Scant Orange

This was a week with more handwork completed than sewing blocks. But I did finish two more of the blocks from Tula Pink's book.  I'm still working with strips to use up some of the smaller pieces of orange.
Block #64

and #65

were the only two bits of orange made this week.  Some weeks are like that.

 

I'll be checking in with Angela and other scrappy quilters to see what scrappy orange progress has been made this week.  Who knows, maybe there's an orange block waiting for us to stitch up.





Round One in Orange

September means cooler nights, shorter days and a lot of foggy mornings.  It also means we get to play with all of our orange scraps. I pulled out my scraps and sorted out the ones I thought would be good for the 6" orange blocks and saw tooth star points for the orange row. 

I thought these would give me a fair range but then I stopped by a neighbouring community Quilt Shop and found these:

Don't you just love the orange and pink fabrics.  I couldn't resist and had to buy a fat quarter of each to use for the RSC blocks.  I think these will transition beautifully into the red/pink row.  I know we're to use scraps up but well, once I saw it, I had to have some!

I stitched up my Boxy star block and managed to use up almost all of the batik with the squares.  Just a 26" x 1" strip and three 2.5" squares left.

Looking forward to seeing how you started off your orange month and waiting for an orange block post from one of my favourite scrappy quilters, Angela. 

On another note,  I was taking some pictures in my garden last week and I got this incredible photo:

That little humming bird was just aiming to get at the Rose of Sharon.  My camera isn't the fastest so I was amazed that I got the bird before it darted away.