RSC24 - Week #17

The Beehive baby quilt is coming together nicely. Yellow is the dominant color,  which is why I pulled out this kit for this month.  It still needs an outer border, possibly green.  One more PIG moved along to the next phase - almost.  The lighting here makes the quilt look so dull, but it was a grey rainy day. In reality it's bright and cheerful with those yellows. 

Lots of scrappy happiness is going on lately. And I've been taking my inspiration from blogland for how to use some of the scrappy blocks I've been collecting.

Loose Goose is becoming a Spinning Loose Goose.  I've been making these 3-D Flying Geese blocks in 2 sizes, finishing at 3 x 6 and 2 x 4.  By stacking them like this with a 2.5" strip down the right side I end up with a 12.5" block.  And putting 4 blocks together, with the direction spinning, I'll end up with a nice big 24" block.  

I'm working on sewing the Boxed Squares into a flimsy.  These were RSC blocks over the past couple of years.  The 6" blocks are basically black and white frames around 2.5" bright centers.  One of the reasons I love doing lots of different blocks for RSC every year is that they add up quickly to be enough for a quilt top.  There were more of these than I had anticipated.  Today we're going to watch a granddaughter at a swim meet, but maybe tomorrow the two-sies will become rows.

Thanks to another blogger I'm playing with an idea to use up the little drawer full of 3.5" Hourglass blocks made from trimmed corners.  This bunch of triangles has colors plus scrappy white, and I think if I turn them into Square-in-a-square blocks using scrappy greys, a fun new quilt will be born.  For now the sample I made plus the picture I "borrowed" from that blog are tucked into the drawer with the Hourglass blocks.  

I did get back to the Big Grey Tote this week, and pulled out a few chunks of fabric that were big enough to cut more Kitty blocks.  These 5 have been added to the growing collection.  

Also in that tote was this completed flimsy - all made with batiks.  It's 34 x 44, so a decent size for a donation lap quilt.   And there was a completely finished Christmas wall hanging that is now in the rummage sale box.  So now I'm mostly down to the loose scraps in the tote, and it will definitely take time to go through those - to cut into useful sizes, put back into the stash, or throw in the trash.  It's a time consuming job. 

Let's see what else is happening in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge world . . .
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