I made these gray Two-Step blocks from Lissa Alexander's book "Scrap School", using 2.5" squares. I got out the year's worth of colors & laid them out on the design wall to see where I'm at with this quilt. By putting together about 20 more in … [Continue reading] about RSC2024-Sept week 2
Since this month is black, plus Cynthia announced the charity block drive for this quarter & it has black squares, I decided to just spend the week sewing as many as I could get done. It turned into 57! I thought it would use up these color … [Continue reading] about RSC2024-Sept week 1
Design wall mania! I'm all done with orange so this week was dedicated to working on a WIP: River Log Cabin by Amy Ellis. I got about half the blocks made from all the cut pieces that have been languishing in a box for more than a year. Also showing … [Continue reading] about RSC2024-August week 4
I dug into my previously cut pile of 2.5" squares to produce 4 rail fence blocks. These are fun sewing & I'm thinking about a quilt layout. Rainbow order or mixed up? Sew the 4 of each color into a block with sashing surrounding? Hmmm. And … [Continue reading] about RSC2024-orange August week 3
My orange scraps yielded four Split Nine Patches made of 2.5" squares. I love the look of these & still haven't decided how I'm going to lay out the quilt. I finished the orange blocks for Sliding Scale & sewed all the blocks into rows. … [Continue reading] about RSC2024-orange August week 2