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RSC2025-May wk. 4-a diversion

May 24, 2025 by Sue 8 Comments

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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.

The good news is that there is still a week left in May to make my remaining two green RSC2025 projects, so I feel good about tackling a WIP. I may not finish whatever I decide to work on, but there’s always next month to finish it. After feeling like I would never catch up on my sewing, I’m feeling pretty great now! Hope everyone else is loving their sewing & have a great holiday weekend if you’re in the USA.

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RSC2025-May wk. 3-still green

May 17, 2025 by Sue 3 Comments

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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!

It doesn’t look like much sewing, so in case you’re worried about me, there was other stuff happening that’s just not quite as interesting & doesn’t rate photo opps. I did more cutting for the new group project. Sheesh! We have found so many errors in this pattern & done so many messages with the author, I feel like we are pattern testers without the benefits. I also made binding & sewed it on a couple donation quilts I got back from my quilting buddy & am hand sewing that down in the evenings. Also, cleaning & sorting in the studio, plus sewing blocks with quilt group & hand-applique orange peels with neighborhood group. So lots happening. Hope it’s the same for you!

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RSC2025-May wk. 1-hopping

May 3, 2025 by Sue 3 Comments

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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.

I plan to do more sewing next week & get some stuff caught up, but life happens so who knows? Some weeks contain more sewing than others, as we all know. May the Fourth be with You & Happy Cinco de Mayo!

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RSC2025-April week 4

April 26, 2025 by Sue 2 Comments

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This is my red Strippy Slab Star. There’s still a few days of April left to do my other two red projects!

I managed a finish this week by getting the binding on “Catching Rainbows” from Bonnie Hunter. This was an RSC2022 project that came to a crashing halt with my fall. Last year I got it out to sew the rest of the blocks & get it together but decided I wanted a smaller lap-size quilt. I used the pastel-ish blocks to make this lap quilt. That left me with 9 red blocks that became a donation quilt & 5 various color blocks combined with B&W string blocks to make another donation. I have two projects left from RSC2022 that need to find an ending. Pretty good for all the accidents & surgeries since then!

In mid-2023 my quilt group started two Brightly quilts: Christmas & non-Christmas. We swapped Christmas fabrics & each chose leftover scraps for the other one. I gathered up all the leftovers from Songbook, added a few new FQs from Songbook2 & shopped my stash to start this one. I had a big gray chunk, so used it for background. We worked on them alternating weeks for a month, then I torpedoed us by saying I wanted the Christmas done to use in my new house for the holidays. So we worked on that & got it finished in time (yay!), then this one sat because they wanted to do something else. When we finished our tabletopper project, I lobbied to finish this since I’m trying to get WIPs done. It went together fast & the top got done this week! When will it go to the quilter? Get in line!

Apparently I cut too many squares & since I was just chain-piecing like a fool, I ended up with a bunch of random leftovers. What to do? Make a baby row quilt for donation, of course! It’s a little crazy, but hopefully someone will love it. It’s cheerful.

I have a goal to get 12 WIPs to flimsy stage this year, so I’m going to start keeping track here for accountability. I’m calling a project a WIP that was started before 2025 with some cutting done.

  1. Mister Rogers donation
  2. Chandelier donation
  3. red Amy Ellis donation
  4. Brightly #2

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RSC2025-April week 3

April 19, 2025 by Sue 4 Comments

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I got some RSC blocks made this week! Three Patchwork Hearts, four scrappy rail fence, & six County Fair blocks for the Amy Smart quilt. So 5 of my 8 block sets are done for the month & I’ve got some month left to finish the rest.

Since it’s red month & I want to get WIP’s done, I pulled out these blocks. They are from Amy Ellis‘ Modern Quilt Block Series when she was giving them away for free. I made the blocks with one red section, called Scraps, in 2021 or 2022 for a donation quilt but they got set aside. So I pulled them out & made the boxy blocks, called Option, to add to them. I got them all sewed together, pieced some batting & backing, and now it’s ready to take to my quilting partner for quilting.

My quilt group likes to make small baby quilts for Joyful Welcome, so I used the six leftover Scraps blocks & more jelly roll strips to make this little quilt. I also found batting & backing, so it’s ready to go to my partner, as well. I used up most of the reds in a batik RW&B roll I had, so during blue month I’ll have to make a blue donation quilt with those strips.

Remember that quilt group project I was working on last month? Well, we finished it, I quilted it, & finished the hand binding this week. So now it’s my spring table topper. Yay! The values of my grays & aquas in the cabins were too similar to make the wave configuration of the pattern, but I like the colors, so I’m OK with giving up the secondary pattern. My partners’ RW&B versions are more dramatic. Bonus: all the fabric came from my stash, plus the batting & backing were leftovers from another quilt, so it was a good use of scraps!

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