RSC25 - Week #17

I have a finish!  I started making these blocks for a Quilt of Valor during the blue month, and continued until I had enough.  A member of our QOV group picked up the flimsy and backing to quilt it.  A couple of days later she brought it back with gorgeous star quilting.

I added RED binding and finished it off this week.  It turned out very pretty.

Hollow 9-patch blocks are a good scrap buster.  I had made only 2 each month so far this year, but knew that I had some made last year and tucked them away somewhere.  I found them and was a bit disappointed that there were only 10 blocks in the bag.  However, in with the missing blocks was a picture of a possible layout along with my notes.  

My plan is to make sets of 4 and then add a narrow light sashing and colorful cornerstones. I've begun sewing what I have into sets of 4 blocks.  Then I'll have a better idea of what colors I should focus on when digging into the basket of 2.5" squares during the rest of 2025.  

A flimsy with plenty of red has been finished.  This Quick Strippie was quick to assemble this week because I already had the strip sets made the week before.

   

One red Night Vision block - with bonus pinwheels - joined the party.  This makes 29 of the Night Vision blocks, and there is just 1 more set remaining of the black and white squares I had cut last year for this project.  I'm still thinking of how I want to layout these 9" (finished) blocks for a quilt.  And whether or not to use the pinwheels with them or in something separate. 

I have a good start on my son-in-law's Lone Star quilt.  It's a rainbow - just not scrappy.  Although that would work too!  This was my primary project this week.  So far half of the star points are assembled.  The edges of those some of those diamonds are on the bias, cut from strip sets of 5 colors, then rows cut diagonally from those strip sets.  And I've had to do a lot of measuring and pinning to get them to match up.  I still haven't decided on a background color but am leaning toward a medium to dark grey.  I'm wishing that I hadn't used black in the actual star because black would have been a good background to make the colors pop.  

 And finally - there is this . . .  a braid strip made completely from scraps.  I was looking at a book I have on braid quilts, and remembered that I had bought the tiny little ruler too.  So I just had to pull out some strings and the ruler and play.  I have no clue yet what I'm going to do with this but it made a good leader/ender while I worked on other projects this week. 

I'll be linking up today with Rainbow Scrap Challenge:

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