Upcoming Quilt Projects

As I noted in an earlier post, I signed up for Rachel Hauser’s “Scrap Cabin” quilt-along starting in January. (Her blog is Stitched in Color, and she is a really creative scrappy quilter.) I am in total love with Rachel’s border for this project and would probably make it based on that fact alone. BUT, this project will also chew up leftover cut fabric strips BIG TIME. I’ve been reorganizing my strips and am looking forward to using many of them up.

Some of you have also signed up for this project. Rachel’s first quilt was made from two analogous colors, blue and a pink/magenta.

For this sew-along, she is making blocks with complimentary colors–and here’s an example she gave.

I’ve been pondering what color to use for the “chimney” block at the center of these log cabin blocks, and I settled on this brick red. I like it, and I have enough of it in my stash. Rachel used a mustardy gold solid, which works well, but if I wanted to make a set of blocks using gold/yellow, Rachel’s color wouldn’t work well. This brick red might not work with clear red strips, but I will have to see what those colors do with each other–adding in the idea that alongside a red would be some other color as well–which could “buffer” the brick red. I call that…creative play.

Here are the first colors I’m going to use: blueberry and lime green/pickle. And I’m testing out the block right now to see how that goes. Of course I am! I mean, the design wall isn’t nearly full enough, LOL.

Tara Faughnan’s Block Studies 2 online class will release a new project January 1st. Meanwhile, I hung one of the “Abstractions” pieces I installed over stretched canvas on the wall in my quilt room–next to the Maria Shell inspired project that a local quilter here taught us (Cathy Beemer) in our Charleston Modern Group’s monthly Sit and Sew. “Abstractions” is a bit like this Maria Shell style. I suspect I will hang more pieces made in upcoming months on this wall. I couldn’t part with this “Abstraction” piece.

Then there are those potholders… They are now calling my name, LOL.

Here we go into another week, into another year!