Scott and Sue Family

My sewing this week has been all foundation paper piecing on the large Haunted House. As you can see, I didn’t get it done as hoped, but the tower will get added next & the pieces sewed together. Then I can start squaring up blocks & sewing the top together. This Frightful Fun! BOM has been really great & I’ve gotten much better at FPP, which was the goal.

There’s blue & green in this rainbow house so I’m totally in sync with y’all! Happy sewing!

This week’s sewing work: the penultimate block for the Frightful Fun! BOM. Next week’s task is the large haunted house, then trimming blocks & starting assembly. Yay!

I got the binding on this small baby donation for Joyful Welcome. I made it with the extra blocks from a lap-sized donation, added strips & it’s the right size for their needs. My next evening binding project is a super old project, so I’ll be happy to get that done.

Strippy Slab Star & now I have 8. I need 1 more.

4 more rail fence to add to the ones from last year, so I will need a plan soon.

4 more Patchwork Hearts from Quilty Love & now all that is needed are 2 gray hearts.

8 string blocks to throw in the drawer for future donations. I thought my aqua/teal string bin would at least not be overflowing after this, but no, it’s still piled over the top.

The last of the County Fair blocks by Amy Smart, in the book, “Scrap School” by Lissa Alexander. I had to make a few extra in other colors to have enough for the setting. So in the fall months, I’ll cut setting triangles & get this together. Hopefully. I’ve been known to procrastinate this step. (See below) Of my 8 RSC2025 projects, I now have 3 projects with all the blocks made!

Inspired by Deb A’s RSC2020 project, I made these blocks in 2021 for RSC, then left them in a project box all this time. ?? I have tons of project boxes, they are all full, & I needed one for the new quilt group project. So I pulled these out & sewed them together, thus freeing up a box & getting a WIP done for August, so wins all around. It’s going to Many Hands and Many Hearts along with the jelly roll race below.

I’ve never actually made one of these, but it seemed like a great way to use up big print teals that have been languishing in a scrap box for a long time. They don’t work for my RSC projects because they are so busy, but hopefully somebody will love the donation. And I love using up all that fabric. 5″ squares got cut for our next quilt group project, 2.5″ strips for this, & leftover strings in the bin. Scraps processed!

Now for a finish: this is my “12 Days of Christmas” auction quilt for Primary Children’s Hospital Festival of Trees, the first week of December. It’s done, so if there’s a disaster between now & then, I don’t have to stress. The fabric is from the same line as the panel, so there are figures from each verse in color in the green border, then tone-on-tone in the red border & gold sashing. The white stop border has the lyrics. All in all, it’s very cute!

I finished up the Scrap Stash Plus blocks using the free pattern from Quilty Love. I cut all the blocks in January using a curated jelly roll I got on clearance at a store-closing sale for the colors, & the leftover strips from my Shine quilt for the whites. I only used a couple strips for the shiny star pieces in that quilt so had tons left. What to do? This was perfect, so it’s all gone now. With all the blocks done, I’m ready for assembly in the fall.

The two large blocks are for Melissa Corry’s Scraptastic Stars. I need two more to make a lap size, so will have to dig for other colors, then make all the B&W sashings.

And here we have an RSC2024 finish! It’s Scrappy Hearts, also by Quilty Love. I made blocks each month last year, using scrappy LV background scraps. The backing is the new Hush Hush wide backing from Riley Blake which combines all the LV prints from the latest collection in a collage, making it super scrappy. It’s perfect & I think the trimmings from it have yielded enough for the setting triangles for this year’s County Fair RSC2025 project. Win-win!