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The top is my Strippy Slab Star using crumbs & strips from my bins.

For RSC2024, I made these 18.5″ heart blocks for the Scrappy Hearts pattern by Quilty Love & in the fall when I went to put it together, I realized I was two blocks short. Huh? And there were no greens. So I set it aside & told myself that when the 2025 green month came around, I would make a dark & a light, then put it together. So that is what I did this week!

If you are interested in these things, it’s the Throw size with scrappy background. Now it goes in the closet to hang around & wait for quilting, but at least I’ve managed a WIP finished for this month.

The last green project is the Patchwork Hearts from Quilty Love. I needed 4 greens to replicate my design from last year’s RSC project. I feel really good about being all caught up with my 8 RSC projects, plus my Frightful Fun BOM blocks.

One of those necessary, but not so fun, tasks got done today: cutting out this year’s Festival of Trees auction quilt. It has a Twelve Days of Christmas theme, because it’s a family tradition to sing it every Christmas Eve with pictures we hold up for each day. I used a Riley Blake panel & scrounged Etsy shops for matching fabric.

So….you may recall that Santa brought me the Frightful Fun! BOM for Christmas & I vowed to improved my FPP skills & stay caught up each month. Life intervened & I got behind, but May has been my catch-up month. Squeee! Three of the bones were made in March, on time, but then I just kept printing patterns & hoping to get back to it.

This week I’ve been an FPP machine! It’s been super fun. I made the other three bones to finish off March, then made the pumpkin stack & candy corn blocks for April. May’s blocks are the 18″ bat on the moon & the little bat, so I’m all caught up & ready to go for June’s pattern drop next weekend.

I got my fiddly little Moda Blockheads blocks done, plus Angela’s Sawtooth Star with the Lantern center block. Green is on target to finish this month!

Hooray! I got April’s red blocks done. Better late than never, right? Here are the last 2 of 5 Moda Blockheads & the Scraptastic Star by Melissa Corry.

Then I pulled out my 2.5″ square bin & worked on the 3 projects that use those: another Scraptastic Star, 4 rail fence blocks, & 6 County Fair blocks by Amy Smart from “Scrap School” by Lissa Alexander.

I cut out all the pieces for this quilt in January, so each month I pull out the kit in that color & sew. These are Scrap Stash Plus blocks from a free pattern by Quilty Love.

So I spent a good part of this week acquiring fabric rather than using it. (everybody laugh now) I spent one morning helping a friend sort her quilting supplies. She hasn’t used them in a long time & doesn’t want to in the future, so she wondered if I wanted some of the fabric. I ended up coming home with 8 project boxes full of fabric & half-done BOM blocks to use for donation quilts. Then I spent three afternoons driving all over doing the Utah Shop Hop. It’s the first time in years that I’ve gone to all the stores & it was super fun! The theme was “Ride the Radio Waves” & each store featured a classic rock singer or group. I came home from the hop with two sale kits & a bunch of carefully curated FQs in RSC colors that I needed to punch up my stash for the rest of the year.

So all the driving & shopping meant there was not much sewing going on. Acquiring fabric, not using it. Wink, wink! I managed 3 of the 5 Moda blockheads I need in red & I still have red blocks to finish, even though it’s May & green. I decided to gather up my Ocean Waves L&E blocks & sew them up to see my progress. They are 2″ HSTs from project scraps. Each circle is made from 4 blocks so the top row will have 5 large blocks & the second row is complete with 3 large blocks & a half-block on the sides. So I almost have 2 rows! Pretty good for four months of L&E sewing.