Welcome Aqua August!

With a new month, it’s time for another color of the month in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. The month of August was declared by our leader Angela to be dedicated to sewing aqua, teal, and turquoise scraps. Don’t those colors make you want to jump into a pool? They sure do to me! 

Well, thankfully my knee is not fractured, and I’m back to walking without assistance after that fall last week. Unfortunately, my orthopedic surgeon says both my “extremely” arthritic (bone on bone) knees need to be replaced. Yikes. I was hoping I could get by without facing that. But, I’m going to go ahead with it. I’ll do my right knee first sometime in late December or January, and then the left knee six weeks later. It’s going to be tough, but we’ll manage. The silver lining (well, beyond the obvious new knees) is that it will probably give me a lot of extra sewing time!

And speaking of sewing time, I was surprised to realize that I didn’t get all that much sewing time in this week. But I do have several things to show you, so let’s get started.

Last week I mentioned that I’d sewn the last two blocks for my Halloween Quilt. But I saved them for this week to show you.

This first block is the third or fourth time I’ve used this same fabric that’s the center section. I got a chunk of it who-knows-where, because I can’t remember all the scrap origins of my stash. (Is this my personal shame, or are there others of you who forget scrap origins too?)

The final block was this simple block below. It has partial seams, but they’re easy. Sewing this block was like sliding into Home for a baseball home run.

At some point in the next couple weeks, I’ll begin assembling the quilt top, which I believe is going to involve some fabric “shims” or coping strips.  And the quilting will be a marathon! But it will be finished for use this fall!

The primary sewing I did for the RSC this week was this aqua Weathervane block. I love that mouse fabric in the center. I buy it from Spoonflower online, and keep ordering a FQ here or half-yard there. I’ve got more still in a quilt kit I’ve made and hope to get to in 2026. 

Oh heck, I remember even making myself a mask out the mouse fabric five years ago during the pandemic.  

The Panda scrappy quilt was webbed and sewn last weekend, and I pieced a backing for it as well this week. This 42x49” quilt top is now hanging in the Sewing Closet of Shame with an ever-growing line of quilts to be basted and quilted. I will be able to start on some of them in the week ahead,. 

Have a great week everyone!