Greening Up

 Welcome to Treadlestitches!

It's green month, at the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  Time to sew up our green scraps!  Specifically, May is sage and/or forest green month, but I sadly don't have enough green scraps for two months, so all the green is getting thrown in together.

I have a scrap-reducing goal here.  I'm trying to use up some of the many multi-color prints in the 2.5 in. strip drawer.  This project pairs them with solid colors.  One of the solids is a sage-y green, the other is brighter.  The pattern comes from a tutorial written by Cynthia of Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework, it's fast and easy.  (Click HERE.)  Strip piecing with virtually no waste and only 5 seams in each block, no kidding.  Each block uses half of a full strip from each fabric.  BTW, you should also check out the rest of her Scrap-A-Palooza series, great ideas and free!  There's a tab at the top of her homepage (Click HERE.)

Here's another long tall crayon, green this time.  It's been fun finding 18 different prints for the pieces.

Halloween, monkeys, paisley, even watermelons.  And so many different shades of green.

Nature is also showing us many shades of green, even here in Wisconsin.  The rhubarb has been growing fast lately, due to all the rain we've had.

Some new house plants followed me home from the grocery store.  That's a Gerbera daisy in front, parsley on the back left and basil on the right.  I like having herbs handy for cooking.  We have a small herb garden next to the garage with chives, sage, oregano, and spearmint.

Good news:  Mrs. Pfaff came back from the repair shop, ready for action!  We got to work right away, quilting two small tops the ladies at the quilt guild had made for charity.

Blue and white always makes a pretty quilt!  I think this is a Disappearing Four Patch, although some of the blocks are a little different.

Just straight line quilting in white thread.  The quilt is 40 in. square.

Another quilt, also 40 in., in another winning color scheme, red, white, and blue.  Some of the pieces look pink from a distance, but it's really a red and white gingham.  The light print is patriotic hearts.

It's an unusual pattern, I don't think I've seen it before.  Again, just straight (or mostly straight!) quilting following the seams.

 So some of my to-do pile has moved to the "tuh-done" pile!

Check out this cheeky monkey!  My Little Guy has seen the dog lying on the back of the couch, looking out the window at the birds and squirrels, so he decided to try it.  And then gave me a look like that!  He's definitely two, oh dear.

He's fascinated with numbers right now, even at the playground.  Maybe he'll be good at math as he gets older.  I could use a helper.

Here's hoping we all have a good week ahead, with time for quilting and sewing, and for being with the ones you love.

Thanks for reading,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

P.S.  Happy Mothers' Day, to all who celebrate!

Linking up with:

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Angela at So Scrappy

Cynthia at Oh Scrap