August Scraptastic Tuesday Link Up

It's the second Tuesday of the month, and time for the Scraptastic Tuesday link up hosted by Nicky - Mrs. Sew and Sow and me.

As I've shared here before, my family has been moving house and it has been taking a fairly long time to get unpacked. We have a lot of boxes of books and doo dads, and I have a lot of bits and bobs relating to quilting and other crafty things to unpack and put away. And it has been silly hot, and the heat wave continues this week.

But, I did manage to sit down tonight and sew with my blue/aqua scrap box. It was so nice, after weeks of no sewing, to just play with the fabrics and make some blobs, or you may even see flowers.



I know two blobs is not much scrappy sewing and is only a tiny step towards using up my scrap mountain, but still, it was fun. I will add these to the blobs I have already made, once I find the box they are packed in.



This little bit of sewing did help me to figure out what I need to change to my current sewing machine set up to make it a bit more comfortable, so hopefully I can do that in the morning. I have found the scrap boxes and they are quite full, so I need a good place to be sewing with them.

There are still a lot of boxes to unpack around my house - but I am really tired of unpacking too. So my current avoidance strategy has been to try to catch up with quilting internet reading. I am hoping that there will be many people linking up to the August Scraptastic Tuesday link up as I plan to check out each of the links on my rest breaks this week - I am looking to all the inspiration you can share.

Now, its time for you to link up and share your scrappy projects to inspire us all.

A huge thank you to our generous sponsors for providing the following prizes which will be awarded randomly among those of you who link up:

• Oakshott Fabrics - A Colourshott charm packs, colours 1 -30 

• Green Fairy Quilts - $25 gift certificate

• Fat Quarter Shop - $25 gift certificate

• Sew Sisters Quilt Shop - $25 gift certificate

• Sew me a Song - a $20 gift certificate

• Massdrop - 2 Mixology Fat Quarter Bundles - so two prizes

• Mad About Patchwork - a $40 gift certificate

Please join Nicky from Mrs. Sew and Sow and I by linking up a blog post or flickr or instagram photo sharing a scrappy project, in progress or finished, or your thoughts on dealing with your scrap mountain:

• You don't have to have joined us before, everyone is welcome.

• One link per person, and it will be your entry into the random draw for the prizes. It is the same link up here and at Nicky's blog - Mrs. Sew and Sow - so you only need to link up on one of our blogs.

• Please visit at least a few of the links, they are very inspiring, and leave comments too as everyone loves to connect. 

• Use the Scraptastic Tuesday button if you like (code is on the sidebar) and invite your friends to join us too. 

• The link is open until next Monday night at 10:00 pm MST. We will announce the winners next Tuesday. 

• If you have trouble linking up, let me or Nicky know and we will get you sorted.

Best,

Leanne

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