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

 

Now Grandma's Nipping at the 4.5 Inch Blue Scraps

This week for the RSC I worked on my blue 4.5 inch scraps.

At the end of the year when I was taking stock I found some scrappy chevrons I think I made during RSC 2013.  I don't think I had many 4.5 inch scraps until this year so I've decided to resurrect this project.  I made one 16 inch chevron. 

I'm making geese this year.  I use the easy angle and companion angle rulers to make these.  I tried them out last year when green was the color of the month.  I decided that if the color of the month was a primary color then the geese sides will be secondary colors and vice versa.   I'm not sure what I'm going to do for final layout. I have plenty of time to think about it. 

I also made these, for want of a better name, fractured units.  Kathy Doughty of Material Obsession has many different layouts for these units.  I didn't see the one I happened upon on the right in her books but I'm thinking I kind of like that.  These are easy peasy units to make so I'm sure by year end I'll have enough for a couple of quilts.  If I had short pieces that was at least 4.5 x 5 I used them in these units. 

And then I have the 4.5 inch block kitchen sink pile - a few HSTs left from the chevron, a few 4.5 inch squares (both blue and neutral) and anything less than 4.5 inch square was sewn into a long strip.  I'll have fun with all my different sized strips at the end of the year.  And this might be the year I do something with that 4.5 inch kitchen sink pile...the sink is getting full. 

I think that's it for the 4.5 inch blue scraps. 

I know you don't remember when I said last week that I had saved a few long 2.5 inch scraps for this week so I won't ask if you remember but this is what I did with them - Interlocking Chains - a fourteen inch block. 

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Planning Ahead

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

I made almost all of my light green/bright green/dark green blocks for all of my RSC projects back in May. I just need to make some Dresdens this month. I have those pieces cut. 

So, I started planning some RSC projects for next year because I still have lots of scraps! 

First up is Snake Trail.   I'm going to use browns for the background and scraps for the snake. 

I think my grandson will like this quilt because he LOVES playing a game called Hissssssssss - a snake making tile game (although at age 6 he's a little old for it now but this quilt might trigger memories later on in life of playing Hissssss with grandma.)

The pattern  is from Modern Quilts, Traditional Inspiration by Denyse Schmidt. 

The other project will use 4.5 inch scraps in color of the month and neutrals.  I'll just make some of these easy/peasy units each month. Not sure how I will lay them out at the end of the year but I'll probably end up with a couple of quilts. 

The method and inspiration came from Kathy Doughty's book Making Quilts. 

I'll probably make two quilts for my granddaughters and swap out that "Red Center" (the name of Kathy Doughty's quilt) and replace it with a little heart block and think of some sappy name for the quilt that reminds them how much I love them.  

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