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May RSC 2020 progress

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Since the color for May is dark green, I was a little out of it for the month. I did all the necessary green blocks for my projects during the January light green month, so was left with nothing really to do this month. I decided that since this long-standing project was pretty close to completion, I would finish up the last of the string blocks & put the top together this month. That ends one of my RSC projects for the year, which is great because I kind of added another last month. 🙂

These rainbow strings were inspired by Angela of soscrappy and are my first string blocks. I loved sewing them! But putting them together was a challenge. With all those stretchy edges it was hard to get it to lie flat. But I love it. Wanna make more strings!!!

My other rainbow project was to turn these orphan blocks into a small baby quilt top for eventual donation. They’ve been languishing in a project box so it was good to sew them up & get them to the flimsy stage. It has joined the giant pile of tops on the guest room bed waiting to go to the quilter when I emerge from quarantine.

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.

My Kind of Mystery 2019 wrap-up

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I played along with the My Kind of Mystery challenge for the 4th year and gave myself a goal of beating last year’s total of 34 books that fit the challenge parameters: everything mysterious, including biographies and tutorials. I managed that and more with 73 mysteries conquered this time. Thanks to Carolyn for hosting.

The Eagle Catcher (Wind River Reservation #1), Margaret Coel
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
Three Times Lucky (Mo & Dale Mysteries #1), Sheila Turnage
The Blood Card (Magic Men #3), Elly Griffiths
The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing (Mo & Dale Mysteries #2), Sheila Turnage
The Odds of Getting Even (Mo & Dale Mysteries #3), Sheila Turnage
The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs #15), Jacqueline Winspear
The Woman on the Orient Express, Lindsay Jayne Ashford
The Law of Finders Keepers (Mo & Dale Mysteries #4), Sheila Turnage
A Duty to the Dead (Bess Crawford #1), Charles Todd
An Artless Demise (Lady Darby #7), Anna Lee Huber
A Duty to the Dead (Bess Crawford #1), Charles Todd
An Impartial Witness (Bess Crawford #2), Charles Todd
A Bitter Truth (Bess Crawford #3), Charles Todd
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
An Unmarked Grave (Bess Crawford #4), Charles Todd
A Question of Honor (Bess Crawford #5, Charles Todd
An Unwilling Accomplice (Bess Crawford #6), Charles Todd
A Pattern of Lies (Bess Crawford #7), Charles Todd
The Darling Dahlias and the Texas Star (Darling Dahlias #4), Susan Wittig Albert
The Darling Dahlias and the Silver Dollar Bush (Darling Dahlias #5), Susan Wittig Albert
The Stranger Diaries, Elly Griffiths
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City’s Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation, Brad Ricca
The Darling Dahlias and the Eleven O’Clock Lady (Darling Dahlias #6), Susan Wittig Albert
The Shattered Tree (Bess Crawford #8), Charles Todd
A Casualty of War (Bess Crawford #9), Charles Todd
Weeping on Wednesday (Lois Meade #3), Ann Purser
A Forgotten Place (Bess Crawford #10), Charles Todd
He Shall Thunder in the Sky (Amelia Peabody #12), Elizabeth Peters
The Darling Dahlias and the Unlucky Clover (Darling Dahlias #7), Susan Wittig Albert
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot #10), Agatha Christie
Lord of the Silent (Amelia Peabody #13), Elizabeth Peters
One Came Home, Amy Timberlake
The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway #1), Elly Griffiths
Hiss and Hers (Agatha Raisin #23), M.C. Beaton
Ginger Pye, Eleanor Estes
The Golden One (Amelia Peabody #14), Elizabeth Peters
Children of the Storm (Amelia Peabody #15), Elizabeth Peters
The Serpent on the Crown (Amelia Peabody #17), Elizabeth Peters
Tomb of the Golden Bird (Amelia Peabody #18), Elizabeth Peters
Something Borrowed, Someone Dead (Agatha Raisin #24), M.C. Beaton
A Cold Treachery (Inspector Rutledge #7), Charles Todd
A Long Shadow (Inspector Rutledge #8), Charles Todd
A Beautiful Blue Death (Charles Lenox #1), Charles Finch
Buried in a Bog (County Cork #1), Sheila Connolly
The Painted Queen (Amelia Peabody #20), Elizabeth Peters
The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway #2), Elly Griffiths
The House at Sea’s End (Ruth Galloway #3), Elly Griffiths
A Room Full of Bones (Ruth Galloway #4), Elly Griffiths
Guardian of the Horizon (Amelia Peabody #16), Elizabeth Peters
Treacherous is the Night (Verity Kent #2), Anna Lee Huber
The Vanishing Box, (Magic Men #4), Elly Griffiths
A Cruel Deception (Bess Crawford #11), Charles Todd
The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel, Alyssa Palombo
Aunt Dimity’s Good Deed (Aunt Dimity #3), Nancy Atherton
A River in the Sky (Amelia Peabody #19), Elizabeth Peters
Blood of an Englishman (Agatha Raisin #25), M.C. Beaton
A Dying Fall (Ruth Galloway #5), Elly Griffiths
The Double Cross (Someday Quilts #3), Clare O’Donohue
The Celtic Riddle (Lara McClintoch #4), Lyn Hamilton
Aunt Dimity’s Christmas (Aunt DImity #5), Nancy Atherton
Now You See Them (Magic Men #5), Elly Griffiths
Dead Man’s Bones (China Bayles #13), Susan WIttig Albert
The Outcast Dead (Ruth Galloway #6), Elly Griffiths
Some Like It Hawk (Meg Langslow #14), Donna Andrews
Eggs on Ice (Cackleberry Club, #8), Laura Childs
Murphy’s Law (Molly Murphy #1), Rhys Bowen
Justice Hall (Mary Russell #6), Laurie R. King
The Ghost Fields (Ruth Galloway #7), Elly Griffiths
Open Season (Joe Pickett #1), C.J. Box
An Early Wake (County Cork #3), Sheila Connolly
The Zig-Zag Girl (Magic Men #1), Elly Griffiths
The Hen of the Baskervilles (Meg Langslow #15), Donna Andrews