Pink Scraps Matter

Today is the official first day of summer! I hope the weather is pleasantly appropriate where you are and that this past week has been good. We made two careful (and masked) trips out to the grocery store and the garden center this week. And then last night we visited my son Ryan’s family at their home for pizza on the patio. It was so nice to see everyone again, even if we all kept our distance and settled for “air hugs”.  Their two kids are our two eldest grandkids. Easton is taking online summer classes as he enters his senior year of college. He has a virtual interview with a US Navy admiral this week that will determine whether he is accepted into their nuclear submarine engineering program after his senior year. Lauren will be a junior in high school. She made the cheer team at school, finally got her driver’s license and a new-to-her car, which she’d been saving years for. Now she drives herself to and from work and cheer practice. Life is good!

I don’t have any finishes to show this week, but I did finish the quilt top for Creature From the Bubblegum Factory.  Here’s a picture hanging on the design wall. There were a couple blocks from the Orphanage that didn’t get “adopted” into this quilt (front or back). But an overwhelming majority did, plus about ten of the 6” string blocks I made last week. 

Here it is pin basted. It’s the first in line to be quilted.

But I still had lots of pink scraps to deal with, so I cut 4.5” squares and sewed them into a sweet little patchwork donation top. Here it is all basted up. I’ll get better picture once they’re quilted.

I’ve had some 2.5” strips sitting around since our last Quilts for Kids meeting in February. They’re ugly (to me) Civil War reproduction fabrics which don’t exactly shout “kids!”. But they were foisted on me (in all likelihood because I kinda sorta volunteered to do something with them).  In that meeting, someone had started sewing the strips together along the long edge, just cutting them at random lengths with a general goal of making a quilt 40” (ish) wide. So, I just continued with that until it was long enough.

There were still strips left, so I sewed them together into 5-strip sets, then cut them in 10.5” squares. Those blocks were set 4x5 for a more interesting layout measuring 40x50”. Sorry for the cut-off picture, but you get the idea.

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While I think of it, I just want to mention that the new Blogger has been giving me fits. It keeps turning off or losing or erasing my Comment Notification Emails. Last week I missed getting notified about most of the comments and was unable to respond, except directly within the comments. I apologize. In attempting to fix the problem yet again (this has happened about three times in the last two months), I finally had to revert back to Legacy Blogger. There it allowed me to fix it when the new format wouldn’t. If this continues happening after Legacy goes away, I don’t know what I’m going to do. 

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But to end on a happy note, the scraps I won from Sally’s recent giveaway arrived on Friday. This is just a fun sampling of the myriad scraps, but I can hardly wait to get started making more zipper blocks.

In addition to the scraps, there were two little fuzzy balls; one each for Darla and Alfie (no doubt from Molly Kitten and Buddy the cat/dog/pony). Darla and Alfie loved the balls and the box and were content to let me play with the “packing material”. 

Linking up to:  Scrappy Saturday.