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 The Rainbow Scrap Challenge will be back in 2022 to encourage you to use your scraps.   I've been doing this since 2010 and am still finding lots of fun scrappy inspiration every year.   The "rules" are simple.  Each month there will be a challenge color.   Your goal is to dig into your scraps and make something using that color.   The challenge is fairly wide open and you are most welcome to interpret and use the challenge in a way that works for you.   

The easiest way to get started is to find a pattern that you want to try.  Anything will work, but starting simple is never a bad idea.  Then each month you will make a block or two or more in the color of the month.  By the end of the year you will have sorted through all of your scraps (any maybe gotten them a bit organized along the way?).  More importantly though, you will have a nice stack of blocks ready to be turned into a quilt.   There will be 10 monthly colors this year, leaving November and December open to assemble blocks and finish your quilts.  

Feel free to change the rules to make them work for you.  You might consider anything smaller than a fat quarter to be a scrap while I like to deal with tiny strings and crumbs.   Try to find a pattern that will work with what you have.  I love to keep drawers of strips and squares around, ready to turn into finished blocks.  The Rainbow Scrap Challenge has helped me to keep working through these collections and turning them into quilts without feeling overwhelmed.   

This year I have three main patterns ready to go:

• Carpenter's Star blocks made from 2.5 inch strips

• Blackford Beauty blocks made from 2 inch squares and solid strips

• Tutorial for Blackford's Beauty Block
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• Bulls-Eye blocks made from 1.5 inch strips

• Tutorial for Bulls-Eye Light

• Tutorial for Bulls-Eye Dark

I have some ongoing projects that I will continue to add to as well, though these are not likely to be finished in a year.   I just keep adding more blocks each month knowing that quilting is a marathon and not a sprint

• Tiny Log Cabin block
• Hexie Diamond blocks.  

I will be back soon to add links to tutorials for my blocks.   And will try to update the colors each month.  The background of the blog tends to change with the colors of the month, so that is always a nice hint in case you miss the color announcement at the start of each new month.   

Stephanie has been kinds enough, once again to make us tracking sheets in case you need to keep track of more than one ongoing project.   Its OK to only have one project though, best to not get too carried away.  Not everyone is prepared to devote every Saturday to sewing only rainbow scraps.    

Tracking Sheet in editable form

Tracking Sheet in PDF printable form

January - red
February - aqua
March - yellow and gold
April - baby and hot pink
May - sage and forest green
June - bright and dark blue
July - purple
August - orange
September - light blue
October - bright and lime green or light neutral
November - brown and black or block assembly
December - multicolor or quilting