Night Vision Quilt, Color Block Stars, and a Scrap Rainbow

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One little quilt finished got finished this week!  I showed the top back before we went on vacation, so it was on the top of my list when we got back.  The pattern name is Night Vision, but I think it looks like a pinwheel, especially in these colors.

The cats were sleeping on it, so I washed it yesterday after I got the binding on.  It's extra crinkly, probably because the blocks did not lie perfectly flat.  C'est la vie!

All the prints I added to the blocks except the binding (sashing, border, and backing) are polka dots!  I didn't even realize I was doing that at the time.  A friend of mine loves dotted fabric, and has got me into loving it too.  BTW, all these polka dot prints were bought second hand.

I laid the quilt out on the floor to take another photo, but it was attacked!  Can you see the culprit's tail?  

All that exertion tired Snicky out, so he went to sleep under the china cabinet.

His sister, Little Lizzy, was looking out the window, sitting next to the Dead Plants Society.  Poor plants!  I have lots of work to do here.

A few more Color Block Stars got made, this time in green, as we finish up the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2025.  The "calm" one above is for the block drive for Many Hands and Many Hearts.  (Click HERE for directions.)

And here's the wild one, made from novelty fabrics.  Can you guess which one I love the best lol?

This one is a bit of a hybrid.  It's the first one I made, and I didn't really think about the recipients.  Are the novelty fabrics, like the Packers print, too much?  Should I send it to Cynthia, or keep this one for my wild version?  I can easily make her another calm one.

Is this a scrap monster, or a mini Mount Scrapmore?  No, it's just a pile of strings, most of which were given to me by my friend Joey.  The pile was bigger before I started a new project this week (more on that when I make more progress). 

While sipping my tea this morning I sorted the strings into a scrap rainbow.  I'm thinking of making string blocks again as part of next year's RSC.  It's so much fun using them up making something colorful and useful.

Oh dear, here I am planning MORE blocks, when my box of RSC block sets is overflowing!  Maybe I'll get to work on that today.

Have a wonderful week ahead, everyone!  And Happy Quilting!

Thanks for reading,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with these great linky parties.

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Angela at So Scrappy, Home of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge
 

Cynthia at Oh Scrap

Back From Vacation, and Color Block Stars

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We're back from our vacation in Edinburgh, Scotland.  It was a wonderful trip, but it is so good to be home.

Just walking down the streets of this modern but 900 year old town was amazing.  We took in lots of sights, including Edinburgh Castle and Holyrood Palace.  In addition to all the historic wonders there were many textile things for a quilter to enjoy.

As is usual with us, we went to several museums.  In the National Museum of Scotland I saw a display about the color Turkey Red, which was often used in quilts of the 19th and early 20th centuries.  Above is a laboratory book recording experiments creating Turkey Red prints, from the United Turkey Red Co. Ltd., Dunbartonshire, Scotland, 1928-29.

 

They also had a Jacquard loom.  The pattern of the cloth woven on the loom was controlled by the punched cards, which are hanging in the background of the photo.  The weaving was done by hand (no electricity yet!).

Check out this sign!  It's a carved wooden likeness of a hand cranked sewing machine.  The shop it advertised sold hand made craft items.

Inspiration was everywhere, in tiled floors and brick houses as well as museum exhibits.

Plus there was an actual quilt shop!  There may have been another one too, but this was the only one I had time to go to.  It's called My Bearpaw.  It's a very small shop, with very kind and helpful ladies.

This is the fabric I bought and crammed into my already-stuffed suitcase.  Some of it is British made.  I bought a few fat quarters, a few fat eighths, and three scrap bundles.  I can hardly wait to start sewing with it!

I didn't take any quilt sewing with me, but I did knit these two hats to donate.  I'm trying to use up some of the yarn stash to make warm items for kids.  Winter is coming! 

After I got home, I made this Color Block Star for the current Many Hands and Many Hearts block drive, which will run through the end of November.  (Click HERE for details and directions.)  Because these quilts may go to anyone, I tried to choose squares that were calm prints, like florals and geometrics.  I made it in blue because we're finishing up blues for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

But I liked it so much I just had to make one with all novelty prints!  And I loved that so much I'm going to make a whole quilt from these!  I will make one block for the block drive and one for me in each color.

I did light blue next.  Calm first, then ...

novelty explosion!  This is so much fun!

Look who I found in the basement stash!  Little Lizzy must think I put those fat quarters there just for her.  Both cats were well looked after by family while we were gone, but have been keeping very close to us since we came back.  Guess they missed us!  We missed them, too.

I didn't always have internet while we were gone, so I have lots of quilt blog reading to catch up on.  Seems like a good way to spend the rest of this rainy day, while recovering from jet lag.

Have a wonderful week, everyone.  And happy quilting!

Cheers,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with:

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Angela at So Scrappy

Cynthia at Oh Scrap