RSC Week #8 - End of the PINK Month

The PINK month is over!

It has been a sew fun month, doing the RSC (Rainbow Scrap Challenge) hosted by Angela over at SOS Scrappy.

Where to start? I have a lot to show and tell. Oh, better start with making a CUPPA! Done, and enjoying! 

First of all, progress on the pink quilt; it is quilted! I didn't have to purchase pink thread and wait days for it to arrive! Yippie! Next step is trimming the sides and add binding. 

I'm sure fabric multiplies! At the beginning of February, after counting how many yards of pink I have, I counted approximately 13 yards. I thought I had pulled all pink from the shelves. Nope! 4.75 yards suddenly popped up! Some of the yardage were ugly fabric (in my opinion). That gives a total of approximately 17.75 yards.  I was so determined using up as much pink as I could within February. The pink quilt measures about 66 x 92 inches / 167 x 233 cm, quite some yards went into the quilt, since the back is pieced too. 

What to do with the remaining pinks? 

I decided making some items for my Etsy shop, mostly table toppers, and some coasters. 

Most of the pinks were half yards. I had enough of this pretty primerose (?) fabric to make a table topper and table runner. For this one, the back is pink too.

Since I've been into baskets this month, a basket table runner was born. Thank you for the suggestion Phyllis! Pink floral for the back. 

Tiny pink roses. Have to look for backing for this one. 

Same pink roses fabric with pink sashing, and the back is pink too. 

I've had this big scale floral fabric for some time and didn't know what to do with it. Adding burgundy Moda Marbles sashing, it became two almost identical table toppers

..and one more, with pink backing. 

Pink pastel coasters, insulated with Insul Bright.

Pink with white dots insulated coasters

...and finally

Round reversible placemats; hearts on white and white dots on pink. 

Out of approximately 17.75 yards, I'm left with 4.36 yards, mostly batik. Binding for the pink quilt will be deducted from what I have left and I have an idea for one of the fabric left, maybe a table runner and two placemats, if I have enough of that pink. 

A marathon pink month for sure! Now I'm curious what the color for March will be!  

Linking up with Angela and the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) 2023

HAPPY QUILTING! 

 

Basket Blocks, Over the River and Cyclone Freddy

 Thank you everyone for your input on the basket blocks (previous post)! It really helps getting others opinion. 

I've been pondering what to do and in the end I decided to rip off the outer rectangles and replace them with Moda Marbles / neutrals.

This is how they looked like...

.... and how they look now. IMO, the rectangles were too busy. Now they actually look like baskets, don't they?! :)

A few more. The colors on the right one looks a bit washed out, brighter in real. 

This is my favorite so far. The colors are blue/greyish, really beautiful. Unfortunately I don't have more of the dark and light blue, they were part of a layer cake bought years ago. The dots fabric is part of some fat quarters I have left, may make something in blue and not include this one in the basket quilt. 

I'm still into PINK, but that will be for the Saturday post! 

I've totally forgotten to show progress on 'Over the River' stitchery

This is approximately half of the first section. 

My goal is to stitch a little bit each day, so far so good. Jocelyn over at Canadian Needle Nana is working on another gorgeous Crabapple Hill design; 'Snow Days'. Be sure to check it out here.  

Cyclone 'Freddy' paid a visit last weekend + Monday. It was a powerful cyclone with gusts ('eye'/center) at 225 km/h - 139.8 miles/h when it past North/Northwest of Mauritius late Monday afternoon. Fortunate it passed ('eye') about 140 km /  87 miles off the coast. We had gusts of 126 km/h - 78 miles/h, so it wasn't that bad. No damages to our property or in the area (we are about 50 km / 31 miles South from the Northern coast) High waves and storm surges mostly where the reef doesn't protect, and some huge trees down. Another cyclone is formed, but trajectory shows it heads South before it causes any danger to the Mascarene Islands.  
 

Basket Quilt UFO back in the closet, or not?

 Does it happen to you? You pull out a project / UFO from the shelf or closet for so to get it back in to where it was? Yesterday was my turn! Why?

I don't remember when I decided on fabric and made two blocks for this quilt. 

Photo from the magazine

What I know is I received the magazine (Marvellous Machine-Made Quilts) from an ex-pen pal in New Zealand in 2008. The magazine does have some great quilts and I have made these; Colorado Star (made two quilts for our sofas) and Split Hourglass quilt. It was sew fun making these quilts (even if it took some time! lol). I'd love to make the latter again, super for scraps. 

Well, back to the Basket Quilt. I'm not happy with the fabrics I chose when I started making it (whenever that was). 

I find the two blocks I made a bit dull and lack of contrast. What do you think? 

These are the fabrics I had chosen for the blocks and borders

...this one for the outer border. I'm not going to purchase fabric for this one, except backing, maybe....

I may have to change colors/fabrics? Or get in more contrasts? I spent half of yesterday pondering what to do. I'm going to use the background I've chosen; a very light green on white, toile looking. Now that I've joined RSC, make the baskets in RSC colors? ...or just scrappy using more contrasts compared to the already made blocks? 

I'd love your suggestions! 

RSC Week #6 - Pink updates

 It has been a PINK week! 

If you read my previous post, you may remember February is the PINK month. RSC (Rainbow Scrap challenge) hosted by Angela at SOS Scrappy. 

2-3 weeks ago I went through and sorted some of my fabrics (having RSC in mind). All colors/fabrics are beautiful, some in small doses. Pink has never been a favorite, not even when I was a kid. How come I measured approximately 13 yards PINK in my stash?! Some must have multiplied, I'm sure! I even dived into a box with 5" squares cut and got out more pinks. 

Well, to reduce as much pink as possible, I decided to make a quilt for my friend's daughter (she turns 7 in April). I decided on a scrappy D9P (Disappearing-Nine-Patch design), blocks finished at 13 inches. Easy and fast to make. 

I didn't want to make a 'kid's-quilt-size', rather a quilt she can use when she's older too. It turned out a twin size quilt. 

Using up as much as possible of the pink fabrics, I decided to piece the backing. From some of the 'table-scraps' I made a crumb block and I added pieces that were not big enough for anything. Of course I could have saved them for binding on mug rugs, but NO, I wanted to get rid of them! What was left on the table - table scraps - cut into squares or saved for my crumb quilt

The top and backing is done, I have batting, but do I have pink quilting thread? Have to check that out later. I should thread baste it while the table is almost empty for other fabric! Let's see if I can get to it the coming week. 

Linking up with Angela and the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) 2023

RSC - February, PINK all over!

How did it happen we're a few days into February already?! Where did January go? I'm sure we all have been busy, I know I have! 

February is the PINK month. RSC - Rainbow Scrap Challenge - hosted by Angela at SOS Scrappy

When I sorted (some of) my fabrics the other day, I had the RSC in mind. There are certain (fabric) colors I don't have a lot of. Pink, I thought, I don't have a lot of pinks, or browns, or purples. Was I wrong? When gather them all together, sorted on colors, I'm sure I have more than I knew! I roughly measured the pinks; approximately 13 yards.  

I've been pondering what to make...

First is the big block for the scrappy 'Swirling Stars' Quilt. The block measures 22.50" square. 

The smaller blocks; I've made two only. The pattern calls for 16 small and 8 big blocks. I've already made a big block in blue

I couldn't leave it there with those 3 blocks only, more yardage has to be used. 

I got the bright idea to make a pink quilt to a little girl who turns 7 in April! (If her Mom or Grandma read this, it is top secret! lol) Here are a few 5.50" squares I've cut.

I decided to go for 'disappearing 9-patch' blocks. So far I have 5 blocks. Not sure about the quilt size yet. 

My previous post was last Sunday, still a few days left to make more blue blocks. I did some progress on the Split Star blocks for the 'I've got the blues' quilt and  5x 'Fair & Square Star' blocks for the (blue & white) Star Streams quilt.

As you can see, I've been busy. We have had rainy days, best weather to stay inside sewing. From now on I should work on some UFOs! Actually I pulled out UFO #13; 'Woodland Advent Calendar' today. I ran out of thread while quilting it (last year). I've got the thread, time to finish it! I was thinking I start with one of the smallest UFO to finish! lol 

Linking up with Angela and the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2023

HAPPY PINK FEBRUARY!