I Like Thursday # 99 ~"A Few of My Favorite Things"

 

Good Morning from my secret garden!

Thankful 13                                     

It is Thursday so I linking up today with my blogging friends, 

I Like Thursday Bloggers @ Not Afraid of Color

to share the small joys of life. 

My garden is not really a secret and the gate is open.

My favorite rose, New Dawn, is blooming.

The scent is so light and sweet.

These roses are only two years old, 

as the gate was first featured in my

 I Like Thursday # 17 in June 2019.

This spring, we added the patio blocks and the small white table on the left.

Mr. Scrapatch needed a place to sit when he sets up our deep fryer. 

This place seemed to only collect stuff like our garden tools, leaf bags, etc,

so a beautification plan was in order. 

Despite the heat index of over 100F this week,

 we did get most of our window boxes, baskets and pots planted this week.

 More Photos Here

While I was sitting and enjoying my garden, I did finish my 

Simple Stitches Bumble Bee Embroidery. 

~

Favorite Freebie of the Week:

Looking forward to this 

Macaron Mystery @ Meadow Mist Designs

I have the perfect focus fabric for this mystery ready and waiting!

This fabric is a 2020 collection and I bought it on sale because I loved it.

It is Pardon My French by Dear Stella 

and may still be found 

 @ Hawthorne Supply 

and on Etsy and other places. 

I also have a yard of the large scale street scene print.

Maybe a border? 

Time will tell.

Looking forward to searching my stash for colors 

that will coordinate with this fabric.

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Favorite Movie of the Week:

Sound of Music 

While watching BBC's Call the Midwife, 

I got up to the 1965 episode that features this movie. 

 It was a favorite then and it still is now.

I found it on Disney Plus. 

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Spring is one of my favorite seasons.

Strawberry season has arrived to my corner of the world.

So it is time for one of Mr. Scrapatch's favorite desserts,

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Mmmm... so good! 

Well, that is my flowers and fabric and fun and tasty

 moments for the day.

Happy Thursday! 

Sew Mysterious Summer

I am a mystery to me sometimes.

I am actually thinking to start a new mystery quilt.

Looking at the
Mosaic Mystery Fabric Requirements and Kits Posted Here

I think the fabrics in the photo above are a match made in quilty heaven.

Most of these fabrics are Art Gallery Fabrics that I found at 

Needle & Foot Fabrics on Etsy

Needle & Foot also has some kit selections here  for this mystery quilt.
Very tempting!

I am sewing my stash for this one.

The pink is an older stash fabric,
all I have left of the pink, and is from Kate Spain's Paradiso line.
I hopefully have enough of the pink.
If not, I will look for a similar match in my stash.

This photo was my original fabric pull for the 

The QATW Mystery Started Here
That top will be completed soon when I have time to sew
the rest of the blocks together and lay them out.

Sew I need a new mystery in my life, right?


Time will tell ... ;) 

Back to Sew

I am going Literary for the

Magnolia Mystery @ Meadow Mist Designs

Fabric Requirements and Tips Here

My fabrics are from my treasured stash of

Heather Givans Fabrics

of which I am

Literary (ly) Paper Obsessed. 

For the background I am going dark.

This is a leap in faith for me.

I am making it a free fall by adding the large border print fabric 

on the right into the challenge.

I will have to figure out how this story ends as I go along.

I have been taking a hiatus from blogging and from sewing for the last month.

I had a fun trip to the Pacific Northwest to visit my daughter and grand-darling

while my son in law was in the field and when I got back I did not even open my computer

except to check email for the past two weeks.

I have mostly been gardening, reading, and enjoying summer.

I did hand stitch a couple of Patchwork of the Cross blocks.

I will post about that later.

Hope all is well with my quilty blogging friends.

Til next time ... piece out .... :-)  Pat

Get Ready!

There is a new Meadow Mystery Quilt a-coming!

Click Here for all you need to know!

From

Cheryl @ Meadow Mist Designs

Fabric Quandary

I found these lovely fabrics, Canyon by Kate Spain,

in my stash today and am thinking to maybe use these instead of

these  blue and yellow pretties

for the 

Meadow Mystery Quilt

designed and published by

Cheryl @ Meadow Mist Designs

Fabric Requirements Here

I really like both choices so I am in a fabric quandary.

quan·da·ry

ˈkwänd(ə)rē/

noun

noun: quandary; plural noun: quandaries

1. a state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation.

   "Kate is in a quandary"

   synonyms:

   predicament, plight, difficult situation, awkward situation;  trouble, muddle, mess,confusion, difficulty, dilemma, mare's nest;  informalsticky situation, pickle, hole, stew,fix, bind, jam "conflicting appointments left us in a quandary"

   • a difficult situation; a practical dilemma.

     "a legal quandary"

Origin

late 16th century: perhaps partly from Latin quando ‘when.’

[quoted from Google]

Which would you choose??

A Free Mystery Quilt Pattern

Here are my fabrics.

I love a mystery and hope I have time to sew this one. 

This is for the

Meadow Mystery Quilt

designed and published by

Cheryl @ Meadow Mist Designs

Fabric Requirements Here

Hope to see you sewing, too.

:) 

My Best of 2015 ...

My Best of 2015!

Airmail Envelope Quilt Tutorial

Eye of the Eagle Quilt Tutorial

Have a Latte Quilt Tutorial

Beautiful Birds Quilt

We Support You Blog Hop

Well, that wraps up 2015's year in review!

Thanks to ...

Meadow Mist "Best of 2015" Linky Party

for helping me to wrap up 2015.

It was a good first half of the year for things quilty here in the scrapatch.

Then I kind of fell off the face of the quilt blogging world.

There were many reasons for this and I am not going to go into that here.

I am making quilty resolutions ... 

On to 2016!

May I make many new quilts and many new friends 

here on my blog this year.

Time to sew!