Wrapping Up Pink April

I got my final pink blocks quilts done just under the wire - yesterday. There are three quilts, but you’ll  only see two of them today because one will be introduced tomorrow for a Hands2Help guest blog post.  More on that later in the post.

First I sewed up the Bear Paw blocks that I wanted to get done for the month. There are two at 6.5” and five at 3.5”. 

I also sewed up more string blocks - another 30.  These will go to Quilts for Kids for use in kits. And that is another hint about my blog post for tomorrow; I’ll be showing the “kit”, pattern and finished quilt that used some of my original string blocks made earlier this month. Plus ideas and variations.

With those out of the way, I could concentrate on finishing up the pink scrap quilts I had planned for the month. Last week I showed this pile of potential:

Well, after some fun playing on the design board with the various pieces, this is the result:

My only regret is not using a brighter pink fabric to pair with the selvage half hexies. But I wanted to use scraps instead of cutting into yardage. And I used every bit of that pink and white stripe  except a couple small crumbs that will get used up next year. 

All the pink selvages are used, and most of everything else you see in the quilt is gone other than a few crumbs or small squares. I quilted it, as usual, with a simple stipple. The quilt finished at 38x46”.

I broke down and decided to use some of that wonderful Tula Pink background for the backing/binding. I’d buy a bolt of that stuff if I could find it! 

I thought I’d shown a picture of the following little quilt in process somewhere along the line this month, but I sure can’t find it. Oh well, it’s finished now. For some reason I thought the “kit” I’d assembled last year had more pink in it, but it’s really more green and lavender. But whatever - as long as it gets finished and passed on to Quilts for Kids, it’s all good.

The plaid cheater fabric in the center panel as well as the lavender squares have been sitting around since last year. Back in October I got some of the pastel plaid scraps and the owl print, and that was enough to go to the stash to pull green scraps and those dang pink selvage squares. 

Somehow, it works. Again, it’s quilted in a stipple, which I always like to do when there are selvages involved so I can backtrack over areas that may need to be tamed. 

This little pastel baby quilt finished at 36.5x42”. It’s very soft and cuddly. The backing also used up a lot of fabric chunks, although I think I have a few skinny strips of the black and white giraffes left. 

So, that wraps up Pink April! Be sure to visit Scrappy Saturday at Angela’s blog to see all the scrappy pink goodness before Angela calls the new color for May! 

We’re still in rainy weather mode here, so our garden is not yet planted. The drip irrigation is all ready to go, but we had “frozen mix” in the weather forecast for yesterday (didn’t happen), so we’ve put off planting until the 10-day forecast shows no more freezing temps. It will happen (I keep telling myself.....)

Be sure to drop by here or at Mari’s blog tomorrow for my guest post for Hands2Help. And have a wonderful week!