Wonky Windmills
8 inch block
Made with two 4.5 x 5 rectangles of gray and two 4.5 x 5 rectangles of a color. I've been making these blocks for couple of years as a RSC (Rainbow Scrap Challenge) project. I wanted to use a lot of gray scrap chunks and 4.5 inch width scraps. With a lot of RSC blocks I just make a pile of blocks and then decide what to do with them. When I had a pile of these I divided them up into smaller piles and so far I have completed a set of black and pink ones, a set of novelties and a set of geometrics and solids. This is the floral set and the goal is 63 for a layout of 7 x 9 for a finished 56 x 72 inch comfort quilt.
Orange is the June RSC color of the month so I made four blocks with orange florals (loosely translated).
I noticed I was close to my goal of 63 blocks so looked around in my 4.5 inch width scraps for some florals. While sorting scraps in the past I actually had set aside a few scraps in the box just to use in these blocks.
I was scraping the bottom of the gray scrap chunk bag to finish up these blocks. I did empty out the bag.
So now I have met my goal of 63 blocks and the complete block set will go into the SAR (Some Assembly Required) bin. The top will be assembled at later date.
Going where the scraps take me and enjoying the journey.
And sew on...
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Coneflowers are starting to bloom. A couple of years ago I bought a few different ones at an end of year clearance sale. There are so many varieties of them to choose from now but I think the native Purple Coneflower is my favorite.
10 comments:
Love those scrappy wonky windmills, Cathy--i am still struggling here with leftover symptoms from the tick bites...hoping they'll go away soon...hugs, Julierose
Love the flowers! I need to plant Coneflower again. I had a bunch in the front 'shared' flowerbed w/neighbor. Not sure why they "disappeared them". Grrrrrr
Those gray scraps sure made into great backgrounds for your wonky windmills!
have you tried red coneflowers? they are ones that I failed with here - I will get the yellow and purple just fine but the reds died on me.
Love your wonky windmills! And the coneflowers, too. I tried growing some from seed this year, but nothing came up. But I will try again!
I love coneflowers. Any ones other than the purple, the japanese beetles eat and they are not hardy enough to come back for a repeat performance, so I have lots of purple ones. The goldfinches adore them.
Wonky windmill blocks make great donation quilts, you have een stitching up a storm. Pretty flowers too.
These wonky windmills are adorable! Lots of fun fabrics in them too. Your coneflowers look amazing. I would like to add coneflowers to my garden someday. Enjoy your weekend.
I only have the purple coneflower and really enjoy them. Love those wonky windmills, they will make a great quilt.
aren't those fun - and so colorful!
your flowers are beautiful
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