I got all the blue done that I needed on this year’s projects during the previous two months of blue shades, so felt like there was nothing for me to do this month to move my current projects forward. What to do? I decided to move ahead on Bonnie Hunter’s Sand Castle blocks. I had all the string blocks sewn together a few months ago but haven’t cut the centers, so I made all the 4-patches, then cut some blue centers and put together four blocks. I like ’em!
I did the pink blocks for the Alison Glass Sun Print 2016 project. Economy blocks are a little tedious to put together so doing a few each month makes this project fun each month when I come back to it.
Rainbow Stairsteps based on a layout by Julie. This project gets more & more exciting with each color I finish. I can’t wait to get to the end of the year & start assembling it.
Tumbling Strings is inspired by a selvage quilt by Cathy and got a fun pink row, plus I made 3 more blocks for the checkerboard project that’s a low priority.
Since I finished the Diamond Strings, I got distracted by an Arrowhead Puzzle quilt I saw here. I fell in love with it & downloaded the pattern from her link. It’s all 2.5″ squares & I have piles of them already cut in all colors, so it became my L&E project. I quickly caught up with the earlier colors from the year & now here are the pinks. They are accumulating on my design wall & I predict it will be done long before the end of the year! 🙂
So that’s my June work for RSC, the month is only half over & I’m on to other projects until the July color announcement. Happy sewing!
Since the color for May is dark green, I was a little out of it for the month. I did all the necessary green blocks for my projects during the January light green month, so was left with nothing really to do this month. I decided that since this long-standing project was pretty close to completion, I would finish up the last of the string blocks & put the top together this month. That ends one of my RSC projects for the year, which is great because I kind of added another last month. 🙂
These rainbow strings were inspired by Angela of soscrappy and are my first string blocks. I loved sewing them! But putting them together was a challenge. With all those stretchy edges it was hard to get it to lie flat. But I love it. Wanna make more strings!!!
My other rainbow project was to turn these orphan blocks into a small baby quilt top for eventual donation. They’ve been languishing in a project box so it was good to sew them up & get them to the flimsy stage. It has joined the giant pile of tops on the guest room bed waiting to go to the quilter when I emerge from quarantine.
April’s color is light or sky blue. I did my turquoise blocks last month with the teal month, so some of my projects don’t really need light blue. Therefore it’s a slim month for my RSC projects.
Rainbow Stairsteps got some medium blue which is darker than last month’s aqua but not dark blue. This month I tried sewing long strips to the white squares, then trimming the whole block to size & they are much straighter. So I’m done cutting them to length first. Based on a layout by Julie.
I did the light blue blocks for the Alison Glass Sun Print 2016 project. I love that these blocks are accumulating a little at a time and by the end of the year, they will be done & I can start adding the sashing & putting it together.
I made 3 more checkerboard blocks to add to the pile. It will be interesting to see how this project shapes up in 2021.
The bottom row is the new one for the month in light & medium blues. Since I have a section ready, I sewed the rows together & I’m loving this! When we get to yellow, that will go between the orange & green rows. Tumbling Strings is inspired by a selvage quilt by Cathy.
Since I didn’t have as many projects to do this month, I started an L&E project with my pile of cut 2.5″ squares. I fell in love with this quilt at Sane, Crazy, Crumby Quilting. It’s an Arrowhead Puzzle block quilt & she kindly provided a link to the free block pattern. I decided to just start making some & someday it will be a quilt. I also made some orange & green blocks for the Jan & Feb colors. They are quick & lovely.
So March is teal with its friends, turquoise & aqua. I have 6 projects going for RSC this year which is a bit much, I know. But this month I didn’t do have to do as much because Diamond Strings and End of the Rainbow don’t use teal. They need a more regular blue but I figure that will be coming later in the year, so I left them alone. I only worked on 4 of my projects this week and got them all done with one more week to go in the month!
This Tumbling String project is just super fun. I dug around my I-Spy stash for the “solid” tumblers, then used my string stash for the striped blocks. It is inspired by a selvage quilt by Cathy.
Cute aqua blocks for Rainbow Stairsteps. I love these blocks more each month, although I’m still trying to figure out how to make them come out a little straighter. Based on a layout by Julie.
Light & dark turquoise square-in-square blocks for my Sun Print 2016 by Alison Glass kit. I used my Mini Simple Folded Corner ruler on these blocks with my small cutting mat by my machine so it went fast & efficiently. I also sent the matching waste triangles through at the same time this month so now I have a bunch of cute HST’s all done rather than a bunch of triangles in a bag.
Three checkerboard blocks to add to the pile. I used all the 2.5″ squares without repeating that I have cut out in my 2.5″ bin, so I stopped. I figure I don’t need as many of this color in a rainbow quilt, but I can always make more later if I lay it out & decide I need more.
So there it is. Hope everyone is surviving their Coronacation or self-isolation or mandatory quarantine or whatever is going on in your life. Happy sewing!