Friday, January 17, 2025

Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2025

For 2025, I'm working on whittling down my 2 1/2" scrap strips drawer. This calls for a serious attack, as my drawer is at overflow level! I started by sorting all the strips by color. January is pink, so I gathered the pink strips and decided to make jelly roll race quilts. I'm making them in baby size, for donating to Bundles of Love, a local charity that delivers bundles of newborn items for families in need. They request baby quilts to be 35" to 40" wide and 40" to 50" long. 
I started out with a 29 yard length of pink scrap jelly roll strips sewn together to get my desired size of 40" x 50". There are a number of videos online that show how to make a jelly roll race quilt, if you're not familiar with it. After sewing the strip in half, and half again, etc., I stopped when I had a length that was 8 strips tall. I cut off three 40" lengths, and sewed them together, adding in one more strip, to get 25 strips in length = 50".

I had plenty of pink strips leftover, so I made a second one. I was a little short for the second quilt, so using my Stripology Ruler, I cut a few more strips from scraps. 
I quilted them one after the other with backing fabric I bought in the half price section at Wildflower, a LQS.⤴️
I used two different quilting designs on them, as it's more fun! And it's a chance for me to try out different quilt designs. I quilted the first one with Rosette ⤴️ from Digital Longarm.
I quilted the second one with Freemotion Texture 1 ⤴️ from Sew Shabby Quilting.
I'm also working on putting together my RSC butterfly blocks from 2024. The pattern I used was Hope Takes Flight, a free pattern from Robert Kaufmann. It's a super clever pattern that uses one colored charm square and one white charm square, plus black for the body of the butterfly. I made 128 blocks during 2024.
I'm making baby quilts out of them. Each quilt uses 23 blocks, which gave me 5 quilt tops with 13 blocks leftover. I made 10 more blocks to make it an even 6 baby quilt tops. I've got the tops assembled now and will start quilting them. Here are two of them on my design wall.⤴️ 

I've got one more plan for the RSC for 2025, but I'll cover that on another day. Linking up with all the other Rainbow Scrap Challengers on Saturday, at So Scrappy.

Grace and peace!!! ~Nancy

40 comments:

  1. I love this idea! The pink quilts look terrific!

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  2. Nancy those pink stripes are perfect. Great quick way to get through the scraps, try out new quilting patterns and give back. You are a rockstar!!

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  3. Nice job. I like both the pink jellyroll quilts and the butterfly tops. Thanks for sharing in TGIFF.

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  4. Your pink strippy quilt looks great. I love how all the different tones and shades work so well together. Great idea!

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  5. Cute pink jelly roll quilts and interesting quilting motifs. The butterfly blocks also look lovely and you will have lots of negative space to show off the quilting.

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  6. Wow you used all your pink leftover bindings, good for you! And your butterflies turn into 5 quilts, you go girl!!

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  7. As always, fabulous quilts for a great cause. PS: I love all the pillows on the bed where you displayed your Jelly Roll Race baby quilts. A fun bunch of pillows! ❤️🩷

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  8. I've been so impressed with the pinks I've seen of all of you doing the RSC, and yours might be the prettiest (shhhh!)

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  9. Your pink jelly roll quilts are adorable! They're going to be loved. And look at those butterflies, too. They're making a beautiful design!

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  10. Nice work. It's always fun to see how you quilt them. Also...I think everyone has better scraps than I do! 😄

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  11. I have never heard of a Jelly Roll Race quilt before. OK, I never have and can't imagine ever buying a jelly roll. Nor do I have a stash of 2.5" strips. However, I frequently use the technique of randomly piecing strips of various lengths together and sewing them into strata. So, I suppose I am on a jelly roll race.

    Your two pink quilts are fun. The recipient, no doubt, will enjoy checking out all the different fabrics. Love that you tried out two different quilt motifs on them.

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  12. Beautiful quilts !!!
    Have a nice weekend !
    Anna

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  13. You sure do have more pink scraps than I do. These are lovely. Love the butterfly ones too. The layout is very modern. Love it. Enjoy! ;^)

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  14. I don't think I have ever heard of a Jelly Roll Race quilt before, it looks like fun! Yours are beautiful, lovely pink strips. The pantos are perfect too, happy little quilts!
    Wow, stunning setting for your butterflies blocks, they are like a flock in flight!
    Thank you so much for sharing, lot of inspiration here!

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  15. Impressive that you had that many pink strips to make two baby quilts! I love your butterfly tops. Your setting is stunning!--TerryK@OnGoingProjects

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  16. I've never done a jelly roll race quilt, your two pink ones look lovely. And snap....I've got RSC butterfly blocks to work with, one day......

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  17. Your jelly roll race quilt is perfect in pink. It's such a fun way to use those strips. I still get a lot of sweet comments on my Christmas Jelly Roll quilt. My son still uses it.

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  18. Great way to tame your pink strips! Nice job on the quilting too. Gail at the cozy quilter

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  19. Great Jelly Roll Race quilts and a great way to help a charity! Your RSC Butterfly blocks are so sweet and those quilts will definitely make so many cheery donations as well. Your RSC year is off to a great start!

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  20. These are great donation quilts. Love the butterfiles.

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  21. This is just great! Great idea, great scraps, great quilting, and great place to donate the quilts!

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  22. Boy! I'll say you have a lot of strips! Coming up with so many pink ones is quite impressive. My little container of a six stack of strips doesn't begin to compare. Maybe you've been a jelly-roll purchaser in the past? I've never bought a jelly roll in my life. Though I did participate in a jelly roll race. Fun, though I was a big loser! :-) Love that texture quilting designs. You have so many good quilting options at your fingertips. The butterfly design is a fun one, and even more enjoyable because it was free, right? You're making lovely things, and bless you for doing so for charity.

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  23. Two finished quilts for 2025 already. That is amazing! Love the texture of the quilting, especially on the second quilt. The butterflies are lovely. I had to laugh when you tried to make a quilt to use up all the strips and then had to make more strips to finish off the second quilt. And so the cycle continues!

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  24. Lovely pinks!! And those butterflies will delight the little ones.

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  25. Great job on the jelly roll quilts. I doubt I have that many 2.5" strips in any one color...although I could slice up some fabric. I'll keep plugging along on my current projects and UFOs. Have a great week.

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  26. What a great way to use up all those strips and create wonderful quilts.
    The butterfly quilts look lovely as well. Wow, six altogether! Amazing.

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  27. Those pink scrappy quilts came together quickly! I love the butterfly quilts, too, and it will be fun to see them quilted up!

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  28. Those pink strips made wonderful Jelly Roll Race quilts. Last one I made was all from purples and quite fun to do. I added random lime green squares in between strips. It was for my niece's daughter for graduation and she loved it.

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  29. Nice job. I should really do a round of quick scrappy quilts after I'm done with my current project.

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  30. I love how both of those quilt designs look...I think rosette might be my fave tho. That's a fun one. Do you find the Stripology ruler worth it? Just curious. I like to make my own strips sometimes, just don't do it often.

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    1. The Stripology Ruler is definitely worth it! Make a GE Designs quilt pattern using the Stripology Ruler and you'll get more comfortable using it. I use mine pretty much every day.

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  31. Wowee! Look at you go. You had a great week with two finishes to prove it! Those butterfly quilts will surely make someone happy once they're finished up too. Have a great week!

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  32. Your pink quilts are so pretty! Some little girls are going to be so happy to receive them. Thanks for sharing on my weekly show and tell, Wednesday Wait Loss.
    https://www.inquiringquilter.com/questions/2025/01/22/wednesday-wait-loss-416

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  33. The different strip lengths really make this design sparkle! Great idea to tame those scraps

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  34. Jelly rolls are fun. I only have 1 gallon zipper bag of strips. I've been thinking of seeing what size jelly roll quilt I can make out of them.

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    1. To estimate how big a jelly roll quilt I could make, I laid my strips out on my 36" cutting board, overlapping 1/4" on both ends. Twenty-nine yards gave me enough for a baby quilt.

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  35. Quilting the two quilts with different motifs was a great way to differentiate them. Looks like you have been busy and having fun quilting this month!

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  36. What fun RSC jelly roll quilts, Nancy. And, I LOVE the butterfly quilts! Thanks for joining us at Monday Musings!

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  37. Si nice baby quilts with stripes or butterfly! They give joy!

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  38. Those 2 pink baby quilts are just lovely, what a gorgeous thing for someone to receive in a bundle of baby supplies. I bet they are treasured forever.

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