Little Bits of Orange

 Welcome to Treadlestitches!

Are you sewing with orange this week for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge?  I'm getting a few blocks done.  Thank goodness I picked easy projects this year.  This is the first weekend we've been home in a month.

These sixteen patch blocks are so fast and easy (with Cynthia's quick method!) and I'm finally using strips I've always liked but had trouble finding a spot for.  A friend gave me this candy corn fabric at a retreat back before the pandemic.

The print in this block came from a Moda scrap bag.  Do they still sell those?  It was so much fun to lay out all the strips after I got home.  I'm definitely a sucker for scraps.

The fabric for this block and the next came from scraps I bought or was given.  I just love the rainbow affect.

When I first started quilting, I would never have put orange and pink in the same block, let alone the same fabric!  I'm just amazed at how well they go together.  Orange really does play well with lots of other colors, like blue, aqua, purple, yellow, and even red!

The orange crayon is done now, too.  I'm starting to think (worry?) about how I'm going to set the crayons together.  It's a good problem to have.

Are you a Lori Holt fan?  I've often admired her designs, and when I saw this book while we were on vacation I decided to take the plunge and try some of her patterns. 

All the designs for the rows on the cover quilt are also made into individual quilts, table runners, etc.   My favorite block is the mitten.  Can't you just see that in novelty prints?  

Here's a little more orange!  Our Buddy's shirt says "Live to Fish", and that describes him perfectly.  His dad has been taking him fishing and teaching him all about it.  Buddy assures me this is the proper way to hold a fish with sharp teeth after you catch it.  I'm just glad this fish is plastic.

It's been cool here lately, and really too cold for swimming, so we set up the wading pool as a fish pond.  Our little Guy is very proud of catching a tiny toy shark.

Our oldest daughter and her two kids were here Friday, and we had a nice visit.  Our granddaughter, Miss E, is taking a popsicle break.  I wish I had been fast enough to take a photo of her hula-hooping (is that a word?).  She is phenomenal!

Not pictured is her brother Mr. H, who literally runs from the camera. 

The end of summer is coming up fast.  Buddy starts first grade this coming week, and the older kids go back shortly after that.   We'll still have good weather for a couple of months or so, and I might have time to can tomatoes and freeze corn in September.

And now that we're back from all our travels, maybe I can spend more time sewing!  That's the plan!

I hope your plans work out for you this week, whether sewing or not.

Thanks for reading,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with:

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Angela at So Scrappy

Cynthia at Oh Scrap