One little pile of scraps did not end up in the scrap bins! Yay!!
Remember those orange batik pieces trimmed from a big quilt project in October? I cut them into Dresden blades - only 3.5" long. Those blades have become the bright element needed on an otherwise boring UFO. The various green batik stems and leaves were also left over from that recent quilt, and the brown batik was in the scrap bin. All have been fused on and blanket stitched with black thread. It's ready to quilt.
The background on this wall hanging was a kit purchased on a shop hop several years ago. The pattern is called Feel the Churn - and it's just a simple big churn dash with a 6 x 6 set of squares in the middle. But it was all blacks and browns on cream. I knew it needed something added to be more interesting, so it was sewn and just hanging in the closet as a UFO for a few years. Now it's a flimsy - and a marriage of UFO and scraps.
Another set of RSC blocks is receiving attention. And look . . . more Dresden blades and more black thread. There has been an obvious theme this week. LOL These blocks were begun early in the year and then neglected. Three purple blocks took shape this week from blades already cut and laying in the project box. That box also held all the 10" grey background squares.
These 19 blocks have now been blanket stitched. There are still 5 more (2 teal, 1 yellow, 2 blue) ready for blanket stitching, which is what holds the pieces onto the background square. There are still more random colors of blades in the box.
A bunch of green blades are cut but not sewn yet. I'll cut some orange ones over the weekend, then I can work on those blocks next week. I'm excited for this RSC project to start looking as I imagined at the beginning of the year.
There are plenty of leftovers of Tula fabrics from a project earlier in the year. I used a few to make a very sweet 18" block. This is Prairie Lily from Lori Holt's book Prairie Home. I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but it did use up scraps.
What other fun projects are happening in the RSC world?
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