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Saturday, April 5, 2014

Rainbow Scraps in Purple

The new color of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge is purple. I have been digging through my bins of scraps and strips to see what I could find. No machine stitching yet, but I did get some diamonds cut for my Rainbow LeMoyne Stars. I decided to lay them out on the background fabrics to make sure they would show up well enough.


I have also been cutting hexagons from every purple fabric I could find. I have about half of them basted and hope to finish basting the rest in the next few days. Every month I baste up all my fabrics, then lay them out and decide which ones will be used in my hexie star and snowflake. There will be a bunch of hexies left over, but they will be waiting in the wings for a future project.



One of my favorite wall-hanging quilts that I have made features plenty of purple. It was made for an annual challenge at the Ben Franklin Crafts store in Oconomowoc, WI back in 2010. We received 4 or 5 quarter yard pieces of fabrics that had to be used in our entry. I printed out a grid of pineapple blocks and shaded them in with the appropriate colors to help me get all the fabrics in the right places. I call this quilt Hawaiian Punch.

Hawaiian Punch
37" x 37"



Check out the Rainbow Scrap Challenge posts every Saturday to see how others are using up their scraps. So many beautiful projects! I am also linking up with the Hexie Weekend at A Quilting Reader's Garden.

Julie in GA

17 comments:

  1. What a beautiful quilt and I can't wait to see what you do with purple this month Julie!

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  2. Hawaiian Punch is beautiful! I wish we still had a Ben Franklin store- it was my favorite.

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  3. I love your Hawaiian Punch quilt. Beautiful fabric. Thanks for sharing.

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  4. Hawaiian Punch is such a fun quilt! What a great name. Good job on the prep work too -- looks like you are ready to sew!

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  5. Hawaiian Punch is beautiful: all those little pieces. You have a nice collection of purples for this months challenge.

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  6. The Hawaiian quilt sparkles. Very beautiful.

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  7. Hawaiian Punch is amazing! I especially like the kaleidoscope centers!

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  8. Beautiful quilt. Love your purple scraps.

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  9. Beautiful!! Enjoyed seeing your purple past ;-)

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  10. Cannot wait to see how all those hexies come out! Great idea to save some for later too!

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  11. You have been very busy. I love you pineapple wall hanging!

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  12. Hawaiian Punch is beautiful! Have fun with all your purple scraps this month.

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  13. Love the Hawaiian Punch quilt. Your Lemoyne stars will be wonderful. Lots of purple hexies to work with. Looks like a busy month ahead.

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  14. Hawaiian Punch - what a beautiful quilt. You are busy with purple this month.

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  15. Love your purple scraps! Hawaiian Punch is beautiful.

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  16. Hawaiian Punch is beautiful! Love all your pretty purple hexie's.

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