For the Love of Orange

Welcome to Treadlestitches!

I'm happy about orange, the color of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!  These are my Happy Blocks, made with orange frames and light centers.  This is the first six ...

and the second six.  I really had to dig to find prints with orange.  There's a big mess in the sewing room for me to clean up this weekend, with scraps and strips and yardage all over the place.

Check out the orange dinos, running across the print.  Hope that T Rex doesn't see them!

For bugs, we've got these creepy critters,
 

plus the Very Hungry Caterpillar.

There are some really cute owl prints now, like this one (which I also used in pink month), and

these chubby little owlets.

I was also able to use some of the scraps given to me by my friend Joey for the frames.  It's fun to cut and organize scraps, especially when you have a project that needs them.  (Thanks again, Joey!)

Remember this Hourglass top?  It was on the blog in early April.  I quilted it last weekend, and orange just seemed like the perfect binding.

The squares are quilted with diagonal lines using the serpentine stitch on my Pfaff.  I marked the lines with a soap sliver, and these photos are before I washed it, so some of the white soap is still visible.
 

This cheeky kitty from the border print says hi!  The quilt will be donated locally, to Project Linus.  A short tutorial on how I make the hourglass blocks can be found HERE.

The weather has been getting warmer at last, and we're spending more time outside.  Or we were, until the boys got strep throat.  Both are on the mend now, thanks to antibiotics.

Our first grade Buddy is very interested in weather, especially tornadoes.  He was thrilled when his mom bought him this shirt, and asked me to take his picture so I could send it to my mom in Oklahoma.  He is so impressed that she lives in Tornado Alley.

So what is this mess?  It's the last of my purple projects.  Thanks to chain piecing, I got the rest of the hsts sewn for the butterfly quilt border.  I want to get that top together this month.

 Happy Cinco de Mayo to all who celebrate, and Happy quilting to everyone!

Thanks for reading,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with:

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Sarah at Can I Get A Whoop Whoop

Angela at SoScrappy

Cynthia at Oh Scrap