Design Wall Monday - February 3

Saturday turned out to be a non-sewing day.  I attended the monthly quilt guild meeting in the morning where the Show n Tell was amazing.  As always!  Guild was followed by grocery shopping and my list was long.  In the afternoon I ended up working on a puzzle while the laundry was running instead of going downstairs to sew.  

But . . . I did lay out the Twinkler blocks.  And I also discovered that the extra 2 blocks I sewed last week to bring the total to 30 - not needed because I already had 30.  There were 2 of them in the bottom of the project box, hiding out.  So, now there are 2 orphan blocks.  Sigh!  The final block arrangement needs a bit of tweaking but I plan to start sewing blocks together into rows today.  This will be the first of several blue UFO projects I plan to work on to meet some Rainbow Scrap Challenge goals I've set.

The third block in the Riley Blake challenge is Roses Among the Thorns, by Jennifer Long.  I ended up leaving out the stem and thorn, and adding those corner triangles.  It just seemed like too much white.  The next block will come out on Tuesday. 

The February block for Circle of Friends was released as well, so I'll be doing a little paper piecing this week.  I don't plan to follow the pattern color choices, but haven't decided yet what colors I do want to use in each spot.

A new prompt will come out today for the Stay At Home Round Robin.  My SAHRR project saw some changes last week, and now I like it much better. The HST prompt became grass below the pineapples.  I originally had 2 big yellow Snowball blocks above the little pineapple, and removed one. The remaining yellow Snowball became the sun with some little appliqued triangles.  Can't wait to see what this week brings. 

Blue is the RSC color for February, so that means I'll add some blocks for a new Quilt of Valor that I've been planning.  So far, I've made 10 Buckeye Beauty blocks from the QOV "leftover bin" currently taking up way too much space.  More are cut out, and I've made a little stack of fabric options for more of them.  At guild on Saturday I was handed a big bag of lovely donation fabrics for QOV.  I need to sew faster!!

There will be other things showing up this week in the sewing room I'm sure, but these need to be my main focus.  It's more than enough to keep me busy.

I'm linking up today with:

https://smallquiltsanddollquilts.blogspot.com/ 

https://songbirddesigns.blog