yellow scraps

I cut and sewed a little bit of yellow this week for the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy. I made 9 patches for diffusion which is done in fall colors. I might add a few brown later this year, and, then, count, and recalculate what I need.

diffusion - quilted twins

I made the pieces, I will need for my older ufos- garlic knots and box kite. The blocks are done, but, the borders and sashings are small pieces that I have cut along the way this year, with the color of the month. It's hard to believe it is august already. And time to finish or continue with plans.

qsts for box kite

sashings for garlic knots

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hollow nine and fish school

Yellow is officially my favorite color. I find it a difficult color to like in fabric. Pops of it are fun in any scrappy quilt, but, finding a consistent dependable yellow seems difficult. I will keep trying. I made hollow nine blocks and fish school blocks for the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy.

hollow nine

I did a final count for fish school blocks, and, I have enough blocks for the pattern kismet from quiltville. I had made the string blocks earlier. But, I forgot at the time, that, I had made them for the pattern. I used a larger size block for the fish, so, I need to make a larger size string block, too. In any case, this is a ufo that will be retired to the ufo closet for a vacation. There will be a farewell with balloons and streamers.

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fish school blocks

I started the red month of the rainbow scrap challenge, by cutting and making fish school blocks. I have over 200 for the Bonnie Hunter quilt called kismet. I really like making them. Making these, I find interesting 2 1/2 inch squares that are alone and unwanted in my 2 1/2 inch square box. poor babies. I have a place yo use them.

I found pieces in red for monkey wrench blocks.

I am just getting started with red. There should be plenty of scraps for fun this month,

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lucky star block

I am finished with orange for the rainbow scrap challenge in May.  I made 3 orange stars from batiks to add to the stars I have been doing this year. I made them this morning. I am just getting up too early any more.

The Spring flowers have been beautiful this year. The pink roses are from my Grandmother's garden. I rescued them when I was a child. They are blooming this year just like the year I fell in love with them as a young girl. In front of the them are dame's rocket which is one of my favorites, too. They smell so great and I let them pop up wherever they want. 

The last few years, our peony has opened by memorial day, but, this year it did. We have had this plant since we were married, and moved it twice.

We had irises for years and then they all seemed to die one year. We are slowly bringing them back.

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more orange blocks

The hollow nine blocks are finished using orange and 3 1/2 inch squares.

I have cut orange for  the border of box kite, and garlic knots, the sashings for garlic knots, and the pieces for stashbuster 2023.

I made 2 strip weave blocks in orange for the rainbow scrap challenge.

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orange diffusion

Orange is the color for the rainbow scrap challenge in May, and, it is a great color for my fall quilt project, diffusion. Diffusion is a quilted twins free pattern. I still haven't decided if I am graduating the background color, yet. But, I can still make 9 patches, and, decide later. I am making my 9 patches using 2 inch strips. It wasn't hard to find orangey little scraps. Finding longer ones, was the problem. Still, I spent a lovely morning sewing strip sets, until, I had a large pile.

I am grateful to have an accuquilt to cut the strip sets 

It makes sewing the 9 patches much easier.

sets of 2

I made 50 

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fishy

I made 25 orange fish school blocks for May's rainbow scrap challenge. I am aiming for 320. I am a 2/3 of the way there.

Hubby found this neat mushroom outback, and, we had a yummy mess of mushroom for dinner. We have never collected this before, and it was huge.

dryads saddle

it was little chewy, but tasted great

And we lived to tell about it.

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lucky star

This week I worked on my lucky star blocks in purple for the rainbow scrap challenge this month. I still have a week to go before the end of the month. I may still get to work on my girlie girl.

I have had fabrics pulled for a quilt for a while now. I was not in the mood for piecing, so, I started cutting. I am using recycled shirts, and making a kaliedescope quilt found in this older book. I just needed to cut 4 1/2 inch strips. I have other colors that I still need to cut. I may be cutting enough for 100 quilts, but, it was therapuetic. The book still has templates, and, no rotary cutting instructions. I can remember my first quilts were made that way. Thank goodness for the invention of rotary cutting.

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fish school

I cut and sewed a bunch of HSTS in purple for the rainbow scrap challenge this month . 

long chains

 And, magically, they turned into fish blocks.

I had cut the QSTS for the box kite border. I had enough light qsts to sew them into twosies.

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hollow 9 in purple

My start for purple and the rainbow scrap challenge.

 I cut fish school ( and keeping a close eye on them), and the QSTs for box kite border.

I made 2 hollow nine blocks

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PHD

more green

I don't know the color for April, so, I am showing the last of my March green blocks for the rainbow scrap challenge.

I made Lucky star in green.

I lost my fish school blocks last month. I told all my scraps, that, if, they did not rat out the delinquent fish hsts, that, I would burn all of my scraps and start buying new fabric. There was a snitch, and, now, they are back in custody, and the scraps are once again safe.

It is the end of the month and I checked my progress for the PHD and will link with that group. I finished 2 UFOs in March, Which is 6 for the year, so far.

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PHD

cutting for green projects

I still can't find my 60 or so hsts in green for fish school. All I have left is a picture of the strips I used to cut them. sad... I hope they are doing fine wherever they are.

I cut the qsts for the border of an older ufo Box kite in green

I cut the pieces I needed for lucky stars in green.

I have not been sewing much this week, so, I feel behind for the for the rainbow scrap challenge in March.

I am off for a sew day today, maybe the mojo will be there.

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9 patches in green

I made 35 nine patches using 2 inch strips for a quilt called diffusion. I am only using 4 -5 colors to make the nine patches. This was the first time the color of the month was one of the colors for the rainbow scrap challenge.

I thought I would have fish school blocks to show this week, but, they swam away. I will need to find a bait that will bring them back to me. Here fishy fishy.

I do have 1, and only 1, strip weave block for the month finished.

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green projects

First taste of green scraps for the rainbow scrap challenge. I made three hollow 9 blocks for my quilt project.

I dug through my 1 1/2 inch green scraps and cut sashings for my garlic knots ufo. 

I made hsts for fish school in green.

I sewed strip sets in green to make diffusion.

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