RSC2024-Random July final week

Look at what happened in my quilt group this week: some scrap aqua & light blocks. So I managed to stick with y’all on the color theme this month, if you disregard the green.

This is Hope #3, my third Breast Cancer Awareness quilt & I finished the hand-sewing on the binding this week. I’ve made one each Sept in honor of my friend, Traci, who passed away after her third battle in Sept 2021. The first was a way to process my grief, with the idea that I would gift it to someone dealing with breast cancer. I’ve given away the first two, so now there’s one ready for another gifting. Which hopefully won’t happen because I don’t want friends or family to deal with this. With all that’s happened in my life, it’s taken a while to get this one finished, so it will be time for the next one to start in a couple months, but I have the fabric ready to go. This was made with the free pattern, No Point Stars from Cluck Cluck Sew. It’s an easy pattern, but very striking in any color combo.

I want to get some WIP’s off the shelf so I pulled out my blocks for Catching Rainbows by Bonnie Hunter. This was an RSC2022 project. I have several of these still around because of the accident, move, surgery, blah, blah, blah. My accident was in August 2022 so I got many blocks done for each project, but some are still sitting in the boxes. When I pulled these out, there weren’t any orange & purple as those are the months I was recovering. I started laying it out & decided that even though I was making a smaller quilt than Bonnie’s, it was still bigger than I wanted. So out came the red & a couple others. This is the result with a few more string blocks made to fill in the border. It’s a sort of pastel rainbow. LOL I like it & it’s a good lap size that is in the queue for quilting.