A Small Finish, Yellow Blocks, and Glad to be Back

 Welcome to Treadlestitches!

Here's where I was last week--Oxford, England!  Libraries, museums, and book stores, oh my! We had a wonderful vacation, but I won't bore you with all the details.  I might include a few sewing/quilting related things here and there, but no travelog, I promise.  (BTW, the photo above is of the Radcliffe Camera, which was built in the 1700s to house the Radcliffe Science Library.  Camera in this sense just means "room".)

Here's the small finish, this baby quilt for donation.  It measures 42 in. square, and is based on a pattern in this book:  The Big Book of Baby Quilts.

There are lots of cute patterns in the book, as I'm sure you can tell from all the post it notes I have stuck in it.  Here's the pattern, which they call Over the Rainbow.

I changed it a little, of course, as I almost always do.

The blocks are the same, but I arranged the blocks in this layout by color.  The blocks that look pink are actually orange in real life.

My quilt has only one border, this cute ocean print with whales and fish.  I had just enough of this little scrap for this project.  (Don't you love it when it works out like that?)

There are scraps of other ocean-themed prints in the blocks.  Sea horses, colorful fish, whales, anchors, etc. make their appearance.

Plus pirates!  Arr, matey!  I hope it goes to a kid who loves the ocean.

August is yellow month at the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  Lots of yellows came out to play this week in these Bricks blocks.

This parrot fabric has been in LOTS of my quilts since I bought it while on a retreat.  I can't believe there's any left, I'm always so glad to find a few more scraps of it.

Yellow month for the RSC had me pulling out fabric from everywhere, looking for novelty prints.

Did you notice this one?  It's sushi!  Can you believe I have a whole yard of it?  This is the first time I've used it.  I don't think kids will have any idea what it is, but their parents may be puzzled by what it's doing in a quilt.  Looks delicious, especially the salmon!

After more than a week away, we're adjusting to the time again, and glad to be back.  

We really missed our little guys.  Buddy is sporting some cool sunglasses.

And Little Guy is testing out the noises he can make with kitchen stuff.  Yeah, back to normal!

Finally, a little inspiration.  I took this photo of a Rainbow Zebra crossing in Oxford, near West Gate Shopping Center.  The center is the usual black and white crosswalk, and the sides have been painted in rainbow colors.  The rainbow supports LGBT+ rights, and the center remains black and white to help visually impaired people see the crossing clearly.  A great compromise, I thought!  And possibly an image that could somehow work on a quilt?

Have a lovely week, everyone!

Cheers for reading,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with:

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Angela at So Scrappy

Sarah at Can I Get A Whoop Whoop

Cynthia at Oh Scrap