Friday Night With Friends and Rainbow Scrap Challenge

 

I spent a few minutes playing in my scrap bin tonight.  It went together really quickly.  I thought I was using scraps of sew-in stabilizer for the foundation but it turns out is was iron on.  So, my already deplorable ironing board cover for sure has to be changed now.  

This will also be my Rainbow Scrap Challenge for the year.  I will make each row the new color of the month.  This pattern is in the American Patchwork and Quilting Magazine for December 2022 and it is the only reason I purchased the magazine.  I love this in all blues so I may have to make an all blue version too!  

I will link this post to both Friday Night With Friends and Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  

 Wow!  What a December!  

We kicked off the Christmas season with a road trip to Fort Worth for my daughter's audition with the Fort Worth Opera.  We have yet to hear from them.

But, we loved the afternoon & evening we spent downtown...

She's feeling a bit giddy here after her audition has completed.  

While we were off galivanting across Texas, my son up and moved to Hawaii (ok, so he has been planning to do so for about a year).  He is working on becoming a Helicopter pilot and the school there is one of the best and one of the FEW that work with federal student loans.  He is having a marvelous adventure and meeting students from all over the world!  He plans on being home by Christmas next year!  

He sends me awful pictures like the one above...

I did finally manage to get some Christmas decorations up about a week before Christmas.  Usually they go up the day after Thanksgiving around here.  

And, I finally got to spend some time sewing the last couple of days.  Yes, and eating too.   Even got a workout in this morning, the first in almost a month.  

Yes, this is the Bonnie Hunter Mystery.  I am on step number 5, having skipped number 4 since we don't really need it yet.  Want to get these blocks put together so I feel I have accomplished something.  I also want to see what those loose triangles are going to be used for.  I prefer to use the half square triangle method when I can.  Loose triangles are so hard to work with.  

Trying to get organized for the new year this morning.  The to do list just keeps getting longer so I am going to throw in the towel, go shower, and start sewing.  Oh, yeah, an hour of cleaning is on my list too.  Happy End of 2022 to all!

About to start another stash buster...

I am about to begin another stash busting quilt.  You are welcome to join me.  The measurements and yardage estimates below are just that- estimates.  I don't have any sewing actually completed yet.  

I am making 20 blocks using a fabric I have of cats with blue, red and yellow balls of yarn.  I have not selected the lattice fabric yet.

Here are my actual fabrics.  

Here is approximately what the finished quilt will look like- I hope...

I designed it pretty quickly in EQ8 this afternoon while my quilt machine was being serviced.  

You need a yard of the focus fabric- that gives you plenty for fussy cutting those center squares.  They measure 6.5 inches.  Red you need 1 1/8 yards- you need to cut 7 strips, 3.5 inches wide of the red.  The darker blue, you need a yard-14 strips, 2 inches wide of the blue.  The red/yellow corner triangles- cut 3 7/8 inch squares-40 of each color should yield 80 finished half square triangles when finished, draw a line down the middle to use as your quarter inch and cutting guide.  IF you aren't sure how to do this, I will post about it in a few days...

Come on- I challenge you to a stash buster!