Since pink is the color for February, I happen to have a pink project here in the apartment. I made a breast cancer awareness quilt in 2021 to save until it was needed. Last year I gave it away to friend who was diagnosed, so when the new line from Riley Blake came out in October, I bought a layer cake of Strength in Pink. I didn’t get it put together in October because I was still recovering & not sewing, so now I’m doing the blocks as L&E’s this month. So far I have 13. I’m making “Square Dance” by Material Girl Quilts, a free pattern that shows off the fabrics nicely with the large pieces & uses only a layer cake with no waste.
This week’s North Stars blocks by Elizabeth Hartman update: they still take forever to cut & sew. But so cute! Here is the seal, so that’s 3 of the 4 done!
And in my quilt group, we finished Cascade last week, so here’s our new project! We’ve decided to make the Fat Quarter Shop Sewcialites2 quilt. It started in October so there’s already 14 blocks out, but we’ll just plug along each week. This is #1 Perennial by Bev McCullough, made in the 6″ size. I got to go shopping & bought enough of this darling postal cancellation background for the whole quilt. Then I’m going to use up the leftovers from my Songbook kit, plus shop my partners’ stash for small pieces to complement. Turns out you can still be scrappy even if all your boxes of scraps are in the storage unit!!
And speaking of Songbook, I picked it up from the quilter (hence the shopping), & got the binding sewed on last night, so now I have some hand-sewing to work on in the evenings & it will be ready for me to use in the spring.
Such a sweet PINK project for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, Sue!t
What a great idea to keep a breast cancer quilt on hand. They are such a wonderful gift for the patient. You did Elizabeth Hartman’s seal block proud. It truly is adorable.
The Square Dance blocks are perfect for featuring those pretty prints! That will be a lovely quilt.
Thanks for the link to “Square Dance”. I just so happen to have a layer cake laying around which needs to be used. The seal block is cute and how fun to stitch a project together in a quilt group. Always good for motivation to keep up!
You’re welcome for the link. I cut up the layer cake all at once, divided up a center & the 4 sides into a pile, then put all the piles on a tray by my machine & have been using them as my Leaders & Enders. I always have an L&E project going & this has been perfect! Good luck!