I Spy Purple Blocks

 Welcome to Treadlestitches!

It's purple month at the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, and I'm loving it!  Lots of my purple scraps are finding homes in blocks that will become donation quilts around the end of the year.  Above are 4 of my 16 patch blocks, each with 8 different lights and 8 different purples.

Next are my Uneven Nine Patch blocks.  Half of them have dark centers and half have light centers.  Some of the purples are more reddish and some tend toward blue.  I'm making them from 5 in. squares (click HERE for directions).

So far, this monster is my all time favorite purple novelty print.  The word it's saying is Rawrr!  Of course I had to put some of it in each set of RSC blocks.  I only had a fat quarter, so sadly it is almost used up.

I was planning on showing these happy blocks when I was interrupted by a happy cat who wanted some cuddles.  Snicklefritz is only seven months old, and still seems like a baby kitten even though he looks like a big cat.

He's gone to chase a sunbeam, so now you can see the blocks.  There's that monster, up in the top left.

This print, with science words, is fun, too.  My husband is a retired chemist, so I made sure to have the word chemistry visible.

That's all my RSC blocks done for April.  I'm only managing to be ahead of schedule this month because I chose easy blocks, but it feels good to get them done anyway.

This I Spy top got quilted and bound last weekend, and is ready for donation.

In my head I'm calling this one Fifty Novelty Prints.  

 

There are 48 squares, all different, plus the banana print border, and...

Scottie dogs on the back!  The fabric for both the back and the binding came from the Winter Quilt Show back in February.

I got all of the fabric in this photo in an unusual way.  The vendors had pieces of fabric of varying sizes laid out on tables.  If you wanted any of it, you bought a plastic zip lock bag from them, and stuffed it full of whatever you chose.  There were two sizes of bags (one gallon and two gallon, I think).  I got all the fabric above into a gallon bag, which cost $10.  What a deal, right?  

It's about time for me to get off the computer and get some rest.  My two youngest grandsons are staying with us this weekend while their parents are out of town, and I'm already wiped out.

For our after school snack today we made "dirt cups", with chocolate pudding, crushed oreos, and gummy worms.  Yummy!

Our first grade Buddy lost his first tooth Thursday, and asked me to take his picture with his new smile.

I hope you have something great to smile about this week.  Happy Quilting!

Cheers,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with:

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Sarah at Can I Get A Whoop Whoop

Angela at So Scrappy

Cynthia at Oh Scrap