Playing Catch-Up

It is hard to believe that it is almost 3 weeks since my last blog post, mostly due to an insanely busy schedule at work. I've been grabbing a few minutes here and there for quilting, but haven't accomplished much, and I find it easier to stitch than to write coherent sentences in a blog post.

I did get a day off in the middle of the week, and that was my first chance to pull out some fabric options for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge sampler blocks. Our color assignment this month is "the hazy purple of a dawn sky with hints of evergreens." The alternate color choice is to work with greys. I actually have a decent collection of prints that combine purple and green, so I pulled out strips of all those fabrics, plus some other purples, trying to stay away from the pinky purples.

Then I rearranged all my strips, matching them up in pairs as they will be used in the bullseye blocks for the sampler. I'm planning to use the fabrics that run across the top of this photo as the center squares, and the lower strips to surround them.

Here is Angela's sample of the bullseye block that we will be making. Fortunately, it is a very easy block. I hope to have some time over the next week to start cutting for my sampler blocks, and maybe I can even get a few stitched together!

Be sure to check out all of the wonderful scrappy projects at the Rainbow Scrap Challenge every Saturday and at Oh Scrap! over at Quilting is more fun than Housework on Sunday.

Julie in GA