I Like Thursday #159 ~ Too Early for Spring Flowers

 

Spring Flowers ~ March 2023

All my spring flowers today are in seed form and fabric.

Today is 

I Like Thursday @ Not Afraid of Color 

LeeAnna has asked us to share our thoughts about Spring flowers,

our favorite blooms and their colors, when they emerge, 

if we plant them in our garden and where else we may find them. 

Here in the northeast this mid-March, 

there are no flowers to be seen outside anywhere. 

We had another major snow storm early this week 

and more on the way this weekend.

It will be April before the first flowers, crocus, 

poke through the thawing ground and the forsythia blooms 

on the southeast side of my yard.

For now, Maestro and I shall have to be happy with our seeds, fabric and floral.

Mr. Scrapatch brought home these packets of Nasturtiums recently

 because he knows I like to plant them with my summer annuals

 to harvest in the fall for adding to my salads.

Here is an old photo of hot house daffodils on my old kitchen table

taken one March many years ago.

I do not even have cut flowers in my home this year. 

Spring will come soon!

Happy Thursday, Everyone! 

Trinket Sew Along 2023

It's Back! 

This is happening again! 

Trinket Sew Along 2023 ~ Landing Page

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Alison Glass

In 2019, I joined in this fun: 

My Trinket Sew Along 2019

My plan was rather ambitious:

 Two Quilts ~ One Stash

In addition to the daily Trinket Blocks I was sewing my

Ventana Quilt ~ Started Here

I sewed my trinket blocks and a 

  I was on a quilty roll at the time and I made good progress. 

Then Life Happened.

Family matters required a short trip out-of-state.

Then I had some health issues. 

I sewed along and did my best to get

Trinket SAL ~ Back on Track 

I got as far as these "Things" Blocks

Ventana Quilt ~ Halfway Home

Then ... dud=h-duh-duh-da >>> 

What Happened ~ I bought a long arm!

My sewing room had to be emptied to make way for my quilting room. 

It has been a wonderful adventure

but my trinket blocks and fabric when into a project box 

for the duration and has not been opened in a long, long time.

I enjoyed seeing all the quilts completed in the sew-along that year.

Wistfully, I wished to sew along.

The years have turned and this adventure is coming around again!

This time I hope to finish my quilt during the sew-along.

Wish me luck! 

Free Pattern Friday ~ Sewcialites 2 @ Fat Quarter Shop

I have this basket of fabric tucked in my storage cubes to make a quilt.

It was for the original Sewcialites Quilt Along 

and I saved the steps but did not sew the blocks at that time. 

Now there is an ongoing Sewcialites 2.

This is a Fat Quarter Shop Quilt-Along

The second round of this free Fat Quarter Shop skill building quilt program

has been happening for 19 weeks:

Sewcialites 2 ~ All You Need to Know Here

This time around there are 24 sampler blocks and the setting. 

All Sewcialites2 Blocks May be Downloaded Here

I have not been sewing these blocks but I am saving them ... again.

I am enjoying seeing all the inspiring blocks. 

To see and share blocks visit the 

 Sewcialites Lounge on Facebook 

and

 #Sewcialites2 on Instagram. 

Are you sewing along?

Did you make the first Sewcialites Quilt? 

I Like Thursday # 158 ~ My Dream Space

To create, 

all I need is a place for me and my sewing machine

 and my quilty kitties ...

... to sew ...

... to quilt...

...  a comfy chair to sit and stich ...

... and bind my quilts ...

... thread and yarn ...

... a place to store my fabric and supplies ...

... flowers in my window boxes ... 

... and there is joy and creative wonder in my life.

Today is 

I Like Thursday @ Not Afraid of Color 

LeeAnna has asked us to share our thoughts of our "sewing dream space."

I have all I need. 

Scrappy Saturday Sewing

My Scrappy Irish Chain Quilt has an addition to the plan.

I saw a completed top in the Coriander Quilts Facebook Group 

in lovely 30's fabrics that combined

 the Irish Chain Blocks with Dresden Plates 

and had to borrow the idea. 

A Dresden Plate bed quilt has long been on  my quilty list.

The combination of these two blocks was iressistable. 

Sew I am sewing Dresden Plate Blades today.

It has been a snowy day here and I have been cutting and sewing.

 Mr. Scrapatch has also been busy on a home improvement project in the living/dining room, so I have had to do my cutting on my kitchen table today while the snow piled up outside my door. In the end we had 11+" of heavy icy, wet stuff.

I am using up scrap strips so my blades ...

are cut from 5" by 2.5" rectangles. 

This is my planned layout.  

I will cut the center circles from the same green print as my outer chain. 

This does add much more cutting sewing to my work in process 

but the finished quilt will be sew wonderful!

I hope all of you are having a happy and safe weekend.