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The top is the navy blue Scraptastic Stars by Melissa Corry of HappyQuilting. This one has really nice contrast.

Then below are 4 more rail fence variations to add to the pile from last year’s accumulation. The pile is getting bigger & soon I’ll get them all out & see where I’m at with putting together quilts. Or I’ll just keeping making them all year & then see. Who knows?

Halfway through the month & I have half of my blue projects done, so I’d say that’s staying on track! I haven’t tackled a WIP for the month yet, but there’s still time. I have a goal to finish one each month in 2025.

Remember how I started working on Bonnie Hunter’s winter mystery, Old Town, in November? Well, it’s been sitting neglected, so I got it out & did clue #2, which is 244 little four patches. You know Bonnie’s quilts are always full of lots of piecing, so they take time. And I’m in no hurry on this one, except to finish it before this year’s mystery arrives!

Our quilt group progress on the WholeHearted quilt means there are 5 more full blocks to put together, then we start the sashing. So it’s really moving along. I wish I could get the photos to reflect the real colors, as the pinks are much more pink than the reddish shown here.

Here is Angela’s 2015 Sawtooth Star Sampler with a Carrie Nation block for the center. I thought the blues for the little 4-patches would be more contrasting, but ended up blending. Ah, well; still cute. I did the first pink star with Sparkler fabric for the points & have decided that will be my one consistency in this scrappiness. I picked up some Sparkler in the rainbow colors I didn’t already have so I’m set for the year.

I made 6 dark blue County Fair blocks by Amy Smart in the book, “Scrap School” by Lissa Alexander. These are fun to grab stray squares & sew them up.

The first February FPP block for the Frightfully Fun! BOM is the tombstone which I’ve done in these bright colors. Love that rainbow sunburst at the top. This was a more complicated block, but my FPP skills are coming back!

I finished my February small quilt from The Flying Geese Log Cabin for the stand. I have the March pattern & will start cutting that out next week so that I’m ready.

And finally, this week’s quilt group progress on the WholeHearted quilt. We made one full block, and the 6 half-blocks.

These are my Moda Blockheads. They’ve done a set of blocks every year & a couple years ago, they published the first two years in a book of 48 blocks & hubby got it for me. It’s been sitting around & this is the year to make some rainbow flavored scrap blocks from the book.

And the last of my 8 RSC projects for 2025. (What the?? Epic fail on cutting back on projects. I know.) This is Scraptastic Stars by Melissa Corry of HappyQuilting. This may be the first of many patterns I’ve purchased from her & yet I’ve never made it. This is the year as it’s made to be a stash-buster. I bought the white grunge to use for the chain & had enough black grunge for the sashing, so the colors are all 2.5″ scraps.

In other projects, our quilt group was busy & we each got 6 hearts around our centers for the WholeHearted quilt. We are halfway there on the full blocks, then there are 6 half-blocks to do. I so love this Albion fabric by Amy Smart!

And the other January FPP block for the Frightfully Fun! BOM is done with a pink band on the turquoise Witch’s Hat. I’m transitioning from pink to the blue month!

These are Scrap Stash Plus blocks from a free pattern by Quilty Love. It’s been on my list for a while, so I’m glad to be making it this year. The lighting is bad, so the bottom six look red but are really deep pink.

These are Amy Smart’s County Fair quilt blocks found in the book, “Scrap School” by Lissa Alexander. They are super scrappy with one color on the four points of the plus & a different color center with LV corners & sashing. It seemed like a perfect project for RSC to use up 2.5″ squares.

I started lurking around Angela’s blog in 2015 & followed along with her Sawtooth Star Sampler that year. I’ve wanted to do it ever since & decided the 10-year anniversary was the time. LOL So here is the first block using the Bullseye block for the center.

I didn’t have enough of these 2.5″ square rail fence blocks made last year for RSC so decided to just continue on this year, then see what I have by the fall.

My local quilt store sells these patterns & kits from The Flying Geese Log Cabin and I’ve been eyeing them for a while. I decided that this year I would buy the stand & acquire a pattern/kit for each month. I got January done halfway through the month & will start on February soon. They are cute & it’s fun to have a quick project that gets to completion quicker than a quilt.

And finally, my ghost block. Santa gave me the Frightful Fun BOM & fun rainbow fabric for Christmas, so I could practice my FPP game. It was tough getting back in the swing of it because I don’t do it often enough, but after much trauma, the ghost is here. Those eyes have lots of small pieces to get the wonky shape. I’m working on the other block for the month which is a witch’s hat & it’s going smoother.

I finally got started on some pink scraps this week! I don’t remember which of our RSC friends put me onto this Strippy Slab Star last year, but thanks-you know who you are. I was able to use some small pieces from my pink crumb bag to make the center & strips from the pink strip bin for the points. I’m planning one in each color this year.

I made a Patchwork Hearts by Quilty Love last year as an RSC2024 project & it’s just back from the quilter. I love it so much that I decided to make another this year. I rarely repeat patterns but this is a great rainbow project & looks good for a wedding or graduation quilt. Plus they are relaxing blocks to make, so why not? I kept picking up LV FQ’s whenever I was at the store last year to add to my selection & I’m overrun, so this year I’m going to use the stash! I really dug around & found unused charm packs & layer cakes that are not going to be saved for “the perfect project”, but pulled apart & used for this year’s projects.

And since one of my goals for this year is to get projects finished up, I pulled out this donation quilt that had all the blocks done. I had sewed together 2 rows, then needed the design wall for something else & took it all down & put it in the box. Over a year later, it’s ready for quilting & I have an empty box to fill with one of this year’s RSC projects! Win-win! This Chandelier quilt was made with 2 charm packs & a large hunk of clearance gray pin-dot that have lived in the stash for a really long time.

In quilt group this week, we got the centers made for the C & D blocks, which include the half-blocks for the sides. We think this Wholehearted quilt by A Bright Corner may not take us a year to make, which is our usual length of time for projects due to interruptions. My partners have different colorways that are really looking great: red, white, blue for one and navy & teal for the other. I’ve made several patterns by this local designer & they are all really cute.