Finished RSC quilt, a flimsy and foraging for Pink blocks

 I’ve been very conscious of lots of packets of RSC blocks stashed away and think it’s time to use some up. I started with the Twinkler blocks, deciding to use as many of them as I could which I managed with only a handful leftover. I’ve just finished the quilt and it’s ready to gift. Very pleased with it, lovely and bright and lots to look at. I’m calling it Twinkling Stars, a title which I think I’ve used before for these kind of quilts but it suits it! A mixture of machine quilting and echo hand quilting in cream Perle thread around the stars. It measures 48” wide by 55” long. And I’m giving it to an eight year old relative.

Some close ups of the blocks:

I pieced the backing using some of my favourite fabrics:

I have also tackled the pile of Roman Stripe blocks and found they were not very accurately sewn so I decided to trim them all down to the same size and sewed them into columns interspersed with a leftover piece of blue fabric for the sashing.

I used all the deeper blue fabric for the sashing so used a paler blue fabric for the borders to bring it up to a useful size for a Project Linus quilt which I finished this afternoon , now measures 41” long x 42” wide.

Much brighter than shown in the photo but it was early  evening by this time and I took the photo in electric light!

Just had time before dinner to pick out some pink blocks from various packets of  RSC block collections:

Still more packets to look through and any pink strips I can find to make some String blocks. What I am intending to do is to make a pink quilt from a variety of blocks. Having looked through Cathy’s quilts of this type (Crazy by Design) I’ve gleaned a few ideas of how to go about it.

Linking up with Angela’s So Scrappy RSC blog.