Rainbow Scrap Challenge Blocks

I have been very busy playing with my brown scraps this week. Who knew that I had so many brown scraps - well - actually I did. In the past I have made a lot of 'boy' quilts and used brown very frequently. I haven't been doing that so much lately and that means I haven't been replenishing my stash of brown scraps on a regular basis and I found that I didn't have the best selection in my 2" strips and 2" squares. I did manage to get 10 of the nine patch in a square blocks completed without using any repeats within individual blocks.

I wasn't too sure how these blocks would look surrounded with the black/white prints but I am pleasantly surprised - they remind me of Liquorice All Sorts candy. :)

I also worked on making the rest of the pinwheel/hst blocks that I had planned for last week. I wanted a total of 12 blocks but had only managed to make four. That left 8 blocks still to make and I worked on these in stages over the past week. I had already gathered the scrappy bits I wanted to use and over a couple days I cut the pieces for the blocks. Thursday evening I started sewing them together and I challenged myself to see how long it would take for me to get all of the hsts sewn and pressed. I sometimes have a bit of trouble staying on task - there are just so many distractions. ;)

It took me about 1.5 hours but it was a fun little challenge for me. The only real problem I encountered was that I was a little over exuberant in my fabric selection and cutting and without paying attention I prepared enough for 10 blocks instead of the 8 I needed. I'll keep the extra parts together with the blocks because at this point I don't really know how many I will need. Even though I worked on Friday, I had hoped to finish up these blocks but I didn't get too much done before I ran out of steam. When I woke up this morning I stitched them up right away.

Eight more blocks finished

I see that I really should have used some pins when I sewed the blocks together. The centers are a little bit off - I hope the quilt police don't come knocking...they will certainly find many more infractions if they do a search! ;)

This block doesn't look difficult to make and it really isn't but I seem to get a bit bogged down with them. The biggest time consumer is finding the same scrappy strips in 2" and 3,5" so I took the suggestion from last week's comments to just cut whatever I needed from my larger scrappy pieces. I have plenty of chunks of fabric that are smaller than a fat quarter in my stash and using them would make things a lot easier and quicker too!

All of the brown blocks together. Tricky little devils....
I see that the block in upper right is oriented incorrectly!

Pop on over to soscrappy's and check out the links to see how other participants in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge used their scraps this week.