Cats and Stars and Potato Chips

Welcome to Treadlestitches!

I've been spinning the treadle wheels this week, happily piecing blocks from scraps for my Rainbow Scrap Challenge projects.

It's blue month at the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, and boy have I got blue scraps!  It's fun making these potato chip blocks.

We're doing any/all shades of blue this time, so I got to use my medium blue scraps as well as light and dark.  All these pieces came from my box of 2 in. x 3.5 in. rectangles.  I wish I could say I used up most of them.  Actually, I didn't make a dent.  Can you tell I love blue?

Dark and medium blue stretched stars were pieced from charm squares.  Did you catch Marvin the Martian?  I always liked him in the cartoons.  Which is weird because he was always trying to blow up our planet.  I guess I knew Bugs Bunny would prevail.

These stretched stars are on the lighter side.

Not a big fan of caterpillars in real life, but on fabric they're kind of fun.  Maybe just a bit creepy?

Cats are never creepy!  Ok, maybe they're not blue either.  I'm thinking more of stuffed animals with these blocks.

I honestly cannot tell what color the background is on this Laurel Burch print.  Blue or purple?  What do you think?  When I put it next to purples it looks blue, and vice versa when I put it with blues.

 It's raining cats and dogs on this print!  The cat is the smart one here, wearing flippers and a snorkel.

There were a few more pink cats to finish from last month.  I just love that Hello Kitty background fabric.

I'm calling this whole project Rainbow Kitties.  These rainbow fabric kitties wanted to be made right now, for Pride Month.  I might find a few more rainbow fabrics as I go along.

The grand kids are done with school and are here more, which is part of the reason I'm not getting much sewing done.  I'm okay with that, they're important.  This week they built this castle and village, and we're leaving it up til next week.

They've got everything, from dragons and monsters to minions and smurfs.  I'm glad they found something absorbing to play inside, since it's been raining a lot.  Even when we go outside, everything is wet and muddy.  Better weather is on the way, I hope.

In other news, I cut the rhubarb and made a pie.  Rhubarb always makes it feel like summer.

How is your month coming along?  I always look forward to seeing everybody's projects at the linky parties.  Have a lovely week!

Thanks for reading,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with:

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Angela at So Scrappy

Cynthia at Oh Scrap