Friday, February 26, 2016

RSC16 week 9

BROWN GOES OUT WITH A BANG!

Why has the shortest month seemed like the longest?  I think the five Saturdays have had a lot to do with it, especially being Brown Month.  
However, I've managed to come up with a colorful ending for it.

My actual production this month has been mainly two RSC 9-inch blocks and four Modern HST Sampler 12-inch blocks, finished size.

Here is the fourth block for MHSQ, Stepping Stones, finished this week.


We had the choice of how to make the six HSTs. I chose to use the Easy Eight method with two blocks left over.  It is the fastest and easiest method and has two sides on grain.  I also picked up a couple of tips that made it faster, squaring the blocks before pressing them open and sliding the ruler to cut only one side.  Cutting one instead of four sides was a real time saver.   Those tips were found in other posts and I'm sorry I don't recall where, so I cannot give them the credit they deserve.

Here are the six blocks total, involving lots of work, ripping and learning.  I guess the learning is worth the aggravation.


So for a change I have been working on some other projects.  
The first is an Easy Zippered Pouch, a tutorial at The Renegade Seamstress.  It is only 6 x 8 inches with a 7-inch zipper.  I found the zipper in my zipper stash. I'm sure everyone has one of those!  I found the scrap of brown for the outside and a fat quarter for the lining, and cut them out today, my last chance at brown.


The other project is 16-patches, which are 10.5 inches.  Two of them, the blue and the lime, resulted from not wanting to waste two experiments I was unhappy with.  




For my final brown block I wanted it bright.  No more dull colors for this rainbow gal, so here is my interpretation of brown with pizazz!


So let's look forward with excitement to March and new colors and spring. (Thanks to WENDY for supplying us with flowers from her mum's gorgeous garden in New Zealand this week.)

I link up with RSC16 at soscrappy and Sew Cute Tuesday at Blossom Heart Quilts.

15 comments:

  1. yes!! Brown with pizazz, and it is!

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  2. You are SEW right. That final BROWN block is AWESOME!! (As are ALL of the blocks that you have sewn this month.)

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  3. Love the bugs on brown...VW bugs, that is. What a wonderful collection of blocks!

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  4. Pizazz is right!
    I love all your blocks, but especially the pizazzy one!

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  5. .....squeal.......I LOVE that lime green block! They are all great, but that one really spoke to me!!

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  6. Great batch of blocks! Love your 16 patches with pizazz!

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  7. You gotta love pizazz! Even at my age I like a game of I Spy in a quilt.

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  8. Great blocks. Happy to see the green! I am tired of brown, and want spring to get here as soon as possible. That green looks so bright and happy, like spring!

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  9. Well you've definitely had fun sparking up the brown. Great blocks.

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  10. Those HST blocks look great! It looks like you are enjoying them!

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  11. your brown blocks work well an the blossom heart one is lovely, interested in you mentioning squaring up the block before pressing will try that. I so agree Wendy`s photos were so lovely like her stitching it is one of my favourite blogs.Re february seeming long what a good month 5 pension payments as 5 mondays

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  12. You have some nice wonderful and bright blocks. I am looking forward to the next color as well. It's almost like Christmas once a month when we anxiously await for the next color to be revealed! I guess only a quilter would say that!

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  13. Love the cars in the block with Pizzaz! Great job working through the browns.

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  14. The zippered pouch is going to be delightful, I love those two prints together. And hurray for brown with pizzazz!

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  15. Hee hee, I hope we all like the new colour as much as we hope we will LOL

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