March Is For Yellow Scraps

Crooked Mile

(I've also called these blocks Fractured Rails)

10 inch blocks

They are made with 3 x 3.5 inch rectangles so either width of scrap can be used to make these. 

Yellow is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color for March. 

"How lovely yelllow is! It stands for the sun." - Vincent van Gogh"

I finished blocks with pink scraps I didn't get to in January and...

... with blue scraps...

...which was February's color. 

I'm making them in dark and light in the color of the month. 

I first came across the way to make the wonky stack and shuffle units fom Kathy Doughty (Material Obsession) books. Sometimes I call these "fractured units" - Fractured is the name of one of Kathy Doughty's quilts that uses these units in a larger size than what I'm making. 

Crossroads

7 x 9 inch blocks

Made with 3.5 x 4.5 inch rectangles so either width of scrap can be used. 

All blocks will have brown crosses with red centers. 

I also caught up with making blocks with pink and blue scraps. And a few brown ones snuck in there too. 

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

 

Crooked Mile

I had some small pieces of fabric left over after I made my Easy Sunday quilt top in August.  I decided to do something with them. I had been looking through a book by Kathy Doughty at the time and came across a couple of quilts I made (Red Center and Fractured) in the book. Those quilts are made with 4.5 inch unfinished units and I'm not sure what they are called. Anyway, I decided to make some with my Easy Sunday leftovers and then make a rail fence type quilt. There are no instructions in her book for making a quilt like that but I figured out two 5 inch width strips of fabric would make 18 units which would be enough for two blocks.   In order for them to make a zig zaggy type rail fence I figured out I would need an A block and a B block if I was going to use 9 units to a block instead of 12. 

So I made A and B blocks with my leftover fabrics and ended up with about 14 blocks. Oh, that's not enough for a quilt but that's all the leftover fabrics I had that would yield a 5 inch strip of fabric. 

The blocks finish at 12 inches so 35 blocks in a 5 x 7 setting was my goal. 

I looked around for more fabrics that would mix well with my leftovers and strangely enough I found several fabrics in my civil war reproduction box. 

I now have 35 blocks in yellows, browns, oranges and pinks. 

It will take some thought to put the blocks together correctly so I'm setting them aside for awhile until I feel like thinking. 

While I was making the blocks the There Was a Crooked Man nursery rhyme kept popping up in my mind.   The Crooked Man walked a crooked mile.  Ah, the name for my quilt that I'll put together someday when I feel like thinking! 

Now I do have some smaller Easy Sunday scraps to take care of but that's another story for another day.   

And sew on...