I am adding a third challenge to the other two – my own self-imposed “Quilting from Little Things”, and the “Farmer’s Wife 1930s” QAL at the Quilting Board here
The third challenge is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge Sampler (RSC15) by Angela over at Soscrappy complete with button to add to your blog. The block is based around a sawtooth star with a different inner block for each star. The colour for August is indigo – a colour I love but actually have very little of. Some blues look indigo until you put them next to each other and some then appear to have a greenish hue.
I couldn’t use Soscrappy’s method of making flying geese as I don’t have the appropriate ruler so I used the second method from Connecting Threads here
They went together easilyand I set to work on the inner square which is the Road to California, which also went together well. The problems arose when I went to join them all – the inner block was bigger than the geese! Measuring the seams of the inner block showed that they were smaller than a quarter inch, hence the block was bigger. A close inspection of my quarter inch piecing foot showed that it was slightly bent inwards! How annoying as I can’t do anything about it until Monday. The foot came with my new sewing machine from Franklins in Colchester so not too far to travel to get a replacement.
I will just have to make notes for the previous squares as the challenge started in January so I have a lot of catching up to do. As I don’t have any completed blocks you can see what they should look like courtesy of Kat Scribner who has a very useful list showing all the blocks completed so far on her blog Scrapbox Quilts
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