Quilting

Since my pastels are done, I pulled out a set of blocks from RSC2025 that never got put together. I have five of these! When I saw Angela’s Sawtooth Stars in 2015, I wanted to make some, but it took me 10 years to get around to it. These patterns are available on her site in a tab at the top. I made all the blocks last year & couldn’t decide how to lay them out, so they sat. This week, I pulled them out & got to work. I made 5-strip sashing & found the rainbow star print in my stash for the center block & borders. It’s a nice lap quilt size.

I also started working on the new charity block drive for Many Hands and Many Hearts. They are modified potato chips in 3 colorways. You can find the instructions here. I pulled my bin of 2.5″x4.5″ bricks & made 8 purple & yellow blocks. Next week I will tackle another color duo. These make great L&E’s.

I don’t really do pastels, so I had to dig around in the scrap bins for some that would qualify. I made 7 houses that will add some different value to Our Town. The Starlets blocks are all coming from a kit I purchased last year with the express intent of sew]]]]ing this year for RSC2026. I have light aqua, dark aqua, & gold left to make. Turns out the light aqua is very pastel, so it worked for this month. I don’t have a ton of Nine-Patch & Snowballs left to make, so opted not to make any this month.

This 2024 Riley Blake free SAL called From Our House, made it to a top. I worked on the remaining blocks for orange May & finished up the top in pastel June. Both of them work & it’s ready to hang in the closet & wait for quilting.

With my monthly goals completed & another week left in the month, I decided to pull out another table banner that features orange. I was able to piece, quilt, & bind it this week, so it’s ready for July 24, Pioneer Day, which is a state holiday in Utah. This banner features a campfire, covered wagon, & wagon wheel.

While working on the banner, I also worked another WIP. I had half the blocks already made on this free SAL from Riley Blake called From Our House. There’s lots of peach/orange in it, so it’s totally a May project. They are 18″ log cabins with a different 6″ center. I finished the blocks & sewed together the first two rows, so I will definitely get this to a top before starting June’s color.

With my Spare Squares WIP done, it was time to dive into my orange blocks for the month. Somehow, I had enough sewing time to get them all done! Now I have one more week of the month to play with another project. Yippee!

Sometimes your weekly quilt group gets cancelled & you decide to just power through a WIP & get it done. Here is Spare Squares from Lori Holt’s book, Scrappiness is Happiness. I received this book for Mother’s Day two years ago from my son & DIL. I cut out the pieces for this quilt & it’s been sitting in my closet for almost that long. So it’s my May WIP, even though it’s not orange-centric. As a scrappy quilt, it’s got orange! Project goal complete for this month. Now to get my actual orange blocks done in the last half of the month.