RSC March - Green scraps

It's the second last week of March !.....and the colours for this month are light and yellowy greens. I've mixed it up a bit with some medium to darker greens to get some contrast on my churn dashes, but will still have plenty of darks to play with when that month rolls around.

This week I made 3 more churn dashes, these are 8" (20cm) finished.

Then there were 5. One more to make for my goal of 6 per colour/per month, should be doable. I still have purple from February to catch up on as well, so I'll try and get them out of the way before the new colour's announced next Sunday.

 I also started some crumb/slab blocks. I found a box of hst and partial flying geese that I'd made for F2F (Foot Square Freestyle block swap) that hadn't worked out, so I'm using them in my crumb blocks.  I have some other crumbs and strings somewhere in various colours, and I've seen some quilts lately where people have put all their orphan blocks together in rows, so I thought I might work toward that as well.  Maybe!

For more fresh green and scrappy inspiration, head over to the  weekly link-up

...till next time..........

Scraps

I mentioned a couple of posts back that my Rainbow Scrap Challenge for this year was going to be churn dashes after I found the 5 blue ones I made back in 2016!  Angela chooses a colour for us to sew each month, and as January's was blue, I was already a little bit ahead of myself.

March's colour is light and bright greens, and I'd looked at my green scraps a few times, but felt very uninspired to do anything with them. I didn't like a lot of them, some were just plain ugly or didn't look right with the other greens, and others are  quite dark, and they'll be saved for another month.  I didn't have enough of the scraps I liked to do much with.  So they all went back in the green bin and I went and did more interesting....and easier ....things.....like clean the pantry!

But I got on with it yesterday and  managed to rustle up 2 green blocks.  They're not bad.  And shh! don't tell Angela, but I used some dark green as well!

These are what I have so far.......the colour for February was purple, and I prepped the pieces for one block, but that was as far as I got....that one's not sewn together.  I have quite a bit of limey-yellow greens, so I'll pull them next and see if they give me more inspiration. There's still a week or more left to make some, so perhaps I'll reach my goal of 6 blocks a month.  And I think the ugly greens will be turned into crumb blocks!

Linking
a little late....... with Kate for ScrapHappy Day

and Angela for Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

That's all for today, I'm off out to have lunch in a new cafe that's just opened out of town, I've heard they serve delicious home made cakes featuring dragon fruit and davidson plum, ......yum.

......till next time.

Little left over bits

..... of fabric, of course

In the midst of a week busy with hunting down second hand doors, sanding and painting  said doors, dealing with the electrician, the builder and the tree trimmer, and other pleasantries like enjoying the company of an old friend who came for a surprise visit, and making a start on my veggie garden, I managed some sewing.

First was this for a friend's birthday ....a mug rug, pot holder.....however she wants to use it....made from the trimmings from the latest F2F blocks I made for Claire.  It's around 7 inches square.

 And this one wonky star for green month at So Scrappy. I cheated a bit....I had this lot cut out ready to sew last year when I was making rainbow stars.  Putting my house on the market and getting ready to move meant it was packed away and forgotten but found this week while looking for something else!  

Both were made from scraps, so I'm linking up with Kate and Gun For ScrapHappy May and with Angela for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Lots of bloggers doing amazing things with scraps.
* Edited to add linking up with Cynthia at Oh Scrap!  as well......even more scrappy fun!

till next time....