Pink Flannel, Rainbows, Hearts, and Bonus Blocks

Welcome to Treadlestitches!  Can you tell it's pink month?

Yes, it is definitely pink month at the Rainbow Scrap Challenge for January.  I apologize for the indoor-only photos, but it was snowing here today.  So I hung this pink flannel scrap quilt on the closet door in the guest room where it's warm and dry to snap a few pictures.

This is one of the kits I cut last year when I was straightening up my flannel stash.  It's a 4 patch, as you can see. The alternate unpieced block is a rainbow print.  

I quilted a 3 in. grid in the main section.  It was easy to do that with the 4 patches by following the center seams, but I had to sew right down the middle of the 6 in. alternate blocks in both directions.  I've marked this before with a quilting marker, but I wanted to try something else.

This is a Hera marker.  The name is kind of misleading, because it doesn't really make any "marks".  You use the curved end to crease the fabric, and quilt it while you can still see the crease.  The big advantage is not having any marks on the quilt to wash out or erase.

I've had a Hera marker for a long time but never really used it.  This little flannel quilt seemed like a good place to try it out.  I used it with a ruler as a straight-edge, and it worked great.  The creases  showed up well on the soft flannel.  I'm really happy with it.

Here's the back, diaper pin print flannel!  Does anybody remember diaper pins?  I used cloth diapers with my babies in the late 1970s-early 1980s and pinned them on with this kind of big pin.  (There's a trick to it to keep from sticking the baby.)  Once disposable diapers became readily available, cloth diapers and diaper pins were used less and less.  I wonder if young moms today even know what they are!

Trying to decide which blocks to make all year for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge is hard:  there are so many great blocks!  I have 8 in. Bowties already, and now I'm adding 6 in. Hearts.  They're fun and easy to make, plus they mix well with other blocks.

This heart is made of a heart print!  With a side of rainbows.

I'm making the blocks like this, with "flippy corners".  

When these big pieces are cut off, I sew them into HSTs, and trim them to 2.5 in. square.

For every heart block, I also get 2 bonus HSTs.

I'm adding two squares from the 2.5 in. square drawer to the 2 triangle squares to make these little blocks.  I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them yet.

I might put 4 of them together and make star blocks.

Or maybe something completely different!

Our youngest grandsons were back in school this week, but last week they spent some time with us.  One day we went to an indoor playground, and they absolutely loved it.

This giant slide was one of their favorite things.  I never could get a good picture.  They were going so fast they were just blurs.

The weeks seem to fly by like that too.  Just an exciting, happy blur.

I hope we all can enjoy the good times while they're whirling by.

Have a lovely week, everyone.

Cheers for reading this,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

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