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Friday, May 22, 2026

orange scrap projects week 4

Every month, every new color, in the rainbow scrap challenge. becomes my favorite block for my square dance quilt.

I made some twosies zig zag quilt blocks using the color orange. Each month, there are less options for combining them.

I had some really great orange charm squares for making rolling windmills. Making these each month, is not my usual choices for fabrics and combos. I am enjoying thinking outside the box..... literally. After all, the charm squares are in a box tee hee.

I decided I had enough variety of colors sewn in twosies to make a few orange sets of strip sets for stashbuster. I need to make 2 different strip sets to make the checkerboard.

set 1

set 2

In the background, I am making little bits of progress for ditch lilies. It will take awhile to make 640 -1 1/2 in hsts.

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Friday, May 15, 2026

orange scrap projects week 3

I made some progress on ditch lilies. It was fun to see what the bear claw was going to look like with 1 1/2 inch hsts and a 2 1/2 inch square. My hands are not as nimble as they used to be. I made 12 and I need 160. I have almost used all the 1 1/2 inch hsts I had made. I need 640. I will definitely need more.

oh so cute

I had made a few strip sets earlier and I cut 24 sets of 4 of the same fabric for each strip set. I need 40.

I finished the chain blocks for candy chains. I had several pale orange strips that I decided to use, because they have been in the 2 1/2 inch scrap bag too long.

The 16 patches of 2 inch squares are ready to become square dance blocks in happy orange.

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Saturday, May 9, 2026

orange scrap projects week 2

Orange is the color for the month of May and for the rainbow scrap challenge. I am catching up with the red month and the candy chains. I missed several months the first part of the year.

I made square play blocks in orange. I enjoy making these. I haven't done anything with my box of 4 1/2 inch squares in a very long time.

I sewed the orange to the neutrals for my stashbuster quilt. I really is time to sew them into 4ths, but, I have a few too many projects.

And I found orange charm squares for rolling windmills.

I looked at the directions for ditch lilies again, and, realized I had missed cutting these orange squares. Now, I think I have finished cutting for the Bonnie Hunter quilt, but, I may have missed something, yet again.

2 inch squares

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Friday, May 1, 2026

orange scrap projects week 1

I worked on moving ditch lilies along last year. Using orange again this year for May, I will pull ditch lilies out, again, and see how far I can get with this ufo. I have cut the blocks and started the strip sets.

I finished appliqueing the dresden blocks. Now, I am working on the center medalions. I do not plan at this point, to put this away again. If I work on it a little at a time, I might be able to finish this year.

I have sewn a a neutral strip to red strips for the my stash buster blocks, trying to catch up the months I didn't get them done.

I caught up with the blue and green candy chains

I made candy chains in orange

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Saturday, June 28, 2025

final week of orange

I have the orange 2 inch hsts for a basket quilt I am making. I am using the rainbow scrap challenge to cut and make 70 each month.

Here is my first post about this spiderweb quilt in 2016. I have worked on this quilt throughout orange June. The top is done and the first border is attached. Now, the decision is whether to add another border. I need to wait until the voice in my head really decides, over whether, I just want it finished LOL. This is close enough to continue this quilt on my 5 quilt project, either way.

I have orange windmill finished. I really need to cut more orange scraps into strips for the future. My choices were sparse.

I made a few orange monkey wrench blocks.

I made more orange 1 1/2 inch strips for ditch lilies. I made a lot of progress on ditch lilies during green and orange months. But, I am calling this ufo done for the year, and giving it a spa vacation for awhile.

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Saturday, June 21, 2025

more orange progress

I haven't been sewing much lately.

I will be forever catching up monkey wrench blocks. At least I made an orange one this month. I haven't counted lately.

Again, I am behind on my sugar grove blocks. I think I have 41 of 62 finished.

I sewed the 2 1/2 inch strip sets for my windmill project and have them sub cut and ready to sew.

I have 3 rows out of 5 sewn together for my spiderweb quilt.

And I cut more 1 1/2 inch strips for ditch lilies.

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Friday, June 13, 2025

orange progress

I used 3 wof 1 1/2 inch strips and made strip sets with a neutral. The orange zigzag units are all done for June.

I turned the twosies from orange spiderwebs into 5 rows with 6 blocks each. Here is my first post about this quilt in 2016

I sewed a few orange/neutral sets for ditch lilies that I had already cut. But, My numbers are wrong and will have to cut more.

I have an older shirt quilt ufo that I am slowly working on when social sewing. I really like shirt fabrics and making it has helped with my motivation to keep cutting the huuge box of shirt pieces. holy toledo is a quiltville pattern from the book scraps and shirttails 2

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Saturday, June 7, 2025

orange spiderweb

Orange is the rainbow scrap challenge color for June.

I was pretty excited to change colors this month and finish an older Ufo called spiderweb. But, as I was taking pictures, I realized that last month's ufo was ditch lilies and it also has orange in it. I think I will work on both.

So far, I have made the whole spiderweb quilt with my people powered treadle machine. All the blocks are in twosies. I have had the treadle closed for a while now, and I think I might reopen it, just to finish this quilt this month. I really enjoy treadling in the evening. I put it away because it makes a terrible mess in my living room where it lives. But, it will only be a month, right?

The orange part of ditch lilies are small rail fence blocks made with scrappy oranges and neutrals.

1 1/2 inch strips

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Saturday, May 31, 2025

green week 5 hsts ditch

It is the end of May and time to put away ditch lilies for the rainbow scrap challenge. In a month I have cut all the pieces for the quilt and I even had a chance to dig and find some 1 1/2 inch hsts. They will finish at 1 inch. I need 640 of them for the quilt.

While I am working on a snowball project, I can use the cut off pieces to make 1/12 inch hsts. And I am working on a basket quilt that uses 2 inch hsts. I can cut the ones that are too small down to 1 1/2.

all sewn

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