I Like Thursday # 134 ~ Spring in the Scrapatch

Welcome to my post for

I Like Thursday @ Not Afraid of Color 

where my friends and I share our weekly smiles. 

I have been playing with my yarn and made this free style crochet flower and leaf.

These lovely pink forget me nots bloomed this morning in my yard.

I planted these in memory of my Butterfly Kitty ~ R.I.P. 2017 

Every year when they bloom the memories they bring make me smile.

I have more spring blooms to share today.

This bush is by my back steps and the tiny blooms have a spicy, sweet fragrance

that perfumes the air. 

The first of our tulips are set to open wide.

Not today. Today it is very cool and breezy.

The temperature feels below freezing although the sun is bright. 

The air is so chilly that the windows are closed tight

and the kitties must enjoy birdie-vision through the glass.

Maestro is sitting with me while I enjoy my morning latte.

My latte had a free form heart pop up in the foam

that made me smile.

I played with the yarn while I sipped and this was the result.

The leaf needs a better shape.  I saw how to make this on IG: 

Simple Crochet Leaf @ The Knotty Boss

The flower is my own improv creation.

I have been wanting to make crochet flowers

 after seeing so many pretty ones on IG here:

Crochet Flowers @ chris.made.this

This is just for my 15 minutes of play time with my yarn. 

My main project is my Cat on the Lap Crochet Sampler.

I have pulled these fabrics to make a quilt for people I love 

who love the beach. 

The three blues on the left are for the star.

The print is the backing fabric.

The dark plaid on the right is the binding fabric. 

The gray linen is the background Choice A.

Here is another possible background fabric.

This gray-blue is background Choice B

 I am digging through my stash 

to see if I can find a gray I like better. 

Afternoon Edit: 

Fabric Found!

Background Fabric Choice C

After some serious stash spelunking

I uncovered the gem I was looking for ...

this gray Architextures grid print by Karen Lewis.

It is one of my favorite background fabrics

and was with another WIP.

I have ordered more to complete the other project.

I wanted this particular fabric because I know 

one of the people I am making Popstar for liked it 

when she saw it in another quilt that I made.

I have my winner! 

Time to start cutting and sewing! 

The pattern is this lovely quilt along ... 

All you need to know to quilt along may be found in the link below:

Pop Star QAL @ mmm! Quilts

I love Sandra's QAL patterns.

This quilt will hopefully become my focus project 

as soon as I complete the crochet border.

I have not made a quilt this year! 

I need to make a quilt!

I hope you and yours are having a Happy Thursday! 

Sunday Squirrel ~ RBD Block Challenge

My Sunday Squirrel has been put to rest.

I am caught up on the first 3 blocks of the 

Riley Blake Design Block Challenge 2021 ~ Info Here

Here is my

Shining Star Block ~ Free Pattern Here

I dropped everything and started sewing this HERE yesterday. 

Partying with the other squirrelly ones tonight by linking up with ... 

DrEAMi! @ mmm! Quilts

Enjoying the links and trying not to let any more squirrels loose in in sewing room.

I plan to be back sewing my SAHRR tomorrow morning.

Sweet Quilt Dreams, Everyone! 

Quilting Along with the Centred QAL

This is my fabric pull for a new quilt.

This is from my small stash of
 Minki Kim Fabrics from Riley Blake Designs
These fabrics are from three different fabric lines.
I pick and chose the prints and colors that I like.

These fabrics are Katniss Quilty Kitty inspected and approved.

My quilty kitties and I am sewing along with the 

Centred QAL @ mmm! quilts

Here are our four Block A units.

Quilty Kitty Nutmeg kept me company by napping by me in my extra chair.

Quilty Kitty Maestro was a little more "paws on"
and insisted she help me press my blocks.

Instructions for Block B are Posted Here

I had hoped to sew them tonight but I am tired.

It suddenly got very warm here, reaching 80 degrees
and I spent a lot of time outdoors.

Tonight I put all the fans in the windows to cool the house down overnight.

Here is the top from the quilt I made when
I sewed along last year with the

Beothuk Star QAL

It is till a top
I need to get this one quilted soon.

I really enjoy sewing along with these interesting quilt patterns
@

Thank you, Sandra @ mmm! Quilts

for this wonderful pattern and quilt along! 

Jelly Beans & Jelly Rolls Time

I have lots of jelly rolls.

These would be a good choice for the

Centered Quilt Along @ mmm! Quilts

I think the white jelly roll would be the darkest fabric with this choice.
The red would be the binding fabric.

Hunting for jelly beans and just the right jelly roll ....

I also found these 3 half-yards of fabrics and small ombre jelly roll.

The dark gray print would be the darkest fabric in this quilt.
The house print would be the medium blue, I think.
The text print the lightest fabric in the cross.

Hmmmmmmm ...  choices, choices.

Which would you choose?

:-) 

My DrEAMi Moment for March

My DrEAMi Moment For March

The squirrels outside have been enjoying an early spring here 

and have been chasing each other up and down and all around

the trees in our backyard.

My indoor quilty kitties have spent hours watching

squirrel-vision out the windows. 

The quilty ideas have been squirreling around with my quilty muse.

I know you have seen a lot of this little guy on my blog this month,

but he is getting a few more posts.

On review, I realized he was very much my

  "Drop Everything and Make it" project of the month.

March 1st Found These Fabrics

sitting on my cutting table 

with a squirrel running around in my head to 

make them into a pillow to send to My Girl.

It feels like a long time since I visited her last December and

have been feeling far away from my daughter

who is feeling far away from family

while my SIL is serving his country overseas

and wanted to do something with her. 

Somehow this lead to our writing a quilt block pattern together and

was created.

Here is the Finished Pillow in its new Home 

I see porgs and droids and yoda in that basket but no squirrels,

There are no squirrels in Star Wars, I guess.

Star Wars needs a squirrel critter ... maybe next series? 

I have squirreled off topic.

This is a Free-For-Personal-Use-Only-Pattern

Bone Broth for the Little One ~ Free .pdf Pattern Here

I have also posted a series of 

How-To Make This Block and Pillow Tutorials

~ ~ ~ 

I am also giving my February DrEAMi! Moment another smile... 

Life in the Scrapatch made this Sweet Lily Cushion

DrEAmI! 38 Post

Thank you, 

Sandra @ mmm! Quilts

for hosting and posting.

I hope to see you joining us in the Linky Part this month.

Be well and safe <3 

February was a DrEAMi! Month

February 2020  Finishes 

Last month, I saw a request for testers for this new cushion cover pattern

from Sedef Imer @ Down Grapevine Lane

and 

I just loved everything about it...

Sew I Dropped Everything and Made it!

Drop Everything and Make it! 

I am joining the squirrel linky party 

@ 

drEAMi @ mmm! Quilts

My cushion is featured with all the other lovelies

Here on Instagram

I posted this here on my blog in February

Even though this unplanned project may have been a set back to completing my 

February OMG Goal, I am still very happy this little squirrel 

distracted me from my plans.  

Wonder if I will be distracted by one of these playful. pesky little critters in March. 

Time will tell ... :-) 

Happy Scrappy Prize Pattern Day!

Here is my Block 1 for my new scrappy quilt!

The pattern is 

Magnitudes @ Canuck Quilters Designs

I love this scrap friendly star pattern.

Joanne @ Canuck Quilter

was one of the sponsors of the

Beothuk Star Quilalong @ mmm!Quilts

and I was a lucky winner.

I sew for fun and not for prizes, but two new patterns to sew is fun, fun, fun.

So I went on a mini shopping spree and picked my two prize patterns

Canuck Quilter Pattern Shop on Etsy

I love the fact I can use small strip scraps in the center of the Magnitudes Star block

and scrap stash for the rest of the block pieces.

I will be working on this quilt while I am sewing other projects.

I love to pick up and sew a scrap block or two as I go along.

My other prize pattern pick was this gorgeous

26 Snowflake Complete Set

This is a foundation pieced pattern and very detailed.

I have seen these beautiful snowflake blocks online and

this pattern has been on my to-do list.

I am sew lucky to now have the pattern.

Since I am very much a seasonal sewist, 

I will not be working on these blocks until the snow flies.

Winter in New England can be long, though, and I have plenty of blue snow fabrics

and a beautiful white tone-on-tone snowflake fabrics for the snowflakes.

So I will have plenty of fabric and time this winter

to work on these blocks.

Thank you to 

Sandra @ mmm! Quilts

and

Joanne @ Canuck Quilter

 for making this a happy day

and a wonderful quiltalong!