Last of the Aqua scraps!

 All shades of aqua/turquoise/teal are my favourite colours - to use and to wear! In fact I’ve just realised I’m wearing a teal coloured sweater today.

In between progressing with my Linus Project Round Robin flimsy I have been making a few RSC blocks, using up the last few aqua/teal scraps. Here they are:

6 Wonky Stars, a Fish block and 4 String blocks. Colours are too dark in this photo as it was getting dusk and I had to put the lights on in order to take the picture.

My Round Robin is now finished, measuring 40” square, a nice size for Linus Project quilts and an easier size for me to baste and quilt. Lots for a little person to look at.

In making the Wonky Stars I used some of the RSC blocks I had already made and used lots of the Pinwheels I had in my stash of completed blocks. And it all started with that 10.5” aqua- based piece from my stash.

And a couple of close ups:

So this is next week’s project - to baste and do some machine quilting around the turquoise and outer borders and then a lot of hand quilting around the stars and across the centre piece. Hopefully I will be able to complete the basting and machine quilting so I have my hand quilting ready for Thursday’s Patchwork Group meeting.

Linking up to Angela’s SoScrappy RSC blog.

Patchwork and Quilting has been my therapy and distraction for the past 25 years and in today’s troubled world never have I been so grateful for taking up this hobby. God bless Ukraine and all those innocent people fighting for their country and the elderly, women and children fleeing to other welcoming ones. 

Aqua RSC blocks and a quilt finish

 I’ve had a busy week making various Aqua RSC blocks.

Firstly I made 3 small Wonky Star blocks using scrap bonus triangles for the points and 2” centres from my biscuit tin containing 2” squares. I had enough aqua scraps and strips to make 2 Strippy blocks ( sewn onto phone book paper squares). Then I used aqua 2.5” squares ( from another biscuit tin) to make 3 Twinkler Stars.

I also sewed up a Fish block that was already kitted up.

Last week I made 7 x 4.5” Crumb blocks ( yes, another tin containing scraps for crumbs) and this week I turned them into RSC Sawtooth Stars.

Horrid dark wet February day here so I’m afraid these photos are dull and murky too. They are much brighter in real life.

And of course I’ve created another new pile of aqua bonus triangles in the process so I see more Wonky Stars in my future. Of dear, the usual Quilters’s Problem of scraps creating more scraps!

And I quilted  and bound the little Aqua Crib Quilt I showed as a flimsy on my blog last weekend. I’ve decided to call it Teddies love elephants!

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day- always celebrated by my husband and me because this is also the anniversary of our engagement in 1971 when he went down on one knee and proposed to me in a restaurant!

We’re going out to lunch tomorrow. 

One of my quilter friends is also a prolific crochet lady and “yarn bombs” various sites in our town. This is her latest creation on top of the post box outside our town’s Sorting Office. 

And the card explaining her work:

Happy Valentine’s Day.

Linking up with Angela’s so scrappy RSC

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