Kaleidoscopes

Every month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge I make 3 - 12 inch Kaleidoscope blocks from scraps- one in the color of the month, one in color of the month plus color complement, one in color of month plus color of previous month.   This month I didn't want to make two red and green blocks so I made a blue and green one instead. 

Got Scraps?

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

Churn Dash and Churn

Ok. So my blog post title today sounds like the name of a still life painting or something but I just couldn't resist taking a photo of my Churn Dash Quilt with a photo of my dusty old churn. 

Side note: I haven't ever used the butter churn but I have made butter several times with the grandkids.  We shake up cream in a jar with marbles - no churn dash - and love to eat it on homemade muffins or homemade biscuits. 

60 x 72

120- 6 inch churn dash blocks in Civil War reproduction fabrics. 

I swapped some of the blocks last year with members of Block_Swappers. And also last year I swapped CW Repro 2.5 inch fabric strips with members of Quiltville Swap.

I did some straight line vertical and horizontal quilting on my plain Jane Janome. 

I quilted each side of the center squares and then also quilted in the ditch between blocks. 

I don't really like to quilt in the ditch. It's kind of hard to neatly stay in the ditch when you can't really see the ditch all too well. 

But, it's a UFO and it's done. It's washed. It's crinkly soft. It's mine. 

And it will keep me warm this winter while I'm sitting on the couch in this old farm house (heated by wood) eating those homemade biscuits with homemade butter.     (Side note: I don't sit on the couch covered in a quilt to eat those same homemade biscuits if they are covered with homemade jam instead of butter. I end up covered in quilt and jam.) 

Pickled Pink

I finished 12 more arches for the Pickle Dish quilt I'm making as a wedding gift for my granddaughter who loves pink. 

I'm still rehearsing fabrics for the centers that join the arches. 

I picked up this remnant the other day and thought it might make a nice center. And, now I think otherwise. 

I still have a while to decide on centers. My granddaughter is only 9. 

Linking up to Design Wall Monday at Patchwork Times 

Hand Quilting

I'm still working, slowly but surely, on hand quilting my butterfly quilt.  

This time of year it is either too hot, I'm too tired after a long and busy day at work, or I have gardening to do or garden produce to freeze or dry or can so hand quilting a very large quilt is last on my list of priorities. 

I do only have three side sashings left to quilt. 

I might have to add something to the corners up there. 

I have found I actually love hand quilting. Who knew? 

I'm still working on perfecting my stitches but I'm very used to a thimble now.

Not sure I like to applique, though. Jury is still out. 

Slow Stitching? 

Show off and link up for Slow Stitching Sunday at Kathy's Quilts. 

Almost 50 Shades of Envy (or Spewing Green Chunks)

I added a few more 12 inch green Dandy blocks  this week to my pile. I have several  chunks (less than a FQ on most of them) of green I'm trying to use up. 

I figured if I end up with 50 or more blocks I would call the quilt Fifty Shades of Envy.  That's probably a lot better than calling it Spewing Green Chunks. 

(Wouldn't it have been nice if I had those two tree fabrics turned right side up for the photo shoot? They are hardly recognizable as trees. )

 Lucky me...I won a few of Vicki's  hand-dyed "scraps" when she was hosting the HSTeria Sewalong so I used up her green scraps  (plus some navy Kona)  and made more half blocks for my Birds in the Air quilt I previously blogged about on July 25. 

Got Scraps?

This month's RSC color is green (light and bright). But any green will do. 

Use up those scraps and show us what you've made each ScrapHappy Saturday. 

Shades of Envy

Green is again the color of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. I used up most of my small pieces of green scraps and I'm left with a lot of green chunks - enough to make up some 12 inch Dandy Quilt Blocks.  I have about 15 of these now in varying shades of green with a lot more green chunks to go. 

And I added more 13 inch Bear Foot blocks to my pile...this time in green. In case you haven't been following along...I have a bunch of swapped four patches that I am using up in Bear Foot blocks. 

Got Scraps?

Use them up and show us how you did it each ScrapHappy Saturday. 

More Fun with Pink and Black - What Will Become of Them in August?

9 inch pink and black sampler blocks swapped in 2010

My August goal for A Lovely Year of Finishes:

At the very least get these assembled into a top and, hey, 

if they actually end up a finished quilt...well, that's even better.