Orange Scraps

Yankee Puzzle

9 inch

I have been trying to use up a small box of 4 inch width scraps and squares. One of the blocks I have been making using those scraps is Yankee Puzzle using the tutorial at Suzy's Scraps. Note that I am using 4 inch squares and not 3.5 inch squares used in the tutorial.

I started making these last year and made one small comfort quilt top consisting of blocks with two colors. This set consists of color plus neutral. I will make a larger comfort quilt with this set consisting of 48 blocks. 

After I made the two orange blocks I noticed I only needed 5 more blocks to reach my goal of 48 blocks so I dug into my 4 inch width scrap bin and found pieces for the 5 blocks. 

Goal of 48 blocks met!!!

I still have a box of 4 inch width scraps. I think this month I will try to make a plan to use these and maybe empty the box. More on that later. 

Uneven Nine Patch'

7 inch

Made with 3.5 inch width scraps and multicolor 1.5 inch sashing. 

Buckeye Beauty

6 inch

Made with scraps found in the 3.5 and 2 inch width scrap bins plus black.

NOT Disappearing Four Patch (ND4P)

9 inch

I like the look of the Disappearing Four Patch block; however, I don't like the method of making a Four Patch and then cutting it up to make another block. I just cut for the end result. 

I made these with orange scraps in the 3.5 inch width scrap bin and some solid scraps. After I made them I realized I have been making these with plaid scraps and solids in order to use up plaid scraps. So now I guess this is a new start. Instead of just solids I will use blenders and tone on tones (TOTs) with the scraps in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color of the month. 

And here's the ones made with plaid scraps. 

I added an orange round to my Giant Potato Chip quilt. It is now a 12.5 inch square. 

Orange Hollow Nine Patch

9 inch

Made with 3.5 inch squares

Pink Potato Chip

6 inch

Made with 1.5 x 2.5 inch rectangles

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

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My husband has a fractured jaw - the result of osteoradionecrosis (bone necrosis due to radiation for cancer at base of tongue). Fractured jaw is infected (osteomyelitis). They put him on an antibiotic best for bone infection as well as a chlorhexidine mouth rinse hoping to help fight the infection. He was scheduled for a presurgical evaluation and consult with ENT on May 8 at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics hoping to get surgery scheduled to fix the jaw. BUT on May 6 they called and cancelled the May 8 appts. and moved them out to June 12. They said they hoped to clear up the osteomyelitis a little more before surgery. Evidently antibiotics work more slowly on bone infections and so they said the May 8 appt. was "too soon". The June 12 appt. will be about six weeks out from when they started him on the antibiotic.  And so we are again playing a waiting game. 

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Oh, the weather was beautiful yesterday. Finally a day I haven't needed to wear a coat. We are past the last frost date of April 30 but the night time temps have been dipping into the 30s and daytime temps in the 40s-50s. Today it is supposed to reach temps in the 70s. Yesterday I worked outside most of the day and I think I will again today.