One of my on-going projects for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge this year has been making kaleidoscope blocks using my collection of 30's fabrics. Each month I have made a set of blocks with our assigned color of the month. This month's color assignment is the blue-green family (aqua, teal, turquoise.) I love these colors, but I have only one piece of turquoise in my whole box of 30's fabrics, and I made a block with that fabric a few months ago along with the light blues.
What I do still have to use in the 30's collection are several multicolor prints, so I went ahead and made blocks from them this week. Some of them may end up being too pale to go into the quilt, but I might as well make blocks from all of my 30's fabrics. I will figure out later which blocks made the final cut.
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
Such pretty soft colors in your collection there;)) Nice work I love how these are coming out
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Love that you are using 1930's fabric. Snap, did the same thing this month, sewed up all the colourful pieces for the alternating blocks my colour challenge nine patch blocks. Playing with the blocks is the fun part, creating a special quilt.
ReplyDeleteFun TURQUOISE block, Julie!
ReplyDeleteI'm loving your '30s kaleidoscope blocks, Julie! Such a great strategy, to just do some in each color along with RSC while working on other projects in between. I've got some fun thirties prints in my stash waiting for me to come up with the "right project" someday. Hopefully someday will happen AFTER I finish some of these other UFOs, though!
ReplyDeleteOh, what a wonderful idea for those '30s repros. I like how you are mixing up the color configuration for an alternate block.
ReplyDeleteGood for you for using those 30 repro fabrics. I've noticed a lot of people have been trying to use up some of their 30s prints. (Me included, it's a top but I don't see it turning into a quilt for a while!) I have some turquoise 30's if you want it. Let me know what size you need and an address and I'll send it on your way. (That's assuming my pieces fit your needs. I know I cut a lot of my pieces up!)
ReplyDeleteThat soft solid really does look lovely. It would make a wonderful vintage feel quilt all on its own. Thanks for linking up with Oh Scrap!
ReplyDeleteLoving your kaleidoscope blocks, such a soft vintage palette, delightful!
ReplyDeleteIt's always hard to figure out what to do with those multi-color prints, but they make great blocks.
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