Yellow Scraps

Yellow Cats

Yellow is the February Rainbow Scrap Challenge color of the month. 

 I sort most of my scraps by size and not by color.  That's what works for me.  This week I dug into the 3.5 inch scrap bin and pulled out some yellow scraps to make some cats.  I want to make at least four cats per month and so if I don't have enough 3.5 inch scraps (as so happened with red) then I cut a 3.5 inch pieces off of a chunk scrap.   I've been using gray or black/white scraps for the background. 

 The next thing I do with 3.5 inch scraps is cut sixteen 3.5 inch squares to make sixteen patches with stars. 

 Then I pair up the yellows with another color of my choosing to make HSTs and then make Broken Dishes blocks. 

I was kind of surprised I had so many yellow scraps in the 3.5 inch bin. I usually don't have many yellow scraps in any size.  

 Since I still had yellow scraps left in the bin I decided to cut 1.5 x 3.5 pieces for my little rail fence blocks.   Those pieces were made into the Rails on the left. Since I usually cut Rails from 1.5 inch scraps I decided to also  go get yellow scraps from the 1.5 inch scrap bin and cut and make Rails which are on the right.   This is the third year of making little Rails from scraps so maybe at the end of this year I'll have enough for a big and very scrappy quilt.  

Then while I was in the 1.5 inch scrap bin I cut my Bit Coin pieces (1.5 x 2.5) for the block on the left.  I usually don't like to repeat fabrics in a block but I didn't have much to choose from in the 1.5 inch scrap bin. After I use scraps from the 1.5 inch bin in my RSC projects they go into the Spider Web project box.   I'm aiming for a big quilt and this is my third year of making them so I'm not going to be picky about repeats anymore.  Then I decided to look into the 2.5 inch scrap bin.  I should have looked there before I made the block on the left because as you can see from the block made on the right I had lots of different yellow 2.5 x 1.5 scraps. 

Anything left in the 3.5 inch bin that was less than a square went into a strip instead of into the crumb bin.   I've been doing this for a couple of years too so I probably have enough for a Chinese Coin rainbow or a rainbow border. 

Earlier this week I started making Church Window Hexagon Variation blocks from 3.5 inch scraps and made my red and yellow blocks. 

So that completes my yellow blocks from the 3.5 inch scrap bin and the 1.5 inch scrap bin.  That leaves me with the yellow scraps in the 2 inch and 4.5 inch scrap bins to use the rest of the month. 

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