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Saturday, January 4, 2014

January Blues

This is the beginning of my second year of participating in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge which is hosted by Angela. Each month has its assigned color, and every Saturday we all link up blog posts showing our progress. Saturday is one of the blog-reading highlights of my whole week when I get to see what everyone has been making. I always come away with way more ideas than I have time to make!

 This year I've had a little trouble settling on my rainbow project for the year. The current top choice is to make more 6" LeMoyne stars like the ones below. These were started many years ago and have been sitting in a box ever since. It's about time they were allowed to come out & play!

So far I have made 4 stars in blues, our January color. The three bright ones look great with the previous set, but that one at the lower right is not going to make the cut.

My carry-over project from last year's RSC is my scrappy hexies. I have been basting blue hexies and hope to start sewing them together next week.


Check out the Rainbow Scrap Challenge posts every Saturday to see how others are using up their scraps. So many beautiful projects! 


Julie in GA
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15 comments:

  1. Carla A Few Of My Favorite ThingsJanuary 4, 2014 at 7:23 AM

    Love your Lemoyne Stars! Do you hand piece them?

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  2. soscrappyJanuary 4, 2014 at 7:56 AM

    The Le Moyne star is my favorite star block ever! They really sparkle on the dark background.

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  3. EllenJanuary 4, 2014 at 8:19 AM

    Your stars look wonderful - great job piecing them!

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  4. DashaJanuary 4, 2014 at 8:22 AM

    Love those starts! They sing.

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  5. Elly DJanuary 4, 2014 at 8:23 AM

    Love your LeMoyne stars Julie :) Great start with your blues too. Look forward to seeing how your hexagons progress.

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  6. Katie Z.January 4, 2014 at 8:39 AM

    A great start to the year!

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  7. CathyJanuary 4, 2014 at 10:19 AM

    I love LeMoyne Stars too. I actually thought of making some myself. I'd leave that lower right one in...you never know...when you get enough of them it will look great. And love the hexies too. Do you cut your own papers? I'd probably make some of those but am too lazy to cut all those papers!

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    1. Julie in GAJanuary 4, 2014 at 1:35 PM

      No way do I cut my own hexie papers. I buy them from Paper Pieces: http://paperpieces.com/
      If you sign up for their emails, you will get weekly notice of their sales.

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  8. SheilaJanuary 4, 2014 at 10:30 AM

    I love your blue fabrics. The star block is a great idea for a rainbow quilt.

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  9. AnonymousJanuary 4, 2014 at 10:41 AM

    Great Projects (re)starts. Have fun!

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  10. PatriciaJanuary 4, 2014 at 11:13 AM

    Love the stars! One of my favorite blocks.

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  11. AngieJanuary 4, 2014 at 8:58 PM

    Great LeMoyne stars - love the black background fabric!

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  12. Alycia~QuiltygirlJanuary 4, 2014 at 11:05 PM

    Love your bright blues - maybe the reject can still make it on the back?

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  13. KateJanuary 5, 2014 at 5:16 PM

    What a fun new scrappy project for 2014. I love the look of those stars, but not so much making them.

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