Cheerios Finish

It's a finish!

Cheerios - Orange and Yellow Version

40 x 60

I made Cheerios blocks back in 2024 and 2025 as a Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) project to use scraps in the 4.5 and 2.5 inch width boxes. 

In late 2025 I sorted the blocks into 4 piles for comfort quilts - 3 small ones and one larger one.

I quilted it with horizontal and vertical lines on my sewing machine.

The backing and binding.

The other Cheerios quilts:

Green Cheerios

Red and Yellow Cheerios

The larger complete block set with pink, purple, blue blocks is in the SAR (Some Assembly Required) bin.

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

Purple is the color of the month but I've been in quilting mode lately so maybe by month end I will do a little purple piecing. 

 

Cheerios Top

It's a top!

Cheerios 

(orange and yellow version)

40 x 60

Cheerios was one of my 2024 Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) blocks to use 4.5 and 2.5 inch width scraps in the color of the month.  In 2025 I divided the blocks into 4 piles for comfort quilts - greens, yellow and reds, purples and blues and pinks, and yellows and oranges.  I was kind of surprised I had so many yellow blocks.   I have already finished and donated the green and yellow and red versions. The purple, blue, pink version is a complete block set waiting for assembly.   The yellow and orange version needed a few more blocks. So I made six more blocks this week and assembled the top.

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

 

Cheerios and Stars

Cheerios

10 inch 

Made with 4.5 inch and 2.5 inch scraps

I've been making these blocks from scraps since 2024. It has been one of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) projects. I think near the end of 2025 I divided up the blocks I had made into 4 comfort quilts. I have finished and already donated the two child sized quilts - a green one and a red and yellow one. I have a complete block set of blue, pink and purple blocks that needs to be assembled into a top. And finally I have this one - yellow, orange and brown.  I need a few more blocks for a 50 x 70 inch quilt.

Wonky Stars

10.5 inch

Made with 4 inch squares and 3 inch squares cut on diagonals. 

Scraps from the 4 inch width and 3 inch width scrap boxes I am trying to empty.

If you follow my blog you know I have been working to empty a box of 4 inch width scraps and have made several tops so far.  I now have completed 29 Wonky Stars from the box of 4 inch width scraps and that's all of the scraps in that box that are long enough to make Wonky Stars. From now on I am going to make the Stars from scrap chunks in the RSC color of the month. And then at some future date I will divide the blocks up into different comfort quilts. 

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

A Few Pink Scraps

Cheerios

10 inch finished

Made with 4.5 and 2.5 inch width scraps

Now I have 48 blocks for a 6 x 8 block layout and a 60 x 80 quilt of pink, blue and purple blocks.

I have been making blocks from scraps as a Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) project since 2024. After I had a big pile of them I divided blocks into piles for several different quilts. I already finished a couple of smaller ones:

Green Cheerios

Red and Yellow Cheerios

Yankee Puzzle

(aka Big Dipper or Hourglass)

9 inch

This also has been an RSC project since 2024. 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. But note that I used 4 inch instead of 3.5 inch squares.

I need 7 more blocks for a 48 inch block set.  This set has light backgrounds.  I previously made a smaller top with 2 color blocks. 

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

 

Red and Yellow Cheerios Finished

It's a finish!

Cheerios

40 x 40

I made Cheerios from scraps in 2024 and part of 2025 as one of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) projects. In late 2025 I sorted the blocks into 3 piles for comfort quilts - 2 small ones and one larger one. I assembled this top back in November 2025. 

I quilted it on my sewing machine with horizontal and vertical lines.

The back and binding.

And sew on...

A little quilting marathon is going on here in March . Soon I will have boxes of comfort quilts to send off to two of my favorite charities that provide quilts for kids  - Wrap-A-Smile  (WAS)  and      Quilts Beyond Borders.  (QBB).

Wrap-A-Smile (WAS) partners with Rotaplast International.

 Rotaplast International, Inc. is committed to helping children and families worldwide by eliminating the burden of cleft lip and/or palate, burn scarring, and other deformities.

Quilts Beyond Border (QBB) quilts go to many different initiatives both foreign and domestic...foster care, refugees, Indian reservations, orphanages, women's recovery centers...you will just have to go read the QBB blog because I can't remember them all.

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It's been a stressful few days here. John has been ill and has a swollen gland. Got him into the doc and then waited all day for the antibiotic. Drove 1/2 hr into pharmacy when it was almost dark and I hate to drive in the dark.   Well, actually, I hate to drive. Period. Plus his G-tube fell out this week and since we always keep one on hand and the surgeon showed me how to replace it that's what I did. I think this is the third time I've had to do that and it's not quite as stressful as the first time; however, I'm really not nurse material. 

But it has also been a few days full of packages of bits and pieces of this and that from Katie Z and Wanda D.   Oh joy!

And the last few days we have received some much needed rain but we could use more. 

 

Green Cherrios Finish

 

It's a finish!

Green Cheerios

40 x 60

I made these 10 inch blocks from scraps in 2024 and 2025 as a Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) project. Last year I looked at the stack of blocks and divided them up into piles for four comfort quilts.  I had enough green blocks for one quilt. 

This is the first of the four Cheerios quilts to be finished. 

I quilted it on my sewing machine with vertical and horizontal lines. 

The backing and binding are a light lime green fabric. 

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A little quilting marathon will be going on here in March . Soon I will have boxes of comfort quilts to send off to two of my favorite charities that provide quilts for kids  - Wrap-A-Smile  (WAS)  and      Quilts Beyond Borders.  (QBB).

Wrap-A-Smile (WAS) partners with Rotaplast International.

 Rotaplast International, Inc. is committed to helping children and families worldwide by eliminating the burden of cleft lip and/or palate, burn scarring, and other deformities.

Quilts Beyond Border (QBB) quilts go to many different initiatives...foster care, refugees, Indian reservations, orphanages...you will just have to go read the QBB blog because I can't remember them all. 

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And sew on...

Monday Musings at Brenda's Songbird Designs

More Blue Scraps

Crossroads

7 x 9

Last week I was working with scraps from the 3.5 inch width box. I pulled out just a couple of blues to make some Crossroads blocks.  Then I closed up my 3.5 inch width box of scraps and opened up the box of 4.5 inch width scraps. I found a few blues in there too that I could use to make a few blocks. I made these blocks last year and last September I assembled a child sized top with them. Now I only need a few more blocks for an adult sized comfort quilt and I will be able to cross this block off my RSC project list. 

Cheerios

10 inch

Made with 4.5 and 2.5 inch scraps.

I have been making Cheerio blocks for awhile now too. So far I have assembled a couple of small comfort quilts tops and now I need a few more blocks in blues, purples and pinks for a larger comfort quilt. I pulled out all of the blues, purples and pinks from the 4.5 inch width scraps and squares that I need to finish blocks for the larger top and will make the pink and purple blocks when the RSC colors are called. Then I will be able to cross another RSC block off the list.

1. Red and Yellow Cheerio top.

2. Green Cheerio top.

Buckeye Beauty

8 inch

Also made with 4.5 and 2.5 inch width scraps.

I was also making these last year. I need to take count.

Uneven Shoofly

10 inch blocks

Also made with 4.5 and 2.5 inch with scraps.

I am using scrap chunks to make these. I have a lot of small floral chunks as well as small chunks of thrift store shirts, homespuns, plaids, stripes I'm going to use. This combination of florals and shirts reminds me of my grandmother's quilts made of old clothes. 

While I was in the 4.5 inch width scrap box I pulled out all the smaller pieces in all colors. I cut a big pile of 4.5 inch width squares and anything left of the piece that would yield a 1.5 x 4.5 inch rectangle I cut for another round for my Pie Birds quilt.   I needed 120 rectangles and when I didn't meet that goal using the 4.5 inch with small scraps I dug into my 1.5 inch width scraps to cut the rest of the rectangles to meet my goal.

Then since I was in my 1.5 inch width scraps I went ahead and cut 120 1.5 x 5.5 inch rectangles for my final round for Pie Birds.

Slivers

Then I had some really small scraps (slivers) left over from processing pieces in the 3.5 and 4.5 inch width boxes. I sewed them all together to be used at some future time in a column or row quilt. 

And sew on...

Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) ScrapHappy Saturday

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Finished a book! All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. A WWII historical fiction, I loved the lyrical prose style of writing as well as the story.

 

Cheerios

 

It's a top!

Cheerios

40 x 40

I have been making Cheerios blocks from scraps since 2024 as one of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) projects. Earlier this year I went through the pile of blocks and divided them into groups for 3 comfort quilts - two small and one  twin size. I need a few more blocks for the twin that will contain blue, purple and pink blocks. I made the small green Cheerio top in September. 

As you can see...this one has red and yellow blocks and a lot of dogs. 

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

Cheerio!

It's a top!

Cheerios

40 x 60

I started making these 10 inch blocks from scraps last year as a Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) project. I decided to check how many I had and divided blocks into groups for 3 comfort quilts. 

This is the green quilt. 

I made 10 more blocks so I could put together this top. 

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

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Yesterday I posted photos of all my roses in bloom. Today I'm posting some of the other flowers in bloom. 

Morning Glories and Autumn Clematis

Rose of Sharon

Dahlia

Dahlia

Dahlia

Dahlia

Dahlia

Chives

Zinnias 

Another Zinnia patch