A Bright, Red, Scrappy Saturday

This week I finished the red Pond Lily block (which I am not going to continue as a RSC, another True Lovers Knot block, and a Snowball Blossom block. The more Snowball Blossom blocks I make, the more I remember why I quit making them last year, but I'm determined to finish that quilt this year.




Here is my revised plan for the Snowball Blossom blocks. I need twenty-five blocks which means I'll be making two or three of each color I use.  It will be a good size for a baby quilt or throw, so I'll probably aim for the brighter colors.

And this is my plan for the True Lovers Knot block. I am enjoying this block so far but have discovered that it needs a scant 1/4 inch seam.

Linking to:
ScrapHappy Saturday #2 at soscrappy
Main Crush Monday at Cooking up Quilts
Oh Scrap! at Quilting is More Fun than Housework

First Quarter Finish-a-Long

Last year I only made it through one quarter of the 2018 Finish-a-Long. This year, I'd like to complete every quarter. If you haven't heard of it before, it is kind of like an accountability group that encourages each other to finish projects. At the beginning of the quarter, like now, a group of hosts post the starting linkup, and everyone who joins writes a blog post naming the projects they want to finish in the next three months. Then, at the end of the quarter, there will be a finish up post where everyone links up their finished projects.



1. Since finishing the Depression Blocks quilt is my OMG for January and February, of course it will be here too. I haven't decided whether I am going to try to quilt this or send it out for quilting.

2. I want to finish this blue&green scrap basket and make a red one too.

3. I need to make three more of these Pond Lily blocks in three different colors. This block tried my patience and I seriously considered stopping with this one and making it a medallion quilt instead. But my plan was to make four of them, and by the time I finished this one, I think I was beginning to get the hang of it. I wish I hadn't used batik though. It doesn't make the curve as well as regular cotton fabrics. So, like taking bad tasting medicine, I need to make myself finish these.

4. I need to do something with this black and white star block. My goal was to make a wall hanging but after I got to this point, I didn't have a clear idea what to do next, so I set it aside. So my goal is to completely finish it this quarter. If you have any ideas - borders, etc, I'd love to hear it. I don't have any more of the black and white fabric, but I have a little more of the black on black.

Linking up to the Finish-A-Long at Studio Sew of Course

Rainbow Scrap Challenge Week 1

My goal this week was to make one Snowball Blossom, one True Lovers Knot, and one Pond Lily.

If you think that the Snowball Blossom looks like the Snowball Flower blocks I made in last year's RSC, you are exactly right.  I just got tired of the name and thought I'd change it for 2019. lol  I found the pattern on Lisa Boyer's blog Dorky Homemade Quilts but there is nothing dorky about the quilt she made. Her corners all lined up perfectly too. Mine did not, so maybe I should have called mine dorky blossoms. She named her block and quilt The Puakenikeni Baby Quilt, but I am not even going to try to pronounce or spell that again, and since it looks like a flower made from snowball blocks, I named mine Snowball Flower in January 2018. Like she suggested, my large squares are 4-1/2 inches but the white and yellow squares used to make the triangles are 2 inches instead. I made them the suggested size at first and then thought they needed to be larger. I got so tired of making that block and trying to match those triangle seams, that eventually I just set it aside. When I decided to revive it for 2019, I thought it needed a fresh name too so renamed it Snowball Blossom. Maybe I'll finish it this year before I get tired of this name too.

 The Pond Lily was and is a struggle. Seems the hand-drawn pattern printed in the Denver Post isn't drawn quite right and I'm having a do-over today. I've only completed one corner of one block. And it's not really red, more of a hot pink because I couldn't find any red batik that suited me.

Other things have been going on this week and I haven't gotten much sewing done, but I hope to finish the other three corners of the pond lily today.

Linking to:
Scraphappy Saturday at soscrappy

Block of the Month Quilts for 2019

Deana at Dreamworthy Quilts has come up with a new concept for a block of the month. Each person decides on their own pattern. I think this is the greatest idea because so often I want to do a BOM, but I already have in mind quilts I want to do in the next year and hate to add another, unknown, quilt.

For years, my mom has asked me to make her a Sunbonnet Sue and Overall Sam quilt similar to this one made by her grandmother for mother.  This is my brother on the quilt at my grandmother's house.  After my brother got older, my grandmother put the quilt away for the next grandson (and there wasn't another grandson), and mom never saw it again. She bought me several patterns ten years ago, but at the time, I didn't think I could make an applique quilt. I'm ready to try it now. She wants Sue along with Sam even though it looks to me that the original quilt was only Sam in various positions.

Another BOM I'd like to make is from an old pattern printed by the Denver Post in 1933. It's called Pond Lily, and I want to do it as a Rainbow Scrap Challenge. One of my passions is growing water lilies, and I can just see these in batiks.

I'm not sure when her linky for this ends, but if you want to join, follow my link here.