Green Scraps Chapter IV

Crooked Rails

10 inch blocks

Green is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color for May. 

Crooked Rails

10 inch blocks

I've been making Crooked Rail blocks since about the middle of last year. I'm using a dark and light scrap in the RSC color of the month. I'm using 3 and/or 3.5 inch width scraps and cutting rectangles 3 x 3.5. Each block uses 8 rectangles each of two different fabrics.   I have several of Kathy Doughty's books and she uses these stack and whack wonky units in several of her quilts; however, she doesn't have any Crooked Rail blocks like these in her books. I make the units and have used them in lots of different ways. 

Wonky Windmills

8 inch

For the geometric,etc. pile of blocks.

Made with 4.5 inch width scraps; 4.5 x 5 inch rectangles. These are the same type of units used in the Crooked Rails. 

I made a bunch of the blocks in the RSC color of the month plus gray scraps. Last year I made a big stack of them and then divided them into piles for different quilts. I have already made the Wonky Windmill top with the novelty blocks but I need a few more blocks for the geometric, etc. pile and a few more blocks for the floral pile and then I will be finished with these blocks. My goal to use up a lot of small gray scrap chunks has been already accomplished.

Wonky Windmills

8 inch blocks

For the geometric, etc. pile.

I had a few multicolor scraps cut for the blocks so they alo got made this week. 

Wonky Windmills

8 inch blocks

For the floral pile

Bricks and Stones

2.5 x 6 unfinished

I've been using 2.5 x 4 inch scraps in the RSC color of the month and 2.5 inch black squares to make these units. Intent is to use shorter lengths of 2.5 inch width scraps.

Bits of Bricks

made with 3 x 6 inch rectangles

Hollow Nine Patch

10.5 inch blocks

Made with 4 inch squares

These are the final two blocks needed to complete the goal of 24 blocks for a kiddo comfort quilt. 

And sew on...

RSC ScrapHappy Saturday

 

Roses In December

"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December." - J.M. Barrie

Roses in December

60 x 80

It's a flimsy! 

The theme in my sewing space this month is supposed to be "Roses and Baskets"; however, I've kind of gotten side tracked trying to reduce scraps and orphan blocks and novelty fabrics for kiddo comfort quilts.   It's all good - themed or not! 

I love rose themed fabrics and I have quite a few of them. For this one I decided to use rose prints with green and with red backgrounds (Christmas roses, you know).  I don't have many left with red backgrounds so I used a few other red prints.  I wish I hadn't used any prints with light green backgrounds but so it goes. 

I used the Wonky Rails pattern by Mary of Mary Quilts and Heartstrings Quilt Project except I made 10 inch finished blocks and cut my pieces 11 x 14 and trimmed to 10.5 inch square. I think 11 x 13.5 would have been a large enough rectangle but since this is my first time making this stack and whack Wonky Rail I thought I would leave a little wiggle room. 

And sew on...

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CELEBRATE! (my word of the year)

Dec. 4 - I saved $1.32 per gallon of gas with my HyVee (grocery store) fuel saver card. Most of those points were earned by shopping on Mondays. It also depended upon the Iowa Hawkeyes score. So for instance if the Hawkeyes scored 40 points and I spent $40 at HyVee on Monday following the game I could accumulate fuel savings of 40 cents per gallon.  I don't really go anywhere so don't use much gas but the fuel savings do expire so I get gas before a large amount might expire. 40 cents of that $1.32 was going to expire at the end of day so it was time to fuel up!

Dec. 5 - Technical manuals that make sense. We got up early to go in to have our lab work drawn  at 7:15 before our wellness exams on the 11th.   The house was freezing.  Looked like it was 56 degrees and it seemed like the furnace was not working. I figured I would worry about it after we got back from the lab. The furnace is not that old (maybe four years?).    When we returned home -- sure enough...the furnace was not working. I looked at the manual and there was a checklist in there that gave things to check before making a service call. The first thing on the list was to check the thermostat. Sure enough...batteries were dead.  I replaced the batteries and about five minutes later the furnace kicked on. Whew! 

Dec. 6 - Finished a book! - To The Bone by Jeff Carson. It is mystery thriller -- #7 in the David Wolf series. Who stole the dinosaur bones and who is the murderer or murderers? I know all the characters pretty well now, know that David Wolf can solve any mystery, and am ready to move on to book #8.

Dec. 7 - Kayla's birthday! My granddaughter would have been 20 years old today if she had not passed away unexpectedly of "probable cardiac arrhythmia" at the age of 17.