Monday, February 07, 2022

RED Rainbow Scrap Challenge Tops

 I really did stitch things in January for Red....  it just took me a minute to figure out how I wanted to approach This Years Scrap challenge.

I think... I want to make Stepper Quilts.

Way back in 2019 Liz offered a little Quilt a long thru our stashbusters group. The block she used was so similar to a pattern I had designed called Zig Zag Rails for our high school kids to sew - but!!! 

Her's was bigger pieces. Oh ya!! Bigger pieces, Faster stitching, Stash busted faster!! Great combo right?

And She called it Steppers. I like it!




Remember my Friends Scrap bags? I gathered Reds from it - and this is Number one.....

But I hadn't used all the strips I cut.... and the snow started coming down again and so! I tried to look busy so I didn't have to do chores.... and ta-da!!  Steppers Number 2!


but then!!! There were scraps left.... and so..... I made string blocks....
and then created this:


it needed borders.... and then!!
 
You have already seen this one:
it is already stitched up and as of today!! is on the Quilting machine...
But then I had even more scraps - so I made more string blocks - those are now sitting in a pile for my February String count....

Holee Cow.... that red went a long way. and guess what?
I am not of out red!!

Oh and....there is still snow on the ground..... 38 days now.... so unusual for us ( but I love it!!!)



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11 comments:

Elizabeth V Kelbaugh said...

You sure did stay busy and who doesn't love an easy pattern or three for scraps. Way to sew!

Sara said...

Wow - you've gotten so much accomplished. I love that Stepper idea. It would be a great scrap buster.

Bonnie said...

I like your Stepper quilts. Dare I ask you to share the size of the rectangles? And wow! you really made great use of all those reds. Were they all from the donated bag or did you get to use some of your own? We had snow on the ground for about 4 weeks or so. Unheard of here. On the other hand I realized we hardly get sun on our backyard at all in the winter which helped keep the snow in place. Hopefully that's it for this winter. Back to sewing!

Sylvia said...

Love the steppers block! Great for using up scraps! I also have seem to have projects that turn into multiples!

Miss Alissa said...

Way to go!!

Yvonne from Quilting Jetgirl said...

I think the scraps multiply when we aren't looking. ;)

loulee said...

That's a lot of RSCing.

Kim said...

You certainly were on a red sewing of scraps, binge. The steppers pattern is a fabulous one, and love all those fabrics in the strings blocks. And you say, there are still reds left??!! Wow!

Anonymous said...

You're making the rest of us look like turtles you realize that don't you. AND, there's no snow on the ground here at all to slow us down.

Congrats on multiple finishes.

San / Gypsy Quilter

Delighted Hands said...

that is an amazing amount of red--I have very little in comparison! lol
Nice work--I like the Stepper top; nice work.

Kate said...

You made good use of all those red scraps!