Saturday 18 March 2017

Happy International Quilting Day!

Of course, I did a little bit of quilting today and some sewing too. I played with some reds. Surprising, isn't it? lol.

Did some Rails blocks for the 9 Patch Path quilt. They were part of the leaders/enders while I was sewing the Red Buckwheat.

Ooooohhh! I love how that one turned out. The one on the left is the one I did today and it is so bright but you can't really tell from this picture. Bad photographer. (Not paying her, lol) The one on the right is one I did as a tester at the beginning of January. So one raspberry red and one watermelon pink/red block.

But I am not done with red. There's more to come but it's not presentable yet. So I'll leave you with on last picture, for your information only.

On the last post, I showed the flannel I wanted to use as backing on the I-Spy quilt. It had a good, long soak in warm water "spiked" with Dawn soap.  When I emptied the blue tub, look what came out.


Don't have Purple Rain (Prince) but I have purple water in the bathtub! The baseballs remained white because of Dawn. Ask me how I know about Dawn. :^}  Now I am not scare of using it in my quilt.

Hope you will join me at Angela's place for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge and see red ... projects. :^D

On Sunday, I'll be visiting Cynthia for Oh Scraps! See you then.

Until next time ... sew red.

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18 comments:

The Joyful Quilter said...

Happy to see that you got some RED sewing done on Worldwide Quilting Day!!

Nell's Quilts said...

I like that buckwheat block. I haven't seen this one made up before. That Dawn is good for so many things.

Deb @ Frugal Little Bungalow said...

That is amazing how much color bled ! Good for Dawn! :)

I like those buckwheat blocks alot.

Barb said...

dawn is a miracle - wow amazing how much dye was soaked out.

CecileD said...

Wow.... le savon que tu as utilisé à bien fait degorger ton tissu ! C'est bien ainsi tu pourras laver ton quilt sans soucis !
Jolis blocs Chantal et comme toujours, j'aime bien tes couleurs ! :)
Gros bisous

Ivani said...

Very insteresting your Red Buckwheat blocks! It is incredible how fabric blend colors, great you have Dawn to help fix them. Happy Sunday!

Ariane said...

It's a good thing your soaked that fabric in dawn. Your blocks look great too!!

LIttle Penguin Quilts said...

I've been using the Dawn soaking now, too, since you first wrote about it! So glad it works!

Cynthia Brunz Designs said...

I too love those buckwheat blocks. Thanks for sharing with Oh Scrap!

Gretchen Weaver said...

I have a quilt the red border bled terribly when I washed it. When it is warm out, I'm going to soak the whole quilt in dawn water and see if it get the red out. I'm using the quilt anyway, I loved it before but every time I look at her now, I feel sick. I'm hoping Dawn takes the red out. If it works, look for a post about it this spring sometime.

Sally Trude said...

Those buckwheat blocks are meticulous! And yes, Vicki's soaking instructions have saved many a quilt!

Astrid said...

Love those buckwheat blocks, never seen them before. Great for scrappy quilts. Wow! Good you soaked that flannel, so much excess color.

Cathy Tomm said...

Great buckwheat blocks. Wow the flannel dyed is crazy!

Cathy said...

I know about Dawn!!
I didn't know about Buckwheat blocks...love those!

gayle said...

Love those blocks!
And wow! Good call on that Dawn soak! What a mess you would have had!

Karen's Korner said...

Some interesting projects happening at your place.

Lin said...

Nice work with your reds. xx

Ellen said...

Looks like Dawn saved you an awful lot of aggravation!! I really like those Buckwheat blocks.