Scrappy Saturday in Red

My Saturday is going to be very scrappy indeed! After I post this blog post to join Angela and the other Rainbow Scrapettes at Scrappy Saturday (come see all the delightful blocks and quilts at Angela’s So Scrappy blog), I’ll be heading off to a Quilts for Kids workshop. There we’ll spend three delightful hours stitching, gabbing and snacking. I’ve got eleven quilts to turn in! Naturally, we’ll be masked and socially distanced, but there is sure to be plenty of laughing and scrap sharing as well!

I was able, finally, to finish quilting the sailboat quilt that was giving my machine fits last week. First I had to rip out a lot of the quilting because of the poor tension. After a couple quick trips to the dealer to have them look at my machine, they adjusted the bobbin tension and that helped somewhat. It was still not what it should have been, but I got the quilt done. Then I trimmed and bound it. Here is this cutie pie quilt all finished.

It was quilted with swirls (what was I thinking?). The finished size is 42.5x50”.

Once I got past this quilt, my Bernina was back to purring along perfectly like her old self. The red scrap donation quilt was next.

With small loopy quilting, this finished up in no time at 42x45.5”. And finally I quilted the one I’m calling “red cats” because of the old maroon-red fabric in it. Sorta looks like the Nineties threw up all over it.  Actually, I love this little quilt!

And look at the wild backing! It was sent to me for QFK by my friend Sally.

It was good to get those three little quilts done early in the week so I could take them to the QFKids workshop today. Anyway, then it was time to get back to the red scraps.

I made two more elephant blocks, for a total of six this month.

And two Antique Tile blocks (12.5”, unfinished size)..

That’s all the finished blocks this week, but I’ve been working with my crumbs too. I divided them up into bright reds and maroons (cranberry, mahogany, etc). I made 12 crumb blocks of each color set measuring 6.5” each. They’ll be sewn into two placemats of each color, but that will be unveiled next week. I also made crumb tumblers and cut some regular fabric tumblers and will sew up the first two rows of a rainbow tumbler quilt. That, too, will be for next week. 

I still have a lot (a LOT) of red scraps and am debating as to whether or not I want to keep the Bear Paw blocks in my RSC lineup, or whether I want to spend next week working on a personal red quilt that I started last August, my Ribbons quilt. 

Maybe I can do both? HA! There’s also the Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR) that I (and many others) are participating in. The first round was given to us: curves. You can see all the wonderful progress here. This is my block, with the curves added in the form of drunkard’s path blocks on the top and bottom. I’m going to build this as a rectangular quilt.

So…. Decisions, decisions. But right now I’m deciding I’d better get my rear in gear and get going to the QFK workshop!