I got a donation WIP ready for my quilting partner to quilt for Joyful Welcome, a local group we donate to that gives quilts to new moms in hospitals that are teen or unwed. I still have several of these cut & ready to sew with various donated fabrics. It’s a quadrant of Quilty Love’s Star Pop 2 pattern.
Below is Melissa Corry’s Scraptastic Stars. I’m getting so excited to get this to a finish by the end of the year. I had planned at the beginning of the year to make 9 blocks & have a smallish square, but on recent reflection, I want a longer lap quilt, so need 12 blocks. Choice: make a couple extras this year to get it to the finish line in 2025 or let it drift to the first part of 2026’s colors? Not sure.
The top are my County Fair blocks by Amy Smart & I’m also getting excited to get this one put together at the end of the year. The 2.5″ square rail fences are a continuation from last year’s RSC projects, so some day I will have to throw them all on the wall & see what I have!
I started sewing the previously cut auction quilt for Festival of Trees, so maybe in a couple weeks I’ll have a flimsy to show. Our theme this year is 12 Days of Christmas.
Delightful purple blocks!
That star design is perfect for a sweet little donation quilt! Sounds great to have a partner who will quilt it, too. Love all your purple blocks – that star has the perfect name!
Lots of pretty purples here! Baby quilts are always fun to make and donate, I give mine to a similar charity here looking after new Mums and their babies.
love your purples!! I really like that scrappy star block!!
Such fun blocks! You’re doing great with RSC purple!
Wow! Way to use those purples!
I really like your County Fair blocks. I’m wondering how you will put them together in a quilt — with or without sashing, in some kind of color order by center squares or dominant color, etc. I also like that you have several different blocks in progress for each color. I just started sewing for the RSC several months ago. I’ll have to do more planning for next year.
They will be on point with setting triangles & sashing, totally scrappy & mixed up colors. I think. Unless I lay it out & decide to do it ombre across the quilt. LOL I lurked around the group for a couple years before plunging in & you’ve probably seen that everyone does their own thing. Here’s what has worked for me. I pick a couple patterns I want to do (like County Fair) that lend themselves to lots of colors & put them on my list. I look at the pattern & decide how many of each color I need to make each month, then just grab fabrics & make them, putting it all together at the end. Then I pick a couple of patterns, choose the fabrics, cut them in January, put them in a project box, & pull out the needed color each month, sew, throw them back in to finish at end of year. This makes a more planned & coordinated quilt that’s still RSC. Then I have a couple of blocks I like that I do each month & figure out how to lay them out at the end of the year. So it’s a variety of approaches. Inspired by a fellow RSC quilter, this year I started just making some string blocks in the color of the month while the string bin is out, & later I will turn them into donation quilts. So many ways to do it, but I do feel like I’m more successful when I do some planning in December & prepping in January.