Keep Calm and Sew Purple

On one hand, it seems as though this month of February has flown by. That would be because this is only my second Rainbow Scrap Saturday post for purple. But on the other hand, this month has been going on.for.ev.er.

Back on February 1, a sunny vacation loomed ahead. Now it’s done and we’re back (see last blog post for more of that fiasco).  February also brought a tragic school shooting in Florida, with teenagers proving they’re more mature than many adults in the public forum; Olympics, snowstorms, politics, auto accidents, mounds of laundry, tax returns.... Sheesh. No wonder I dove into my sewing this week and beat those purple scraps into submission!!  

Rather than show everything individually, I’ll just do my usual month-end scrappy recap via a collage photo. 

Here is my Purple February tally (clockwise from top left):

(4) 8.5” string blocks

(3) 10” Squared Away blocks

(9) 6.5” crumb blocks

(1) Geese Migration block

(8) 6.5” selvage blocks

(10) 6.5” quarter log cabin blocks

(3) Linked Squares blocks

That's a total of 38 purple blocks for February.

There were other things I worked on this month as well, of course. I prepared three blocks and a PDF tutorial for The Block Lotto’s March block, which will be published on their site (BlockLotto.com) on March 1.

I finished my brother’s Hot Rod Quilt and sewed up a dozen or sew On Ringo Lake blocks. And this is currently on the design board, being sewn into a flimsy. Sorry for the bad picture. The blocks were folded into fourths so I could play around with their placement easier. I hope to have this finished to reveal for next Saturday’s linkup. 

Rainbow Strings

We found out yesterday that our 11th (and final, I believe) grandchild, due in early July, will be a girl! I’m so excited! So I’m planning her baby quilt. What am I saying? It’s been planned for weeks, and I pulled the fabrics last night. But I have to finish a couple other quilts first, so the baby quilt won’t begin until the second quarter of the year.

Bruce and I will begin car shopping in March. We were in a bad auto accident about a month ago. Luckily, when impact was inevitable, Bruce sped up instead of braking. We were therefore hit toward the rear of the truck instead of the cab where I was sitting. We thought his truck was totaled, but because Toyotas hold their value so well, it wasn’t close. We get the truck back next week. And so, for reasons I won’t go into here, we will sell both our current vehicles and buy a new one. We are looking at another Toyota hybrid, probably a RAV4 SUV. And I will be the sole driver.

And since I haven’t shown kitty pictures for awhile (and every post is better with cats, right?), here are Alfie and Darla settling in for a long winter’s nap....

Linking up to:

Rainbow Scrap Challenge

Oh Scrap!