Last Saturday for Orange

Have you wondered where the weeks have gone?  I can't believe it's the last Saturday in September already.  It seems it was just yesterday that I was pulling out the orange scraps and looking forward to working with them.  Friday evening I managed to put the corners on about half of the orange lozenges before I ran out of light and dark 2" squares so I decided to call it a night and do some cutting in the morning to finish them up.  I also have to make the spools in orange. Thank goodness there are a few more days next week to get caught up.

I can't help but wonder what colour Angela has for us in October.  Black?  Indigo?  Gold?  What are you wanting to work with next?

During the summer months I made a few mini quilts for the guild's upcoming show.  I turned them at our monthly meeting and my name was drawn.  In my goodie bag was a charm pack of 2.5" blocks.  The Fons and Porter spring 2014 Quilting Quickly magazine had the cutest little table runner, Little Morsels, and I decided that it was the perfect way to use up those little charms.  Here's the result.

Linking up with RSC and hopping over to see what everyone else has been busy with.

Little Orange Letters

Over at Temecula Quilt Company they have started "little letters".  What a great way to make a cute little alphabet quilt and get rid of scraps at the same time.  Today I made the first 6 - A to F.  What fun! 

 

Looking forward to the rest of the alphabet.  

Third Orange Saturday

I missed catching up with everyone at So Scrappy.  There was no internet access at a friend's cottage and although I was having great fun trying my hand at painting some fabric and working on a few small projects I was having withdrawal symptoms.  When I checked in on Monday evening, I found that Angela had posted two new blocks - Plus and Ribbons.  I grabbed the orange scraps and made short work of those two.

Here's the plus sign block.

And this one's ribbons.

 

On Thursday, we drove to Stratford to see Through the Looking Glass, the Lewis Carroll classis.  The highlight for me was Alice meeting Humpty Dumpty otherwise the play was a bit disappointing.  It was billed as suitable for children and there were quite a few kids and  a bus full of high school students from Ohio in the audience.  Before meeting up for lunch, I stopped in at Ye Olde Quilt Shoppe and picked up a copy of My Table by Disa Designs.  (I also picked up a few fat quarters to make up some cute little wallets for stocking stuffers, a pattern for a wallet and Another Can of Worms by Debbie Caffrey.)

 

There are some of the cutest little mug rugs, table runners, place mats and table toppers in this book.  I just loved those little snowmen and the Santas.   When I had more time to look it over I spotted the "Spooky" mug mats on the back cover.  And ... as it is orange this month I thought I'd get them done up for Hallowe'en.

That's it for orange this week.  Stop by RSC and see what orange fun has gone on week three.



Orange you glad it's almost fall!

We're playing with orange this month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  Every month I make a boxy star and completed the orange one early in the week. 

Every shade of orange imaginable from tangerine to squash to pumpkin to burnt orange in this boxy star.  (These look more brown than they really are.  I'll have to take them outdoors to photograph properly.)

Angela posted two orange blocks this past week.

Here's Bear Paw.

and Kick.

 



Checking in with RSC to see everyone's orange work this week.

 

 



 

 



OOPS!

  Every month I have been making Bonnie Hunter's boxy star block. 

Now these blocks have been on my design wall off and on since January.  Every month when I made a new block I'd pull them out and admire them all together.  This morning as I was on the phone something jumped out at me.  Can you see what it was?  Look carefully at the yellow block.  OOPS!  Where are the starry points?  This just wouldn't do.  So I took the block apart and put it together properly.

Now that's better.  There are the starry points - no more cross in the middle!  What I wonder is why I didn't notice it before! 

You may notice that I also made the bright green block.  I really hemmed and hawed about whether to make it.  Initially I planned to wait until December and then choose a colour we hadn't already used but as I was putting the green away I thought I'd make one in the different green tones. 

  Now I won't have to wonder what to do in December.  All caught up with the boxy stars.