Happy New Year! I hope we're all having a good start to 2020. And what's a better start than making a quilt?
With the help of a little extra time off (and a seam ripper!) I got this donation top done. The ladies in my quilt group make things so easy. They take fabric that has been donated to our group, and cut up kits. The rest of us take the kits home, and eventually bring them back as tops.
The notes with this kit called it "Scrap Attack", but I've been unable to find this specific pattern online. There is definitely a wrong way to put it together, and that's how I did the first 24 blocks--wrong! Thus the seam ripper. (Sigh.)
There are 80 small blocks (8 in. finished) set 8 x 10, for a quilt that will measure 64 in. x 80 in. I'm wondering if I should add a border. What would you do?
A very happy surprise on New Years Day was the first color of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Thank you, Angela! Click
HERE for that post. The color for January 2020 is
green.
Frogs are green! (and other colors, too, of course.)
So are (some) tractors! These are kind of low contrast.
Here they are!
And of course there are the Packers. They're very important around here.
What about dots?
Or bugs? It's easier to see the pattern on this square.
The pattern is called Text Me A Quilt, and comes from this book,
Scrap Basket Bounty by Kim Brackett. This is the second pattern I'm making from this book in recent months. It's a good book.
These blocks are similar to Garlic Knots, with a few more pieces.
I'm planning on using this layout, but of course I did make some changes. Ms. Brackett's block is made with 2 in. squares and strips, but I'm making mine with 2.5 in. That makes my blocks 10 in. finished. I'm also using two prints of the same color family, instead of two different colors. She called it Text Me A Quilt because she used text prints as the background, but my backgrounds are just scraps I happen to have handy.
The new year is a good time to organize my sewing room. It's a daunting task, but I'm going to keep working on it. Little by little, things get done.
Have a wonderful weekend, and a "pieceful" week ahead.
Cheers for reading,
Sylvia@Treadlestitches
Linking up with
Angela at
So Scrappy
Alycia at
Finished or Not Finished Friday
Sarah at
Confessions of a Fabric Addict
Cynthia at
Oh Scrap
