In past years I haven't really had that many scraps to play with when the Rainbow Scrap Challenge color rolled around to ORANGE. This year I do have a lot of 2.5 inch orange scraps since I made a quilt that used a lot of it.
So this month I dug into those 2.5 inch orange scraps and made a couple of ten inch Crazy Lady of the Lake blocks.
And I made a couple of orange eight inch Depression Blocks and three brown ones. I've been making these from scraps for a couple of years and I think I only need 5 or 6 more for a twin sized quilt.
I made a few sprouts. I've also been making these for a few years and probably should take a count of them.
And then I made a couple of these Whatchamacallit blocks. The pieces are 1.5 x 2.5 so I usually use 1.5 inch scraps to make them but I looked ahead into my 1.5 inch scraps and found I only had two orange pieces in there so this month instead of using the 1.5 inch scraps to make these I used the 2.5.
And while working with 2.5 inch scraps if any scrap gets smaller than a 2.5 inch square I sew them into a strip like on the right side.
Then I saw that this month's Block Lotto block, a sixteen patch in California Poppy colors including orange, could be made of 2.5 inch scraps I whipped up four of those.
And on break times I enjoyed watching all the butterflies that visited the orange Tithonia (Mexican Sunflower) in the flower garden.
17 comments:
Wowzer, great progress with your oranges already. I'm still meditating on mine. :D
Great collection of orange blocks. Love those Crazy Lady of the Lake ones.
My favorite are always the Depression blocks, and they are pretty in orange and brown! I enjoyed your photo of the butterfly, too. Beautiful!
All that beautiful orange just warms my heart, and reminds me of my favorite season of the year.
Great blocks using oranges...hugs, Julierose
doncha just love scrappy in any color but oh, orange....wow!
If they gave Oscars for Best Use of Scraps, you'd have a BIG collection of gold statues on your mantel!
Gayle hit the nail on the head. You’re our Oscar-winning, gold medal President of Scrappy. Love every little block!
I’m still getting started! Have a couple other projects that “must be done” first! I will post next week!
A lovely selection of 'orange' scrappy blocks!
Your oranges are beautiful. Makes me ready for fall!
Gosh, Cathy, I've barely begun pulling the orange scraps out. It's been very hot again and I fell behind in July because we were away for 9 days, so I still had a couple red blocks to finish. Taking a class tomorrow so maybe Monday I'll get to the Squared Away blocks.
Pat
How fun, all that orange!
I like orange anytime of the year, it reminds me of tropical
flowers, palm trees and beaches.
Nice work Cathy.
A good collection of orange blocks. I'm curious what you will do with the <2.5" orange strips. Hmm. Something exciting. And your sunflower fits the theme. Good for you!
Oh I love all of your oranges. What a fun bright color!
Hurray for orange. I have lots of you ever need any ;)
Nice work!
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