Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2022-January red week 1

This week has been a lot of planning & cutting. I figured out the setting & chose the blocks I want to do for this long-awaited quilt. I allocated my chosen blocks to the various colors & cut the reds.

This low-volume scrappy quilt by Gigi’s Thimble is next on my list of 2022 projects. I got all the low-volumes cut & the various colors of charm squares collected or cut. They need to be sub-cut but I’ll do that month by month.

I’ve been planning to do Catching Rainbows by Bonnie Hunter as soon as I saw her working on it. I got the pattern on release day & set aside for RSC2022. There’s a lot of cutting to do for this quilt, so I’ve got the 7 red blocks all cut & some of the pinks.

Dancing Stars by Amy Ellis is a foundation pieced project that I’m doing with a batik layer cake I’ve had for a long time. I purchased a gray grunge for the background. The gray & whites are cut & most of the colored squares, plus the patterns are copied onto foundation paper. Ready to start sewing!

In other sewing news, I’m making a September Sky by Bonnie Hunter for Christmas 2022, but it’s going to be in scrappy green & yellow. I made all 64 of the green 9-patches so half the blocks for the quilt are done. I’ll set this aside & make the scrappy yellow stars later. But it feels good to have these done.