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RSC 2020 April-light blue

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April’s color is light or sky blue. I did my turquoise blocks last month with the teal month, so some of my projects don’t really need light blue. Therefore it’s a slim month for my RSC projects.

Rainbow Stairsteps got some medium blue which is darker than last month’s aqua but not dark blue. This month I tried sewing long strips to the white squares, then trimming the whole block to size & they are much straighter. So I’m done cutting them to length first. Based on a layout by Julie.

I did the light blue blocks for the Alison Glass Sun Print 2016 project. I love that these blocks are accumulating a little at a time and by the end of the year, they will be done & I can start adding the sashing & putting it together.

I made 3 more checkerboard blocks to add to the pile. It will be interesting to see how this project shapes up in 2021.

The bottom row is the new one for the month in light & medium blues. Since I have a section ready, I sewed the rows together & I’m loving this! When we get to yellow, that will go between the orange & green rows. Tumbling Strings is inspired by a selvage quilt by Cathy.

Since I didn’t have as many projects to do this month, I started an L&E project with my pile of cut 2.5″ squares. I fell in love with this quilt at Sane, Crazy, Crumby Quilting. It’s an Arrowhead Puzzle block quilt & she kindly provided a link to the free block pattern. I decided to just start making some & someday it will be a quilt. I also made some orange & green blocks for the Jan & Feb colors. They are quick & lovely.

RSC 2020 March-teal

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So March is teal with its friends, turquoise & aqua. I have 6 projects going for RSC this year which is a bit much, I know. But this month I didn’t do have to do as much because Diamond Strings and End of the Rainbow don’t use teal. They need a more regular blue but I figure that will be coming later in the year, so I left them alone. I only worked on 4 of my projects this week and got them all done with one more week to go in the month!

This Tumbling String project is just super fun. I dug around my I-Spy stash for the “solid” tumblers, then used my string stash for the striped blocks. It is inspired by a selvage quilt by Cathy.

Cute aqua blocks for Rainbow Stairsteps. I love these blocks more each month, although I’m still trying to figure out how to make them come out a little straighter. Based on a layout by Julie.

Light & dark turquoise square-in-square blocks for my Sun Print 2016 by Alison Glass kit. I used my Mini Simple Folded Corner ruler on these blocks with my small cutting mat by my machine so it went fast & efficiently. I also sent the matching waste triangles through at the same time this month so now I have a bunch of cute HST’s all done rather than a bunch of triangles in a bag.

Three checkerboard blocks to add to the pile. I used all the 2.5″ squares without repeating that I have cut out in my 2.5″ bin, so I stopped. I figure I don’t need as many of this color in a rainbow quilt, but I can always make more later if I lay it out & decide I need more.

So there it is. Hope everyone is surviving their Coronacation or self-isolation or mandatory quarantine or whatever is going on in your life. Happy sewing!

RSC 2020 February oranges

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I made a quilt top last week for an upcoming gift & it’s ready for the quilter. So when February started, I got right to work on my five RSC projects. The first week of February is over & I have them all conquered with the rest of the month ready for other projects! I feel so efficient & intentional!

Here are the orange blocks for Rainbow Stairsteps. I used more solid looking fabrics for the blacks this time & while I think it’s less distracting in some ways, I think I need more of the white on black prints thrown in, so I’ll do that in March. Based on a layout by Julie.

Orange square-in-square blocks for Sun Print 2016 by Alison Glass kit. So happy to be finally working on this project. The blocks are all the same, so it’s nice to break them up & work on a few each month.

Tumbling Strings got an orange row to add to last month’s two green rows. It is inspired by a selvage quilt by Cathy.

Orange crazy patch blocks will be cut into small blocks & used to create End of the Rainbow from Melissa Corry’s Irish Chain Quilts book.

I need four orange string blocks for the layout I have in mind for Diamond Strings. These are inspired by blocks created by Angela, the host of the RSC2020.

And orange progress on the bonus checkerboard blocks that are not really on my RSC2020 list but are getting done as L&E’s. We’ll see where I’m at by the end of the year.

Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2020

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I have followed Angela’s blog for several years and wondered about playing along but always got swallowed up by other projects. This year I am determined to create with more intention and make some projects I really want to make. I’m not getting any younger and need to accomplish some goals. So this is my year for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge! January is green and although she asked us to focus on the lights & brights, my blocks have all the greens.

These green string blocks are inspired by a quilt from Angela, the host of the RSC2020. I saw this a long time ago and have always wanted to make one. I started making a few last year as L&E’s and this is the year to finish it up. So I finished the necessary greens for my layout of the quilt I’m calling Diamond Strings. I have fallen in love with sewing string blocks!

Tumbling Strings is inspired by a selvage quilt I saw by Cathy and it’s my first tumbler quilt, so that’s fun. I’m alternating string tumblers with full scrap tumblers. Here are the two green rows.

I have been wanting to make some stairsteps blocks for a while & when I saw the layout by Julie I knew I had found my project. So thanks to her for the design inspiration. I will be making blocks in various colors for Rainbow Stairsteps this year. I love the faux Irish Chain effect of this layout.

These square-in-square blocks are from a kit I purchased long ago that has been lingering in my to-do bin. It’s Sun Print 2016 by Alison Glass. The kit came with the Alison Glass colored prints and I am using my own stash for the black on white backgrounds. The blocks are set in spectrum order so this challenge seemed a perfect motivation to get it out and do it. Here are January’s greens.

These crazy patch blocks will be cut into small blocks & used to create End of the Rainbow from Melissa Correy’s Irish Chain Quilts book. Also one of my long-time wish list quilts, so I’m digging into it a little at a time.

And finally, a kind of L&E, extra project. These checkerboard blocks will end up in a quilt someday. I need more greens and also lots of others, but I’m not stressing about getting this one done this year. I’m just throwing 4-patches in the machine & bordering them as I get done and when I get a pile, I’ll evaluate where I’m at & how many more I need to make in what colors.

So that’s green January. It took me two weeks to get these done, so now I have two more weeks of the month to work on other necessary projects before embarking on February’s color.

Crazy Patches finished

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I’ve been working on this quilt for a long time, in that I’ve been slowly playing with fabric scraps to construct these “made fabric” squares. They were pieced together randomly from my ‘tiny scrap’ bin and when a section got large enough, I trimmed it into a 6″ finished square. When I had enough constructed, I set them on point using the setting pattern for the 1920’s Farmer’s Wife quilt that my quilt group is working on, and voila! A craaazzzzy quilt. I made a wonky, crazy pieced backing and made a totally random scrappy binding from pieces of leftover binding from other quilts. I quilted it myself on my home machine with a free-style crazy quilting pattern of spirals in the squares and loops in between. It’s totally scrappy and was fun to make. The only problem is that with all those biases, it doesn’t square up perfectly. But this was an experiment and it’s made to be loved and used, so whoever gets it can just use it to death, and it’s OK.