Rainbow Scrap Challenge ....
Mentally I've still been taking part in this challenge, but in reality, not at all. So I've spent some time this week getting back into it. It's been made easier by having the contents of my sewing room all back in the same space, instead of spread out all over the house, while walls were painted and carpets cleaned. I pulled everything out of my sewing room twice, after the carpet cleaner's bucket leaked dirty water all over the carpet and left a huge nasty stain, which he couldn't remove. He refunded my money plus extra, and I had the carpet pulled up and the floor painted. I like it, wish I'd done it sooner, so much easier to clean up all the threads, fabric scraps and dropped pins.
So those RSC blocks.... I decided instead of working from where I left off, way back in March, I'd catch up with October, which is brown, although chocolate sounds better.... and work my way backwards. I don't have a lot of scrappy pieces, but enough bigger pieces to cut 4" blocks for a wonky star. Brown isn't my favourite colour but Angela encouraged us to give it a try, now that it's made, I really love it.
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| Here's all my stars so far, missing a few months there....pinned up under a rainbow bunting I made for a pop-up shop we had in a recent Art Trail Exhibition here in town |
Check out Angela's blog soscrappy to see what others have done with their chocolate fabrics.
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.......and an update on the Foot2Freestyle block swap, organised by Kate and Sue. Susan from Desert Sky Quilts was the Queen for August, and she requested red and white, blue and white or a mix of all 3 colours. She's received mine now so I can show what I sent..... a couple of wonky stars and Squares within Squares from Quilter's Cache.
Sue was the recipient for September, but as she's not received hers yet, I can't show you what I made, but she chose a wonderfully vibrant mix of black and white with a pop of whatever hot colour we wanted to use. Go here to the F2F gallery to see all the awesome, amazing blocks that have been made. There's even a couple there already for Lynn, who is Miss October. I have her fabrics sitting out, waiting patiently to be transformed.
That's it for now, I have a couple of XXXL fluoro orange sweatshirts to make for a friend for her big son, so better get to it.
'till next time ........
They look fantastic. I haven't touched any sewing for ever so long. I suffer from and autoimmune disease and just moving hurts. But I've been slowly getting it ready because I'm fingers are itching to start stitching again lol
ReplyDeleteThanks Angela, nice to see you here again, but sorry to hear you're not well. It must be awful not to be able to do the things you love, I hope you can get back to stitching again soon.
DeleteYou have been busy...love those blocks!! What a challenge...clearing your sewing room twice! I cringe at the thought of doing that with my sewing room, lol!
ReplyDeleteWe manage to cram so much in our sewing rooms don't we, I think it was easier to haul everything out than put it back unfortunately, I still have to go rummaging in a couple of places to find things. Thanks, glad you like my blocks.
DeleteGood work getting those blocks done. They look good all together. The colours were June - darker blues, July - red, August - indigo/black/grey
ReplyDeleteYour floor sound lovely. They will be so easy to keep clean and won't retain the dust like carpet does..
The colours start to come together nicely once there's a few of them, I guess that's what keeps us going. I love my new floor, I should post some pics, and thanks for the colours for the other months, that saves me trolling back through Angela's blog. The indigo sounds interesting.
DeleteSo glad that you are getting caught up again. Your chocolatey brown block looks delicious. Happy to hear that the floor worked out well eventually, though I'm sure it was horrible while it was happening.
ReplyDeleteThanks Angela, you were right, it was good to try the chocolate.
DeleteLove these blocks - they're on my future list. You are in spring - we are deep in fall here.
ReplyDeleteThanks, they're a really easy block to do. You'll be pulling out the woolly warmers soon?
DeleteMentally monitoring sounds just fine to me, I'm mentally sort of monitoring about a dozen ideas, yet to even start! Your ona winner in that you have started and intend to finish.... that works fine surely!
ReplyDeleteLove the orange, its a colour I adore but never think to buy myself, there must be a psychological reason for that lol I need to fathom what it is and get buying lol
Lynn, you are funny...:)
DeleteI *LOVE* that chocolate block, and the orange one - a quilt made from both those colours would be lavishly gorgeous! And I'm with you on a non-carpeted sewing room floor; my wooden floorboards were a revelation when we moved; no more pins in my bare feet because I couldn't find the one I dropped in the carpet! I'm going to try to get Lynn's blocks done this week, rather than leave it to the end like last time.
ReplyDeleteThat would be like wrapping yourself in a big jaffa .....they're vibrant together though. I'm with you on getting Lynn's blocks done sooner rather than later, now that these RSCs are done I can concentrate on them.
DeleteCongratulations on getting your room back in order. What a joy it must be now! Your chocolate and orange vlocks turned out very well, look good enough to eat. Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteWell...the room's back in order enough for me to work in here, I still have bits of things tucked all over the house....the downside of having others help shift things, lovely though the help is, things ended up all over the place. thanks for your kind words about the blocks. Next task is to get around and visit other RSCers.
DeleteI have recently been thinking of you and wondering where you are. Nice to see you back!! I love those panels made up and hanging altogether - I never imagined such a thing and want to urge you to keep going - I'd love to see what you end up with. I do love the chocolate square especially :-)
ReplyDeleteHi Pauline, busy doing stuff to my house, and then disasters like the carpet and all the clutter of having things piled in every room didn't leave much head space for blogging. Thanks, pleased you like my wonky stars.....those blocks are 15 " so will make a big quilt!
DeleteI love your blocks. So sorry to hear about your carpet disaster. I think you will enjoy your easy to clean fioor,
ReplyDeleteSeems like the carpet disaster was a blessing in disguise....I love my new floor. Thanks for the 'like' for my blocks'
DeleteThose Wonky Stars are going to make a fabulous quilt (after you catch up). But the good part about RSC is that there is no rush and you can always carry on into next year.
ReplyDeleteI love that too about RSC, that there's always next month, next year. I agree, this big bold starry quilt is going to be woderful.
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