OMG Cherry on Top

My goals for this month were to work on applique embellishments for my Cake Walk (Lori Holt pattern) quilt blocks.  I needed to applique hearts, cherries, and flowers on each cake and I did get all of the hearts and cherries done! 

Sorry the photos are a little dark but it has been wet and dismal around here and it was the best I could do at the time.  It's funny, I dreaded thinking about appliqueing those cherries and in the end I really enjoyed working on them.

Today I am linking up with everyone for the April OMG finish.  I am also going to visit my parents as it is my dad's 90th birthday! 

Cheers!

Debi

Scrap Happy Saturday

I wish I could say I got a lot of blue projects done this month but I didn't.  Here are a few projects that I worked on.

Bunnies that are part of a lap quilt.  I am patiently waiting on some border fabric from Connecting Threads and once I get it I will share the quilt top.  I hope to get it to someone to quilt so I can move it along soon.

Yes, those are Cadbury bunnies from a long time ago.  Cadbury creme eggs were something I used to look forward to at Easter. 

I also got a couple of French Flowers prepped and are ready for some hand sewing. 

Once again I have been baking.  I have tried to make Kouign Amann a couple of times and have been somewhat successful but I am still tweeking things.  I need to do a better job at watching the time in the oven as my last attempt got a little crispier than I had intended.  These hadn't been flipped over and so they look better than once they were flipped.  Yum! 

I haven't shown this before and since it is a bright blue I thought I would go ahead and share it.  In February a friend really wanted a cupcake for her birthday.  The problem was she is on a diet so I made her a mug rug.  She was delighted.

So much fattening food during our stay at home order that I decided to live on the edge this weekend and not bake and actually get outside and get some much needed exercise.  Yesterday and today have been lovely and oh so needed. 

I am really enjoying being apart of Scrap Happy Saturday and am linking up with everyone today.  Thanks Angela for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge as it is great fun to see what everyone is working on.

Cheers,

Debi

OMG April Goal Setting

There are so many projects that could be candidates for an OMG April Link-Up but right now I need to work on projects that I can accomplish in a short amount of time--not much thinking required.  I really need to start machine quilting a few projects but then I would have to fiddle with the tension on my machine and that just makes my head hurt! 

My goal this month is work on my Cake Walk (a Lori Holt pattern) quilt blocks as they need bits appliqued on top of most of the cakes.  Hearts, cherries and flowers are what are on tap this month. 

Cherries!

Hearts!

Still pondering my flowers. 

As a distraction I decided to make croissant dough yesterday and this morning I shaped and baked them.  This recipe doesn't make a lot but I was able to make a few regular croissants as well as Pain Au Chocolat, yum!

Shaped and ready to proof.

Baked!  You can see I had to have the smallest one immediately.  I really need to do a better job shaping them.  Looks like I have an excuse to try another batch soon. 

Back to sewing!

Cheers,

Debi

Scrap Happy Bright Blue Saturday

Surprisingly I don't have a lot of bright blue fabrics in my stash but I was able to pull out a few pieces to make a few blocks.  I think I have these blocks assembled correctly, lol!

And one more.

And finally, Jack the Ripper and I are about to go on a date and rip apart one of last month's butterflies.  My assembly mistake went completely under my radar and thankfully Sue of Mother Patchwork spotted it and let me know it needed some help.  Thanks Sue because I am pretty sure I would have missed it until I got the top completely together.

See my really cool seam ripper?  It is a butter knife converted into a seam ripper--genius if you ask me.  A vendor, The Alabaster Mouse, at our quilt show last year had several for sale and I was lucky enough to pick one up.

For once in a bright blue moon I am linking up with everyone on Scrap Happy Saturday!

Cheers,

Debi

Scrap Happy Aqua

Finally getting around to posting some of my accomplishments for March and linking up with everyone at RSC March even if I am rather late.

Like a lot of folks it has been hard to focus on any particular project and I really wanted to work on something mindless.  One would think these butterflies were mindless but for some reason I had issues with them.

I then decided to make a few Shoo-Fly blocks that is the  Quiltville Leader/Ender project that started in 2019.  I am not really a leader/ender kinda quilter as it takes too much planning ahead.  I like to cut a little and then sew a little.  I sometimes wonder if my method for sewing comes from the fact that I learned to piece and quilt by hand and I would make blocks one at a time.  I used the scraps from my butterflies to make the corners.

I then thought about making a French Roses quilt in aquas.  The bonus of a hand sewing project is I can binge watch shows on Netflix/Amazon Prime, lol, and pay attention to what is actually going on.

Finally, I found something that was fun to work on although I don't know where this project will go.  When Judy from Busy Hands Happy Hands shared her OMG accomplishment I knew I had to try the bunny pattern.

I am off to give myself a haircut which should be quite entertaining and it is good that I am not going out right now, lol!  I have clippers and scissors and thankfully love super short hair.  Wish me luck because it is going to be a comedy of errors.

Cheers,

Debi