A Day in the Life of a Scrapaholic!

In between frustrations with this new laptop (and there are many)  I’ve been wheedling down on this very mis-matched pile of layer cake squares and turning them into blocks.

There have been strips and other random pieces added from my very limited cabin stash, and that is part of the fun. 

It’s a challenge to work with a smaller selection of fabric, and that is where the creativity comes in.

I think that is what got me hooked on scrap quilting in the first place.  Choosing the fabrics that go together, pairing this color to that color and seeing what different print styles do when placed together.  That’s the best part!

When you can finally push beyond the boundaries of sewing with “one designer – one fabric line” of pre-matched colors and styles, exciting things happen.

3 more going up on the wall!

Where there were just 20, there are now 30!

I’m really liking where this is going, and I plan to be at the machine again today seeing what other combos I can come up with.  Most of these layer cake squares came from my monthly Quilty Box deliveries.  

I love it when these boxes show up on my doorstep as there is usually something in it that I may not have bought for myself, (Like a bundle of layer cake squares) but I encourage myself to use them by mixing them up with other favorites, and it is often times that these different colors and prints add the needed spark to a project.

In between the stitching there was time to gaze out my kitchen window and see what was going on outside while I was staying inside where it is warm.  Click to play:

A post shared by Bonnie K Hunter (@quiltville_bonnie) on Jan 4, 2018 at 10:52am PST

I just filled this bird feeder Wednesday morning! Little hungry beggars have eaten it all the way down! Or more like picked it out onto the ground for their friends (including the noisy black crows) to eat. 

Though the hummingbirds have flown south, I'm happy to have these little ones outside of my kitchen window. I filled the feeder again after this little video clip.

This is getting closer!

I counted the un-quilted blocks in this photo.  Before quilting last night, there were 17 blocks left to go.  As of this morning, after last evening’s binge-watching  of Twin Peaks on Netflix, there are only NINE BLOCKS to go! 

The question is…do I start hand stitching time earlier tonight so I can finish it before heading home tomorrow??  Or do I let my addition to machine piecing these fun blocks take over, meaning I finish the hand quilting NEXT trip up later in the month?

I’m just going to go with the flow and see how it goes.  I am excited at the prospect of this quilt being my FIRST FINISH of 2018! (It only took about 15 years from start to finish.  But who’s counting?)

The new laptop saga?  I’m having trouble with text showing up too small on the blog when I use Open Live Writer to write my posts offline.  Remember that I don’t have internet at the cabin.  I am running off of phone data, so I write this offline, and then connect to upload.  This program is NOT talking to blogger (which I can’t use to write offline) and my default font is too small. 

Messing with the blogger fonts once the post is uploaded makes this too huge.  Nope.  They are not working together.

I know this.  (Emails telling me so are not appreciated.) While you can biggie size your screen on your end to view the font in whatever size you want, there is a limited option for me and I am working with it so I appreciate your patience, okay? Thank you.

SO I’m working on it.  I can’t change the default font size…the only thing I can do is biggie it after I finish writing the post and see if it transfers over when I upload it and that is what I’m trying today.

After composing, I am changing everything to a heading font.  We’ll see how it transfers over.  It’s a step I can’t save to default, but if it works, it becomes the new normal.

We’ll get there, I just can’t for the life of me figure out why it is different from computer to computer while the program is the same.

This morning’s sunrise!

10 degrees out, but that sky is blue this morning and the sun is shining through just a smattering of scattered clouds.  Life is definitely good!

Other than to fill the bird feeder, or take sunrise photos, the closest I have come to stepping foot outside since I arrived on Tuesday afternoon was to take the trash to the garage.

San Diego sounds REALLY GOOD to me right now!

Quiltville Quote of the day!

Photo shared by Kevin H.

I love this simple 9 patch!  Aren’t the grey prints and neutral corners just great against that yellow polka dot?

This is your reminder to simply be YOURSELF today!

Happy Friday, everyone!