Red scrappiness

Yesterday I had a small amount of time for sewing, so, I decided to start some churn dash blocks.  I have been wanting to make some for quite a while and why not in red for this months color for RSC17. I have no idea what these will become, but that is beside the point-right?  I am using stash fabric and getting something done, that is good enough for me this week!  These little guys will be 6" finished and oh so cute this size.

 

This week has been a busy week of cleaning in preparation for the local longarm meeting which I am hosting today. It's a great motivator for getting some deeper cleaning done!  Very appropriate that our meeting falls on Worldwide Quilting Day!  I have also been working on my projects for the Henry Glass Desire to Inspire Challenge which I need done by the end of the month. Hope all of you have had a good week.

And on behalf of my fellow Island Batik Ambassadors I wish you a 

Linking with RSC17 Scraphappy Saturday and Oh Scrap on Sunday.

More green scraps-different block

Here is the second block I have been working on for RSC16.

And with their brothers and sisters.  You will notice I have cornerstones on the blue blocks and not the rest. After making the second color set I thought I might not want them. So I stopped adding them, for now at least. I will not be adding brown to these or the ones I posted last Saturday. I felt that brown just doesn't play well for the look I am going for.

A short post today folks, it's a glorious day outside and I am going to spend most of it outdoors!

Linking with ScrapHappy Saturday and Oh Scrap

Scrappy Batik runner

I love working with Batik more and more :-)  I put together a couple of these scrappy runners. The pattern was in a magazine a few years back, sorry I don't remember which one. It is a great way to use up some scraps. I hope to finish quilting this one today so I will keep my post short as I have a long list of 'to do's' today.  It is receiving custom in each batik strip and then a stipple in the white blocks which will get appliqued leaves when I am all done with the quilting. It makes it easier to quilt that way without the leaves to maneuver around.

Linking up at Freemotion by the River and She Can Quilt(Scraptastic Tuesday). See the links on my left sidebar. Hoping over now to get in on some eye candy!

scrappy 4 patch and coins

A friend came over this week to sew and this is what I worked on.

This quilt was inspired by a Schnibbles quilt. I used my own dimensions. The four patch units I had pieced in January at a retreat I went to. After the retreat I set it aside until last week when I added the setting side and corner triangles to the 4 patch. I also came across all these coin strips already pieced in my UFO closet-whoo hooo I had enough all ready for this quilt!!!!!!  So I was able to finish the piecing of this flimsy when my friend came to sew. It measures approx 47 x 64 I think. I already folded it all up and put into the to be quilting closet :-) 

So everything is scraps leftover from sashings, borders, blocks from other projects, except for the tea dyed muslin setting triangles, gee it feels so good to make something out of almost nothing!! The 4 patches are 2.5" cut sqs. And the coins are random width strips there were cut at 6" or so (I didn't really measure them perfectly), sewn together into long strips then cut with my 5" wide ruler.  

Linking with Oh Scrap today.  Go on over and check some other scrappy projects out and get inspired to use yours!

Edited to say-also linking with http://www.patchworktimes.com/ for Design wall monday, http://www.conniekresin.com/  for linky Tuesday, and Creative Goodness .