2012 Rainbow Scrap Challenge Strip Quilt Top

I plan to make 3 quilts with rainbow color themes during this 2012 Rainbow Scrap Challenge.
Knowing how busy December can be, I thought I'd go ahead and piece a strip quilt top using most of the 2 1/2" strips I saved each month. I love those yummy orange strips.

I guessed two of the remaining three month's colors might be black and brown, so I added a few strips of those colors. Please know that Angela hasn't said what October, November and December's colors might or will be. I just made a guess. Could be wrong. The other two rainbow quilts will have the correct colors.

Because I'm trying to use scraps and stash fabrics for this challenge, I used a stack of colorful 10" squares I had cut a year or two ago and a few yards of blue daisy fabric from my stash to piece a backing. I used six of  those 10" blocks in the quilt top. Next week I'll sandwich this top and back with some Warm and White batting.

Mini Quilt Along: Quilt One, Mosaic, Finished

This "Mosaic" mini quilt pattern was made with batiks and quilted in the ditch with Invisible Polyester Thread using a number 80 Top Stitch needle. The binding was brought from the back to the front and finished using a variegated cotton thread and a number 80 sewing machine needle. I think the binding looks like a mini border.
Fun to make. Clean lines. Modern. A nice mini quilt pattern. To see other quilts in this Mini Quilt Along go here http://www.flickr.com/groups/2124940@N22/

Mini Quilt Along Quilt One: Mosaic

The first quilt pattern used in the Moose Quilt Mini Quilt Along is called Mosaic. Simply Charming Minis has patterns for 16 mini quilts 13" - 21" that can be made with scraps or charm squares. I'll be using mainly charm packs for this Quilt Along, but I though I'd use some of my batik stash to make this modern little quilt..

My mini quilt making experience is limited.  After I cut the quilt pieces I used the diagram in the book to  lay them out the way I planned to sew them together. I left the border pieces longer than I needed them to be. I'm lazy like that.

I used a single hole plate over my feed dogs and a size 70 sewing machine needle to piece these small pieces together. My mini quilt top is finished and I like it a lot!

Bee In My Bonnet Row Along: Row 3

Lots of bright colors going on here.

Rainbow Challenge September Orange 4 Patch Blocks

The thirty-six 16 patch rainbow blocks I will make during this year will not be enough to make a quilt. So I'm going to make a dozen 4 patch rainbow blocks to go with them. Didn't take long to catch up. See the orange 4-patch in the center..

I wasn't wild about my neutral 16 patch neutral blocks, so I made 3 new 16 patch neutral blocks. I'll use the 3 with the gray blocks in pot holders.

I signed up to do a FNSI and was not able to sew after 5 pm. The grand kids and I went to the grocery store, made Rice Krispie Treats, cookies and worked on a puzzle. We had a good time. To see what others made during the FNSI, go here, Handmade by Heidi.

Fabric From The Intrepid Threads and a Handheld Tetris Nano

I used part of my Intrepid Threads Gift Certificate to buy Amy Butler's Cameo fat quarter collection and an extra yard of blue fabric. Such soft, beautiful fabrics! Julie with Intrepid Threads had carefully wrapped the fabric in white wrapping tissue tied up with purple ribbon. The package came yesterday.
Today a handheld Tetris Nano game form the Tetris Game Company arrived! I won the Gift Certificate and the Tetris Nano when my quilt was drawn in the Tetris Quilt Challenge at Happy Quilting.
Can't believe I won such a wonderful grand prize!

I'm still making a few patriotic star blocks every week. So far, I have forty-two stars. Some star blocks will be pieced in the backing. The finished quilt may or may not have a border.

Bee In My Bonnet Row Along: Row 2

Eleven colorful butterflies. Ha. This sew along is hosted here.