Scrap Happy Sunday

Wow, how did I miss last month?  I guess I just haven't felt much like sewing but I did today and here are a few blocks I completed.

Yellow Carolina Chain blocks which I am calling finished. I have actually been working on getting all of the blocks together and hope to share it next month.

A yellowish butterfly. I want to make a few more butterflies in various colors before I quit making more.

Last month I picked up some crumpets at Trader Joe's.  I kinda liked them and thought I would try my hand at making some.  I used Paul Hollywood's recipe from his book "How to Bake" and here is the photo from the book. I ordered rings from Amazon as the dough is similar to a pancake batter and needs to be contained.

And mine, which look pretty close to me.

In the end I wasn't wild about the homemade crumpets!  I am not a fan of pancakes and the texture was pancake-like.  I guess if I want crumpets I will just pick them up at Trader Joe's in the future which is crazy, lol!

It is a day late but I am linking up with everyone and all of their yellow sunshine at RSC Scrap Happy Saturday.

Cheers,

Debi

Scrap Happy Saturday

 Another month has flown by without much sewing going on.  Sadly, I have been dealing with elderly parent health issues for the past two months and I have my fingers crossed all has settled down and I can get back to doing fun things again.  I also need the weather to cooperate on the days when I can sew as it has been hot and humid around here and I haven't been motivated to sit in an upstairs bedroom to sew in the afternoons.  Anyway, here are a few things I have managed to sew for the purple RSC.

I haven't made any new micro-spool blocks but I did sew a few purple blocks together although I intend for the rest of the blocks to be scrappy.

And finally, I have been admiring Bonnie Hunter's Blossom Time block for quite some time.  I had the issue of Quiltmaker when it came out but thought I wouldn't make the blocks so I recycled the magazine  I should have known better and I ended up ordering the digital issue to get the pattern. I made a few purple tulips and I know I will be making more blocks.

Hmmm, I see what other folks are taking about with blogger changes.  I think I got some of it but only time will tell.

For the first time this month, I am linking up with everyone at RSC--Scrap Happy Saturday.  I hope I can get a few more purple projects done before month's end.

Cheers,

Debi

Scrap Happy Saturday

A blast from the past was on my agenda today for the dark blue rainbow scrap challenge.  Several years ago I started a Bonnie Hunter pattern called Carolina Chain..  I loved the quilt when I saw it and immediately got started with visions of a nice large quilt but then realized I really didn't like sewing the blocks and they got stuck in a plastic bag and set aside. 

I pulled it out the other day and thought I might sew a few more blocks so I can make some sort of quilt out of it and the rainbow scrap challenge just might be the ticket.  I made a whopping total of four blocks.

Once I got them all done I realized all of the neutrals were supposed to be the same.  I don't do same very well in a scrappy quilt and guess what?  I am not changing a thing, lol!  These creative blocks with get sprinkled in with the rest and no one with know any better--wink, wink!

Tomorrow is another day and perhaps I will work on something but it sure won't be anymore blue Carolina Chain blocks.  So for today I am linking up with everyone at Scrap Happy Saturday where I enjoy seeing what everyone else is up to and that beachy snowman Angela posted brought a smile to my face since it is crazy hot and humid here in Ohio.

Cheers,

Debi

OMG and Scrap Happy Just Past Saturday

June flew by for me as things around here opened up it seems like life got back to somewhat normal which meant that not a lot of sewing got done for me.  Plus it has been super hot and I don't have a/c so sewing takes a bit of a back seat.

My OMG goal for June was to deconstruct one of my cake blocks as I hit my ribbon with a hot iron and it melted--visions of the Wizard of Oz popped into my mind.  I did meet that particular goal; however, I did not get the borders on the quilt top.  I think I figured out what I am going to do for the borders so that counts in my book as a win.

I love pink and was so happy to see it appear in June for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge and then I didn't get hardly anything done.  One pink flower and one pink basket and that is it!

I don't know if I will ever get back to France so I decided to bring it to me and try my hand at making some Cannele de Bordeaux.  Last year we made some in the Buttercream & Olive Oil class I took but I never tried to make them at home.  I decided to use a recipe from Jill Colonna in the her book Teatime in Paris!.  Jill has a wonderful blog with lots of recipes and she can be found at Mad About Macrarons. 

On my forth attempt I think I finally got my technique worked out.  Boy are they yummy although my husband can't figure out what the big deal is, lol!  I should have taken photos of my failed attempts but you know how that goes.

Yummy goodness is all I can say! 

Because it has been one of those months, and the last day of June, I am linking up with everyone at OMG-Elm Street Quilts and Scrap Happy Saturday.

Cheers,,

Debi

OMG June Goal--No Big Surprise

It shouldn't be a big surprise that my June goal is to fix my chocolate cake since I melted the ribbon trim with the iron.  I hope to get those borders on too especially while I am aware that I really need to be careful operating heavy equipment. 

Linking up with everyone at Elm Street Quilts for the June goal setting. 

Cheers!

Debi

OMG and Slow Stitching Sunday

My monthly goal for May was to get my cakes sewn together and I did get it done.  Yippee!!!  This morning I thought I might start on the borders and I hit one of my ribbons with the hot iron and melted some of the words on it, well shoot now what? Set it aside for awhile and ponder it.  Thankfully the cake is on the edge and I could take it all apart and replace the ribbon.  As I said yesterday, I do love to rip things apart but usually other peoples' quilt projects.  Time will tell.

Here is my ironing error.  What are the odds if I replace the ribbon I won't hit it again, lol!

Speaking of ripping out stuff I decided to change the flower at the top of one of my cakes.  In the end I just didn't like the daffodil and went with the daisy. From this:

To this, which is so much better.

After the ironing fiasco I rethought what I wanted to work on today.  I seem to be tired and maybe a slow stitching day is what I really need and my plan is to get back to those little Basket Case baskets.

Here are what I have so far.

Today I am doing two link ups!  My cakes met my OMG May goal and I am linking up with everyone at Elm Street Quilts OMG Goal Finish.  Since I decided to take it slow this afternoon I am linking up with Slow Stitching Sunday at Kathy's Quilts.

Cheers,

Debi

Scrap Happy Dark Green Saturday

Surprisingly, I worked on a dark green project this month that I didn't anticipate working on.  Last year I purchased a wall quilt at our July quilt show Second Time Around Shop where a lot of the items for sale were from a quilter who had passed away.   The quilt top was completely done and the quilter had started to hand quilt it. Our quilt show was almost over and no one was interested in the little quilt--even me!  At the last minute I decided to buy it and see where it took me.

I immediately took the quilt apart and set it aside to rework at a later date.  Fast forward until this month and I noticed the little trees sitting in a pile on a shelf.  Oh wow, perfect for dark green May.  Sadly, I didn't take a photo of the quilt before I started ripping but you can get an idea of what it looked like only with white sashing between the trees. 

You may notice only half a tree on the bottom corner and I took the block apart to use as my pattern.  For some reason I had a hard time wrapping my head around the size of the pieces I needed and having those little pieces helped plus I knew I wasn't going to add that particular tree back in as I didn't want a red and dark green tree.

Here is a block of how the quilter marked the pieces which is old school.  It is the way I learned to piece around 1979 too so I felt a kinship with her.

I made several additional brighter dark green trees and am going to add them to the mix. Merlin likes to help arrange the blocks.

No further progress has been made but I am pretty happy with the addition of the brighter trees.  I used the sashing to make my brighter trees and there isn't any left and I am not sure I will add any when I assemble the top.  Borders?  Not sure what I am going to do there either but I did find a nice fabric with pine cones and Cardinals that I thought might work but these blocks need to set around for a little while so I can ponder their future.

Angela has declared June pink month and I am in heaven as I adore pink.  In the meantime, I am linking up with everyone Scrap Happy Saturday.

Cheers!

Debi