October is the lime green month

For the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) Angela gives a different colour each month, and quilters around the world make blocks, or entire projects featuring that colour. 

 

 This is the last colour this year as November and December are for putting the project together, or doing last minute Christmas sewing, in my case!

Joy has a table scraps challenge this year, and I'm combining the two challenges.

There isn't much lime green among my green scraps.

 

 But.... look what I found lurking in its recesses!

It looks a bit yellow here, but really it's green!

On a different subject: last week I mentioned in my post that the quilt I'm now quilting kept slipping off the table while I was trying to layer it. I had a couple of useful tips in the comments: 

Deb A said...

Great table topper! Are you using the roll on boards method to pin the quilt on a table? It works really well.

Vireya said... 

Your bead quilt looks fantastic! The floor is too hard for layering. I have some giant clips (about 5cm across) that I use to keep the quilt on the table for pinning. You can see them in action on this blog post: https://weednstitch.blogspot.com/2019/01/flowers-and-pins.html

When I asked Deb about the "roll on boards" she sent this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhwNylePFAA  Brilliant!

 

A lot of green outside today, as we move quite suddenly from Summer to Autumn.

There's even some lime green here too, thanks to the town's gardens department!

I'm linking this weekend to:

 

   Click on the buttons to see more works in progress.

 

Stay healthy and safe.

Happy sewing

Marly.

Red table scraps

The Joyful Quilter has a challenge, linked to the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, to use scraps to make something for a table in the colour of the month. This month's colour is red, and my aim has been to use some of my red crumbs to make a place mat. Crumbs, by their nature are very small, and my chosen method is more labour intensive than I anticipated.

At 12" x 4" this is hardly a placemat!

 

I'm joining the pieces by a technique Debbie Jeske called "fine line piecing" in a blog post earlier this month.

My first attempts were not successful (fine lines not fine enough),

but narrowing the "sashing" and making a strip worked better and I managed to move it all along much more quickly. 

 

Unfortunately, not quickly enough to meet this deadline, but I shall probably get a top finished in the next few days. 

I'm linking this to:

      

Click on the buttons to see more scraps in use.

Keep safe and healthy

Happy sewing

Marly.

Lime 9-patches for RSC15

For November's colour at the RSC Angela at Soscrappy posted the colour lime green. I'd finished my lime sawtooth sampler blocks and showed them last week, but I still have some lime blocks to show.

While making the lime blocks, I used the remaining small scraps as Leaders and Enders and made 3.5" 9-patches.

lime green 9-patches

But first I had made some more from October's aqua scraps

aqua 9-patches

I still have no idea what these will become as they are very small, finishing at 3" square, but I'll just keep going next year, and see what I come up with.

This week I've done nothing to my rainbow quilt. I started quilting my modern maples and will have to finish that before returning my machine to piecing mode!.

I shall be linking up with 

so hop over there for some more rainbow splendour. 

Happy sewing

Marly.

The last star for the RSC 15 firmament

This week Angela posted the last pattern for the 2015 Rainbow Scrap Challenge sampler quilt.

Angel Swamp Star framed by a Sawtooth Star

 This is the last star block of the sampler. Now I just have to make the lime sections of the alternate blocks and when I've added them into the rows I can add the rows together and start quilting.

I went to a patchwork workshop this last week on paper-piecing a wall hanging of interlocking coloured cubes. I enjoyed it but haven't done anything more. I'll show it when the top is finished! The participants were all sent the blank outline in advance and told to colour it in to make their own colour design. It was interesting to see how everyone had interpreted the pattern in a different way, altogether coming up with eight different designs.

I was without a proper Internet connection for several weeks, and it's still a bit shaky! I missed quite a lot of posts and wasn't able to answer comments on my blog very quickly. Although I could take a few seconds at work to check and approve comments, I couldn't take the time to answer. Sorry!

While browsing this morning I noticed that one of the posts I'd missed was Bonnie Hunter's announcement of the 2015 winter mystery. It's inspired by Italy, with a lot of red and gold (wonderful!)  and ... BROWN! Just the colour I don't have! If I make the quilt I shall be adapting it for a throw, but what a dilemma all over again: to buy brown, or not to buy brown!

I am linking up to

so hop over there for more lime stars and other shapes.

Happy sewing

Marly.

RSC 15 Ohio Lime

I've never been to Ohio, so I've no idea whether or not limes grow there; I suspect it's too cold, so they would only grow under glass.
Anyway,  the first block in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge  this month is the Ohio Star in lime. Each month Angela, at Soscrappy,  gives another colour for the Sawtooth Star sampler and posts the patterns for blocks to go in the centre of each Sawtooth Star. Sometimes, as now, this results in a star within a star.

Ohio Star surrounded by a Sawtooth Star

I wonder how the block would look with the Ohio star set on point. I'm somewhat mathematically challenged, but I think I might be trying that soon. In case you're interested: don't hold your breath!

There is just one more star block to make and a few alternate blocks to complete and this year's challenge will be over. I wonder what Angela has up her sleeve for next year!

I'm linking up to 

so click on the badge and hop over there to admire more zezty limeness!

Happy sewing

Marly.