Sewing Blues

Buckeye Beauty

This year for my Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) projects I have been working with my scrap "chunks" to make my blocks. This month's color is supposed to be light and bright blue but a lot of my RSC blocks use light, dark, and bright so I just made some of my blocks in this blue month and will make the rest of my blocks in the next blue month. 

At the beginning of the month I cut off a 3.5 inch and 2 inch pieces from several of my blue scrap chunks and made Dove in the Window blocks.  With the leftovers from those pieces I made most of this week's blocks. 

I've been making 6 inch (finished) Buckeye Beauty blocks using scraps in the RSC color of the month plus shirts and black multicolor scraps and sometimes red/black scraps. 

I had a lot of bits and pieces of blue shirts to use this month. Usually I don't have many shirts in the RSC color but I hit the jackpot with blue. 

Then moving on I made some 9 inch (finished) Antique Tile blocks. These still used some of those Dove in the Window leftovers. 

And then finally I made some X+ blocks still trying to use up those Dove in the Window leftovers. 

No matter what I work on if I have 3.5 inch leftovers at the end of the project I make Four Patches if I have two squares.  Those go into the Parts Department. And anything less than a square gets sewn into a strip for a future Chinese Coins quilt. 

The same goes for any left over 2 inch pieces - Four Patches and Coins.

That just leaves me to make Propellers, Double Irish Chain, Big and Little Chips and a table runner for the next blue month. 

Rainbow Scrap Challenge ScrapHappy Saturday