2 days left in this month, I got busy last night on the final border for Scrappy Coffee Cups. Getting that project to the finished flimsy stage is August's One Monthly Goal. 

At the beginning of the month the Coffee Cup blocks were all sashed, but not sewn together.  

The final border was sewn on last night. 

Scrappy Coffee Cups

Block patterns from Karen F. Srebro and Janet McCarroll

published in Block Magic and Block Magic Too 

by Nancy Johnson-Srebro

So Scrappy Cups is now a finished flimsy.  That last border is a deep green.  For some reason dark greens photograph as black in my sewing room.  The quilt really is square, not sure why it looks bowed in the photograph.  I've found a good backing fabric in the stash, so hopefully this will move to finished quilt stage before the end of September.   That will probably happen regardless, so I'll probably pick something else as my September One Monthly Goal. 

The news from the south of Texas is improving.  Thankfully all of our friends are safe, though many don't know the state of their homes.  Since the storm moved farther east before making landfall, the rivers in the area are flowing more freely and the expected crests are a bit lower then originally forecast.  Hopefully that will spare some of the communities south of the Houston metro area. Hopes for the best and prayers for those affected.  

Linking up with:

August One Monthly Goal

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Needle and Thread Thursday 

Weekend Stitching: Finishing Blooms

It's been heartbreaking to watch what's happening along the coast of Texas.  We lived south of Houston during Allison and Rita.  We have friends and co-workers that live there now.  Thankfully we've heard from most of them and they were dry as of last night.  We are praying that they stay that way and for the weather forecasts to improve.  

I didn't get much sewing time in on Saturday, but made up for that on Sunday afternoon.  Binding Blooms and Butterflies was finished up earlier in the week, but I didn't get any photos till yesterday. 

 Blooms and Butterflies
Back Porch Bloom block by Lea Anne Brummett, setting by Kate
Started:  5/29/2016,  Finished:  8/24/2017

I'm keeping this one.  It's going to be my new cuddle quilt for the recliner.  Trudy did a great job with the quilting.  She did both blooms

  
and butterflies

as part of the quilting motifs.  I'm really happy with the red plaid backing.  These 1930 reproductions have been in the stash for about 10 years, so it's nice to see some of them make their way into a finished quilt.  Blooms and Butterflies was started as part of Podunk Pretties Back Porch Blooms quilt along. I tried really hard to resist starting this project, but when Lea Anne added butterflies to one of her free patterns from the quilt along, resistance was futile.  It didn't take me long to come up with my own quilt setting using her bloom block.  

Blooms and Butterflies is my second finish from my 2017 Finish Along third quarter list and my sixth finish overall for 2017.  The best I've ever managed is seven finishes in one year.  I might beat that this year.  

Linking up with 
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2017 Finish Along (Third Quarter) 

Stash Stuff for Week 34 of 2017

Sometimes the weekends just don't work out as you plan.  This has been one of those.  Not sure if I have a virus or if it's just allergies.  I spent most of Saturday napping in the recliner.  I did sew for a bit, but just felt so crappy that I only managed a couple of 30 minute sessions during the day.  Hopefully, today will be better. 

There was stitching going on for all 7 days this week. But most of it was in 15 minute sessions during the week.  The binding for Blooms and Butterflies is finished.  Hopefully I'll feel motivated enough to get pictures of that quilt sometime today.  There was a bit of progress on the Scrappy Cofffee Cup quilt.  That's most of what went out this week.

Fabric used this week:  0.52 yards
Fabric used year to date: 43.10 yards

Nothing in this week for a change.  

Since being up and about just wasn't in the cards yesterday, I did spend some time working on a plan to use up the fabric that came in last week.  This will be a quilt for the Scientist in Training  (previously known as Drama Teen) using the Geek Chic line that came home with me last week. 

Chemistry Geek Version 1

Chemistry Geek Version II

Chemistry Geek Version III

At the moment I'm leaning more towards Version III.  Though Version II has possibilities.  I'm still looking for ideas, none of these strike me as being "it".  

Linking up with Quiltpaintcreate for this week's stash reports.  

Rainbow Scrap Challenge: Playing Catch Up

It's been 2 months since the last post on my Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks.  It's just been that crazy around here.  New position at work, business trips, moving the kid to college and a road trip to see the eclipse all impacted my sewing room time.  Neutrals don't work in the quilt plan for my RSC blocks, so August has been a catch up month for me.  I finally finished off all my yellow blocks from June this week. 

Yellow and black is such a dramatic color combination.  I like how these turned out. 

So that takes care of the June blocks.  Not to get the blue fans from July all done.  The fabrics are all selected. 

I've got one blue block started, but that's all the progress I've made with this color.  The plan is for a sew day today, so maybe I'll get those all finished before the end of the month.  

Linking up with Soscrappy for the typical rainbow show each Saturday.  And with Oh Scrap on Sunday.  

Stash Stuff for Week 33 of 2017

It's been an eventful week.  We became empty nesters on Wednesday.  

Drama Teen (aka Scientist in Training or the SIT), moved into her dorm room last Wednesday.  She's been keeping really busy, she's already working on her first assignment for the school's newspaper. I've been keeping busy too.  To avoid the quiet house on Thursday when My Guy went out for his bike ride, I went to the local quilt shop for some fabric petting therapy.  I did more than pet, there was a fabric line that just had to come home with me. 

Geek Chic by Studio E Fabrics was just too geeky for me to pass up. Plus the Scientist in Training is enrolled as a chemistry major and she really needs an extra long twin quilt that fits better on her dorm bed.  I am now in search of an equally geeky quilt pattern to start and hopefully finish before Christmas.  

Needless to say, I did some damage on the incoming side of the stash numbers, but those numbers are being ignored since the train has long left the station on having any success on using more than I buy this year. There was a little fabric in the out column this week.  

Fabric used this week:  0.5 yards
Fabric used year to date:  42.58 yards

I didn't do so hot on the finding time to stitch this last week.  Between helping the SIT pack, trooping through 100 F+ temps on move in day and a major bought of dizziness due to sinus issues, there were only 4 days this last week spent in the sewing room.  There are just weeks like that sometimes.  

Linking up with Quiltpaintcreate for the weekly stash report.