Birthday Bonus and Lots of stitching!

 Well , a birthday week, 

lots of stitching, organization

and sorting!  Busy time all around!

Beautiful flowers, tasty homemade cupcakes and 

lots of visits made it a wonderful weekend. 

First off, my zen quilting technique, 

(quilt everything that falls off the shelf), 

got me this week and a stack actually 

fell down while I was on a zoom meeting!

The pile was yellow tho so, at least it was 

this month's color!!

The scrap piles were getting out of hand, 

so organization and some good music

took over. I rearranged, putting the fat

quarter-sized piece stacks closer to where 

they can be used. This of course, just means

lower shelves! I think I have a few more cycles

of  Rainbow Scrapping here. Each cubby has

four stacks of chunk piles! Sew on!

 Large backing pieces that 

were taking up shelf space, were measured, refolded, 

put in a bin and a snippet put onto a reference sheet. 

I can easily choose backing fabric with out unpacking

and remeasuring, yay!

Some droopy wood shelves were flipped and 

mixed color yardages stacks were reorganized. 

All in all a rewarding afternoon of organization and sorting!

Then I got to stitching up some yellow crumbs blocks. 

That lead to a resort and count of my block bank crumb blocks. 

I seem to have accumulated 55 -12 1/2" crumbs squares

 of various colors! Forty nine squares will make a nice

84" square queen sized quilt.  

Hmm an new top may come into being soon!

My RSC top got a mellow yellow row with the 

neutral border added. All ready for next 

months color there!

Getting on to my OMG  -one monthly goal, 

I pulled out batting and backs

and got two large quilts pinned up.  Some large pieces 

of batting got stitched up and two more twin quilts

were ready to get pinned up!! 

Woot woot! Now for 

some intense time quilting up those sandwiched quilts!

A birthday visit from the pipeline couple got me inspired

 to clear off that layered bulletin board.  Wow, there 

were surprises under those layers! I removed 4 quilt tops and 

found this! It is interesting how some items are 

no longer important after aging a few years!

I found this cute little Hawaiian shirt.

The buttons are so tiny! I don't think I will make another of these!

This paper pieced pattern might be great for a 

weekly project to get ready for the holidays! Such 

cute little blocks!

 

I even found a bag of western shirt accents that 

I planned to use for geocache prizes one summer. 

I need to get into that to explore the countryside!

 

Now I can go back to using my bulletin board as 

design wall without too many treasures behind.

I want to finish this post with a few pictures of a 

support quilt made by my daily walking partner. 

She put this together in support of the Ukraine 

and it is off to raise relief funds. 

Her Thursday group was doing a kaleidoscope/stack

 and wack with a beautifully colored fabric. 

                                          She created this star,  

 

surrounded by pieced arcs of color.

Even the corners use the starter fabric

 and have tiny pieced units. 

Definitely a work of art. 

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