Four Patches
Orange is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color for June. This week I worked with the orange 4 inch width scraps.
Four Patches
Made with 4 inch squares
Bricks and Stones
Made with 2.5 x 4 inch rectangles and black 2.5 inch squares.
Coins Strip
Leftover pieces after making this week's blocks from 4 inch width scraps.
Will be future Coins quilt.
Yankee Puzzle blocks
Made with 4 inch orange and neutral squares following
tutorial at Susie's Scraps. (She uses 3.5 inch squares but I'm using 4 inch squares)
More Yankee Puzzle blocks made with 4 inch squares. This will be a separate quilt from the one above with neutrals. I'm trying to use up all the scraps in the 4 inch width scrap box so am using two contrasting scraps in that box to make these blocks.
Other names for this block are Big Dipper, Hourglass, The Whirling Blade and Pork and Beans.
And sew on...
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In the last couple of posts I've shown the roses and peonies in bloom around here. This time I thought I would show pics of what's blooming in the veg garden. I forgot to take a pic of the strawberries in bloom. I've been harvesting and eating a lot of salad crops - butterhead lettuces, spinach, mustard greens. I did pick a few snow peas to make a stir fry along with some onions and sliced up pork chop. I made a little sweet/sour sauce to add to the mix.
Potatoes are blooming. Can't wait to harvest!
It seems a little early for the tomatoes to be in bloom but we have had some beautiful weather (except for the haze from Canadian wildfires).
I start all of my tomatoes from seed and like the heirloom varieties - Brandywine, Big Rainbow, Black Krim to name a few. For making sauces I like Jersey Devil which a big meaty tomato.
I like Green Beauty Snow Peas. Aren't the blossoms pretty?
The Peppers are also starting to bloom. Again, this seems early in the season. I also start these from seed. I can't tolerate hot peppers and since John now gets all his nutrition via G-tube, I don't grow many hot peppers anymore. I do grow Anaheim which is mildly hot but I give a lot of those away. I like an old variety called Jimmy Nardello for cooking and I like Baby Bell for eating fresh. One Baby Bell pepper makes a nice snack.