Red (Scrap) Alert

This week felt *almost* like old times - normal. If it weren’t for wearing masks on errands and using a lot of hand sanitizer, I could have almost believed there was no pandemic. We visited the grocery store and Costco together, and I stopped off at the thrift store (to drop off donations in the drive-through), Dillard’s (bought something underthings), and paid a socially-distanced visit to Cousin Carrie’s (Cousin Kim’s sister) to give her all my old beading magazines. Oh! We also went to the Best Friends Animal Shelter to drop off some kennel quilts. I forgot to show them last week. Back in May, our friend Terri dropped off four kennel quilts to us to pass on. 

That put me in the mood to make another batch myself, and I may have shown a half dozen or so before. But last week I finished all 19, and here they are.

So all told, we dropped off 23 kennel quilts. 

Here in the Salt Lake Valley, we had some cooler temperatures for a couple days (seventies) and it was glorious to feel so energetic again instead of moping around like an overheated slug. Summer has taken ‘hold again, but its days are numbered. Autumn is just around the corner!!! Let’s all pause for a moment of dancing and rejoicing!!  .......   ........  ........

OK, time to get back to the Blogpost.

OF COURSE I sewed this week. Cousin Kim and I are back to our sewing days of Sunday and Wednesday, which usually run from about 9:30 or 10 in the morning until 3-3:30-ish. I fix a simple lunch on Sundays and we do our Del Taco run on Wednesdays. Also, we start our sewing mornings with a quick exchange of veggies or a trip out to the garden. Kim brings me zucchini and cherry tomatoes and she gets onions and carrots and Armenian cucumbers from us. We’ll probably be picking the Concord grapes this week. I used to pick them and used my juicer to make grape juice. But then Bruce and I both admitted we really don’t care for grape juice, so I gave Kim the juicer and she gets all the grapes, too! And all the work, LOL. 

Today is the first Scrappy Saturday of September. Our color for this month is red. It’s been a year and a half (since January 2019) since red has been the monthly color for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. And I am more than ready to whip those scraps into shape! First, I attacked the selvages. As usual, I sewed them into strips and then used my Accuquilt Go! Baby to turn them into half hexagons. I also cut some red fabric pieces to go along with them. 

Some of them may end up in the red Creature quilt at the end of the month; we’ll see.  Next up were the Twin Sisters blocks - thirteen.

Normally that’s all I seem to get accomplished during the first week, but I was a sewing fool this week, so there is also the red Scraptastic Star that I made.

After all that red, I got to work on some blocks for the Tyrol quilt I’m making. My goal is to sew four per week, and this week I sewed numbers 5-8 out of twenty needed. 

The quilt is from a free pattern called Florabelle Bloom, but I’ll be changing it up a little. :-)

And here are the first eight blocks, although there will be sashing when they’re actually sewn together. 

So, that just about brings things up to date from our little corner of the world. We are going to see Bruce’s daughter Stacy and her family over the long Labor Day weekend. Yay! (Muahahaha... another group to foist carrots and onions and grapes and tomatoes on!)