Happy About Yellow

 Welcome to Treadlestitches!

August is yellow month at the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, and that means it's time to make yellow Happy Blocks.  My light novelty fabrics were going begging, so I've been using them for the centers, with the yellow strips surrounding them.

Yellow always makes me happy, but it can be hard to find nice yellow prints, so I was glad to uncover these in the Endless Stash.  I used any light prints for the middle that had something yellow in them.

Here's my favorite, a sewing themed print, with a nice yellow iron.  After lots of problems with irons in the past, I never take mine for granted any more!  I give her a little pat before plugging in and encourage her to hang in there, especially during a long cutting session.  Irons are quilters' friends!

The Happy Blocks are making me happy!  Here's more happy stuff.

Our Little Guy got his cast off!  He's so glad to be able to play in water again, especially since it's been so hot here.  He and Buddy were making pretend "coral reefs" and shark habitats.  And sometimes dunking their feet in the water.

The pickle relish is done for the year.  I always love to see the jars lined up on the shelf, ready for mixing into potato salad, tuna salad, egg salad, etc.

I almost forgot what a pain it is to pit cherries!  It took all weekend, off and on.  But now the cherry jam is done, there are two quarts of cherries in the freezer for pies, and I even got a pie baked.  (No picture, we ate it right away!)

All these fruits and vegetables came from the big Farmer's Market in West Bend last Saturday.  I also got peaches there from Michigan, that started out kind of hard but softened up in a paper bag on the kitchen counter. 

 I made them into what I call Peach Cobbler, pictured above.  There are lots of different yummy desserts called cobbler, of course.  To those of us from Indiana, a cobbler is a square or rectangular version of a pie, with a fruit filling, in which the crust can be patched and has no need to be pretty.  (Martha Stewart might need smelling salts if she saw it, sorry, Martha.)  Buddy liked it as much as we do, but Little Guy was not a fan.

What's making you happy this week?  I hope life is going well for you, and our quilting hobby is adding an extra spark of fun.

Here's another happy thought--we can check out all the quilty links below!

Cheers for reading,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

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