2.5 Inch Orange Scraps and a Couple of Chunks

Three Ten Inch Crazy Lady of the Lake Blocks

One  Eight Inch Depression Block

ScrapHappy Saturday

Yellow 2.5 Inch Scraps (and Then Some)

Wild Ladies of the Lake

10 inch blocks

This week I pulled out the yellow 2.5 inch scraps. There wasn't much to work with but I did manage to make a few blocks. 

Eight inch Depression Block and 12 inch Ship Block

I found my pile of eight inch Depression Blocks I have made over the years with my 2.5 inch scraps.  I forgot about them because I didn't put them in the box with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge projects.  It looks like I have about 58 (now 59) of them.   I want a big quilt out of them so need about double that amount. 

Garden patchwork of yellow flowers. 

Snapdragons, pansies, tomato blossoms, roses, day lilies, oriental lilies, roses, dutchman's pipe.

 WARNING: Dutchman's pipe is invasive around here. Gosh...I spend a lot of time pulling this vine out of my flower gardens. 

When it's not too hot or too rainy but when it's just right I work out in the gardens.  

ScrapHappy  Saturday

Red 2.5 Scrap Edition

Red 2.5 inch  scraps were used in three 10 inch Lady of the Lake...

...one 12 inch sail boat, one 8 inch Depression Block, fifteen Flying Geese...

...three Sprouts (I may have enough of these for a quilt now since I've been making them with my scraps for a couple of years now)...

...six 4 inch Little Happies (I have a bunch of miscellaneous 4 inch blocks)...

...and six 6 inch Plus Blocks which are new to the list since I had a bunch of red 2.5 scraps left over. 

Rainbow Scrap Challenge ScrapHappy in Red Saturday

In the Pink 2.5

Pink is the new color of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. 

I have a granddaughter that has loved the color pink since she was old enough to say the word. Without her I probably wouldn't have very many pink scraps.

I dug into the 2.5 scrap bin and made a couple of 8 inch Depression Blocks and a few sprouts.  The rest of the 2.5 scraps will have to wait until next week. 

Hot Pink ScrapHappy Saturday

Green

This month's Rainbow Scrap Challenge color is Loden Green (think Evergreen forest). Accent color is dusty brown. 

From 2.5 inch scraps....12 inch Interlocking Chains

From 1.5 inch scraps I made some Vintage Rails (inspired by antique quilt called Roman Stripes).  From 2.5 inch scraps I made one 8 inch Depression block and some 4 inch miscellaneous blocks for the Kitchen Sink pile. 

And, speaking of 4 inch blocks...I made some little 4 inch I Spy Happy Blocks from some fussy cut green 2.5 inch scraps surrounded by 1.5 inch scraps. I cut too many 1.5 inch pieces for the greens I needed to surround so a fat cat on blue background also snuck in the mix. 

And then there's the Sprouts that nearly depleted my 2.5 inch scraps. 

First I made my normal monthly sprouts. 

Then I made 5 Green Leaf pairs for this month's Block Lotto. 

And then I made four of the seven sets of Green Leaf pairs I need for the Old MacDonald Sampler QAL also going on at Block Lotto.    We are supposed to use whatever we chose for our ground cover for the background of these four. I chose green.  So for these blocks I made my background a dark green and the leaf a lime green.   It was really difficult for me to remember to use dark green instead of the neutral background (like pairs above) and lime green for the leaf when sewing them together! I hope there's enough contrast in these in the finished quilt

Go green...use those green scraps this month!

Link up on Saturdays in May and show us how you've used them.

ScrapHappy Saturday

What Can Brown Do For You?

Every month when Angela declares the new color of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge  I go to my 2.5 scrap box and pull all of the pieces of that color.  It's kind of fun to see what all is in there in the monthly color.  This month the color is brown.   

...and I pulled out these pieces of brown. 

Pieces about 22-24 inches long get matched up and made into eight inch kaleidoscope blocks...

... and more kaleidoscope blocks and one 8 inch Depression block...

...and a few 4Ps and then some.

And I have some lozenges (suppositories) cut and have some squares left for a few Twinklers you might see next week. 

Got Scraps? 

Use them up and join us each ScrapHappy Saturday. 

I Thought I Left Orange Behind in the 70s

The color of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge is Orange. 

I really haven't had many orange scraps in previous RSC years. I don't really like orange.  I thought I left it behind in the 70s when most of our walls were painted apricot, orange or peach, our carpet was brown and gold shag and most of our plant pots were wrapped in macrame (and we wore flowers in our hair). 

So, I dug through my 2.5 scrap box and yikes...Who put all of those orange scraps there? 

First up...any 2.5 piece that is at least 24 inches (length of my cutting mat) long I put in a pile for my kaleidoscope blocks.   I then pair those pieces together, sew them together, cut wedges with kaleidoscope ruler and make my blocks.  (That fruit salad kaleidoscope was two different fruit fabrics and together that block kind of makes me cross-eyed.)

Then the scraps left over after cutting kaleidoscope wedges gets made into four patches.  I have a pile of four inch blocks that will get made into a kitchen sink type quilt some day. 

After the kaleidoscopes are made any piece that is at least 18 inches long gets cut and made into Cracker blocks. 

After the Crackers scraps get cut into 5 inch pieces and made into Lozenges  Suppositories.

Next I find some neutral 2.5 scraps and pair them up with any remaining pieces of orange and use my ez angle ruler to cut HSTs.   The HSTs get made into 8 inch Depression blocks and any other HSTs get made into a variety of 4 inch blocks and go into the Kitchen Sink pile I talked about above. 

And finally if there are any pieces that I can cut 2.5 inch square I make those into Twinklers. 

And that's the end of the story as to how I use 2.5 scraps no matter how they got here. 

We all need a little orange in our lives lest we get scurvy, matey. 

Got any orange scraps in yours? 

Use them up and join us for ScrapHappy Saturday

And, I'm going to join up with Scraptastic Tuesday...another link where the scraps are on parade in all sorts of awesome projects. 

Depression Blocks Aren't Depressing

The color of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge is indigo. Lacking that we can use black or gray. 

From 2.5 inch scraps I made 3 eight inch Depression Blocks...

...and 8 six inch Twinklers. 

Got Scraps?

Use them up and join us each Rainbow Scrap Challenge ScrapHappy Saturday. 

What the Heck is the RSC?

Do you know about the Rainbow Scrap Challenge - RSC for short?

Each month Angela assigns us a color, we gather up our scraps and make stuff with that color, and then each Saturday we show off what we've made at a ScrapHappy linky party. 

Now it's time for a RSC mid-year update party. 

Above you will see my Wonky Logs top - 72 x 90.   I started making logs last year with my string scraps.  Good thing I finally have enough logs because I was dangerously low on neutral strings. 

I want to finish this up for my grandnephew. 

I also started making these "Vintage Butterfly" (or Beggar's) blocks last year from 1.5 inch scraps. I have 39 blocks and want 56. I will add sashing between blocks and a single border of butterflies.  Those red blocks are ones I made last year. This month's color is also red and I have some other scraps to make a few blocks this month. 

I also started making Dresden blocks late last year. I only made a couple of them last year but this year I've been making 4 each month.  These are made from 4.5 inch scraps. 

I started making these 8 inch Kaleidoscope blocks this year from 2.5 inch scraps. 

I also started making these 6 inch Twinkler blocks last year from 2.5 inch scraps.  I have 84 of them. 

Again, another project from last year - 8 inch Depression blocks from 2.5 inch scraps. I do have a LOT of scraps in the 2.5 inch size. 

I started these Pentland Cracker blocks this year after I participated in a swap of them. I decided I would add to the swap by making some of these Crackers each month. (I do like BIG quilts). 

I'm not going to stick my 3 inch spool blocks up on the cutting-matt-covered-with-batting design wall but I've been making these for a couple of years, I think. I know I have 524 of them. I am not sure how many I need.  (I do like BIG quilts).  These little spool blocks are a good use of 1.5 inch scraps. 

I'm also not going to stick my Lozenges (aka Suppositories) on the makeshift design wall. I have over 500 of them. These also use 2.5 inch scraps and will finish at 2x4.5 inches. For a twin sized quilt I figure I need 720 of them so that's how many I will make. 

So, now I've described how I'm using my scraps. What are you doing with yours? 

If you need ideas visit the RSC Mid Year Update and go see what everyone else is doing with their scraps.  Before you know it you, too, could have a Rainbow quilt made from your scraps. 

I'm going to go Whoop, Whoop it up at Confessions of a Fabric Addict and see what everyone else happens to be Whoop, Whooping about. 

And, since these are WIPs I'm going to go party over at A Quilting Reader's Garden for WIPs Be Gone.  (Actually, I'm working more on Scraps Be Gone. Maybe these are SIPs...Scraps in Progress. )

Oh Scrap! at Quilting is More Fun than Housework. (Yes, it is). 

And, how can we forget Scraptastic Tuesday??? 

Green 2.5

Green is the color of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. 

These 8 inch Depression Blocks used up some 2.5 inch green and neutral scraps. 

Plus I was able to make a few miscellaneous 4 inch blocks as well as several 4 patches from 2.5 inch scraps.  

Got Scraps?

Use them up and show us what you've done each ScrapHappy Saturday. 

Purple Haze or is it a Fog?

I made some 6.5 purple crumb blocks last year when it was RSC purple month. 

The block of the month at Block Lotto is Crumb (or Made Fabric) Stars. They have 3.5 inch centers and finish at 9 inches. I used the same idea and Tri-Rec rulers and my purple crumb blocks and ended up with some gigantic 18 inch (finished) blocks. 

I think next time I will also use some crumbs for the star points. 

They went together quickly and before you know it I had a 40 x 60 top ready to be quilted and donated after I sew together my mountain of batting scraps. 

(Those darned grandkids kept pestering me last night while I was trying to take pictures so I finally gave in and said I would play a board game after my picture taking session.)

In other purple news I used 2.5 inch scraps to make some 6 inch Twinkler blocks and two 8 inch Depression blocks...

...and 13 Pentland Cracker blocks...

...and some lozenges (bitter pills)...

...and some miscellaneous 4 inch things. 

Got Scraps?

Use them up. Show them off each ScrapHappy Saturday. 

Yellow - Version 2.5

From some 2.5 inch strips you can cut some approximately 22 inch pieces and end up with eight 8 inch kaleidoscope blocks and one leftover kaleidoscope block (upper right) ...

...and with the other 18 inches of the 2.5 inch strip (plus white strips)  you will end up with some 6 inch Cracker blocks. 

With some other 2.5 inch bits and pieces I combined with some neutral scraps and made some HSTs that I then made into 8 inch Depression blocks.

I made a few more lozenges from 2.5 x 5 inch pieces.

And finally, from 2.5 inch scraps...I made some 6 inch Twinkler blocks and some miscellaneous 4 inch blocks that will probably be made into some donation quilts at year end. 

Got Scraps? 

Use them.. Then show us what you've made each ScrapHappy Saturday