yellow and rainbow cats

I finished the yellow blocks for the rainbow scrap challenge this week!

#35

kiosk

#36

parking meters

#37

bookstore

#38

look both ways

#39

auditorium

Many of these used non-template construction, so they went much faster than some of the other color blocks.  But that last one...yikes!  Tiny, skinny, pointy pieces.  It came together okay, but I wish I hadn't cut the sciencey fabric upside down - if I'd paid a little more attention...but I didn't catch it until it was sewn and I wasn't un-sewing those tiny pointy pieces and doing it again!

Let's see them all together!

With all of these finished, I was free to find other projects.  In my last post, I'd mentioned about the cats for Emma's Plan.  I said I was going to make a few.  And then said I'd probably fail at restraining myself...

I started out thinking I'd make 30 cats.  That's enough for one quilt.  Maybe I'd even sew it together?  But then I started pulling fabrics and extra colors kept jumping into my piles.  I couldn't sew them all (they protested, though) and ended up with 40 fabrics.

I have no self control.

I had a chunk of white grunge left over from this month's UFO, so I thought that would be perfect.  I thought I had enough.

So I started cutting...

And then I started sewing...

And then math.  Failed.  I didn't have enough white.  I had to buy an extra quarter yard, but since I'd bought it locally, it wasn't hard to get more.  But it just made me angry.  Also, I cut some pieces wrong, so maybe I would have had enough if I hadn't done that.  (Probably not.)

So I have the cats mostly done and was hoping to mail them out today, but nope.  They're not done.

With this at a standstill, I decided to see what I could shake out of my stash for the hockey team quilts.  Would you believe I have NO gold?  The blocks should be greens, gold, black and white.  I managed to find some fabric that was kinda goldish tan and used that.  I made just four blocks and a friend also made four, so when I get the cats done, I'll pack everything up and head to the post office for just one trip.

Then I pulled a few more fabrics for another project that I'll share later...but I'll share the fabric pull!

(they look a little washed out in the photo, but the sun was shining yesterday and I'm not complaining!)

Today I spent most of my day sewing with my quilt guild.  Usually I only get to go on Saturdays and feel I'm missing so much.  It was fun to sew with them today and know I get to go back tomorrow!  We have a large stash of donated fabric (some nice, some not so nice) and a group has been working on cutting it into kits for a specific quilt.  A member found this quilt, called "Twist and Shout!" on Pinterest and shared it with us.  (This one has me a little worried the way it's shared on a blog, but it's a pretty slick way to get blocks on point...)  One of the tops:

These went together fairly well.  We had a few issues with getting strips sewn together correctly, due to a lacking design floor/wall, but it's a pretty nice pattern and, as you can see, turns into a nice size quilt even without borders.

We'll be back again tomorrow, sewing more!  They cut 17 kits and we finished tops 4 completely and have at least two more ready for slicing and dicing, plus about five more in progress.

And now back to the laundry...

Happy quilting!

Katie