The first week of the month didn’t include much sewing. I got a little done on several things, but this week was much more productive. I got a top sewn with the back pieced & ready to go to the quilter for a Christmas gift, got the binding sewn on another Christmas gift for hand-sewing, and worked on sashing up the long-finished blocks for my rainbow Farmer’s Wife. Plus some yellow goodness!
I’m making a king-size Irish Chain quilt as a Christmas gift so it will need to be done before the year is out. So even though it’s a rainbow quilt, it won’t exactly work with the monthly goals due to the deadline. I’m working on the four-patches in all the colors, but thought I’d get the yellow blocks all done this month because….yellow! I’m using the tutorial from Melissa Corry. I made a queen-size for my guest bed a few years ago & it’s probably my fav quilt EVER that I’ve made.
I made 4 of my tweaked Cozy Stars from the Pat Sloan QAL called Cozy Things . These are happy little pinwheel stars that just look fun.
I worked on these checkerboard blocks last year and have a pile in various colors. Since I now have the pattern, Cynthia Brunz‘s Scrap Mixology pattern called Chaser, I counted my blocks & figured out how many I still need to make in which colors. So I have a plan now & there were 3 more yellow needed to keep this project on track.
I got 2 yellow columns made for the quilt inspired by Julie of Me and My Quilts. This is a great L&E project. I pulled the already cut gray 2.5″ squares & yellow 2.5″x4.5″ yellow rectangles, made sets of 4 & put them by my machine to run through while working on other projects. And all of a sudden there were 2 columns!
Beautiful bits of sunshine YELLOW fabric scraps in all of these blocks! Nice work on sewing along with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.
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Wow, lots of yellow projects to work on. Love the stars blocks…have a great day!
That Irish Chain layout is a fun one! Glad you have a plan for getting it done in time. Christmas seems a long way off, but in quilt terms it really isn’t. It sounds like you are well organized for lots of productivity this year. You will have a great stack of quilts ready at the end of the year!
You have so many wonderful scrappy yellow blocks! I love the Pinwheel Stars, and the leader/ender columns are a great idea! (I might have to borrow that one!)
Goodness me, aren’t you doing well with all that yellow!
Love all the sunny blocks in your post. The two columns are going to be awesome in the quilt. It definitely looks like a great leader/ender project.
I am liking all that yellow!! Looks like you had a very productive week!