Good Bye Blue, Hello Red

Happy Fourth of July to all the American bloggers.

It's been a week of starts and finishes.  Finally the rain has stopped, the sun has come out and I was able to spend some time in the garden.  The flower beds look so much better now that they're mostly weed free. 
 
I made a trip to my local quilt shop and picked up the kit for the row by row experience.  The theme for this year was water - H2O.  I've always wanted to make a snail's trail block and that's what the first row is.  In keeping with the theme the fabrics were white, aqua, and navy with a wonderful Japanese Hokusai wave print.

It's created such a beautiful wave like motion with the colour placement. They called this row Whale's Trail.  This is my good bye to blue or maybe not.  I suspect when I visit neighbouring shops I might see a little more blue before this experience is complete.


I pulled out my red`s after Angela posted the colour for the month and made the star points for the red saw tooth stars. 

 While I was at it, I also made the alternate blocks to go between.

They will be in the final row of the RSC quilt with the pink blocks anchoring the ends.  Here's how that will look:

 

 I think I've got them right if I followed the patterning for the blocks.  Looking good so far.

Angela suggested we take a mid year look at our projects.  The only one I've been really consistent with is the Boxy Stars. 

Another red one will be added this month.  By December I'll have 24 of these beauties - enough for a fair sized quilt once the borders are added. 

That's it for this week.  I'm off to check in with Angela over at so scrappy and then visit  other scrappy quilters to see what they've been up to.