NOT Disappearing Four Patches

NOT Disappearing Four Patch (ND4P)

From 3.5 inch width scraps - Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color of month plus tone on tone (TOT)

9 inch finished

I like the look of the Disappearing Four Patch (D4P) block but I don't like the method used to make it. Rather than make a Four Patch and cut apart, rearrange and sew back together I just cut the pieces and sew them together. 

 Because aqua is the RSC color of the month and because I'm trying to empty a box of 3.5 inch width strips and squares I dug into that box for scraps to make my blocks. 

I'm making two sets of ND4P. This one is made of plaids, stripes, shirtings plus a solid. 

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

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Today is my daughter's 50th birthday! How can that be? 

"I don't remember growing older. When did they?"

 

Orange Scraps

Yankee Puzzle

9 inch

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. Note that I am using 4 inch squares and not 3.5 inch squares used in the tutorial.

I started making these last year and made one small comfort quilt top consisting of blocks with two colors. This set consists of color plus neutral. I will make a larger comfort quilt with this set consisting of 48 blocks. 

After I made the two orange blocks I noticed I only needed 5 more blocks to reach my goal of 48 blocks so I dug into my 4 inch width scrap bin and found pieces for the 5 blocks. 

Goal of 48 blocks met!!!

I still have a box of 4 inch width scraps. I think this month I will try to make a plan to use these and maybe empty the box. More on that later. 

Uneven Nine Patch'

7 inch

Made with 3.5 inch width scraps and multicolor 1.5 inch sashing. 

Buckeye Beauty

6 inch

Made with scraps found in the 3.5 and 2 inch width scrap bins plus black.

NOT Disappearing Four Patch (ND4P)

9 inch

I like the look of the Disappearing Four Patch block; however, I don't like the method of making a Four Patch and then cutting it up to make another block. I just cut for the end result. 

I made these with orange scraps in the 3.5 inch width scrap bin and some solid scraps. After I made them I realized I have been making these with plaid scraps and solids in order to use up plaid scraps. So now I guess this is a new start. Instead of just solids I will use blenders and tone on tones (TOTs) with the scraps in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color of the month. 

And here's the ones made with plaid scraps. 

I added an orange round to my Giant Potato Chip quilt. It is now a 12.5 inch square. 

Orange Hollow Nine Patch

9 inch

Made with 3.5 inch squares

Pink Potato Chip

6 inch

Made with 1.5 x 2.5 inch rectangles

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

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My husband has a fractured jaw - the result of osteoradionecrosis (bone necrosis due to radiation for cancer at base of tongue). Fractured jaw is infected (osteomyelitis). They put him on an antibiotic best for bone infection as well as a chlorhexidine mouth rinse hoping to help fight the infection. He was scheduled for a presurgical evaluation and consult with ENT on May 8 at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics hoping to get surgery scheduled to fix the jaw. BUT on May 6 they called and cancelled the May 8 appts. and moved them out to June 12. They said they hoped to clear up the osteomyelitis a little more before surgery. Evidently antibiotics work more slowly on bone infections and so they said the May 8 appt. was "too soon". The June 12 appt. will be about six weeks out from when they started him on the antibiotic.  And so we are again playing a waiting game. 

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Oh, the weather was beautiful yesterday. Finally a day I haven't needed to wear a coat. We are past the last frost date of April 30 but the night time temps have been dipping into the 30s and daytime temps in the 40s-50s. Today it is supposed to reach temps in the 70s. Yesterday I worked outside most of the day and I think I will again today. 

Red Scraps 3.5

Snowball Nine Patch

9 inch (finished) blocks

Made from 3.5 inch width scraps

Red is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color for March. Last week I made my blocks from 2 inch width scraps. This week I'm using what is in the 3.5 inch width scrap bin.

NOT Disappearing Four Patch

9 inch blocks

Combining shirtings, homespuns and plaids with solids.

Uneven Nine Patch

7 inch blocks

3.5 inch squares with multicolor sashings

Four Patch

6 inch

Light and dark of same color.

I made all of these blocks and then happened to find more squares hidden away and I received some squares from a friend so went through those squares to make more blocks in red but in the past RSC colors of blue and green. I'm hoping to have an empty 3.5 inch width scrap bin by year end! 

Uneven Nine Patches

Four Patches

Hollow Nine Patches

9 inch blocks

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

 

More Green Scraps

NOT Disappearing Four Patch

9 inches

Made with solid and shirting scraps

I like the look of Disappearing Four Patch (D4P) blocks but I don't like to make a Four Patch, cut it apart, rearrange pieces and then sew pieces back together again So I just cut pieces and make the end result. 

This is the last day for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color green. I am anxious to see what new color of scraps I will be sewing with in March.

Uneven Shoofly

10 inch

Made with floral and shirting scraps.

(Just like grandma used to make!)

Streak of Lightning

6 inches

Made with 2 inch squares.

Streaks will be black/white fabrics.

Another Streak of Lightning

9 inch blocks

Made with 2 x 3.5 rectangles

This one takes an A and B block.

Wonky Log Cabin Duckworth Style

6 inch

One color blocks made from scraps will have centers in a complementary color.

New start because this month the theme in my sewing space to move UFOs forward has been "log cabins and variations".  I have a lot more green scraps to sew into Wonky Log blocks but this is all I have managed to make so far.

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

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Finished a book! When the World Fell Silent by Donna Jones Alward. "Historical fiction novel set during the 1917 Halifax Explosion, exploring loss, resilience and hope through the lives of two women."  I had never heard of the Halifax Explosion so I found it interesting at the end of the book to read the author's notes about some facts of the Halifax Explosion.  I liked the book because I like books about bravery and survival and I like historical fiction. I did find the book rather slow moving.

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Happy 17th birthday to my grandson Jacob! I witnessed his birth and can't believe 17 years have passed already. 

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February weather here in Iowa has been weird. We have 60 degree temps one day and below freezing the next. And the ground is very dry so we could use some precipitation but I sure don't want that four feet of snow they have out East.