blue - week 1

A new year, a new list of projects!

On the 1st, I found out early that the Rainbow Scrap Challenge color of the month is blue.  I was kinda hoping to hear early what the UFO number was so I could choose what to do on my last day off, but let's be honest...I was really looking for a reason to procrastinate starting Patchwork City!  It intimidates me a little - templates? 75 blocks?  Ugh!

But I dug in.  It's not gonna get made if I don't make it, right?

So Monday last week, I made two blocks.

Block #1: mixed use

This one went together fairly easily.  Choosing the fabrics was probably the hardest part.

But hedgehog!

Then there was Block #2: roadblock

Holy Moses!  Templates - a rather new thing for me. Bias pieces - not exactly my strong suit. Matching angled points - gaaaaaaahhhhh!  So this one was a LOT harder than the first.  But it doesn't look too bad.

And science!

But that ended my holiday sewing.

During the week I worked on binding "Nope" -  it's done now, but hand-sewing has come to a standstill due to a crack in my thumb...ah the joys of being a lab tech in the winter!

I did find out the UFO number for the month and it's just (ha ha ha ha) a single block for Arcadia Avenue.  With about 65 pieces in each block, it will take a while.  Plus paper piecing.  But that's probably a good project for my guild's Saturday sew-in.  So a little more procrastination there.

So this morning...well...afternoon...after thawing cold water pipes to the washing machine (did I mention it's been in the single digits here for HIGH temps the last few weeks? we rejoiced at a high of 18 the other day...that's Fahrenheit, folks!), the kitchen sink (multi-use hair dryer to the rescue!) and finally getting those chores needing water going/done as well as a few others, I could start sewing.

Now we have #3: food truck

(I wish now, I'd fussy cut the cat with his paw in the fish tank from that cat fabric - seems much more fitting for a block with this name.)

And #4: stripey socks

(with something of a fail at trying to fussy cut strips...)

Then #5: sidewalk

And finally, because I talked myself into doing just one more, #6: fortune cookies

Another with templates (those quarter-square triangles are template-cut and not as hard as the previous block with templates, but silly Katie realized there were corner points to match AFTER sewing a bunch of pieces together...they're close enough - I'm not gonna rip), and probably a good place to stop.

I have three more "assigned" for blue this month and they're the largest of the blocks and look a bit more involved, but it's only weekend #1, so I've got plenty of time to procrastinate.

I've also been sewing tiny wonky stars as leader/ender blocks while making Patchwork City blocks.  No photos, but I've got probably 200 of those (and failed to mention them in my 2017 roundup).  It's slow-going there, too, but going and that's the important part.

Time to go fold the last load of laundry and see if the hubby wants me to make him some dinner...

Happy quilting!

Katie