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June’s color is orange & I made a start on some blocks. I got the Patchwork Hearts done in orange & the related peach & coral, plus 4 more scrappy rail fence blocks with 2.5″ squares.

Remember Bonnie Hunter’s L&E Challenge from last summer called County Clare? I was excited about it because I like it & also loved the colors she chose for it. But it turned out to be too fiddly for me as an L&E, so after working on it for a while, I let it languish & started working on a new L&E project (Ocean Waves with scrap HSTs). I was inspired to get it out this week & power through to a finish. Admittedly, it was much easier to do when focused on it full-time and I’m happy with the result. I bought a green grunge for some continuity, then the blues & LVs are all dug out of my bins. As usual, mine is smaller than hers & finished at a lap size. It’s now hanging in the closet waiting for its turn at the quilters.

I finished binding this group quilt project this week. I’m very happy with how it turned out. We each made one with our own choices of fabrics & made the same blocks each week, working together. I made this entirely from my stash, using the cool half of an old Elizabeth Hartman layer cake, supplemented with matching fabrics I had in my bins. The sashing came from the cut-off sides of another quilt’s backing. Scrappy samplers often seem overwhelming to me, so I wanted to experiment with a limited palette & I’m very happy with the result. The pattern is from “Sampler Spree, 100+ Fresh & Fun Quilt Blocks” by Susan Ache.

I didn’t use all the Bonnie Hunter Catching Rainbows blocks from a previous RSC year in the quilt I ended up making, so what to do with leftovers? Make two donation quilts designed by yours truly, quilted by one of my quilting partners, & bound by me. Glad to have these done.

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.