Placemat Project

 Orange was the color of September I think - and I made a few Orange placemats - but I am just now getting them quilted....

So two more done!

I took 32 of them to our Senior Center for them to use for Holiday lunches. So the big part of my project is over - I really wanted to have a little something bright for the Seniors.

But!! I also wanted my block box to get emptier - and it did.... but well, we all know that it really didn't get as empty as I wanted!! So I think I will need to come up with another plan with these blocks for next years Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!

Placemat Project ( RSC) and knitting

 

So September is getting away from me.... I only have one orange placemat made - and not even quilted....

I also got a Blue one made  - and again not quilted. But its good - I have a lot of  Client quilts to quilt, so haven't been able to sneak in one of mine ... when I sneak in mine I add backing to them - so I can just quilt the placemats.... it will happen 

These were being created for our Local Senior Center - we aren't close enough to town to do Meals on Wheels - but our Senior center does weekly lunches - so soon these will be accompanying the lunches - they only needed 32 - so I have delivered those already.  These extras - well I am sure they will find a home ;-)  

and knitting!!

I got a box in the mail from TEXAS... and look at these goodies!! Can't wait to start knitting up hats for M with them!!

These are the two hats I got finished this week... and then we got an update from M - she needed 200 total - and she now has the first 100 all filled, and of the second 100 - 30 have been made... so She is feeling like her goal will be accomplished... but she told us to keep knitting haha!!

I had car time - but it was really truck time - and we are so dirty after riding that I really didn't think it would be good to knit in the dust!! So.... to all the knitters out there.... how do you wash these hats?

Do you use a lingerie bag so they don't stretch???

Linking to:

Midweek Makers at Quilt Fabrication

Orange Rainbow Scrap Challenge

 I dug thru my Block box and guess what???

There was Orange!! Not a whole lot -  but these are the blocks that I found with some ORange in them.

I think they will work!

I feel like there is a few Placemats in there! and they will be bright and cheery!

Linking up with:

Rainbow Scrap Challenge

Placemat Progress and... a Visitor

 I have Caught up on  all my placemats now - Every one ( 54 I think) that I have made is ( are) now bound! Which is kinda exciting - I feel like I can start some more now.  I just need to see if I have any Orange blocks in my Block Bin.... If not - I will substitute!

( You can read all about my Placemat Project here: Placemat Project)

Look!! Purple!!

and a top shot!

I had a Blogger friend come my way!! 

Sherrill from Quilting in My Sleep ( on the Right) and her friend were traveling the country. She emailed me and said I think I will be in your area - and I laughed... No one comes to my area for a vacation - but! she made it work - and we met up and had some yummy pizza and Amazing Conversation! 

Totally made my Day ( ps I am in the center.... you know EVERYTHING is all about me right???)

May;s Red Placemat Project

 I got on a roll with binding.... or maybe I just rolled the binding???

Anyways - my May RED Placemats are now all complete - finished, and in the pile!! 

Many of you are asking how many I have made so far - I have 54 - and only....

The purple need to be bound - Oh ya!!!

July is my break month of making placemats so I can catch up on some other things..... 

Without further ado.....

RED!!!!

I am kinda proud of myself - I am such a procrastinator when it comes to binding - I am surprised I am only a month behind now! And all of you who love binding??? The rooms are ready...  Bring your machine!!!!!

Rainbow Scrap challenge Placemats in Purple....

 The color this month was for Purple

The goal was 7 placemats

I got close!!

I got Eight Made!! Eight Quilted.... and well - of course, they need to be bound.... but!!

I also Finally got all of my May Red placemats quilted.... and of course, they need to be bound!!

In a proud moment - I do have all the binding cut for the reds - and today I hope to Make the binding... small steps... right????

Here are a couple of my favorite Purple ones: 

I will be linking up to:

Rainbow Scrap challenge

and

Table Scraps Linky

Enjoy your weekend!!

Green..... and Finished (or not) Friday!!!

 I was challenged by a few of you to get my Green Placemats bound.... and what is a quilter to do but!

 Rise to the challenge!!   

I got to making some green binding... put in my Friends DVD and!! BAM!! They were done!!

So there you go!! All 10 of my Green placemats are bound!!  I am catching up!

you can see all my placemats ( and even though the top photo shows a pink not bound... THE PINK ARE ALL BOUND now!)   here:   Placemat Project

Now it is your turn!! Show us your Finishes for this last week!!!!

Whoo Hooo!!!!

I look forward to seeing all the Quilty Goodness!!

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Blue Placemats ..FINISHED!!! and..... Finished ( or not) Friday

 This week I am celebrating a small finish... but a finish just the same!!

For the Rainbow Scrap Challenge ( hosted at So Scrappy)  I have been making placemats out of my Block Box. I have been having a blast Quilting them and trying new patterns and new ideas, without the commitment of a king size quilt!! but!!

Did you know... that if you quilt them - you must bind them? ( oh ya!) and so now!!! my FInish for this week is all of the BLUE ones are Now bound!!

Blue is the Color for April - so according to my trusty pile - I now have Pink ( January), Yellow ( February) and Blue ( April) all bound.... I must not like Green ( March) much - cuz I just passed those on by.... which means - I had better get to binding in green!!

And because I love you all SO much I trekked out in the 100 degree heat and snapped a photo - so that maybe you could see the quilting.... I made it fast tho! 

Then look ...upside down - hahaha!!

I am pretty happy with myself for binding all of these ( and the other colors) and not going into anaphylactic shock! and I didn't even have to use the whole bag of chocolate to get it done!

Now it is your turn - Link up your Finishes!!!  

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* Please provide a link back to this post in yours 

* Please visit at least 3 if not more links and comment - spread the love

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Red Rainbow Scrap Challenge and Table Scrap Challenge

 First of all - How many of you have perfect fabric Vision?

I took this test online and I scored a 0 - and I panicked - until I read that 0 was perfect. shew.... which really doesn't always translate to me making gorgeous quilts - but I'll take a perfect score

Test yourself here:  X Rite Colors Challenge and Hue Test

Now on to my Progess for the month of May - 

I got SEVEN Placemats pieced.... and none of the red ones Quilted. But! They are sitting in a pile ready for some extra backing to come their way.... 

I did get a few more of my Green ones done - so that's good. But I still have one of those to quilt too... I see a marathon quilting day in my future!

Someone asked what my total was - including these that makes 47 placemats - I think I need to update my photos with finished shots - You can read all about my placemat projects here:

Placemat Project

Linking up with : Rainbow Scrap Project at Super Scrappy   and Table Scraps at Joyful Quilter

A 30's finish, Binding... and Finished ( or Not) Friday!!

 Happy Friday!! you have made it through another week - I am sure you were wondering what day it was right?

My goal for my Finished Friday was to Bind stuff!! ( as in THE WHOLE FINISH - ugh) and look! 

I did it!!

I bound this little beauty - is was one of my RSC projects a little while ago - so now it is Quilted - and Bound!!

And here is the back

And then - I really got inspired to bind more.... I got all of my Blue RSC Placemats Bound!

I still have one more Blue Placemat to quilt - but these NINE are now all quilted and bound!! Yay Me!!

I am feeling a little accomplished.... and all the floors are now redone, It is cleanup time - my least favorite part of living in the country... I just think there should be a magic button and Poof - everything is clean!

Anyways - now it is your turn to link up your projects. I am going to set rules though - I am not a meanie, but here it is.

*Link your DIRECT blog post to this link up. If it is just the link to your generic blog - please be forewarned.. I will delete the link.  Its too hard to find your post, as the week goes on... and I want to get to your specific post. 

*Also - you all - It is Finished ( or not) Friday - please do make sure your post has a Quilt project in process or a Finish... not just a generic post ( Please - it is a specific link up)

* Have a lot of fun visiting !! 

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I am seeing RED!!!

 Ohhh May's Rainbow Scrap Challenge is RED.....

and holee cow - I found a lot of little RED blocks!!

and wait!!! There's more!! I just couldn't fit them all on my design wall!! Now - Placemats to make and!! I even have a little idea for a Quilt out of some of them.... fingers crossed... it works!

I also Finally finished my Blue Pineapple Blossoms..... 

For lots of other really cool Rainbow Scrap Projects  - head over to:

superscrappy.blogspot.com

Blue Rainbow Scrap Challenge and Table Scraps

 Its that time again!!! Holee smokes - this month just flew on by. 

I know it is not over - but Today is the day we are supposed to show our Blue Table Scraps Projects... and I was really thinking I have 5 more days.... but.... you'll just have to take it as it is!

Ta-da - here is my April PLACEMAT PROJECT progress

I got Six Placemats pieced and Quilted!!  

(I have 4 ready to piece, and of course - they all need to be bound!!)

and then - just cuz you want to see my March progress:

All of the Green ones are now quilted!! Progress right??

So check out everyone elses projects - 

Rainbow Scrap Challenge at superscrappy.blogspot.com/

and Table Scraps at : Joyful Quilter

Blue Rainbow Scrap Challenge

 The color drawn for this months Rainbow Scrap Challenge was Blue.

So I headed to my Trusty Bucket of Blocks and this is what I pulled...

Not a bad Haul of Blue Blocks right?  And believe me... there are more in that bucket!

And I even got two placemats Pieced!!

Kinda looks like I forgot to Iron them tho - oops!

A lot of you send me Questions about the sizes of these - So I created a Placemat Project tab at the top, linking to the different posts.... but essentially what I am doing is picking 6 blocks

Choosing the smallest one - and trimming all 6 to the same size

then piecing them

I think its just a fun freeing way to make these Placemats

And then I get asked if they are going to Meals on Wheels

Well - Sorta , but No

In my original post I told you that we have a senior Center in our small town that delivers meals to our Seniors ( its like meals on wheels, but not) so these will go to them first.

And of course, I will have made more than what we need by the delivery date, so I am thinking that the rest of them should go to Hospice. I think that would be fun for the Nurses of Hospice to have something bright to bring to their patients when they visit.  I know our Hospice nurse is so kind and caring, it might be fun for them to have a little something to leave behind that's bright and cheery.

See everyone elses RSC projects at superscrappy

Green RSC and Table Scraps for March

 Your not going to believe this... but its kinda an end of the month (ish) for me!!

This is my day to recap my Placemat Project for this month!!!

This month was Green and my Goal was 10 Green Placemats!!

Whoop Whoop!! TEN!!! and guess what?? Three of them are quilted - Oh ya!!

But even better?

All NINE of my February ( remember it was short month) are quilted and bound!

and All TEN of my January are now all bound... for those of you who know me, you had BETTER be clapping like crazy... Binding... my least favorite part of making a quilt... I mean - who has time for that? haha!!

Linking to:

Rainbow Scrap Challenge at Super SCrappy

and the 

Table Scraps Challenge and the Joyful Quilter

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RSC Pineapple Blossoms in Green

 In between piecing my Placemats and Color blocks... I got my March Green Pineapple blossom blocks done!!  I didn't have as many greens in my batik bin as I thought... but I like what I used -they are Happy to me!

I think they will be fun with my other colors!

And I got a little circle quilting in on one of my placemats !  yay!!!

Go see what everyone else is up to!!

Rainbow Scrap Challenge

Green RSC progress

 And.... It has been a year!

First off - My Green Progress!

I think I am really liking the craziness of these - I kinda matched 6 blocks that I thought would look okay - and! I think they still do. None of them are square to begin with.... and I did not make these Details here ... so I iron them and square them to the smallest block in the little pile .. and go from there!

My Last two pinks are bound too - so January's Ten Placemants.... ... are finished!!

Now to start binding the yellows - you'll see Yellow again!

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It has been one year ( for us) that the Pandemic hit.... We had heard rumbles - but On Friday March 13th at  4pm, the husband showed up and home and said... we are working from home for a month ... minimum... and one year later... he is still here ;-)

I read back on my blog and realized I alluded to changes, but never really wrote them out, so I thought I would do that here... that way when I am 100 I can read back on it and say "Yep , I survived!"

My two youngest sons came home from college, to live and school here.  And it was fun and strange. I work on a ranch, seasonally, and our season had ended on February 28th, so I was just getting into the groove of being *Empty Nesters* and 100% full time quilting..... and then they all showed up!

March 27th my Dad decided to have a heart episode ( or three) that resulted in a Triple Bypass.  Because of Covid none of us could be with him at the hospital. I have never talked to so many doctors over the phone .... ever... while we were making decisions. 

Because of Covid, we did not want him to go into rehab - so we all became a Quaranteam - and we took care of Dad and his rehab. And we brought people in to work with him at home. We felt it was much safer. 

Because of Covid they cancelled my Oldest Sons Law School Graduation. Worse, they cancelled his Bar Exam Test where he lived. This would effect his JAG appointments - so we learned that Colorado was still going to administer theirs. So he and his girlfriend ( also a lawyer) drove out here to do a two week quarantine and take their test, and then go to a family reunion with us. 

Wyoming didn't have as many restrictions as Colorado, but we still had to have small groups - so this reunion was actually really fun. All of us live on ranches, all of us had been Isolated on our ranches, so we didn't worry to much. My Mother in Law made all the food, and we felt very safe. And truly had a blast. No one got sick, and we all got back to our ranches to isolate again.

I gained a Daughter in Love

I got two Barred Lawyers

My two youngest sons got apartments and left me again. The dog had the worst time with the adjustment. I am still trying to remember how not to cook for 20 people at a time.

Their Colleges were 100% online, but at least at their apartments they didn't struggle with internet issues... Again - we are pretty rural - so if the sun shines in the wrong spot. Our internet goes out.

I went back to my seasonal ranch (I only work two days a week, it sparks my creativity,  its a beautiful place, its fun, and its still pretty isolated....) 

Christmas was just us, small groups, but at least we still got to hang out with family. We were ( and are) still very careful about going anywhere - didn't want Mom and Dad to get anything from us.

Mom and Dad got the vaccine, we were thinking things were looking up..

Mom just got diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer ( on Valentines day no less!) 

and that is where we are now. My husband is still home. I have gotten used to him being here. He has taken over more chores, and I get more quilting time in  - so its worked out for me!! haha!

Since My oldest probably won't be back for a while, I took over his room. Its full of my quilts. And I took over my middle sons room, it has some quilts too... I haven't braved taking over the other rooms yet - I feel like that may just make me sound selfish!

Okay - when I am 100 years old and  reading this... I wonder if I will remember my favorite new recipe from this time in our lives?  Maybe... I'll type that out for another post - and you will say... hey that looks good! and you will love me forever for your new favorite recipes.

The end.... .😁

Green Rainbow Scrap Challenge!

Green is such a happy color!!!  And it is the color that Was chosen at Super Scrappy

So I went to my trusty bin of blocks, and started to dig. by the way - This is month three of using this bucket, and I still can not lift it myself to put it back on the shelf.....

Here are some of the Greens I found to work with this month:

They are just so bright and happy - and totally make my front room look good!!

I also got three more of the yellow ones from last month quilted .. ( I have 3 yellow ones to go)

Oops - thats the back of Number3!

I wonder where the front photo went!!

And!! I got two more Pink ones bound.... Progress is being made!!