I started the month off by working on two scrappy projects. Kind of nice to play a bit and use up a few pieces from my scrap bins. Besides what else was I to do while the Super Bowl was on??
The first block I made is for the 2020 Monthly Color Challenge. The color is blue and the block was a quick make. Coincidentally, I used polka dots again this month (I used them last month too, but in yellow).
These look so happy and it is making me wonder if I should try to go for a polka dotted theme with this quilt. I need to check the bins and see if I have enough dots though. I am NOT going to buy dotted fabric to make this happen. Sort of defeats the purpose of scrappy quilting, doesn’t it?? Jen does have the colors she will be focusing on listed on her blog. I will take a look and see how many dotted fabrics I have to decide if this might work.
After this block, I decided to pull my orange bin as that is the color for February over at Angela’s RSC2020 challenge. I had absolutely no idea what I was wanting to do with them but thought I should make something just to use some of the scraps up. Plus, I was in the mood to play around.
Somehow it popped into my head to make a Dresden block. I have seen lots of minis or wall quilts with a series of Dresdens of various sizes and colors, made to look like flowers. I think I will do something like this. I like the Dresden’s with the curved tips and might alter a few to look like that as well. It will be a fun thing to work on here and there.
This week was our monthly guild meeting. My friend Sophia encouraged the guild members to make tree blocks for Australia’s fire victims. The result was fantastic. There was a sew day with one local church group of quilters and quite a large stack of blocks was created.
The variety of blocks showed a great deal of creativity. It was fun to look through them since I didn’t attend the sew day. I did make two blocks though and you can see those here if you like.
There were lots of appliqué, many strip pieced trees and an assortment of traditional tree blocks.
This tree was drawn on the fabric which I thought was quite clever. If our little guild came through with all of these, I cannot imagine how many the Wollongong MQG is going to receive. Wow!
Now that my scrappy projects are wrapped up for the moment, I am finishing up the assembly of my Mosaic Quilt top. The main portion of the top is put together. I keep looking at it to see if some portion is flipped the wrong way before I put on the borders. It is much harder to take apart once the borders are on. It looks good to me but I am going to stare at it a bit more before I take that last step!
Linking to Oh Scrap! and Jen’s 2020 Monthly Color Challenge link (which I totally forgot to do with my yellow blocks!) Enjoy the week everyone!
Oh my goodness, you have been busy! I hope the dotty theme works out…it is SO fun!! Happy February, Bernie!
You have been having fun in your sewing room! I wondered, too, if you were going for a polka dot theme. I think you and I used the same yellow polka dot last month. At least it looks pretty close! Love your blocks, Bernie – I’m particularly fond of that orange one, but I like them all!
Your color challenge blocks look great! I like the polka dot fabric, too!
You must have a lot of scraps, such lovely bright fabrics too, they all look great. My favourite or the orange one too, it’s so vibrant.
Your blocks all look great, Bernie! Keep up the good work. That’s a lotta trees! I’d say the Wollongong MQG is going to be happily overwhelmed!
Those blocks are making me happy! Love the teal one and the dresden plate. The tree block collection is quite the show of creativity and compassion from your guild!
Pretty blocks! I like your polka dot idea. And a pretty Dresden – would you believe I’ve never made one? Those tree blocks are amazing.
Enjoy your weekend!
Hi Linda – I think I have found enough dotted fabrics to go with each color. So I just need to see if it starts to look too crazy… I was over at your site this morning and love your scrappy projects. I like the idea of reducing the block size. These blocks from the color challenge are quite large. Your’s look so nice! I couldn’t comment for some reason – I have had a lot of problems with that lately. Seems to come and go which makes me crazy. Sigh.
Those trees are amazing! I know they will bring hope and comfort to those who need it.
What beautifully pieced blocks you’ve made. Lovely work and thanks for sharing those tree blocks. So creative.
Hi,
Beautiful blocks, love the orange Dresden Plate.
Have a great day!
Thanks for sharing those #bushfireblocks!! Your ORANGE fabric scraps came together nicely in that Dresden Plate block for the RSC. Best of luck with your other projects!