Patchworking

Happy first day of August!  I hope you and all your loved ones are well.

Life has been sort of a roller coaster around here since March.  Nothing bad, mind you, but our routines have been all out of whack.  First, weeks without kids here (due to our daughter's maternity leave, and then the virus shutdown), then kids just one day per week, then full time for a couple of weeks, and now three days per week.  The dog and I just don't know what to make of it.  Bella the dog copes by barking at every little noise in the morning, thinking it's her beloved kids.  I'm just catching up on my piecing.

This is the center of my Fourth of July quilt.  I was inspired by Bonnie Hunter's pattern of the same name (on the free tab at the Quiltville site), but I have changed it around a little.  Now I'm thinking about borders.  I didn't have enough of the Mackinac Island pieces to make more rows, but I don't want a square quilt.  So, math.  There are lots of possibilities.  What would you do?

Speaking of catching up, I finally pieced the rest of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks for July.  These are the Text Me A Quilt blocks.  (Click HERE for info about the pattern.)

Novelty print scraps can look very weird when cut up.  Like headless dinosaurs.

It was harder to find dark blue prints for my 1930s house blocks, but scrounging around in my feed sacks uncovered a couple.  The windows and door on this one are repros, the rest are the feed sacks.

House #2 is made of a repro acorn print.  The yellow print in the windows has little mice running around.  No cats here!

The roof print is a feed sack.  Does it look familiar?  The dark blue in house #1 is this same print, with the little birds.  I don't often find feed sacks in two colorways.

The last house is all repro print, and mostly airplane fabric.  I'm not very happy with the lack of contrast between the roof and the background, but I'm going to leave it as is.

We always think of the 1930s fabrics as pastels, and there were plenty of pastels, of course, but there were lots of "crayon colors" too.

Now that I've finally finished piecing the RSC blocks for July, I can set aside the blues and reach for our new color of the month, purple.

I love just looking at these!  Purple is fast becoming my favorite color.

This is my 2.5 in. strip roll of bright purple.  I can hardly wait to cut pieces from here.

Baby Buddy might look sweet, but watch out.  He's a drool meister.  If drool was money his parents could buy Disney World.

I made him some bibs yesterday, from scraps of knit fabric.

The backs are terry cloth, cut from a towel.  Maybe this will keep his shirts from getting soaked!

Our purple flowers are really appreciated by the bumble bees and honey bees.

I'm wishing you a happy week ahead.  Our new normal isn't really normal, but we're doing the best we can to stay safe and keep others safe, too.

Thanks for reading!

Cheers,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with:

Angela at So Scrappy (Home of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!)

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Sarah at Can I Get A Whoop Whoop

Cynthia at Oh Scrap