2025 Rainbow Scrap Challenge Quilts

For the 2025 Rainbow Scrap Challenge, I have finished two quilts, Log Cabin Variation Quilt and a Nine Patch Baby Quilt.    The Log Cabin Variation Quilt is going to a dear friend who is going through cancer and I will donate the Nine Patch Quilt locally.   I actually managed to quilt them both on my Pfaff sewing machine with wavy lines.   I am proud of that!

 

 

 I wanted to share some pictures of a quilt that I made for a friend.  She is going through her chemo after finishing Radiation treatment for some tumors in her brain.  This a quilt that I made from Jo's Country Junction pattern.   I just love Jo Kramer.  She is the best at scraps quilts.  I named the quilt "Stay Positive".

 

 I have some friends that are going onto the Missions Field full time later this year.   This is the quilt I made for them.  Henry cat # 3 is helping me.

 

 

Here is a sweet cute baby quilt that I made for a friend who moved away.  She just had her second baby, a little boy.  This is absolutely my most favorite Baby Quilt that I have ever made.    Sukie cat # 2 is helping.  It's from Maple Cottage Designs.  It's called "Illuminate".  I loved the pattern so much that I bought the same charm pack to make it.

 

 

 

 

 

 Thought I would share some pictures of some donation quilts that I have made.  Sometimes I piece a top and then send it off to some fantastic people that finish it up and donate it.  Sometimes I finish a quilt and donate here to Sumter Pregnancy Center.

 

Here are some quilt tops that I sent away:

 I send these two tops to Kat & Cat Quilts, for Covered in Love.

I send these to Cynthia at Quilting is More Fun than Housework:

 

Here are some quilts that I finished up myself and took to the Pregnancy Center:

 

  I really do take the worst pictures.  I get so impatient that I just throw the quilt on the floor in the foyer and take the pictures.   The last quilt is my favorite 3 yard quilt pattern for a donation quilt.  It is fabric of Sleeping Beauty and so cute!

 

 Small Kitty quilt that I finished up.

Trying to break free from Quilting inertia.   I've lost my sewing mojo a bit.   I finished 10 quilts in 2024 for the local pregnancy center.   I'm so happy that I met that goal.  But every since the Holidays ended.   I just haven't felt up to sewing.   I sewed the kitty back in October.   But I was able to quilt it and get it on the wall before Valentine's Day. 

 I am happy to show my Rainbow scrap finishes for 2024. 

Here they are:

I made three quilt tops.   You can see Henry helping me take pictures in the first picture!   I talked to my girls and I decided which tops to donate and which ones to keep.   I decided to keep the Easy Breezy/ Star Blocks top.   The Hollow Nine Patch was lots of fun to sew, but I can't keep them all!   The third quilt is a small potato chip block called a Box Block.   They are all so colorful.  

I have been diligently sewing many baby quilts to donate to my local Pregnancy Center this summer.     I have almost met my goal of ten quilts.   I have two more to go.   Sewing the quilts has always been my favorite part, so quilting  eight baby quilts with some straight quilting has really improved my quilting skills.   I am feeling much more confident to quilt my own quilts.   My Free Motion Quilting Skills still need much improvement.

Here are a few pictures of some the quilts I made and donated:    The two color blue and green baby quilt was one of my favorites:

 I finished one quilt from my Rainbow Scrap Challenge Quilt Blocks for 2023.  I made a scrappy Bear Paw Quilt.

 

 

 

I got so excited that I have already made a hanging sleeve and it is now in the living room on the wall.   Forgive my terrible picture, I have an old phone with a not so great camera.

I decided to limited the amount of blocks I make for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge for 2024, so I won't get overwhelmed.  So I only work on three different blocks this year.

I have been doing some Christmas sewing.

Diann from Little Penguin Quilts posted a Christmas project that she completed.  A JOY banner.

https://littlepenguinquilts.blogspot.com/2023/11/midweek-update_21.html

 

I really liked it and decided to make it myself.  I decided to turn the letters horizontally instead of vertically.   I made two different sizes for gifts.  I also decided to just use the method to not have to bind the little quilts.

I think I may need to make one for myself!! I think I like the smallest one the best.

 

 

 Just wanted to post the quilts that I and my daughter entered in the Sumter County Fair.    My daughter Brenna won Best in Show for Youth!

She was so proud and excited!

I entered my Scaredy Cat Quilt (Halloween Quilt) and a Christmas Quilt

I got a third place ribbon on the Scaredy Cat Quilt!

I have completed two Christmas Quilts to go on their beds for Daughter # 2 and Daughter # 3.  I am still working on the firstborn's quilt.  I had a mixed up with ordering the wrong border fabric and now I am still waiting to get the correct fabric and December is two days away!  ARGH

I also wanted to mentioned that Cynthia from Quilting is more fun than Housework mentioned two of my charity quilts on her blog.

https://quiltingismorefunthanhousework.blogspot.com/2023/11/a-compassion-quilt-parade.html

A Look Back...

I wanted to post a few pictures from the 2022 Sumter County Fair.  I entered a quilt in the Fair and so did my youngest daughter, Brenna.   Brenna won Best in Show for Youth Quilts. 

 

 

I entered the Halloween Hoopla Quilt that I made.  I didn't win a ribbon.  The 2023 Sumter County Fair is coming up in October and we plan on entering more quilts.

The Summer is winding down and though I have been sewing, there aren't many pictures to share.    I have been sewing charity quilt tops and forgot to take pictures before I sent them out.   I decided that this year I would sew Christmas quilts for all the girls.   I have finished two so far and am waiting on getting them back from my long arm quilter, Joanne, and I will start piecing Kieran's Christmas quilt this month.

Kieran, my oldest daughter and I collaborated on making a quilt for her good friend Liz.   Liz loves all things green, so Kieran and I picked out the pattern and the fabric.   Then Kieran started her Occupational Therapy Program at South University and I had to take over the sewing and finished it up.   It is Bonnie Hunter's Pineapple Blossom pattern.   Here is a terrible picture - Somehow it was the only picture I got of it before it left to go to it's new owner:

The Sumter County Fair is coming up in October and youngest daughter, Brenna is working on getting her quilt finished.   I have finished piecing my Halloween quilt and now I am just waiting to get it back from my good friend who is quilting it.

Rachelle sent me a picture of it all loaded up.  :)

Jo from Jo's Country Junction blogged on a two quilt tops that I sent to Cathy (Crazy by Design) for the charity, Quilts for Kids.   Cathy always does an amazing job of quilting and binding the quilts.

 The Scrappy Nine Patch Plus Fun quilt is a quilt pattern from Jo Kramer.  It was featured in a McCall's Quick Quilts magazine and much bigger.  I made a lot of blocks and ended up making two smaller quilts for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge last year.   My favorite quilt of all the tops I sewed last year! 

I love nine patch blocks.   I am always looking for scrappy quilt patterns where I can sew 2" squares.  I love sewing up my overflowing bucket of 2" squares.

http://www.joscountryjunction.com/community-quilts-from-cathy-5/

This year I wanted to focus on sewing quilt tops and donating them to different charities.   Though I have sewed a few in the past to help with a quilt guild, I really wanted to use up some beautiful fabric and make something and pass it on to help others.   I have read many many blogs where lots of wonderful people participate and it's time to give back.  I have come to the realization that it's pointless to just save fabric for "someday", when it is better to sew with it and enjoy it and pass it on.   I certainly have enough quilts around here!

I got a blurb and a photo from Cynthia at Quilting is more fun that housework, Make sure to see the beautiful vintage tablecloth that she used as backing.  It would have never occurred to me to use a tablecloth as a backing!!

 

https://quiltingismorefunthanhousework.blogspot.com/2023/04/turning-tops-into-quilts.html

2022 Rainbow Scrap Challenge tops completed!

This year I decided to sew 9 patch blocks with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  I had other blocks I was also sewing, but after March I gave up.  I decided to sew at least 17 blocks of each color so I could make a big quilt.  I decided to only have rainbow colors, no gray, black or browns.   I had also sewed neutral 9 patch blocks to go with the rainbow blocks.  But once I laid out the quilt to sew it, I felt like it was just way too busy.   So I cut up some 5" neutral squares and it calmed things down.  I ended up sewing a bigger throw size and had plenty left over to make a baby quilt.

I will probably keep the bigger quilt and donate the little baby quilt.   My oldest likes the bigger one and you know how it goes when a family member likes a quilt top!

 Charity Quilts Finished

 

I have some happy news, the Circle of Stars quilt I donated to Cathy for Quilts for Kids was quilted and featured on her blog, Crazy by Design. https://cathyscrazybydesign.blogspot.com/2022/10/chasing-squirrels.html

It looked so great!  I like it so much more now that it is quilted.  Here is a picture of it:

Cathy had also quilted the little sister to this quilt, Rectangles (because I used up the scraps from it).  Here is that one:

I somehow like both of them so much better now that they are quilted.  I also got to finally donate some quilt tops.   I think we all have so much fabric and a wonderful hobby, it's always good to do good for others.  Share our blessings!

In the Circle of Stars quilt, I originally made it for husband, but it didn't exactly turn out like I thought it would.   It is really bright and colorful (which I love), but somehow I thought it was missing something.  I think since it was all made from a fat quarter bundle of tone on tone,  it is missing some visual texture.  Such a nit picky thing to say!  Or, it could be that since I really love scrappy quilts, I was missing the dorky homemade look that I am used to!  haha.

 So I bought the cutest little Eco Pouches from Bonnie Hunter.   One of them was this cute little Patchwork Kitty pouch.   I really like it.  Then my middle daughter, Devaney saw it and challenged me to reproduce it and make one myself.  So I did!  Then the youngest said that the Quilt Block would make a great pillow.  So here is it is:

 I finished my Rainbow Scrap Challenge Quilt from 2020 some time ago and it's been hanging up in my living room for a while.   I forgot to post about it.  This is the first Rainbow Scrap Challenge Quilt that I have done, and it happened during 2020, The year of Covid, but more hard hitting for me, was that in May of 2020, my mother fell and broke her knee and wrist (actually her dog ran into and knocked her over!).   It was a very difficult summer.  I had to move in with mom for 2 months while she was recovering in a wheel chair and later with a walker then a cane.   I vividly remember sewing these blocks together during June and July.  The good news of course, is that my mom made a complete recovery and fortunately, she lives very close to me in the same town, so I could go and see my husband and kids frequently during the time she was recovering.  

I love the quilt now and I am happy that I finished it.  It is a pattern from Melissa Cory.  I think it's called Scraptastic Stars.

 

 

 I thought I would post the 3 quilts that I finished for my nieces and nephew.  Sorry the pictures are not that good.

This is for my sister's new little baby girl, Evelyn:

This is for my 5 year old niece Malloy and her brother Reid who is 6:

 It took over a year, but at last I finished Devaney's Graduation Quilt.   I started it when she graduated from High School, and finished it when she graduated from Massage Therapy School.   She was really excited about it and asked for a green border.   There are over 530 circles in the quilt!  It's a pattern from Laundry Basket Quilts.

 For the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2022, I am only doing two projects.  There are so many choices, but I think the narrowing down to two projects makes it seems like I can accomplish it.

My two projects are the Star and Crown Blocks and a Plus Fun Nine patch quilt from Jo's Country Junction.

I am making 17 nine patch block each month for the new colors.  I made 17 red nine patches and over did it with 20 aqua nine patches.