red leaves growing

I can't believe March is nearly over and a new color is just around the corner. March in Indiana was more like winter than winter was. - so weird. All of our little buds and shoots had to grab their winter woolies to keep warm. For me, I now have 4 coats and jackets in the car. I would need to wear one in the morning, and in a bit, it was too hot, so I would toss it in the back seat. Out of sight out of mind. The next morning I would repeat the need for a coat, and couldn't find one so I would grab another. and repeat. sigh...
Red is still the March color for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. I have these to add to in the garden quilt.

I have the pieces for the pineapple blossom border done in red as well.

I sewed yesterday with my happy birds group. I wanted to continue working on the Irish chain quilt. All the blocks are done. It will be slow going to put the blocks together. My 2012 1/4 inch seam and my 2017 1/4 inch seam are just a bit different.

The blocks on the left were all done in 2012 and are smaller than the blocks on the right. I will need to trim, stretch and cross my fingers. And, of course, this was an afterthought quilt that has wormed itself into the spot light. It isn't in the top 12 ufos for the year. But, I want to see if I can get it together now that it is seeing the light of day.
Judy at Patchwork times is having a quiltathon this weekend.

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A new color

The March  rainbow scrap challenge color is RED.

 I didn't have much time to work with red since the announcement.
I did make 2 maple leaves

My original intention with the maple leaves was pastel colors like these on my inspiration board

My reds are a bit dark, so I will probably add a few pink leaves this month during "red"
While looking in my 2 1/2 in square box, I noticed there are not many reds at all. I use a lot of red in quilt making, I wonder why there are not any squares of leftovers in the box?


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