Bright Hopes

 Welcome to Treadlestitches!

I have an almost-finish to share with you today.  The little Bright Hopes blocks I was setting together last week are bordered and quilted.  I'm not sure what I'm going to bind it with.  What color would you use?

The Bright Hopes baby quilt (35.5 in. x 40 in.) uses up all sorts of bright scraps from my 2 in. wide strips.  Nearly every little block has a piece of yellow fabric in it, making it even brighter.  I am really loving this month's color (yellow!) for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

As you can see, the quilting is simple, just straight lines using a serpentine stitch.  It's fun to remember where all these scraps came from.  The white kitten is leftover from a pillowcase I made for my granddaughter.  The blue whale fabric below it came from quilts made for her cousin, my Little Buddy.  Some of the pinks are scraps from my youngest daughter's wedding quilt.

You'd think with a quilt this small I could find a big enough piece of backing, but the fabric I chose from my stash was not quite wide enough (are they making fabric narrower now?) so I added a row of home cut charm squares down the middle.

Is it weird how I can't remember to buy soy sauce, but I know where every piece of fabric came from?  I hope Spongebob and Patrick will be a happy surprise for the kid who gets this quilt.  This fabric was given to me by my friend Debbie in Pennsylvania.  The green frog and bug print was a remnant I bought at a quilt show.  I thought I had used up all the yellow parrot fabric with this 5 in. square, but I was delighted to find some more in the 2.5 in. strips.

I may have over-used the parrot fabric, but it's just so darn cute.

More Bright Hopes blocks, but bigger!  These are made with 2.5 in. strips and finish at 6 in.  The block is sewn with a partial seam, which is easier than it sounds.  Click HERE for a tutorial I wrote a few years ago on how to make them.

That parrot fabric is sneaky!  It turned up in these Plus blocks too.

I'm balancing it out with tractors.

In other news, my Little Buddy and I spent some time in the sewing room Thursday, and oh dear I think I have another quilt project to work on.  He picked out a big stack of fabrics he loves, including this dinosaur print which I hardly have any more of.  Well, nothing wrong with starting a new project!

More snow this week.  We got a big storm last Sunday and another on Thursday.  This is the snow plow clearing the street across from my house.  With the cold weather we're having, the snow won't be melting any time soon.

Inside, we're still having a good time.  Little Buddy and I have been watching Peppa Pig lately during our TV time, and it's a breath of fresh air, compared to the usual run of kid TV programs with their good guys and bad guys and heavy-handed lessons.  Normal stuff happens on Peppa Pig, like getting new shoes or making pancakes.  In one episode, there is a power outage, and Peppa makes a TV out of cardboard box and performs in it.  So of course Little Buddy wanted to do that too.  Little Buddy's show is about a dinosaur.

Baby Buddy broke through the "4th wall" to go after the dinosaur.  I think he wants to chew on it.  More teeth are coming!

What's on your agenda for today?  I'm going to bind the baby quilt, and then get some work done in the sewing room.  It looks like a hurricane went through there, tossing out yellow strips and scraps and yardage and piling up novelty prints.  It has gotten to the point where I can't concentrate on anything until I straighten up the mess.

Later on, I'll get a cup of tea and enjoy all the quilts and quilters in the linky parties.  You should come, too!  It's a great way to go "visiting" on a snowy day.

BTW, did you know you can (for a small fee) invite goats to a zoom meeting?  If I was still working, I would be so tempted!

Have a good week!

Cheers for reading,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with:

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Angela at So Scrappy

Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Cynthia at Oh Scrap