Rainbow scrap challenge

 I have enjoyed the Rainbow scrap challenge from afar for the last 3(?) years or so vicariously through Cathy over at Crazy by Design  

I've even taken a stab at organizing and sewing a color-of-the-month block here and there.

I get distracted by all the other colors I have to play with, It will be a big challenge to keep to one color for a whole month. 

And who says I can't pay attention to one color for a whole month anyway?

Who says it has to be for a whole month?

To join or not to join..........

I do love a good challenge......

Rainbow quilts are so pretty....

I adore making scrap quilts anyway...

There is at least one gypsy quilt in the leftover block basket..

So what am I waiting for?

It's not like the scrap pile is getting any smaller.

So here it goes first up a few spinning spools. 

They are 4.5 x 6ish. These are nice and quick and use up just a little of the 1"-1 1/4" strips I have laying around. 

I may even shake it up and use more angular bits, after all, who's thread drawer is this neat? 

I will be making as many of these as I can stand over this year.

Its strange, I have this dearth of red in my may piles of scrap, 

I like red and thought for sure I would have had more.

Even after I made a red scrappy basket out of the little pieces!

It could be this is why I have washed out over the years

Because I have made a few scrap baskets, for my scraps in years past. 

These are great for all the little pieces you get after a big project 

and they are squishy enough you can nest them if they aren't too full, 

but boy do they chew up time in the making!

I only did one side on this one and it took a few hours of crumb catching, 

and if you are forcing yourself to sew something,

ANYTHING!

it will put one off making them for a while.

I also made some birdies with red breasts or wings or breasts and wings. 

These are fun little critters to make, but are really fiddly and have many moving parts to them.

In order for me to enjoy making them, I had to figure out a system to streamline the process, 

so I broke it down into 3 piles 

of breast and back wing, 

head and tail, 

and front wing

Then sew it together 4x4 and so on.

From there it got really simple and fun to mix and match, 

so I can make them as colorful or as tonal as I want!

As long as you have enough 2" squares to make them.....

some fresh white fat quarters were sacrificed to make these babies.

Viva la white fat quarters!