I Guess Once a Year I Work on This

I made 20 more String Star blocks.

From previous blog posts it looks like I started these blocks in May 2012

 and worked on them again in June 2013. 

I save all my 1.5 inch 30s reproduction scraps and when I get a plastic grocery bag pretty full I feel it's time to get to work on these blocks again.  

I think I counted 148 blocks and I think I need 288 blocks for a quilt 80 x 90.

At this rate I guess it will be a few years before I see a finished quilt. 

Although there are still 30s scraps in the bag I think I'm out of the Kona Spring fabric I've been using for the stars. 

Tales from the Dark Side

Brown, black and gray are the "colors" of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. 

I have lots of scraps of each of those "colors" so I'm not sure I'll get all those scraps used up this month. 

I started with brown from the 1.5 inch scrap bin and made some 3 inch spool blocks. 

And I made some 3 inch 9 patches for an upcoming swap.  I'm using the darker little 9 patches in one of my Jack's Chain quilts. 

Got brown, black, gray scraps? 

Use them up and then join us for ScrapHappy Saturday. 

Yellow 1.5 and Then Some

This is the final week for YELLOW for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC). 

From my 1.5 inch scraps I ended up with 13 - 3 inch spools to add to my collection from last year. 

And I made 12 3 inch butterfly blocks.   

I've joined some of them into blocks. 

I'm going to make a quilt similar to the vintage butterfly quilt I saw at Nostalgic Cafe. 

I also finished a vintage Sunbonnet Sue in yellow from 1.5 inch squares. 

Pattern is at Q is for Quilter.   

I've been making the girls since the middle of last year so only need a few more colors before I can start assembly. 

When finished it will be a baby quilt I will put in a hope chest for first great granddaughter born. 

And in the "and then some" category I made a batty pinwheel and 3- 8 inch depression blocks of yellow and one other color HSTs left over from the "Little Monkey" blocks I made earlier in the month.  

Got Scraps?

Join us each week for  RSC ScrapHappy Saturday and show us what you made. 

Postage Stamps

I found this little Sunbonnet Sue block made of postage stamp sized squares (1.5 inches)  at the Q is for Quilter blog so thought I would try it with some of my brown scraps I still had sitting out from November's Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  I think I will make a girl from scraps of every color as part of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2014.  I am rolling over a lot of projects to next year that  I started this year with RSC 2013.  Early in the year I used a lot of crumbs each month that turned into some cute donation quilts. 

I finished a few more 49 patch postage stamp blocks to add to my collection.    I only have one low volume patch and I was thinking a bunch of those blocks with some lacy old doilies and such appliqued on top would be pretty so I may try that next. 

Brown Things

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge for 2013 is winding down for this year.  Brown is the color for this month and after that we are on our own to catch up on blocks or to assemble blocks in December. 

I used brown 2.5 inch scraps to make some Little Monkey blocks.  I think this makes 89 - 5 inch blocks for my collection. 

And here's some miscellaneous brown blocks. A 49 patch out of 1.5 inch scraps, an 8 inch Depression Block and a 6 inch heart block made from 1.5 inch scraps. 

To see what others are doing with their brown scraps visit SoScrappy's blog for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge linky party. 

The Answer is Blowing in the Wind

What did I do with my yellow scraps- the color for this month's Rainbow Scrap Challenge?  Well, there weren't many so I had to combine them with orange and red...

...to get enough for 24 - 8 inch crumby bow tie blocks...

...which are now a quilt top blowing in the wind (which makes it difficult to take a photo) that needs some borders. Then it will be a quilt for Quilts Beyond Borders or Wrap-a-Smile. 

I needed some yellow spools for my collection (now I have 150 spools) so I cut into some yellow fabrics for those and I found enough yellow in my postage stamp box (1.5 inch squares) for a yellow patch.

I also decided to cut into some yellow in my stash to work on my Floribunda quilt which is a UFO. I added 13 more blocks for a total of 25.   

So, this month I used up most of my yellow scraps and then started making more.  To check out what everyone else is doing with yellow visit SoScrappy's blog for Scrap Happy Saturday.  I'm going to go check out everyone else's projects and then go work in the garden. It's finally a sunny day and that wind felt so good while I was out taking pictures and the strawberries are ready for picking (and weeding). 

Does Size Matter? I'm Fine with 1.5 Inches! In Fact, I'm Having Fun!

A few times a year I participate in a 3 inch 9 patch swap. These are some of the ones I'll be swapping in April.

Since last year I've been making them into 5 inch Sister's Choice blocks with blue points and wow background.  I now have 112 blocks and hope to someday make a queen-sized quilt. 

On another list there was a postage stamp swap. Yes, I swapped 25 sets of 50 1.5 inch squares! I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with them but my 4 year old grandson helped me sort them into color groups and then I sewed them together into 7x7 blocks.  I put all the little novelty/I Spy type fabrics into a block of their own for a tiny I Spy doll quilt.  The rest of these might go toward a rainbow type postage stamp quilt.

Then there are blocks of black, white and gray and a couple of red blocks...so maybe these will go toward a black, white and red quilt or the red will go into the rainbow quilt and I'll have a separate black/white quilt.

Most ladies who swapped  must prefer blue or brown since I was able to make 4 blocks of each color. 

 I'm definitely going to make a separate brown/cream quilt. I like these squares the most.

And now I've cut up a lot of my small  (and old) pieces of fabric into 1.5 inch strips for a spools strip swap with ladies on yet another list.

To see what others have on their Design Walls, Floors, etc...visit Design Wall Monday at Patchwork Times!