Scrappy Rainbow Saturday 10/15/2022

For the first time in several weeks, I have a project to share with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. This was a rainbow quilt that I had started almost exactly two years ago. I needed a new hand-stitching project at the time, and decided to try hand piecing some Glorified 9-Patch blocks. Here is one of my first blocks, both from the front and showing the handwork on the back. I made two sets of blocks by hand (yellow and brown) before switching over to machine piecing them.

Our color for October is lime or light green, with light neutrals as an alternate choice. I happened to have some partially-completed Glorified 9-Patch blocks in all of those colors. I had made the 9-patch centers late last year, but hadn't added the curved outer sections. Here are the unfinished centers:

and here they are with the backgrounds attached.

After that, all of the blocks were arranged on the design wall to spread out the colors. They all needed to be trimmed down to 6.5" before they could be joined together.

After a couple days of working at this, all of the blocks were stitched together. I decided to add a black and grey fabric as a finishing border.

Glorified 9-Patch, 48" x 48"

Here's a closer look at a few blocks and the border fabric.

I am a little disappointed that the circular designs around the blocks don't show up better. The circles are there, just rather subtle. I realized that using two background fabrics of such different values (very light greys vs. blacks) made the seams between those two colors the strongest contrast in the quilt, and therefore the square blocks are the visual focus rather than the curved seams. I guess that's my lesson from making this quilt. There's always something new to be learned!

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.

Happy quilting! 

Julie in GA