Scrap Processing

Purple is the July Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color of the month. I see the color for August is orange. So this week I finished up with a few purple scraps and went on to my orange scraps. 

Hollow Nine Patches

7.5 inches finished

Made with three inch squares

With these blocks I now have my goal of 48 blocks for a 6 x 8 layout. Now there's some assembly required. 

I don't have 3 inch width scraps very often but when I have run across them while scrap processing I have put them in the project box in order to make the Hollow Nine Patches. Now I have a few odds and ends that are 3 inches in width. I've decided to turn them into bricks if possible and I will separate them with yellow stones.  I'm not really going to turn this into a new RSC project. I'm just going to see how many bricks I can make with what I have. I think a kiddos sized donation quilt will take 112 bricks.

I'm thinking I might also make a separate quilt of neutral bricks with stones of all colors. 

The last of the purple scraps - 3 inch finished Bow Ties made with 2 inch scraps. 

I dug into my orange scraps and found a few 2.5 inch width strips.  I combined them with some neutral scraps and made as many sets of four 2.5 inch HSTs as I could. I also sewed up a few other sets of HSTs previously cut as I came across craps.   Some of the HSTs were combined with 4.5 inch squares from the squares bin and were turned into Bear Paw blocks.   I'll use these in different ways at year end to make a few donation quilts. 

Some of the other sets of 2.5 inch HSTs were combined with 1.5 inch squares to make Monkey Wrench blocks that finish at 5 inches. 

And finally...I found a few 4.5 inch orange scraps and combined those with neutral scraps to make HSTs. Those HSTs were then combined with 2.5 inch squares and made into Monkey Wrench blocks that finish at 10 inches. 

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday