My personal Rainbow UFO Challenge for August is the same as July. See what I wrote back in January of this year.
"The next ones are in case Angela calls a darker shade of a colour, so
Dark Blue or Aqua - Star in Blue (2016) ..."
"The next ones are in case Angela calls a darker shade of a colour, so
Dark Blue or Aqua - Star in Blue (2016) ..."
It was a long weekend for us in Canada, so I was able to work almost all afternoon on Star in Blue on Monday. Option #1 was everyone's favourite.
By Monday evening my design wall looked like this.
Now, to work with Aqua I first had to locate it. Remember the blue scrap basket waiting on the sideline?
Wow! That took forever! Well, at least a few hours of Olympic events watching. On the sofa we have, from left to right: Aqua - light blue (really not a lot in that group) - Batiks - Solids. On the floor,
a pile (Pile? Mountain!) of what needs to be cut up and resized - basket with the dark ones - medium - strings.
I am so proud of myself. Once I put the light, Batiks, medium back with the dark in the basket, it was full. It confirmed what I suspected. I do need another blue scrap basket. (Or sew more with blue.)
This spurs me to continue with green because I might find some aqua-ish-turquoise-teal in there too. Some more Olympic events later and ta-da!
From left to right, Aqua-turquoise-teal colour - lights - and to be cut up and resized pile. In front of the empty basket - medium - dark - strings. Yes, my green basket is bigger than the blue one. It might explain why this one is not so full. Ha!
I ended up with quite a pile of scraps in Aqua-ish colour. Unfortunately, I didn't have a lot of sewing time this week.
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Crumb blocks in the making. |
Thank goodness for weekends!
Hope you have a great one. Take care!
;^)
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8 comments:
You did a lot of sorting this week - impressive! It looks like what you found was great for crumb blocks, too.
i love your quilt of stars... looking great... and very impressed with all that sorting.... that part can be quite daunting...
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Le quilt avec les étoiles rend bien, j'aime bien cette disposition. Et bravo pour le rangement et la sélection des tissus bleus et verts !
Nice job of sorting and sewing, Chantal!!
I totally relate to those overflowing scrap baskets! I have a lot of aqua, though, so it needs it's own basket. They multiply in the dark, you know!
Sorting and cutting to feed the scrap squares and strips is a time consuming task, but it's well worth the time to straighten it all out. Crumb blocks are definitely something I should be doing too, lol.
So satisfying to have all those scraps sorted. Nice work on your design wall. xx
I can't believe how much fabric you had fit in those baskets! Like some sort of bottomless bag from a fairy tale!
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