RSC2025-April week 4

This is my red Strippy Slab Star. There’s still a few days of April left to do my other two red projects!

I managed a finish this week by getting the binding on “Catching Rainbows” from Bonnie Hunter. This was an RSC2022 project that came to a crashing halt with my fall. Last year I got it out to sew the rest of the blocks & get it together but decided I wanted a smaller lap-size quilt. I used the pastel-ish blocks to make this lap quilt. That left me with 9 red blocks that became a donation quilt & 5 various color blocks combined with B&W string blocks to make another donation. I have two projects left from RSC2022 that need to find an ending. Pretty good for all the accidents & surgeries since then!

In mid-2023 my quilt group started two Brightly quilts: Christmas & non-Christmas. We swapped Christmas fabrics & each chose leftover scraps for the other one. I gathered up all the leftovers from Songbook, added a few new FQs from Songbook2 & shopped my stash to start this one. I had a big gray chunk, so used it for background. We worked on them alternating weeks for a month, then I torpedoed us by saying I wanted the Christmas done to use in my new house for the holidays. So we worked on that & got it finished in time (yay!), then this one sat because they wanted to do something else. When we finished our tabletopper project, I lobbied to finish this since I’m trying to get WIPs done. It went together fast & the top got done this week! When will it go to the quilter? Get in line!

Apparently I cut too many squares & since I was just chain-piecing like a fool, I ended up with a bunch of random leftovers. What to do? Make a baby row quilt for donation, of course! It’s a little crazy, but hopefully someone will love it. It’s cheerful.