Rhapsody in Blue Scraps

Blues in dark and bright shades are the color of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. I finally started on those yesterday, because I had a few green things to finish up from last month’s adventures with dark green and sage scraps. 

First I had to finish up my last two green elephants. I had a picture of them, but accidentally deleted it (which is kinda representative of how my week has been). But I do have a picture of all 13 green elephants made in May. 

Many, if not most, of these green elephants will be combined with blue elephants (and the green-blue print fabric of the second elephant down on the right side) to make the first two elephant donation quilts.

That was the last of the green blocks, although I never showed or even got a picture of the green crumb tumblers I made. I seem to miss photographing those. I’ll do better once the rows of various tumbler blocks begin to come together.

Next, I finished up the last two green quilts, one of which I’ve shown the flimsy of previously. I’d love to say that I finished these on schedule in May, but that wouldn’t be quite accurate. Unless we say I finished them on May 32nd! But I think we actually call that day June 1, so they will be my first finishes of June. *sigh*. Like I said, it’s been one of those weeks. 

First up is Flower Fairies. This panel (and the one used on the back) were sent to me by my friend Angie. I just pulled any matching scraps and chunks and strips that might match and began to play. The resulting quilt measures 38x51”.

Here’s the back:

This next one is totally a lazy use of miscellaneous width-of-fabric strips I’ve had on hand for a couple of years. They’re all from various Quilts for Kids scrap donations that I assembled into a grouping or “kit” color-themed around the two hedgehog strips (9th one down from top and the 5th one down from that). 

But it’s kinda cute in person and definitely cuddly - and uses up a pile of strips that may have languished for years without a purpose. The backing uses another cute dotted fabric piece given to me by Angie. I believe that is the last remaining piece to find a home from her generous donation (but who knows what still lurks in the remaining kits in the QFK piles!!) Thanks again, Angie!

This little green and brown quilt measures 38.5x45”.

Finally, then, I let myself start on some blue sewing. Here are four Antique Tile blocks:

That low-contrast navy one in the top right bothers me and will probably be either put on the quilt back or find another use altogether.

So, this coming week I’ll turn my attention to sewing blue elephants and working with these triangles that were given to me by our QFK President to “work some magic” with. HA! First I’ll continue sewing them into half-square triangle blocks, then play with endless layout possibilities. Stay tuned!

And that’s about all I’m up for! My back has been killing me for the last couple weeks. Too much bending over in the garden. I did get the flower pots planted and set out along the front walkway, thanks to help from Bruce and our trusty hand truck. I’ve been watering them by hand as the drip irrigation isn’t set up yet. But even when it is, I’ll still have to water them by hand because the drip system for the flower beds and pots is connected to the regular lawn watering system, and we’ve been asked to water only once per week. Things are beginning to bloom nicely here, so I’ll do a walk around the yard and snap some pix for my next post.