Catch up time

Going green

May's colour for the RSC is green. I found lots of little strips to and scraps to put these blocks together.

Purple time

I finally got round to making purple blocks for the RSC Sampler today at quilt group.  Thanks to one of my buddies I was able to liven these up with some pretty fabrics from her stash.

The colour for May is green... it will be fun to see what interesting new blocks Sew Scrappy comes up with.

Pondering

I've been pondering this.

I bought Kathy Doherty's Making Quilts at the Quilt and Craft Fair in February and I've been pondering the Fractured Quilt ever since.   It has to stay a contemplation for a while because his project would definitely need a design wall and I still have Shimmering Triangles on the design wall.  Though that's an exciting development - I actually have a  design wall up in The Quiltery now and every time I open the door I see the bright and beautiful fabrics of my  Shimmering Triangles   I've recently added some more fabrics included really bright orange so it really pops.

Bye bye teal & aqua, hello purple

I've been playing catch up this week and finishing off the last of the March Teal & Aqua blocks, then making the first purple block for April.  I was rummaging in the scrap box for a feature print for the Corner Frames block and I came up with the little 9 patch which worked perfectly.


 I was really surprised by how many fabrics I could find in the Teal & Aqua colour range.  I ended started a separate box for them in the stash.

I'm really going to enjoy working in Purple throughout
April

What I've been up to

Making another teal block for the RSC Sampler and some 12 inch blocks for a real life swap for an online group. I see there are 4 more teal block patterns available since Sunday when I made this so I will be onto those next week.  I'm excited that April's colour is purple.

The 12 inch blocks seem huge after working on 6 inch ones for a while.

Playing with teal

Today I spent some time in The Quiltery playing catchup with this months teal and aqua blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge Sampler organised by Sew Scrappy

These are the five blocks so far. 

I was being so frugal that I misjudged the amount of fabric required for the Friendship star and had to piece the corner squares because I didn't have enough of my light.

I realised that I like these colours when they are batik or hand dyed fabrics, but when they are prints I think they are ugly.  What's wrong with that logic?

And here are all my blocks together

Autumn means apple season.  We have baby fruit trees, just planted two winters ago.  These are our first apples.  Can't wait for the pears.