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Did you see what was chosen for the October color? It was posted on Wednesday—either light neutral or dark neutral. Hmmmm. I don’t know. I liked Angela’s suggestion to think about using the neutrals for sashing. I laid out my star blocks to see if I have enough for a quilt.

Well, I obviously need another block. I think I have another purple cut out—I just need to figure out where I put it. The blocks are 16” so if I add 2” sashing, the top will be 70” x 88” plus whatever I add for ...

It was a busy week, so I wasn’t able to do as much sewing as I had hoped. The Quilt Guild Open House was Thursday and Friday, and of course, I spent part of Wednesday getting all my stuff together. More on that at the end of this post. 

I’m so happy I was able to get the borders of the quilt I’m making for my church’s fall festival auction. I really like the way it is turning out! 

The border fabrics I ended up using are not what I had originally chosen. I purchased fabric specifically for the quilt, but once the center part was pieced, I didn’t like the way they looked.

it's Saturday and I chose and cut out fabrics for the purple hexi spiral this month. Color of the month is purple!

and tried to start setting up my new machine. 

had a momentary scare when it wouldn't come on, but it was the new surge protector not working. I need to figure out a go around, but it works when I plugged it into my power cord so.... 

I hope all of you had a good weekend. Mine was good and it was fairly productive. I didn’t do as much house cleaning as I had planned, but I got the bathrooms cleaned, load of laundry done, and the floors vacuumed. I also made a pass through my closet and removed some things that need to be donated. I had been meaning to do that for a few months now, and kept putting it off. 

I also got this quilt finished.

It was one of my goals to get it done, and it was such a relief. They ...

That said it's been hard to be creative with so much on my plate I didn't ask for... still

when you have a creative spirit, it wants to be expressed and brings a sort of normalcy to the unpredictability of change. 

even in photography... seeing a wonderful light effect and capturing the moment

the color of the month at RSC is one of my favorites. I have loved yellow in all it's tones since high ...

oy vey, it's generally too late to post your color work on the day it's announced and we only have 4 post days so I tried to reason out the probability and decided chances are it will be yellow or purple. 

so I worked on both! 

 This project resurfaced after my great wardrobe malfunction last year, and I was determined to work on it once I had completed my secret quilt sewing.  It started out like this, a bunch of multi-coloured string blocks, which I had started sewing burgundy batik sashing strips on.

String blocks

The top was completed in June, then it was  layered and pinned up ready for machine quilting.

Pinning up the quilt outside on a sunny winter day

The quilting took me ages, with stops and starts along the way.  Some days I was busy doing other things, and some days I ...

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