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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 ...

In May of last year, Mary Helen reached out to me with a request for a T-Shirt Quilt.  I said Yes, but it would have to wait till the end of the year.

On the banks of the Potomac

Stabilizing T-shirts

Layering ...

Good morning friends. I’m still playing with scraps. I hade made four blue nine patches last week,

and I was undecided about what to do with them. I had some leftover blue strips, and I played around and came up with this. 

I like them, but I still don’t know what I will do with them. I’m thinking I can use the neutral as a sashing assuming I have enough left.

I got another 16-patch star made with light blue this time. 

It’s pretty cute, but I think it will be the last blue one. I ...

I am continuing to work on my blue blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Sometimes I feel like I spend more time thinking about what I want to work on than actually working on them. Does anyone else feel that way? I’m also surprised at how many blue scraps I keep coming up with. Blue is not my favorite color, but I sure seem to have a lot of it. I’m hoping this challenge will help me use up some of it! It probably won’t make any noticeable impact! 

I’m happy to say I was able to start my RSC 2026 blocks. I have two or three different blocks in mind, but I made a start on one of them. I have been making 16-patch blocks for a few weeks with the 2.5” scraps Betty gave me.

And I used it to do hand stitching on this week's brown scrap project (for rainbow scrap challenge) 

You basically stack backing, batting, hexie then quilt it. Next you fold the backing to the front one side at a time, fold twice to hide raw edges, clip in place, then do the next side, around. Now the block is quilted, edges finished and sewn into place 

and now I have 24 finished quilt blocks to hand sew together into a quilt. I love how they came out, love the different backing purples ...

This week, I finished the hexie spiral in light pale green, or pale as I could handle! LOL 

The image above shows the blocks made in pale green, regular green, and aqua scraps

I now have 9 blocks done

now for the light blue hexie ...

the changing seasons are exciting especially coming into the possibility of cooler temps. 

the color of the month at rainbow scrap challenge is pale green and pale blue.... so on walks I look for those colors.... 

An artist paints what she sees but what she sees is primarily what she looks for

I admit I'm drawn to saturated colors so focusing on pale ones is more difficult. 

what kind of ...

This week I've been using AQUA (and all it's tones) scraps to make dragonflies!! 

pattern source: MODA

I like contrast mostly so I usually include all values of a color when I make something

Above I showed some of the prepped hexies on their way to this month's block

started with looking through the turquoise scrap bin and choosing these fabrics