RSC August

I made my aqua blocks back in April! So I spent this month working on my white/cream snowball blocks for my 2025 RSC quilt. Plus, I made 4 scrap quilts for Bundles of Love. I tried to lean into "aqua" baby quilts, but sometimes color sneaks in!

I debated if I should make all the snowball corners one solid black fabric. Then it occurred to me, this is the Rainbow SCRAP Challenge--make them scrappy! ⤵️

RSC 💜 Jelly Roll Drag Race

Purple is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge color for July. I'm using my scrap 2 1/2" strips to make baby-sized jelly roll "drag race" quilts! This month my scrap drawer held enough for one!

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RSC 💜 July

The July Rainbow Scrap Challenge is purple. I'm working on a 9-patch & snowball quilt for the RSC in 2025, inspired by Saija's quilt, here, who was inspired by Blue Elephant Stitches here!!! I made ten purple 9-patch blocks for July:

Here are close-ups of my 10 purple blocks. I have repeats from block to block, due to not having a lot of purple, but I didn't repeat within each block. Let me know if our "collections" cross!

RSC🧡 Jelly Roll Drag Race

Orange is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge color for June. I'm using my scrap 2 1/2" strips to make baby-sized jelly roll "drag race" quilts! This month my scrap drawer held enough for two!!!

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Baby🧡Quilts + Extended Width Pantograph

One of my favorite parts of quilting is cutting up fabric! I just got my Famore 60mm rotary cutter from Linda's and I love it! That, plus the Stripology Ruler, makes cutting fabric fast and fun!!! I went through some of my scraps recently and cut them up. I'm using my favorite Villa Rosa Designs pattern--Honey Bouquet, and have downsized it here to baby quilt size.

Here are 3 that have orange in them, for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge color of the month, orange!!!

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RSC 🧡 June

The June Rainbow Scrap Challenge is orange. I'm working on a nine-patch and snowball quilt for the RSC in 2025, inspired by Saija's quilt, here. Saija was inspired by Blue Elephant Stitches, here!!! I made nine orange 9-patch blocks for June:

Check out these close-ups of my 9-patches and let me know if you have any of the same prints:

RSC💚Jelly Roll Drag Race

Green is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge color for May. I'm using my scrap 2 1/2" strips to make baby-sized jelly roll "drag race" quilts! This month my scrap drawer held enough for three!!!

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Baby💚Quilts

One of my favorite parts of quilting is cutting fabric up! Especially nowadays, with large 60mm rotary cutters and the Stripology Ruler for making cutting fabric fast and fun!!! I went through some of my scraps recently and cut them up. I'm using my favorite Villa Rosa Designs pattern--Honey Bouquet, and have downsized it here to baby quilt size.

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RSC💚May

The May Rainbow Scrap Challenge is green. I'm working on a nine-patch and snowball quilt for the RSC in 2025, inspired by Saija's quilt, here. Saija was inspired by Blue Elephant Stitches, here!!! I made 10 light/bright green 9-patch blocks for May:

Check out these close-ups of my 9-patches and let me know if you have any of the same prints:

RSC❤️🩵Jelly Roll Drag Race

The April Rainbow Scrap Challenge is red. I'm including teal, turquoise and aqua! IYKYK! These are my jelly roll race baby quilts for April!!!

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RSC🩵April

Red is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge color for April. I'm going for teal, turquoise and aqua! IYKYK!!!

I'm working on a nine-patch and snowball quilt for the RSC in 2025, inspired by Saija's quilt, here. Saija was inspired by Blue Elephant Stitches, here!!!

Check out these close-ups of my 9-patches and let me know if you have any of the same prints!

RSC 💛 Jelly Roll Drag Race

This year, for Rainbow Scrap Challenge, I'm making jelly roll race baby quilts for Bundles of Love, a local charity that delivers bundles of newborn items to families in need. 

March is the yellow month for RSC, a lesser used color in my collection. Still, I had enough strips to put together 2 baby quilts!

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RSC 💙 Jelly Roll Drag Race

 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. February is blue, so I gathered the blue strips, which is my most used color, and started sewing them end to end. 

I'm making jelly roll race baby quilts for Bundles of Love, a local charity that delivers bundles of newborn items to families in need. They request baby quilts to be 35" to 40" wide and 40" to 50" long. I shoot for the largest size, 40" x 50", knowing they will shrink a bit with quilting and washing.

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RSC💙February

 I'm working on a nine-patch and snowball quilt for the RSC in 2025, inspired by Saija's quilt, here. Saija was inspired by Blue Elephant Stitches, here!!!

Blue is the color for February. I am trying to keep it light and bright, like Saija's quilt. 

RSC🩷January

I have another RSC project I'm doing in 2025, related to using up my scrap jelly roll strips. It's a nine-patch and snowball quilt, inspired by Saija's quilt, here. Saija was inspired by Blue Elephant Stitches, here!!!

🌈RSC Finish x 6

I didn't set out to finish 6 baby quilts in 6 days, but that's exactly what happened! 

RSC Quilt #1:

Pattern: Hope Takes Flight from Robert Kaufman

RSC 🩷 Jelly Roll Drag Race

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. 

Sayonara 2024🐉 , Yōkoso 2025🐍

Farewell 2024! Welcome 2025!!! Here is a Grace and Peace Quilting review of 2024, and a preview of what's to come in 2025!

First of all, in 2024, I quilted 159 quilts total, 69 for others, and 90 of my own.

Of my own 90 quilts, here's the breakdown:

🌈RSC Orange🧡

August's Rainbow Scrap Challenge color is orange!

This year I'm making butterflies from my spare stash of 5" squares! I'm using the Hope Takes Flight free pattern. Here are close-ups of my orange blocks:

🌈RSC Aqua🦋

July's Rainbow Scrap Challenge color is aqua!

This year I'm making butterflies from my spare stash of 5" squares! I'm using the Hope Takes Flight free pattern. Here are close-ups of my aqua blocks: