Scrappy Turquoise Saturday

My quilting goal for the past week was to finish making this month's blocks for my various Rainbow Scrap Challenge projects. Our assigned colors for July are all the blue-greens that I love so much: aqua, teal, turquoise, etc. I've had a great time digging through my scraps, but I still have more blocks to make.

The main reason that I didn't get more done for my ongoing RSC quilts was because I was too wrapped up in the new project that I shared in last week's post, the Herringbone quilt. I knew that I might run short of my light sashing fabric, but kept going anyway with the goal of making a baby quilt, and I had just barely enough for that. Seriously, I think my largest leftover scrap of that fabric when I finished measured about 1.25 x 1.5". It looks like solid white in the photos, but it actually has a very pale teal print on white. This is my Herringbone quilt top, followed by some close-ups of the fabrics.

Herringbone quilt top, 33" x 39.5"

One of my favorite things about making scrappy quilts is reminiscing about the various fabrics, where and when I got them, and other quilts they were used in. The photo above is a perfect example. The darker woven-looking print along the right side was a piece that I got at a sale back in 1998, 5 yards for 50 cents/yard. The print at the bottom left corner is also from 1998 and was purchased at the AQS show in Paducah. The bright turquoise fabric at the very center is one that I got in Paducah earlier this year. Despite the wide range of ages and styles, they all work together beautifully!

I didn't think to include a photo of my inspiration for this quilt in my previous post. I've had it for years and it resurfaced on my cutting table recently. This is a first for me--a quilt inspired by the design on a box of Kleenex!

After I finished making the Herringbone quilt top, I had quite a pile of scraps and strips with angled ends laying around on my cutting table. Instead of trimming them down into squares and triangles, I started sewing them together randomly. I was able to piece enough together to make a placemat, which will join the donation pile for Meals on Wheels.

The placemat top is done and has been stitched around the outer edges with some batting and that same print from 1998 for the back. All that's left to do is a little bit of quilting, probably horizontal lines along the piecing seams.

One set of RSC blocks that did get finished this week were the latest Hen & Chicks Sampler blocks. I'm using all batiks for these blocks, which will finish at 3" and 6".

I still have two sets of RSC blocks that haven't been made yet this month, the Laundry Basket Quilts Birthday Blocks and a set of Terry blocks. I will try to make a start on those later today. It's feeling like they might continue over into August.

Be sure to check out all of the wonderful scrappy projects at the Rainbow Scrap Challenge every Saturday and Oh Scrap! over at Quilting is more fun than Housework on Sunday. I'm also linking up with the Table Scraps Challenge at The Joyful Quilter.

Happy quilting everyone!

Julie in GA