Sue

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.

This is all the orange that has happened so far: I got pieces cut for On the Town. So that’s progress.

My long-time quilt group started the 2025 RBD Block Challenge this week & made the first two blocks. I had purchased the batiks kit a few months ago at 50% off (score), so was planning to make it eventually. They decided to each order a solids kit & make it with me for our next project. So nice to have friends help you get stagnant projects going!

I only had personal sewing time on Friday, but managed to make all the rest of the blocks for Lori Holt’s Spare Squares. After posting my beginning last week, I looked at my wall & realized I had not put the last column on the wall, so now it’s the correct size for a lap, including the two rows clinging haphazardly to the bottom of my design wall. Next week: webbing the top & maybe figuring out the borders. And orange blocks.