After A Couple of Crumby Days...

After a couple of crumby days I saw some exotic and rare Crumb Posies in bloom.

Some purple 8 inch Crumb Posies with red and blue Crumb Posies that started blooming way back in December 2021. 

“Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.” — Socrates.

"My life (for the last couple of days) has been crumbs falling through the fingers of time (and a sewing machine). Like crumbs in the hourglass, so are the days of our lives" - Me 

(But I have to say I've also been doing a little gardening between crumbs). 

The Hourglass blocks measure about 11 inches more or less. They start with a 12.5 inch block of crumbs.  I've been combining crumbs with solids in a complementary color.  I wished I had a brighter yellow solid to use but I didn't so went with what I had. 

And here with some other Hourglass blocks.  I can't believe I started making these back in January 2020! They have been on my Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) project list for a long time but I've always had so many other blocks on the list I guess these got left behind. I have 8 blocks and am aiming for 24. 

And sew it goes...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

 

Growing Crumb Flowers

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color of the month is yellow but I've used up almost all of my yellow scraps except for a few chunks.  So I went back to January's color of red to finish up some blocks. I had some crumb strips roughly 5 inches wide made with red crumbs. I cut and trimmed a lot of 4.5 inch squares out of those red crumb strips.   Those 4.5 inch squares grew into Crumb Flowers 

I used an old Block Lotto tutorial called Violets to make my blocks that finish at 8 inches. 

The trimmed Crumb Flower "flippy corners" were turned into a few Wonky HST strips for my version of a vintage quilt. 

I still have some 4.5 inch red crumb squares and I am not sure yet what I will do with these but I do have a few ideas. 

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday