Two dark blue scrappy friendship star blocks. I was inspired by Deb A. to make these cute & cheery little blocks & they have been so fun. Also they are whittling down my 2.5″ square stash. I almost have enough of these for a quilt. Yippee!
I’ve been working on these Chaser blocks from the Scrap Mixology pattern by Cynthia Brunz as a 2020 & 2021 RSC project. These are the last of the 63 blocks I need for a lap quilt, so I laid them all out in a spectrum order on my design wall & will sew them together in rows as L&E’s. Until I need my design wall for something else, then they will either get taken down & stacked, or sewed up in a blitz.
These are my plus blocks in medium blue. I didn’t want to go too dark because they don’t show up well against the dark gray background. I only have orange left for this quilt, so orange must be August’s color! Then I have to play with blocks & decide on a layout plan. I have an idea of what I want. We’ll see.
So that’s July. I’ve managed to keep up with all my RSC projects this year, plus making all the quilts I’m giving away for Christmas, graduation & wedding quilts that happened this year, & one for me. I’ve also made 12 star blocks for the July-August Covered in Love block drive . I didn’t get any new ones done this week but still have all of August to make a few more. I got my Festival of Trees top finished this week (Wizard of Oz theme) & am waiting for the backing to arrive. Then I have one more Christmas quilt to make. It got cut out this week, so sewing can start soon. Plus I’m going to cut out a Hocus Pocus by the Pattern Basket to start on for me. Whew!
You’ve been busy! I love those friendship star blocks that Deb made, too!
All your blue blocks are pretty, but dark blue scrappy friendship star blocks are my favorite.
You have done very well indeed, love those scrappy star blocks. I’ve made a version of the checkerboard blocks last year, always effective and they go together nice and easily.
The scrappy stars are so twinkling cute! Looking forward to seeing what the checkerboard become!