I'll be continuing with several ongoing projects from last year as well as starting a couple of new things. This week I've been working on a stack of blue crumb blocks from last year. Having already done a quilt or two with square crumb blocks, I thought it would be fun to try cutting some blocks into diamonds instead. Not sure yet what these will become, but for now I will begin a little collection of blocks and let them simmer.
I've also been working on making some rainbow sampler blocks for my new 6 inch rainbow sampler. I've got a nice little stack of these going and have scheduled some tutorials for anyone who wants to make some of the same blocks. The math of 6 inch blocks is actually kind of fun. I'm starting to understand why it is such a popular size for sampler quilts.
This year, blue is the color for January. Blue is usually a HUGE color in quilter's stashes and scrap baskets. To keep it from feeling too overwhelming, we will be breaking it down into smaller groups. First we will focus on the bright and dark end of the blue spectrum. Try to save the pastels and green tinted blues for later in the year.
For anyone interested in the fabric giveaways that are new this year, I'll open the drawing a week before the end of the month and announce the winner on the last Saturday of each month. The fabrics are beautiful hand dyes from Vicki Welsh, our first ever Rainbow Scrap Challenge Sponsor. You should visit her at her blog, or check out the fabric that she has for sale. She will also be participating in the challenge this year, and has a couple of great projects planned.
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Love your blocks! I'm still trying to settle on what I want to do for the challenge. I love the look of these blocks, though, so maybe I'll just have to do more than one project :)
ReplyDeleteI have started with both the challenge and sampler, of course, In BLUE?
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Good morning Angela, love your little crumb blocks. I'm making a little project with blues which require playing with crumbs and making a fabric slab. It is a lot of fun.
ReplyDeleteThis year I'm planning on completing enough blocks for a 'boxed in' block quilt. Also have some more little cross blocks to make and anything else is possible. ;) Thank you for running this fun challenge again for us all to enjoy.
Looking forward to another great year!!
ReplyDeleteI love your little crumb diamonds. They will be a very interesting change from squares.
ReplyDeleteLooks like there are going to be quite a few new folks joining the RSC. I'm so glad you have kept it going and look forward to seeing everyone's projects.
I started to make some blue scrappy and very wonky stars. I look forward to see your and the other peoples Projects.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you are hosting again. It really helped me get get some scraps cleared out...but I think I made enough quilts to create more scraps to replace the ones I used up.
ReplyDeleteYou look like you are off to a good start with those diamonds. They look like they will make a fun quilt.
Love the Crumb blocks - This is the first time joining in. I hope to make a dent lol
ReplyDeleteThank you for hosting another RSC year, Angela. And thank you for posting 6.5" sampler blocks. I have created more scraps during the year so I'm good to go.
ReplyDeleteGlad that I joined up this year. Such wonderful projects! Tempted to start a second project, I have been totally motivated!
ReplyDeleteLove your blocks. This is my first year doing this. I hope to get a lot of scraps taken care of. I may end up re-doing these blocks cause I'm not happy with them, but it's a start.
ReplyDeleteHoping to keep up this year.
ReplyDeleteOOPSSS. sorry about the double link up...lin ky was acting wierd, :)
ReplyDeleteLove love love what everyone is doing...so fun!
ReplyDeleteSew fun to see what everyone is doing. I thought I'd join in, but just pushed through on the current project. (Maybe this afternoon...)
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting again, Angela. Love this Sat. morning stop.
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So far, so good . . . we'll see how well I do at keeping up with the monthly color challenges!
ReplyDeleteIt's so much fun to see everyone's scrappy inspiration!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your encouragement to help me use up my scraps. I like the idea of focusing on one color per month.
ReplyDeleteI just put a new link up. It's my first time doing this and I realised I had put a link to my blog not my post so have done it again.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the time to learn
Thanks for organising this challenge. I am hoping to use up some of my scraps by participating. Love the blocks so far!
ReplyDeleteWOW it is Sunday the 5th and not even lunchtime yet, and there are already 36 link ups!!!! Woo Hoo, Use those scraps!
ReplyDeleteI tried and tried (probably more than 8 times) to get my picture to upload. I even took a second picture and tried to retrieve it from my computer, but to no avail. Just couldn't use the linky. Got any advise?
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This is my first time linking up - I'm looking forward to working my way through a rainbow of scraps this year.
ReplyDeleteI'm so excited to be joining this year in the RSC. I just love looking at everyone's projects!!!
ReplyDeleteHi. Found your site just in time to start with the RSC in the first days of January. Next time i can show same blue things, too. Thanks for hosting.
ReplyDeleteLove all the pretty blues.
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