Rainbow Scrap Challenge October Brown 16 Patch Blocks

Another week of fun playing with brown fabrics. These 16 patch blocks look like boxes of assorted chocolates. I  now have thirty 16 patch blocks in rainbow colors.
Go here to see what others made with their brown scraps this week,

Rainbow Challenge's Purple Sampler Quilt Is Finished

This purple 12 block scrappy sampler top was pieced in June. I finished quilting it this week with purple cotton thread and straight lines, mostly in the ditch when possible, on my domestic sewing machine with the walking foot. The binding is scrappy, too. All the pieces/strips/scraps in the quilt were 2 1/2" wide.
After a go in the washer and dryer, it's around 53"x 69". I like it : )

Rainbow Scrap Challenge October Brown Blocks

This is the first time I have played with so many brown fabrics. Because of this rainbow challenge, I am using fabric colors I have have not used in the past. Guess I could have made BLUE quilts forever. Also guessed that brown fabrics would be a color in this challenge eventually, so I bought some fat quarters earlier this year on sale. It was fun playing with all this rich brown fabric goodness! To see what others are making with their lovely brown fabric scraps go here : )

Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2012 Strip Quilt Quilted

All done. After a go in the washer and dryer it was 80 1/2" x 59 1/2". Almost 60" wide.

I love the scrappy back, all from stash. A close up of the quilting shows the strips were quilted with wavy lines and the large colorful squares were quilted with a meandering free motion pattern.
I used Superior Threads, So Fine #50 weight with a # 80 top-stitch needle and The Bottom Line #60 weight thread in the bobbin.
I brought the binding to the front so it would appear the quilt had three borders. I love this quilt!

From my stash I made a backing for the purple rainbow challenge 12 block sampler top I pieced in June, here. I pieced 3 extra blocks be go on the back of the quilt.
I'll sandwich the quilt top and back with Warm and White next week. May quilt it with unevenly spaced diagonal lines with purple cotton threads and make a scrappy purple binding from stash and scraps.
Tomorrow we post rainbow scrap challenge projects made with brown fabrics.

Camouflage Throw for a Grandson

Most of the fabrics used in the front and back of this camouflage quilt were bought at Walmart. The olive strips were cut from a pair of cargo pants from the Good Will Store. The quilt top pattern is based on Mary Johnson's "Quick Strippie" quilt. Thank you, Mary. This is a great pattern for a small quilt. I think I made the strips a little longer. And I sewed on a border. It was quilted with wavy lines using a walking foot on the sewing machine. After a go in the washing machine and the clothes dryer, it finished at 50" x 66", a nice throw for a child.

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/