Rainbow Scrappy Challenge 2013 Last Saturday for March and Orange

Happy Easter to you all!   It is the last Saturday for Orange and by the skin of my teeth (do teeth have skin?) I finished my blocks for this challenge.

Here they are:

First up my little orange cross blocks (does anyone know their proper name?)  

Here is how they look together with the last two months’ blocks:  Can you see the mistake I made with the orange cross blocks?

After seeing Linda’s wonderful D4P quilt here which she finished recently I thought I would make extra D4Ps to go with the ones I made last year so I would have a bigger quilt.  So I made a couple more orange ones and a couple of neutral ones.  I need to make extra pink and purple to catch up.

Also looking orangy-ish  is the long wash cloth for my DH who’s birthday it is today.   I was up until 3am last night getting it finished!  It is done with Tunisian crochet and I’ve mixed up the stitches a little.  I had no pattern I just made it up as I went along  played.   It is very stretchy.   DH likes long cloths and usually uses bar towels.  It has orange, yellow and dark red in it and is about 24 x 7 inches.

Lastly, a picture of my bunny Princess Penelope:

I think that’s it for now :)  Pop over to Soscrappy and see what everyone else has done for their last Orange Saturday. 

Have a great weekend!!

Hugs

Ellyx

Rainbow Scrappy Saturday on Monday ;)

Hello everyone,

I’m a bit late but better late than never.  I finally got my brown D4Ps done for this month’s Rainbow Scrappy challenge.

And here they are:

I still have a brown housey to make, hopefully, before Saturday.

I’ve been trying to catch up on Michelle of The Raspberry Rabbits 2012 BOM “Harrington and Hannah”.   I am so behind but getting  there.  Here are a couple of pictures of how they look at present.  The first picture are the blocks to June and the second is of July’s block.  I have been using Michelle’s kit for this BOM.  So nice not to have to make decisions and I love her colour choices.

 

 

 

 

I also managed to complete a Dear Jane block before midnight last night.  Here it is, D-4 Crystal Star.

Well that’s all from me for now.   If you’d like to see what everyone else has done for their Rainbow Scrappy  take a look on Soscrappy’s blog here.

Rainbow Scrappy Challenge Saturday and here’s one I did earlier

After being so inspired by all the other ladies taking part in the Rainbow Scrappy Challenge  over on Angela’s blog Soscrappy  I picked out my orange scraps and finally got down to making my orange D4Ps.

So here they are followed by a picture of them all so far up on my design wall.

 

I pulled out all my autumn wall hangings… well most of them… and over the next few weeks I’ll post pictures of them.   Here is the first one.  It is mostly orange so I thought it fits in with September’s Orange colour theme.

Thankfully, I remembered to add a label to this one or I would have forgotten the exact details.   It is a pattern by Sandy Gervais and was featured in the McCalls Quilting magazine of October 2005.  The fabrics used are mostly from Moda’s Sweet Potato range though a few pieces are from my stash.  It is square at the corners it just looks wonky with my photography.

I had a day out on Thursday with DD and my friend Lyn.  We went to John O’Groats for the afternoon and had lunch followed by a yummy ice cream.  On our way home I stopped at the beach at Dunnet and DD and myself took some pictures.  It had been a very sunny day but by this time it was clouding over and getting a tad cold.

Here are a few pictures that I took.  Of course my camera isn’t as fancy as DDs.

 

Now if you’d like to go see what the other ladies have done for this week’s Rainbow Scrappy Saturday.  Then hop over to Angela’s blog here. 

I’m off to do a bit more reverse appliqué on my Dear Jane block

Have a great weekend,

Ellyx

Rainbow Scrappy Saturday (a little late)

Here are my ‘Aqua’ offerings for this week’s Rainbow Scrappy Saturday.

First up my Aqua D4Ps which I just finished sewing today:

I really, really, really, LOVE these in this colour.  I think they have to be my favourite.   Also, I feel an aqua quilt may need to be considered at some point for my bedroom.

Next up is a ‘here’s one I done earlier’ mainly aqua quilt.

I made this a few years back as part of another challenge.  There was a bundle of fabrics to be used in it.  All except the orange/red which I added for contrast.  The design is my own which I made in EQ.  It is hand quilted.   I feel this would have been better had I made it smaller.

I may have then got it finished in time for the end of the challenge, LOL.

If you’d like to see more aqua offerings then hop on over to Soscrappy’s blog here.

I have a couple more posts I will be making sometime this coming week.  So I’ll leave you with one picture of a bunny and his poops.

Meet Rex and his poop friends Oopsie and Poopsie.   Flat Bonnie plushies.   My DD bought these for my birthday which was yesterday.   They are so cute!  20% of the sales of these went to Los Angeles Rabbit Foundation. 

Every good bunnymom/dad will know that bunny poops are so very important in indicating the health of a bunny.  If they become very small or bunny stops producing them then something is up and you need to get bunny to a vet asap!   So they are VIPPs.

Okay, my dear readers I will be back soon so stay tuned ;)

Happy Stitching!

Ellyx

Last Rainbow Scrappy for July and Blue

By the skin of my teeth!  Here are my D4Ps in blue for the month of July:

Not a lot to show for July but between learning EQ and gardening when it’s fine I don’t seem to have done much stitching!

To see what everyone else has been doing with their blue scraps go take a look on Angela’s Soscrappy blog  here .

I gathered my little crop of blackcurrants before the birds got them this year.  Here they are in a small blue colander:

Quite a yield!!  One whole cup full! LOL… They are in the freezer and will get used together with some Bramley apples for a pie one day.

To close here is a picture of our very first bunny Rabbi.  She came to live with us one day when my DS Lewis turned up at the door with her followed by her hutch, which his pal was carrying.  It was nearly Lewis’ 14th birthday and despite being told no pets… he had other ideas.  Lewis’ pal’s mum had decided that since her son wasn’t taking care of Rabbi properly that she could be given to Lewis as a birthday present.  When we took her to be neutered (thinking she was a he) we discovered that she was female.  She came with the name Rabbi and she lived until she was about 10 and was Biscuit’s bunwife.  Sadly she passed away a few years back now.  Although she came into our home as Lewis’ bunny she very much ended up as my bunny.  RIP little one.

Hope everyone is fine and having a good summer.

I’m going to go do some EQ now and catch up on the lessons from Quilt University.  Or I may sew some more ;)

hugs

Elly

Rainbow Scrappy Saturday

This is the last Saturday in June for the colour purple and I’ve only just managed to squeeze in my challenges for the month.

Firstly, my D4P in purple:

Here is how the project is progressing so far up  on my large design wall:

I managed to make a purple house too:

I also made good progress on the neutral and yellow houses but they aren’t finished just yet…soon ;) There are some old favourites in these.

Finally, I have completed two hexagons for Kathleen Tracy’s  Quilt a Month challenge, ready for October’s quilt. Here they are:

A blue and a purple.  I have adjusted the size of the hexagon a tad to .5 instead of the pattern size of .6, so that I could print them out using Inklingo .5 Hexagon collection and hand piece them rather than doing them the English Paper Piecing method.

I wonder what the new colour will be for the Rainbow Scrappy Challenge in July :)) 

If you’d like to see what everyone else has done this past month for this challenge, hop on over to Soscrappy’s blog here.   

Have a good weekend!

Ellyx

Rainbow Scrappy Saturday

I haven’t got a lot sewing done this past couple of weeks but I did manage to finish my yellow D4Ps for Soscrappy’s  Rainbow Scrappy Challenge   for May.  The colour this month is Yellow.

They could do with a good pressing but I was in a hurry to get a photo while the sun was on the front of the house and shining into my sewing room.

I still need a neutral house and a yellow house.  Hopefully, I can get those done this coming week.   However, I’m preparing to go off to visit my mum on vacation a week tomorrow so I may not manage. 

Ooopsy, I just realized I haven’t posted a picture of my neutral D4Ps from last month’s colour challenge.  Here they are :)

I will try to get a picture of them altogether this coming week so hopefully, I’ll be able to show you something next week ;)

If you’d like to see what everyone else is doing for their Rainbow Scrappy Challenge, take a look at the linky page here.

Okay, I’m off to post my link.  It is early at the moment so if you don’t see any links please try later.

Have a great weekend,

Hugs

Ellyx

Rainbow Scrappy Saturday

A little late this week but here are my updates on March’s Pink Challenges.

I’ve finished the 4 pink Disappearing 4 patch blocks for my Rainbow Scrappy project :

Here is a picture of how they fit in with the green and red blocks from January and February:

I also completed another house for my hamlet ;)  in pink:

and here it is with the other housies:

 And to add to my pink collection for this month I also completed a Dear Jane block last Sunday which was in pink :

C-7 Megan’s Mountain Laurel

Finally, for this picture laden post, here is a picture of Chichi and Malachi (black one).    “Bunny Love”

Going to go and finish another Dear Jane block now and maybe get to a ufo.

Happy Mother’s Day! (It is here in the UK)

Ellyx

RAINBOW SCRAPPY SATURDAY with Operation Fix Teddy report

This month the challenge colour is PINK!  Love PINK!!  But strangely I don’t have a lot of small scraps in pink.  So I’m going to be using slightly bigger scraps such as Fat 8ths or even FQs… some folk would consider those scraps right?  Though not me… they are big pieces, LOL..

Anyhow :) here is the box of my pink scraps.

And here are my pink Disappearing 4 Patches in progress.. I’ve completed 2 with 2 half done.

  I’ve also cut a few 21/2 inch squares for a possible Mug Rug :)

Now here is  a challenge that my DD has set me.  I will call it Operation Fix Teddy… OFT for short.  Let me introduce you to Teddy.

Here is a full (and I use that term tongue in cheek) body of her and here is her head:

As you can see (when you’ve picked yourself off the floor from laughing) I have quite a challenge on my hands.   In the plastic bag in the first picture are the pieces of pink fabric that DD wishes me to use.

Teddy joined our family when DD was almost 2.  DD is now 22!  But she cannot let Teddy be consigned to the refuse bin…. OH NO!  Teddy has been DD’s comforter all these years.   Over the years Teddy has been in hospital on many occasions for minor surgery.  The most serious of which was a nose job…  however, as you can see she is now needing major surgery….. and this surgeon hasn’t a clue where to start!!! LOL…  However, I think a good start is to try and make a pattern from the little bit of face that’s left on the right side.   Wish me luck!!!   By the way, her face was originally the same pink as her legs… though it was a lot brighter.

If you’d like to see what the other Rainbow Scrappy reports then go take a look at the linky on Soscrappy’s blog.

Have a great weekend!

p.s.  here is a bunny picture to close :)

Beautiful Chichi Bun

Rainbow Scrappy Report

This month's colour for the Rainbow Scrappy Challenge is green.  Now although green is not my favourite colour I seem to have quite a few scraps in green.  

I finally caught up with the Disappearing 4 Patch blocks that I'm making for this challenge.  So far I've made 4 each of Red and Green blocks.  Here they are:

I still have loads of green scraps though.   I'm going to make a couple of little house blocks in green but that will hardly tickle the scraps so I'm going to have to think up something else to do with them.   Preferably something that can use up smaller pieces.   I would like a green mug rug for March so maybe I can work on one.   Anyone any ideas??

If you'd like to see what everyone else is doing with their green scraps then pop on over to Soscrappy's blog post  here.

Happy Stitching!

Ellyx

RED SCRAPS Update

I’d been thinking about what I should do with Angela’s (of Soscrappy ) Rainbow Challenge this year.  January’s colour is Red.  So I thought about it, and thought about it, and then I finally decided I would make a rainbow disappearing 4 patch with my various coloured scraps throughout the year.

I had made a couple of D4Ps last year in the green month… shown in this post here.

Well I had forgotten to make a note of the size of the squares I started with … not a problem I’ll measure the current blocks.   Meanwhile I found another tutorial on line here (which was different to the first one I saw I’m sure;)) and it suggested cutting 5 inch squares.   But I wanted to make the same size as my green ones so after I did the maths I realized I had to cut 6 inch squares.  So I found my red scraps large enough to cut this size of square and proceeded.   Sewed them into 4 patch and then thought.. oh oh something’s not right.  I had cut my squares 5”!!  What to do? I set the red 4 patches aside while I thought about it a few days.. to a week.  Then yesterday morning as I was sitting up in bed having my morning cuppa from my new Teasmade/alarm clock..  The solution hit me.  Make the green ones the same size as the red… yes that was possible.. so that’s what I did.

Here are both green and red blocks together (but not sewn together).  I think I may make a couple more blocks of both colours.  Then wait to see what next month’s colour is… and so on.

They look a bit crooked up on the wall but that’s just the way I’ve placed them.

Also, this past week I finally sorted through a bag of little crumb size squares from 1.5 to 2” approx.   I sorted them into their colours.  Here’s the pile of reds:-

The point of this exercise, apart from sorting them, was to find some little 1.5 inch squares for Kathleen Tracy’s Crosses Mourning Quilt from her book “Prairie Children and Their Quilts” 

On her blog and on her yahoo group she is hosting a year long challenge to make a small quilt each month.

Do you see those 4 red squares on the right in the picture of the red scraps.    Well I used those plus another 4 matching red squares I found in my crosses mourning blocks.  I also found the teal blue ones in the top right block, see picture below.

I’ve decided my sashing and border fabrics for this little quilt so I need to get to that this week.

Lastly, I completed all the Temecula 12 Days of Christmas mini challenge blocks, but have yet to decide sashing and border fabrics. 

I’ll leave you with a picture of my blocks and go get started on my Dear Jane block of the week.

Have a great weekend,

Happy Stitching,

Ellyx

Rainbow Scrappy Saturday

Can you believe it’s almost the end of March already.  

Here is my March Rainbow Scrappy 12” block in green.  I think I may trim it down and add a log cabin frame.  But I’ll wait until I’ve completed all my blocks before deciding.

It was a good way to try out the Inklingo Pies and Tarts shape collection.   I used the back baste appliqué method for this block after  both hand piecing the pie and machine piecing the tarts.  The placement circles were printed on the back of the background fabrics using this shape collection, as were the cutting and stitching lines for the wedges.   The greens and background came out of my scrap bag.

I also made a couple of Disappearing 4 Patch blocks to try out the technique.   I followed the tutorial on Beth’s blog Love Laugh Quilt  here.

Here is the picture of them so far :-I’m not quite sure what I’ll make with this, it is 10” x 20” at the moment.   I have a couple of ideas floating around in my head, for example, a small table runner or maybe a little block holder case. I could do with one of those for some of my hand piecing projects so that is at the moment the favourite idea.   Unless anyone else has an idea for this pair of blocks ;) ?

I really didn’t make a very big indent into my surprisingly large collection of green scraps but I have learned to see green in a new light.   I don’t dislike it quite so much :)

That’s all for now, have a great weekend.. oh and if you’d like to see other Rainbow Scrappy Saturday reports go see Angela’s blog SoScrappy .

Happy quilting,

Ellyx