Blue Scraps Part I

Blue, bright and dark, is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color for June. I'm going to use all blues. I have a lot of blue scraps. The first thing I did was sort them by size.  This week I used pieces that were 5 to 5.5 inches or so in width. 

If they were long enough for a 5 x 9.5 inch piece then that's what I cut to make these Horizon Blocks. 

Sometimes other colors sneak into the mix. I will make these blocks from scraps until year end and then see how many donation quilts I can make with them. 

I'm making two different sizes of Square in Square blocks (Chips) and this is the bigger size made with 5 inch squares and 2.75 squares in the corners.  I am using white on black with the RSC color of the month in jewel tones and have been making them for a couple of years now.  I trim the corners and make QSTs.  Not sure what will become of those but I have quite a collection of them and there might be enough for a small quilt when all is said and done. Or they might make a fun sashing for something. Time will tell. 

Any 5 inch pieces that aren't long enough for Horizon blocks but longer than a square will be cut in half lengthwise and added to the 2.5 inch width scraps and will be made into other blocks when it comes time for me to use 2.5 inch width scraps. 

The pieces that were shorter but at least a square's worth got cut into squares. I have a bin with all different sizes of squares where they are stored until I decide to make something with them. 

Any 5 inch piece less than a square was sewn into strips for a Chinese Coin quilt. That box of coins is overflowing because I've been adding to it for years so maybe I should make that Chinese Coins sooner rather than later. 

Rainbow Scrap Challenge ScrapHappy Saturday