From Green to Red - RSC February Color

 HAPPY SCRAPPY FEBRUARY! 

How did it become February already? I'm sure you've noticed; February has 29 days - leap year - more time for quilting!

February means a new RSC (Rainbow Scrap Challenge) color, and RED is chosen by Angela at soscrappy.blogspot.com

Since February 1 was midweek, we got some extra days playing with GREEN (RSC January color)

It has been a long time since I participated in a BOM (Block-Of-the-Month. I did not intend participating in any this year either, but then I came across Sherri McConnel's A Quilting Life BOM 2024. A new block is posted first Monday of each month. 

I think this BOM is perfect for using scraps as well as the RSC monthly colors. 

The pattern for each block features two sizes; 8 and 16 inches. 

I opted for the 16 inches, hence more fabric used! lol 

I struggled a bit with the small star spikes. Although they are all different green fabric, I noticed afterwards I could have paid more attention to the placement, i.e. there are two almost same green color next to each other at the top right corner / spikes. Those two could have been a tad darker too. Oh well, done is done! 

I running out of neutral / white / cream as background fabric. Moda Marbles came to rescue again! Here I've used 'Flag Ivory'. I had a look at the new Moda Marbles color chart 2023 and 'Flag Ivory' is amongst many colors not printed anymore.

After making the first BOM block, I decided to do the 4 Scrap Jar blocks in RED. It's a good start using some of those (accumulated over the years) 2" squares. I also get to use some already cut 4" squares for the star spikes and background. 

I really like how they turned out in RED! 

I've made some Zipper blocks too.

The sun is finally shining after all the rain we had from those two cyclones. It has dried up a bit and this morning we did some long overdue yard work. 

Linking up with Angela and the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) 2024

RSC Week #4 - Last of the Greens

 It has been another wet week due to cyclone 'Candice'. Last week it was 'Belal'. 'Candice' was nothing compared to 'Belal'. It kept us in suspense for three days, looping over the island before it decided to accelerate and leave. 

Perfect days staying inside playing with RSC green fabric.

Except for the Split-9 blocks I made last week, I've made some new blocks where I can use some of the 2" squares that have multiplied over the years! 

I've made 4 Scrap Jar blocks

The 16-patches center is all from my 2" cut squares. The spikes and background are 4" cut squares,  which comes to good use as well.

I got carried away making Zipper blocks! Using more 2" squares.

I thought I had only six green fabrics left after making Gerdrik's quilt last year. How could I forget the Moda Marbles Greens?! I know why; they are stored in another linen closet since there's no space where the other fabrics are. 

I had a small piece of the green dots fabric left after I made the Zipper blocks

just enough for three 9-patch blocks. What I'm going to do with these later, I don't know. 

After making the Scrap Jar blocks, I'm now left with some HST that will be put aside for now. As you can see; they are yet to be pressed! 

Linking up with Angela and RSC - Rainbow Scrap Challenge

RSC 2024 Week 3 - Green for January

RSC - RAINBOW SCRAP CHALLENGE 2024 - hosted by Angela over at 

superscrappy.blogspot.com

I had sew much fun doing the RSC last year. I'm participating this year too. The first color of the year - January - is GREEN. 

I used up most of my greens last year, making 'Gerdrik's Quilt'.  

For this year's challenge, I have chosen a couple of blocks to make in each month's color. I have a lot of cut squares in different sizes. This box contains 3" squares, sorted on colors.

There are some blocks I've always wanted to do and one of them is the 'Split 9 Patch' block. I pulled out all the 3" green and white/cream squares and got carried away!  

I made 8 'Split 9 Patch' blocks in green and white/cream

Another block on my 'want to do' list, is the 'Scrap Jar Star' block.

I have thousands (I'm not exaggerating!!!) of 2" squares, not sorted on colors. 

OK, let's take a look:

Boxes containing 2" squares.

Do you see the black Acer box on the last photo, to the right? It contains 6100 2" squares, collected from swaps some years ago (photo next to the boxes). If not mistaken, I think I did a swap with Angela too? I have no clue how many squares the other boxes contain.

I've got a 'custom order'! My dear childhood friend in Norway has ordered one square table topper and one table runner, both in GREENS, his favorite color. That should keep me busy the rest of the 'green-month'! 

I've finished a custom order too, see my previous post 

For the table runner, I've used Moda Marbles Hunter Green.

HAPPY SCRAPPY WEEKEND!