Sunday, January 3, 2016

Keeping up

with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2016....

Yesterday was the first Saturday for the scrap happy challenge and blue the colour for January with  a dash of purple.  I haven't felt much like sewing lately, so I thought a simple block for the challenge might be a good way to kick start myself.  I'm going to make churn dash blocks this year as they're pretty easy and quick to put together. One has been made, a start! this one is 9 ", but I'm thinking I'll mix it up a bit, make different sizes, styles and wonky or liberated...we'll see as it goes along!



Linking to Scraphappy Saturday at RSC2016.


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  1. Great start. Sometimes simple is just the right choice.

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    1. Yep, simple works just fine, at least something gets done.

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  2. Hi Nanette, what a pretty block... you'll have a lovely collection of them as the year progresses...
    happy 2016! x

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    1. Thanks Anthea, that keeps me going, watching the rainbow block collection grow. How are you doing?

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  3. I like that very much Nanette - Happy New Year!!

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    1. Thanks Pauline. And a Happy New Year to you too :)

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  4. Oh, different sized churn dashes in a quilt would be a lot of fun.

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  5. This block is in such pretty colours, and doing the rainbow challenge again will be fun. Hope you still love it when you get to brown! Think chocolate, toffee, coffee, toast, mahogany... I find it very helpful to think of pretty or descriptive names for colours I don't like much :-)

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    1. You are funny Kate :) I did a chocolate wonky star block in chocolate and quite liked that.....green's probably the colour I don't like much....oh oh! poor Emmely :)

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    2. So: grass, apple, olive, jade, forest, lettuce, willow... You'll be fine!

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  6. I keep seeing the Churn Dash block everywhere - especially on the blogs of the F2F participants! - but I've never made one. I like that you say it's 'easy' ;) so I think I'll have a go.

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  7. I think you've done much more complicated blocks Lyn...and very well. Go on, have a go. Look out Emmely, lots of green churn dashes coming your way:)

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    1. Scarily enough, I've already made Emmely's so, as I have time, I might make a couple of practice churn dashes between now and the next month.

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  8. Wow, finished already, you are amazing. I thought I was doing well to have pulled green fabrics and thought about blocks before the end of the year! Can't wait to see if you made some modern wonkies? You could practise some churn dashes in my colours if you like.

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  9. Very pretty first block of the RSC year!

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    1. Thanks Sue, it felt good to just make a start.

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  10. I've always like this block. Different sizes and Wonky sounds interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with it this year. I read your post about saving Neesa. You have a big heart.

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  11. I'm finding it easy to make churn dashes, it's an easy block, and can have many different looks depending what fabric is placed where. Thank you for your kind words about rescuing Neesa.

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