My sewing priorities for the beginning of the year included finishing up two Rainbow Scrap Challenge projects from 2021.
I finished making all the blocks for the Flashes of Brillance/Sugar Loaf quilt. Here they are assembled, and waiting to be trimmed according to the pattern. I really had to steel myself to cut those blocks in half!
Aye-yi-yi - and what am I going to do with these sliced up half blocks?!
Anyway, here is the finished quilt top.
As I was making the original Sugar Loaf blocks, I thought it would be fun to make another version of the quilt in reproduction fabrics. I still like that idea, but after working with all the bias edges on the blocks and sashing, I'm not in a hurry to do it any time soon!
Once Flashes of Brillance was down from my design wall, I immediately started laying out another scrappy quilt top.
I've been making Bonnie Hunter's Easy Breezy blocks as a leader-ender project since July, 2020. I decided it was finally time to assemble a quilt top. The framed squares were added to boost the quilt size, as the blocks only measure six inches.
I have some dedicated sewing ahead of me to get them all stitched together!
I haven't decided on a Rainbow Scrap Challenge project for 2022. Last week I made a Blackford's Beauty block in modern fabrics, then followed up by making another block in reproduction style fabrics.
I love how the repro fabrics look in this block, but since the blocks finish at twelve inches, I'd feel compelled to make more than one block each month. That would entail a good bit of cutting/prep work (i.e. making scraps), so I'm not sure I want to commit to the project.
In the meantime, Gayle (mangofeet) showed one of her new RSC blocks - framed stars - which I've always wanted to try. I haven't tried my own version yet, but that's on tap for this week.
