Placemats in Pink

One of my plans for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge this year is to start fewer new quilts and finish up more of the older ones. I have multiple sets of rainbow blocks from past years that are waiting to become quilt tops, and there are even more quilt tops ready to be quilted. 

One newish RSC project that I've started is making placemats featuring our color of the month. For January, that is pink. I sorted through my collection of orphan blocks and project leftovers, pulling out an assortment of pink blocks and parts. Two of the blocks I found had been made to test out a jelly roll quilt pattern I was considering a few years ago called Definitely Positive.

I didn't end up making that pattern (although I still like it,) and the blocks ended up in the extras/orphans box. I still had more of some of the fabrics, and it was easy to convert the two blocks into placemats. I even used a fabric with coffee beans to fit with the January theme for the Table Scraps Challenge at The Joyful Quilter.

My placemat goal is to average one placemat every week of the year. After the two orphan block placemats were done, I turned to my drawer of 3" strips. These are the remains from a guild strip exchange more than 20 years ago, and I keep trying to work my way through them. I was able to make three scrappy placemats, using up almost all of the pink strips in the drawer.

There was one other pink placemat made earlier this month. It was made for the first Project Quilting challenge of the year, and our theme was "Mythical Creatures." The block is a Judy Martin pattern called "Pygmalion," from her book Scraps, Blocks and Quilts. You can read more about this one in my post HERE.

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. I will also link up with the Table Scraps Challenge at The Joyful Quilter when it opens on Friday.

Happy quilting everyone!

Julie in GA