First Week of Scrappy Aqua

This is the first week of aqua (turquoise, teal, sea green) for February for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge participants. New colors are always a refreshing change, aren’t they?? Even if the outdoors is still gloomy and gray, we quilters get to play in glorious color! There are always lots of fun things to see over at our hostess Angela’s blog for Scrappy Saturday.

My sewing this week had me whipping out the strips, strings and selvages.  First up are my four 8.5” blocks of aqua strings.

Then I worked with my selvages and 4.5x8.5” chunks of solids to sew up another column for my Rainbow Selvages quilt. Last month I did two purple columns; one in red-purple and one in standard or blue-purple. This month I only needed to do the one aqua.

And I did an aqua crayon, too. Here it is pinned next to the aqua selvage column (draped so I could get closer and show more).

I also got 3/4 of the top done to my brother-in-law’s black, white and blue disappearing 9-patch quilt (had to force myself; boring sewing). No picture, no rush. We are not leaving for Arizona this week as originally planned. Something medical has come up with DH that needs to be taken care of first, so at this point we’re not sure if we will go next week or next month.

For Block Lotto this month, we were asked to sew Dutchman’s Puzzle blocks using the Pantone Color of the Year, Greenery, as “inspiration” for the green geese. Background was to be light tan (mine are NOT white, although it looks like it) or pink. The other remaining geese were our choice.

I forgot to mention in my sewing recap for January (last week) that I also sewed some small kennel quilts for a local Best Friends shelter in January. One of my personal goals this year is to sew six small (12x18” to crib size) quilts per month to donate. I only got 5 done in January, but I hope to maybe catch up and get 7 done in February. Regardless, I will donate what I have at the end of February. Since I need to deliver them myself, I figured every 2 months (roughly a dozen quilts each time) is about right. I know there will be lots of cute kitties and puppies there tempting me, so I have to be strong! I’ll get a picture of them all (the quilts, not the cute animals) at the end of the month, although there’s really nothing exciting about them. I`m using donated fabric (pretty ugly) for the time being, although there is lots of cute fabric waiting in the wings.

Have a great week!