This Pieceful Life

 Welcome to Treadlestitches!

How are your projects coming along?  For me, I have nothing finished this week, but some progress has been made.  Sometimes that's the best you can say!

Pink rail fence blocks will be handy when making up Rainbow Scrap Challenge baby quilts at the end of the year.  The pink 2.5 in. strips are almost gone.  (Is that a good thing?)

The butterfly quilt I'm making from an unknown quilter's UFO is almost a top!  I need to add the pieced border of half square triangles and the outer border from the vintage blue print.

Rainbow Rails is coming along as my leader and ender project.  For my version, I need nearly 100 of these little blocks.  I'm up to 62.
 

I was gone for a week to visit my mom, and we had out of town company this week, so I'm behind on everything, but it was totally worth it seeing people we love.

Maybe I'd get something finished if these pesky squirrels didn't keep popping up!

Now you see it, now you don't!  Watch out, this nine patch block is going to disappear. 

Ta da!  Now it's four blocks, complete with sashing and cornerstones.  I'm following the Self Sashing Nine Patch Quilt Tutorial from Jo Kramer at Jo's Country Junction blog. 

It's a good pattern for using up some random charm squares and other pink scraps.  I wish I had more of this cute puppy print.
 

Oops!  I did discover a problem that can happen if you use novelty prints, which are often one-way designs.  Upside down unicorns look kind of weird.  I fixed this with the seam ripper, but it can be avoided by placing the novelty square in the upper left corner of the nine patch block.

There has been a lot of traffic through our backyard in the early morning.  One day this week we saw a mother mallard with 13 baby ducks (we counted!) walk right across our patio.  Today there was a hen turkey, just sauntering along.  Two robins are fighting (or mating?) almost every day.  And I have no photos of any of it sadly.  Spring is wild around here.

I was so glad to see this Little Guy and his big brother when I got back.  We've had some thunder storms and cooler days, but also warm days just right for playing outside and popsicle parties on the porch.

So how are your projects coming along?  I look forward to seeing all the wonderful quilting at the linky parties below.  Have a wonderful week, and Happy Mothers Day to all the American moms.

Cheers,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with:

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Angela at So Scrappy

Cynthia at Oh Scrap

 

I May Like Pink!

Welcome to Treadlestitches!

It's the beautiful month of May, and the Rainbow Scrap Challenge color is pink.  I saw this amazing tree on my walk yesterday, just exploding with pink blossoms.  Breathtaking!

I wanted to get started on the pink scraps, but didn't have a lot of sewing time. Sew, I made just 6 of these little cats.

Isn't this print terrific?  I got it in a scrap bag as a prize for making a Positivity quilt.  The scrap bag came from Preeti Harris of sewpreetiquilts.  (Thanks, Preeti!)  This little kitty is a tiger inside!

More pink!  I spent last week in Oklahoma visiting with my Mom and my sister and my sister's family.  One day Mom and I took a walk in a lovely park.  I used to say I didn't like the color pink, but nature is trying to  change my mind.  (The wind was blowing hard here, can you tell?)

There were several of these funny little elf houses in the park.  They're not for birds or animals, they're just for fun.

The Canada geese had fluffy little babies running around.  Sorry the goslings are blurry, they wouldn't stop moving!

When I travel I don't usually take any sewing with me, but I like to have some mindless knitting to do in the evenings.  I made these dishcloths at Mom's, and then gave them to her.  The colorful yarn came from the free table at Quilt Guild.  (Thanks, Joy!)

After I got home I worked on the rest of the yellow RSC projects from April.  I'm calling these Grocery Chains because I'm sewing the little scraps onto the paper grocery receipts .

It's fun to revisit all these yellow scraps, ranging from bright as day to nearly white.  It's like an I Spy game.  Can you find a blue hippo, a slice of watermelon, upside down red shoes, and a tiny pink bird?

This is my sister's cat, Velcro.  Does he remind you of anybody?  My sister and I adopted Tuxedo kittens at about the same time.  My Snicky has a look-alike cousin!

I had a wonderful visit with family and I'm so glad I went.  Safe travels to anyone going places this summer.  Have a great week, and happy quilting!

Thanks for reading,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with these wonderful quilt blogs:

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Angela at So Scrappy, home of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge

Cynthia at Oh Scrap