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I decided to mainly use my aqua/turquoise scraps  for this, with lavendar, lime, fuchia mixed in

After all the time I spent on my watercolor quilt, I thought, I should gather some other sized squares from the color bins, to organize some scraps by size and shape not colors

pastels

pretty much I worked on putting those tiny 2" squares together, each finishing at around 1 1/2" really making my quilt smaller 

19" X 22" ish. 

too small so I got these out to put on another whole row around this center...

maybe some floral appliques after all ...

Let's go! above is a sketchbook painting one morning. Instead of a neurographic abstract I drew a bottle then random lines crossing. Paint with windsor newton watercolor pens and water brush

this tine Ill start with fabric scraps... lots of hand embroidery/stitching on works in progress. 

tools of the trade sit out by the computer all the time

Making Zen workshop online was fun, 8 lessons a day in slow making, and I watched most lessons but really  about 4 of them. As for sewing, the color of the month is orange so I used orange in paints too

I was able to get some Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks done. I finally moved on to orange, and I’m enjoying working on these bright, colorful blocks.

I got two of these finished. 

And, two of these sixteen patch stars.

In my head, I call them the “biggie stars”. The blocks are 16”, so they look really big to me. I should be able to make a good sized quilt with them. Oh, I have a problem; I am going to run out of the background fabric soon. I have looked for more, including online, and can’t seem to ...

Oh my gosh, I have let myself get so far behind! This is the point where I typically get overwhelmed and give up after starting the year with a lot of motivation! My last RSC post was March, and I had done a few red blocks. I found some red hst’s that I hadn’t finished, so I did that first. 

Since I didn’t do a collage of the reds in March, I did one last night. Here it is:

I ...

Because of rainbow scrap challenge's color of the month PINK

I pulled out the bag of tiny pink squares, some tiny white squares, and sewed them into little approximately 3" to 4" blocks.  many of them

I pressed them but didn't trim to any one size, just laid them out to kind of match the ones next to it, and began to sew the rows together. I sort of trimmed the rows to 12" X  3-3.5" 

I used the tiny oddly shaped pink scraps to sew this 16 X 20" piece together this week... then sewed strips to the bottom to make it twice as long, so I could sew a tote bag with it

Now I'm wondering if I want a portfolio with it, sturdy enough to put fabrics on in a layout to be sewn at night in front of the TV. 

hmmm design never done! I like the bits of young women peeking thru and use of tiny scraps

There hasn’t been a lot of sewing happening lately. Life is busy! I have been working on the Stay at Home Round Robin, and I was able to get the borders finished and get it on the frame.

I’m really trying to get it quilted and bound by March 25th or whatever the deadline is but I don’t know. ??? I know I can get the quilting done, but I’m not feeling too confident about the binding. I’ll go as far as I can. 

I’ve worked some on my RSC blocks. In fact, I still ...

This week Project Quilting's prompt was opposite colors on the color wheel. I had in mind using golden yellow and lavender with applique of a close up tulip. 

I got out my watercolor paint palette from Derwent and just painted from the pretty pan colors to warm up, using one round brush, a 6" square paper, and white ink pen

I’m afraid I let the days get away from me a little bit, and I forgot to make a RSC post yesterday. I have made some more blocks with my green scraps, but not as many as I had anticipated. Maybe I can blame it on February being a short month. Anyway, I got my green blocks out last night and took some pictures, and it’s not too late to write a quick post.

And another one of the nine patches.

I've been spending my creative time sewing on two projects this week... 

The first is my hexie spiral in green scraps... and this year I'm trying to do blocks based on holidays or seasons, 

This time I am trying to make a St. Patrick's Day theme... I couldn't find one print I know I have, but did find two clover prints. and there is gold on one spiral fabric for the pot of gold, and a worm dressed up on clovers and some clovers blowing in the wind! 

I quite like this one, it's so ...

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The distraction was this pup, who came into our lives and home Sunday from a ranch in Colorado

"I'll be here napping if you need snoopervision mama"

I managed to get a couple of scrappy RSC blocks made this week in spite of running here and running there every day. 

I don’t have tons of green like I do blue, but there’s enough to have a few choices. The dark green I used on the second star is the same one I used on my February BOM. 

Here’s what is left: 

One piece about 7” x 15”. Should I cut it up for another RSC block or add it to the BOM box? Uugghh. Decisions. I ended up putting it in the BOM box ...

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge color for February is green. I wasn’t quite ready to give up on the blues, so I made a couple more of these: 

I may do even more blues if more 2.5” blue strips appear. I also made a couple of greens. 

Well, the last week of blues for the 2026 Rainbow Scrap Challenge. I’m sure we will get to make more blues next year. There are only so many colors to pick from, so they will continue to make an appearance every year. And the scraps continue to accumulate every year. Speaking of every year, I was cleaning out some of my stacks and found some blocks from a previous RSC. And, there are some blue ones!

I got way too excited when I found these! I didn’t do the RSC last year, so I’m thinking they were ...