Bye Bye Blues

The Row by Row challenge from 2015 is getting closer to completion.  Two more blocks were added to the waterfall and beach chairs. First up is the offering from The Quilt Place:

I love the silhouetted image of the blue heron scouting for his supper.  

The second was from the Hobby Horse and offered one of the styles that the shop is known for and that I tried for the first time.  Clearly if I'm to make other blocks like this I'll need a workshop to figure how to layer the colours.  It's a crayoned row and not quite finished.  The flower tops and outline embroidery are missing - a job for a handwork day.

                                                                          

The "H"blocks in blue are among my favourite this month.  I love the intensity of these bright blues.

The nine patches are cut and waiting to be pieced.  Last night I prepped the English paper piecing tumbling blocks.  Lots of handwork left to bring blue to finish and only three days left. The last minute dash for a July finish is on. 

How did your blue July finish up?  Linking up with SOSCRAPPY and looking forward to reading about your blues.

Blue Skies shining on me

Since the blue colour was announced for July we've had beautiful blue skies up our way.  It's been wonderful working in the garden, dining outdoors and taking an evening stroll.

My goal has been to finish the 2015 Row by Row blocks and I am happy to say another one has made the design wall.  This is a cute little beach scene that proved to be quite popular with Row by Row enthusiasts.  So here it is cool sands, blue water and fair skies.

This is a 9.5 by 36.5 row that will join the others in a quilt or stand alone as a wall hanging.  

Three of  my RSC projects were prepped early in the week and one was crossed off the list. 

The blue Cracker blocks came together nicely.

Linking in with Soscrappy and looking forward to see what  other RSC work has been completed in beautiful cool blues.

The last of the yellow

I must thank two fellow bloggers for their inspiration to finishing off the week with yellow.  Last week Kathy posted her little sprouts and shared the link.  I followed and used up a few of my 2.5 inch squares.  I think I must have been anticipating blue for July.  Love the little pops  of blue in some of the scraps.  This may just be the start of something.  They were fun and quick to make .

The second blogger, also a Cathy at Cathy's Crazy by Design, suggested making the pineapple.  It used up 1.5 inch bits and I may just make a few more for a sunny tablerunner.



These two blocks round out my yellow work and as I said I must have been anticipating blue because I pulled out this Row by Row Experience project from 2 years ago and started to put  it together.  The theme two years ago was Water.  Just love this cascading waterfall.


My last little project is one I picked up on this year's Row by Row Experience. A skinny little runner with the cutest message.

And now I'm off to celebrate Canada Day 150.  Happy Canada Day to all my fellow Canadian bloggers.  Don't let the showers stop you from celebrating Canada's 150th birthday.

Hopping over to Soscrappy later today to see how everyone else wrapped up Yellow.