RSC Week #4 - Last of the Greens

 It has been another wet week due to cyclone 'Candice'. Last week it was 'Belal'. 'Candice' was nothing compared to 'Belal'. It kept us in suspense for three days, looping over the island before it decided to accelerate and leave. 

Perfect days staying inside playing with RSC green fabric.

Except for the Split-9 blocks I made last week, I've made some new blocks where I can use some of the 2" squares that have multiplied over the years! 

I've made 4 Scrap Jar blocks

The 16-patches center is all from my 2" cut squares. The spikes and background are 4" cut squares,  which comes to good use as well.

I got carried away making Zipper blocks! Using more 2" squares.

I thought I had only six green fabrics left after making Gerdrik's quilt last year. How could I forget the Moda Marbles Greens?! I know why; they are stored in another linen closet since there's no space where the other fabrics are. 

I had a small piece of the green dots fabric left after I made the Zipper blocks

just enough for three 9-patch blocks. What I'm going to do with these later, I don't know. 

After making the Scrap Jar blocks, I'm now left with some HST that will be put aside for now. As you can see; they are yet to be pressed! 

Linking up with Angela and RSC - Rainbow Scrap Challenge

RSC 2024 Week 3 - Green for January

RSC - RAINBOW SCRAP CHALLENGE 2024 - hosted by Angela over at 

superscrappy.blogspot.com

I had sew much fun doing the RSC last year. I'm participating this year too. The first color of the year - January - is GREEN. 

I used up most of my greens last year, making 'Gerdrik's Quilt'.  

For this year's challenge, I have chosen a couple of blocks to make in each month's color. I have a lot of cut squares in different sizes. This box contains 3" squares, sorted on colors.

There are some blocks I've always wanted to do and one of them is the 'Split 9 Patch' block. I pulled out all the 3" green and white/cream squares and got carried away!  

I made 8 'Split 9 Patch' blocks in green and white/cream

Another block on my 'want to do' list, is the 'Scrap Jar Star' block.

I have thousands (I'm not exaggerating!!!) of 2" squares, not sorted on colors. 

OK, let's take a look:

Boxes containing 2" squares.

Do you see the black Acer box on the last photo, to the right? It contains 6100 2" squares, collected from swaps some years ago (photo next to the boxes). If not mistaken, I think I did a swap with Angela too? I have no clue how many squares the other boxes contain.

I've got a 'custom order'! My dear childhood friend in Norway has ordered one square table topper and one table runner, both in GREENS, his favorite color. That should keep me busy the rest of the 'green-month'! 

I've finished a custom order too, see my previous post 

For the table runner, I've used Moda Marbles Hunter Green.

HAPPY SCRAPPY WEEKEND! 

FF-UFO 2024

 First Finished UFO 2024! 

I had this Patriotic Table Runner already thread basted (last year). 

Last Sunday, I decided to sew all day and I did all the quilting! Straight seams take time and are a bit tedious, but to finish an item, it has to be done, right?! The binding was done the next day, and voila! Finished!

Available in my Etsy Shop 

....and don't you think this little bugger showed up?!

It was hidden on the chair, in between other projects.

It's a small wall hanging I started last year. It's almost done; the gnomes need a nose each. Why on earth does that takes months to fix that?! Another UFO to the list!

I've just finished a custom order 

 1 table runner and 2 round table mats, on its way to the US.

You may have seen on the news Reunion Island and Mauritius were hit by cyclone 'Belal' some days ago. This is from Port Louis Monday this week; torrential rain caused flooding

...and the clean-up started two days ago. 

Fortunate, no damage to our property, except water in the lower ground floor, but that happens every time we get heavy rain. 'Belal' passed about 90 km / 56 miles to the south of the island, highest gusts 124 km/h (77 miles/h) measured here in Quatre Bornes. 

Cyclone season is officially from Nov 1 to May 15. Fingers crossed there won't be any hits to any of the countries in the Indian Ocean! 

 

January 2024 - Time (again!) for UFOs

 HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! 

So, here we go again; UFO's 2024! 

I was a slug last year! Out of 18 UFO's (quilts), I finished only one! And that was an Advent Calendar. I also finished two small cross stitched wall hangings. 

Did I make more UFO's to add to the list in 2023? Of course I did! 

Thanks to the RSC (Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2023), I can add 4 UFO's to the list! Plus some scrappy blocks I started and a Patriotic Table Runner I had forgotten about. That makes it a total of 23 UFO's! YIKES! 

 My GOAL is to finish at least 12 UFO's this year. Will I manage? I have to do better than last year!!! LOL

1) New York Beauty Quilt

Progress: blocks pieced together, thread basted, ready for quilting

2) PSQ 36-patches

Progress: more blocks added

3) Wedding Ring Quilt

Progress: Zero! 

4) Scrappy Christmas Stars

Progress: Zero!

5) Christmas Card Holder

Progress: Decided on fabrics

6) Basket Quilt

Progress: Zero!

7) Scrappy 4" squares

Progress: Zero

8) Scrappy Pineapple Quilt

Progress: thread basted, ready for quilting

9) Crumb Quilt

Progress: Zero!

10) Irish Chain Quilt, blue & white

Progress: thread basted, ready for quilting

11) Got the Blues Quilt

Progress: all blocks done

12) Poppies Wall Hanging

Progress: Zero! 

13) Scrappy Flannel

Progress: Zero! 

14) Tomten's Quilt

Progress: Zero!

15) Granny Squares Quilt

Progress: Zero!

16) House Quilt

Progress: Purchased fabric for sashing

17) Snowman Wall Hanging

Progress: Thread basted, ready for quilting

UFO's added 2023:

18) Swirling Stars Quilt

Latest: all blocks done

19) Star Streams Quilt

Latest: Zero!

20) Bases Loaded, Purple Quilt

Latest: Purchased fabric for backing

21) Patchwork Potpourri Scrappy

Latest: Zero!

22) Orange/Brown Star Quilt  

Latest: Purchased a few orange FQ's / buy fabric for backing?

23) Patriotic Table Runner

Progress: Thread basted, ready for quilting

Knitting / Crocheting / Stitchery

24) Shawl (knitting)

25) Open Finger Gloves (knitting)

26) Santa (knitting)

27) Gnome (knitting)

28) Bed cover / Tablecloth (knitting)

29) Granny Squares Blanket (crocheting) 

30) Over the River and Through the Woods stitchery - here

Progress: Nothing since the above photo was taken

WISH ME LUCK!