Lions and Monkeys and Bats, Oh My!

 Welcome to Treadlestitches!

Hanging on my black raspberry trellis today is this little quilt, made for a Scavenger Hunt challenge at my quilt group.

We had a list of 33 items, and had to choose at least 10 of them to go in the challenge quilt.  With the way I feel about novelty prints, this was my favorite challenge ever!  I made 30 stars, and each center checked off one of the boxes.

Most people are not as crazy about novelty prints as I am, and some members hardly had any, so we brought scraps and exchanged them.  Even I was happy to get some more variety.  These three blocks, the bat, the pens/markers, and the red monkey, were all from other people's scraps.  (Thanks, Nancy and Colleen!)

Here's the lion block, it even says lion!  I've had this fabric for so long I can't even remember where it came from.  As you can see, I chose a staggered set, and simple outline quilting.  The border is a green frog print.

The back is a print with hearts, with a strip of these cheeky frogs in the middle to make it wide enough.  They're waving at you!

All of the quilts from our scavenger hunt challenge were made no bigger than 42 in. x 52 in., and are being donated to a charity for children.  We had 16 quilts entered, from a group of around 40 active members!  I love belonging to such a generous caring guild.

Have you started on your dark/bright blue Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks yet?  I'll be you have, can't wait to see what everyone is doing.

I started with these easy split nine patch blocks.  Not sure how I'm going to set them yet, there are so many possibilities.

I didn't have to cut any blue squares, since I already had a bunch in the box.  

Happy cows, and dinosaurs, turtles, whales, a watering can, and stars.

More random blues and lights.  This might be why I don't have very much green--I have a TON of blue!  (Note to self, buy more green.)

Wish I had yardage of the light dinosaur fabric!  These scraps are great.  My kindergarten buddy knows all those dino names.

Speaking of my kindergarten buddy, he had his graduation this week, and is now officially ready for first grade.

Is this the scariest graduation picture you've seen this season?  He's making such a goofy face!  He and his classmates were very excited.  We were treated to a slide show and lots of singing.   He had such a good year at school, and we're very proud of him.  BTW, they made their caps from construction paper, and the tassels are yarn.

Yesterday I cut the rhubarb, and actually found canning lids at the store.  So today I'll be putting up a few pints, and maybe even baking a pie.  Don't tell my hubby, though, he'll be standing next to the stove waiting for it.

Have a lovely, quilty week!

Thanks for reading,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with:

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Angela at So Scrappy 

Cynthia at Oh Scrap