Nothing Going on Here Except Sewing

It’s been a really busy sewing week. It was a nice week overall, too, with Valentine’s Day (we don’t do anything special), some snow that quickly melted, getting our Federal tax refund and just the usual errands and play time. 

I got serious about sewing some of my aqua/teal blocks for this month’s scrappy color for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. I’m linking up to Scrappy Saturday.

First I made four Bear Paw blocks; one each in 12” and 9”, and two in 6”:

Next up, 12 bullseye courthouse steps blocks:

I sewed seven 6” string blocks, but didn’t get a photograph. I will need to use them to round out this stringy quilt top that’s just pinned up to the design board for now.

As it is, it’s only set 6 across by 7 down, but I’ll add another column and row so it will end up 7x8, or 42x48”.  Oh, I also sewed a row of tumbler blocks. They’re hanging vertically on the right of the string blocks, but each tumbler row will sit horizontally in the rainbow tumbler quilt. Half the tumblers are a single piece of fabric and half are cut from crumb-pieced chunks. You may have to click on the picture to enlarge it to see that detail.

I hope to get the aqua strings quilt sewn and quilted this week and also the little quilt I made from the bits and chunks I showed last week. Here is that top, ready for pin basting:

The border isn’t as dark/stark in person as the camera makes it look. Some colors just can’t be captured correctly. It measures 40x44”.

I had a great package in the mail yesterday from Jo at Jo’s Country Junction. I volunteered to sew kids quilt tops into finished quilts for her Community Quilts program. I can finish them off and donate locally, directly to our Salt Lake City Quilts for Kids chapter, of which I’m an active member. The package contained 22 quilt tops! One was so large (72x54), that I separated it into two quilts measuring 36x54”. I’ll likely add side borders to bring them up to 38-40” in width. So, 23 quilts in all.

Anyway, I got backings pulled for every one of them from my stash. Whew! That made a dent in my backings. No, let me rephrase that. That made a giant hole in my backings! So I didn’t feel the least bit guilty when I found a good sale and ordered 17 yards of fabric for more backings!!  Watch for those quilts to finish up over the next few months. 

And as usual, I’ll close with an update on my Stay at Home Round Robin challenge quilt for this week. Gail, the SAHRR coordinator and this week’s hostess, called for appliqué this week, with an alternate of rail fence blocks for those who preferred that. Here is my progress quilt after this round.

If you didn’t see my post about it (design decisions and process), that’s HERE. And this week’s SAHRR linkup is here at Gail’s blog where you can see all the wonderful creativity of all the participants.

Have a good week, friends! If you need me, I’ll be in my sewing studio…..