Red is our color for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge this month. It's another red week here, smack dab in the middle of July. Our little flag is still flying, even though my Little Buddy keeps taking it out of the flower pot, waving it like he's in a parade, and jamming it in again.
There's red inside the house too. The windowsill in my living room is no longer the Dead Plants Society it was at the end of the winter. Old plants are cleaned up or tossed out, and new plants are growing and blooming.
We're still picking raspberries, red and black, and we're finding some stowaways on them. Can you see the little green worm in the bottom left of the photo above? It's an inchworm. Who knew they were fond of raspberries? Both Little Buddy and his 13 year old brother were interested in watching the inchworms move. I get them out of the raspberries with a leaf and put them back in the yard. Science lesson in disguise.
My favorite science is cooking, and I'm doing some small batch canning this year. After all, we don't need huge amounts of canned goods now that there are only two of us living here. These three jars of sweet pickle relish were made from "misfit pickles". I buy them from a vendor at the West Bend Farmers Market, and that's how he labels bags of slightly less than perfect pickles. They're often oddly shaped or small, but are perfectly good. The misfit label makes me smile, and my mind goes back to the Island of Misfit Toys in the old Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Christmas special.
We had good nap times this week, so I got my Wagon Trail blocks done for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. This is 8 of them, side by side.
Can you see the dogs in the light print? I used this twice in my Wagon Trail blocks, as it's a favorite of mine because ...
it looks like my dog Bella! She's a classic hound, like the dogs in the conversation print. This is a photo from Christmas, when she was looking out the window, anxiously awaiting the rest of the family.
There will definitely be more red around here this month. I'm making 3 RSC quilts this year.
I'm looking forward to seeing what everybody else is doing with their red scraps.
Have a lovely, red-letter day!
Cheers for reading,
Sylvia@Treadlestitches
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