Scrappy O’Purple Saturday

A belated Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you all.  As neither Bruce nor I have any Irish in our ancestry, it is just more of an honorary fun day for us. We even forgot to wear green....

Anyway, today were are celebrating not green, but purple scraps. If you join us over at Angela’s Scrappy Saturday linky party, you can see all sorts of purple scrappiness.

First up for me are the two Dresden circles I did this month; one on a pale pink background and the other on a pale yellow background (trust me, it’s much paler than the photos make it look).

Dresdens with scrappy HST block...

I’m making these for two separate quilts. As each block will finish between 18-19” square (will trim them all up at the end to see), I will set each in a 3x4 layout possibly with sashing. They will go on the daybed in our “girly” guest room.  We also have a masculine guest room in an African theme. That room doubles as our library and music room. We have no kids living at home so we use the rooms for whatever we want. But each has a place to sleep. But I digress....

Above: the purple Dresden on yellow. Below, the purple Dresden on pink. The pink one is my favorite...

I finished these 16-patch blocks made with 2.5” squares to go with the others. Now I have 10 each of blue, brown and purple. They will be 8” finished. I rather like the contrast of the rich purples with the black and white.

I finished some crumby slab blocks, too, but didn’t get a picture of them. So I’ll save them for next week when I do my final purple recap.

This weekend will be for quilting my Birds and Bees quilt, which I finally basted on Thursday.  I’m trying to figure out what other finish I can squeeze in before month-end.

Until next time,