Baby Charms and Blue Crumbs

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Every January several local businesses partner with a TV station to sponsor a Community Baby Shower, which donates baby supplies etc. to families in need.  Today is the last day to drop off donations so I rushed to finish this Baby Charms quilt and got the binding on Thursday morning.

I made a quilt in this pattern in 2023 (Click HERE for that post.)  The pattern probably came from somewhere on the internet.  (If you know where it came from, please tell me and I will update.)  The white strips are cut 2.75 in. and finish at 2.25 in., which is half of what the charm squares finish (4.5 in.) so the math works out.  I don't think I would have thought of that on my own!

There are 48 charm squares in the quilt, 3 each of 16 prints.  Four of those are bunny prints!  These bunnies are dressed up and carrying Easter baskets.

These sweet little bunnies seem to be playing with a blanket.  Or a leaf?

I think these bunnies on the green background are taken from the book Guess How Much I Love You, by Sam McBratney.  I love those chubby little ducklings too.

Even the border is a bunny print!  I got this fabric at our last guild meeting.  It had been donated to our group.

The back is a solid pink from my basement stash.  It's a little darker in real life than it appears here.

Baby Charms, the Purple Princess quilt from last week, and the last two heart quilts will all be going to the Community Baby Shower drop off today.

You would not believe the mess in my sewing room when I was cutting out the Baby Charms quilt.  Piles of scraps and fabrics were everywhere.  (The cats love when I do that.  They sleep on the fabrics.)  Since everything was out, I cut two quilts, one with pink (the finished one above) and one in just blues, greens, and yellows.  I had enough of the white fabric for both quilts.  The second quilt will eventually be a leader and enders project.  It can be donated to next year's Community Baby Shower, unless it's needed somewhere else before that.

Can you believe it's already the last day of January?  Soon we'll be making blocks in a new color (green!) for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. 

This is my last RSC set for January,  6 in. crumb blocks.  (Crumbs are small scrap pieces.)  I also use strings (skinny strips) in these.

Leftover triangles are fun to add, too.  I make these blocks free form, without any foundation.

Somehow (maybe because of those leftover triangles?) these houses just came together when I was making the crumb blocks.  Maybe I'll keep these going all year in all the RSC colors.

In Progress:

In 2023 I used my weekly grocery store receipts as foundation paper, and pieced crumbs and strips to them as one of my RSC projects.  (Above is the back.)

I'm finally doing something with these pieces!  I cut them in 6.5 in. lengths and am setting them together with 6.5 in light squares and solid cornerstones.  I was inspired by Angela at So Scrappy who is doing something similar.  (Thanks for the inspiration, Angela!)  I'm liking the project, but taking the paper off is a pain.  Plus it's such a mess!  The cats and I are tracking little pieces of paper all over the house.  (Hubby is safe, he doesn't come in the sewing room much.)

Mr. Snicklefritz REALLY needed some attention when I was sewing those pieces together.  So I stopped for some cuddles.  When he was satisfied that he was indeed the center of the universe he curled up under the ironing board and fell asleep.

I hope everything is peaceful and pieceful in your universe this week.  Happy February!

Cheers,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with these fun linky parties:

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Angela at So Scrappy