A Scrappy Star, and Lots of Red

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Twinkle Twinkle Scrappy Star is a top!  I hung it in our maple tree on a sunny day last week.

The blocks were easy and fun to make.  The points even came out right, most of the time!  All thanks to quilt designer Lori Holt.

I discovered the tutorial for this quilt on Lori Holt's Youtube channel.  I had two of her books, but hadn't really done anything with them.  After I watched a ton of her videos I ordered two more books.  My favorite is the one on top in the photo, Scrappiness is Happiness.  The directions on Youtube are very clear, and you wouldn't need the book to make the quilt, but I wanted to see all the other great designs.  Plus, as you'd expect from a retired librarian, I like hard copies!

The directions and photos in the book are great too.  You can see that Lori set her blocks side by side. I went for sashing and cornerstones for a slightly different look, which helps separate the wide variety of background fabrics I used.

All of the star points came from my box of 2.5 in. x 4.5 in. rectangles, so all I had to cut were the background pieces.  Did you notice the Peanuts Easter fabric in the block above?  I'm using holiday fabrics even in non-holiday quilts if the color is right.

My quilt is 56 in. x 66 in., and will be donated as a top to the Children's Advocacy Center.  A volunteer will quilt it.

Here's an adorable snuggly flannel baby quilt, also going to the CAC.  I didn't make this one, my friend Tammy M. did.

Tammy had a really good idea, which I will be shamelessly stealing.  This quilt is made of leftover border strips.  Tammy sewed them together (see the seam in the middle?) and quilted them.  People often donate this kind of thing to our group, or these borders end up in second hand sales, and I never knew what to do with them.  Now I know!  Thanks, Tammy!

It's the last week of red month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, and I had two sets of blocks to work on if I was going to get done on time.  First is the Half Log Cabin.  The block above is one I made to test my pattern.

It was fun digging through the red scraps to find fun prints.

Isn't red a great color?

Lastly, the crumb blocks!  I made all of these yesterday.  Still not sure what I'm doing with them at the end of the year.  My favorite block is the one with the south end of a north bound cow.  (It's the second block from the top, on the right.)

In Progress

I'm still working on the Cabin Steps quilt blocks as leaders and enders.  This one is going to take a while.

Meanwhile, this little quilt will be getting an orange binding.  The backing fabric is from 2012, and I bought it second hand in an antique shop.  All those colorful words are names of towns in Wisconsin. I'll show the front of the quilt next week.

Farewell to red month for the RSC, it's been fun!  I'm sure our next color will great, too.

Have a lovely week, everyone.  Happy Quilting!

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

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