Razzle Dazzle, Dinosaurs, First Quilt, and Waffles

 Welcome to Treadlestitches!

It's purple time for my Razzle Dazzle quilt!  July is purple month at my favorite internet quilt along, the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

I found a few purple novelty prints, including the very hungry caterpillar,

and some little purple bunnies.  For the rest, I had a handful of Kaffe Fassett scraps, some dots and stars, and a floral or two.

I haven't had much time for sewing lately.  Summer fun is taking over.  In Wisconsin, we have to enjoy the nice weather while we have it.  Even when the pool water is a little cold.

Now that the COVID isolation is more or less over (for now?), we had a chance to finally go to the Field Museum in Chicago.  I've been promising my Buddy to take him to see the dinosaurs, especially Sue the T Rex that we've read about in several books.  Above, the family poses inside a life size Quetzalcoatlus model.  What an amazing animal this must have been.

These little guys loved everything, especially all the exhibits that say, "Please touch".

I mentioned last week that my Buddy had been helping me lay out a quilt.  This week, he decided he wanted to try laying one out himself.  He used my box of 5 in. squares to design a quilt for his little brother, who loves Thomas the tank engine.  He asked me to take a picture of him with his "first quilt". 

He and I organized the rows just like I usually do, with slips of paper and clothespins.  The Thomas fabrics on the right are being considered for borders.  I'm hoping I can persuade him to make the quilt wider.  He really didn't understand when I tried to tell him it would be smaller after sewing because of the seam allowances. 

This whole project just warms a grandma's heart.

In other scrappy news, look what I won at quilt group!  Our amazing block of the month organizer, Nancy Queen of Scraps, has been showing us fun ways to use up our bits and pieces and make great quilts.  Each month, she gives out a block pattern.  All of us who make the blocks turn them in, and a winner's name is drawn.  This month it was me!  I won 21 waffle blocks (one is not pictured).  I will have to make some more blocks to get this up to a larger size, which will be fun.

So there's lots of sewing to be done, and lots more summer fun to be had before the kids go back to school.

I hope you're having fun, no matter the weather or the season.  Have a great week!

Thanks for reading this,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with 

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Angela at So Scrappy

Cynthia at Oh Scrap