End of the Green

This is the last week for our green scraps at Rainbow Scrap Challenge. We will revisit green again later in the year - only then it will be the darker half of the green spectrum. For now, however, this is a recap of what I completed for March:

4 green Bird blocks (10.5”)
11 Quarter Log Cabin blocks (6.5”)
1 Geese Migration block (10.5”)
11 Selvage squares (6.5”)
2 Squared Away Sampler blocks (10.5”)
10 Crumb blocks (6.5”)
3 Linked Squares blocks (16.5”)

That’s a total of 42 blocks.

Additionally, I made and delivered 11 small kennel quilts to Best Friends Animal Society in Salt Lake City. They were my OMG (One Monthly Goal) for Patty at Elm Street Quilts’ program.

But let me show you what’s NEW this week in the finish department, OK?  Originally I planned to finish up my Plus blocks (a 2017 Rainbow Scrap Challenge project) into one large quilt. However, Alfalfa (Alfie) and Darla had other ideas.

Here is PAWSitivity I :

Pawsitivity One measures 48x63”. It’s quilted with vertical wavy lines. The backing is just some baby blue flannel. And it will be donated to a Hands2Help charity through Sarah’s blog  Confessions of a Fabric Addict.

Next up is Pawsitivity II :

Pawsitivity Two measures 58x64” and is quilted with basic stippling. This is such a happy quilt that I can’t bear to part with it! The backing is mostly a cute red floral, except where I had to fill in with the cute yellow floral border fabric. 

But remember that last week I had two other charity quilt finishes, plus a pink charity baby quilt I finished last October HERE, so I have 4 charity quilts to donate to Hands2Help so far. There may be more - I’m planning on it - as I am going to focus some of my time in April to finishing up a couple more. 

At the end of last month, I never gave a recap of my weight-loss efforts for February. And now that March is over, I’ll just combine it all as one. Basically, I’m right where I was at the beginning of February - literally, to the ounce. Down 35 pounds even. I’ve sort of been treading water. Hit a plateau, if you will. 

We went on vacation in February (too many margaritas) and I gained five pounds, but lost it within 10 days of being home. I’ve been walking several miles 3 times per week and biking the same 1-3 times per week as weather permits. I’ve lost inches and my clothes are looser.  Almost ready to go down another size. That’s a win in my book. And now with the weather warming up and great new spring produce appearing in the supermarket, I feel as though I’m ready for Round Two of this health regimen!

Green and Other-Color Quilts

I have a lot of green in my stash. Green fabric in my fabric stash that is. (Too bad I’m not talking about money). But I’m saving a lot of the greens for both a cactus quilt I’ll be making later this year (more about that in a couple months) and for our second green month with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge sewing later this year.

But I had an idea to combine this month’s color green with last month’s color purple and do a quilt. My inspiration was some green and purple Tamara Kate fabric (surprise, surprise!) I’ve had in my stash a couple years.

I just cut simple 5” squares in the primary fabric (the two-tone green with purple flowers) and  used other matching scraps or fat quarters. Isn’t it cute?? It Measures (after washing, drying and shrinking) about 43x53”.

It sewed up so quickly! And it was even super quick to baste out on my tabletops. While I had them cleared off to baste this quilt, I basted up another one that I had pieced last summer (more about that in a minute).

I didn’t have quite enough to do the squares and the entire backing with the feature fabric, so I added a purple stripe down the back.

This will be a charity quilt for Sarah’s Hands2Help charity drive. Two of the charities are local (-ish) to me, and I will probably make and collect several quilts before delivering them at the end of the program.

The second quilt I basted and then finished was made from my pink and pastel vintage sheet scraps last August or so. It has languished as a top since then.  But here it is all finished up and washed.

This quilt measures 40x40” 

And while I’m on a frenzy of quilty finishes, here is a peek at two more Rainbow Scrap quilts that will be done before the end of this month.

Remember my plus sign blocks? They were a Rainbow Scrap Challenge block I worked on all of 2017. But rather than making one huge quilt, as was my original plan, I divided them up into two quilts. Here Alfie is modeling, showing, oh heck.... he’s just goofing off.

Both of these are actually ready to be basted and quilted this weekend.

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Note:  If you entered my Quilty Orphan Adoption contest or my blog giveaway last week, the winners were announced in yesterday’s post HERE.


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Rainbow Scrap Challenge at Angela’s So Scrappy

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