RSC2024-orange August week 1

A new month & I dug into my orange scraps. First off, I got the top done for the Mini Brightly Pumpkin table topper by Cluck Cluck Sew. This is totally a scrap buster as I made it from the leftovers of my daughter-in-law’s Hocus Pocus quilt & this will be a birthday present for her next month after I quilt it.

I got the large orange Scrappy Hearts by Quilty Love done, plus the Two-Step blocks from Lissa Alexander’s book “Scrap School”, made with 2.5″ squares. Over on the right are 2 of the 6 orange blocks I need for my RSC2022 project from the Tula Pink 100 Modern Quilt Blocks book. I am attempting to slowly finish up that year’s RSC projects that have blocks made until I had my fall in August of that year. Orange are all I have left for Tula, then I can start putting it together, so I’m happy about that.

The blue & green are the Bonnie Hunter’s 2024 Leader & Ender Challenge: County Clare that I got done this week. The pumpkins rather made their own L&E’s so I didn’t need too many County Clare.

The last of the RSC2022 Catching Rainbows blocks did NOT go in the orphan block box as I said last week. Instead, I decided to power through & figure out something to do with them so they would be out of here. I made these B&W string blocks, added sashing, & another small baby donation is ready for my quilting partner to quilt up. So those RSC blocks ended up making 3 quilts!

And finally, a finish! I started this Summer Block Party quilt (on a whim) on 20 June, the first day of summer, & put the final stitch into the binding last night, 9 August. Unusually for me, this quilt went from start to finish in 7 weeks, with me keeping up with the designers dropping the patterns each week. It was a total squirrel project that I will probably keep for me, as it will be fun summer decor.