Red is the color for April for the rainbow scrap challenge. My choice for an older ufo that uses the color red was pfeffernusse. It is a Bonnie Hunter pattern from her book string fling. I started it with 72 string blocks in 2016. In 2017, I cut and made 288 red hourglass blocks. Here at the end of April, I have cut each string block and sewn a white hst with a brown one. They all needed trimmed.
All the red windmill blocks will join it's friends waiting for next month's color.
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I've made progress on my one monthly goal for April. Peppermint candy rows are ready and some are joined. I overcut the setting triangles and will trim them down. I have to decide the borders and add it to the quilting cue.
Red is the color for April for the rainbow scrap challenge. Red scraps are my second most plentiful scrap bin. Blue is the first.
I made more zipper blocks foursies. I was tickled that all the blocks are sewn into foursies, until I realized, I am making rows 10 x 12. I see some unpicking in my future.
red is the color for April for the rainbow scrap challenge
I made the zigzag units in red. A great way to use up bits and pieces of 1 1/2 inch strips. I am anxious to start sewing a few together and see how it will look.
The rainbow scrap color for April is red. I chose a Bonnie Hunter ufo called pfeffernusse from her book string fling. I started a lot of string projects when her book first was published. I liked all of them, what can I say?
I started it with 72 string blocks in 2016. In 2017, I cut and made 288 red hourglass blocks. My plan is to make whatever progress I can during the month. Meanwhile, I need to get busy with my other red scrap blocks.
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I am reexamining my string blocks for blue skies which was originally made for the quilt blue skies from Bonnie Hunter book string fling. I made the string blocks during a string basket cleaning in 2016. I was string piecing anything in the book I might want to make while I was playing with strings. At some point, I decided I would not want to cut and make 2,376 hsts for the quilt. I found another quilt that I could make instead.
I didn't get any of this quilt done during February and the blue color for the rainbow scrap challenge. The color for March is yellow, so, I didn't have to put it away again. I don't think I will get it finished this year. It isn't a 5 quilt ufo project. It is a rsc project. But, I can certainly continue through March. I cut all the 7 1/2 inch squares in white that I would need to make larger hsts with the string blocks.
I am using the yellow hsts as leader/ enders as I work on other projects. Any that I finish now, will move the project forward and be a bonus later.
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Blue is the color for February and the rainbow scrap challenge,
I am reexamining my string blocks for blue skies which was originally made for the quilt blue skies from Bonnie Hunter book string fling. I made the string blocks during a string basket cleaning in 2016. I was string piecing anything in the book I might want to make while I was playing with strings. At some point, I decided I would not want to cut and make 2,376 hsts for the quilt. I found another quilt that I could make instead. I am hoping to get a start on that quilt this month. The project is at home, and, will have to wait until I return. I plan to make hsts and arrange them in a star pattern. I will be pleased if I get all the hsts cut and made in February.
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| 32 -71/2 in blocks |
I like making string blocks, and I like string quilts= a perfect match for this project
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| and 32 yellow blocks |
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I have a finish -bonnie Hunter quilt zuckerwatte from her book string fling. It is a smaller quilt than I thought when I started it. It is about 58 x 70. I started working on this ufo in January at a retreat, I had started at the beginning of January with only string blocks made. I made the string blocks in June 2017. I cut a gazillion HSTS - (half square triangles)... sewed a bunch together, and made rows. and blocks. It is really pretty in person.
I used a plain pink sheet for the backing that I had in my stash. The pattern says there is 14 yards of fabric in the quilt. and all of it came from scraps except the border which I had in my stash.
This is as far as I have gotten to a finish with this Bonnie Hunter quilt ufo, that, I started before she printed the pattern. I didn't like her version (xing) from string frenzy, so it was time to decide how to finish it. I have a vintage red fabric, I want for the borders.
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| cotton candy |
I didn't finish my goal for last month. I had hoped to get aunt Elizas star to the top stage. I did get half of the top together. I think I will still get the top finished before I put it away again.
For June, I want to switch the ufo project to a purple ufo for the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy. I want to finish the bonnie Hunter quilt zuckerwatte from her book string fling. I made the top during the pink month. And I will use this month to quilt it and get it bound.
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| top ready to quilt |
I also want to finish an older rug hooking project. I was making this chair pad for my dining room chairs. It is almost done. I have a little hooking to do and then hand stitching a back to it.
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| 2018 ufo |
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I was excited to find a favorite border fabric already in my stash. It is such a favorite that, I immediately made plans to replace the fabric. haha will I ever have less fabric?. I guess I have a thing for polka dots and just this color of pink.
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You may remember here, that I had cut 430 HSTS - ( half square triangles ) and sewn 240 together. At retreat last weekend, I sewed all of them into rows for bonnie Hunter quilt zucherwatte from her book string fling.
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| rows 1 and 2 |
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| row 3 added |
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| adding string hsts |
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| and the block |
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I have sew enjoyed the pink inspiration with the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy. Looking at the design walls all filled with pink, makes me happy. I don't have a design wall or even a design floor, but, I sure have pink scraps. I am doing rsc a little different this year, by concentrating on ufos by color. I miss sewing the blocks, and watching them grow, though.
It was time to dig around in my pink 2 1/2 inch drawer for the rainbow scrap challenge. The drawer was overflowing. I knew that I would need 2 1/2 HSTS - ( half square triangles ). for a bonnie Hunter quilt zuckerwatte from her book string fling. I chose to add it to the list for January, because, it is a mostly pink ufo, and, it would help clean out the drawer strips drawer.
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| sneaky red in the drawer |
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| trimmed and ironed |
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2 pink flannel baby quilts and here
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