I'm so blue......

ONLY because this day is coming to an end WAY TOO FAST!!!

Between the trip to the Quilt Shop mid-morning and having to close up shop by 5:00 tonight to make it to Cassie's softball game in time and needing to feed the kids in the middle somewhere and a little bit of laundry and keeping the animals hydrated during this heat.......... I reallly was getting into a rhythm!

I LOVE that this month is BLUE for Angela's Rainbow Scrap Challenge!  I have so much blue!  And I have TIME on my hands this month to DO something with all that blue!  Whooo-hoooo :)  {{Did you catch that rhyme??}} :-)

Two of my ongoing Jack-in-the-Box blocks were pieced.... in blue :D

... and the matching blue "bonus" diamond squares.

I actually have a PLAN this year for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, and I'm LOVING the monthly suspense-----what color will be next?!!?!?  Hmmm....August..... I wonder if Angela will be following "time-of-year" colors..... maybe Orange??    

Anyway....back to blue!  

PSHT!  Not even a teeny dent in all my blue scraps/strips...

And didn't even look at my stack of blues on the shelf...

BUT!  I DID spy my Starstruck blocks on the shelf!  OUT THEY CAME :)

And those 2.5" strips of blues and neutrals were organized - cut - pieced - and prepped into enough units to create another 18 blocks.  And of COURSE, when working with 2.5" bricks utilizing the stitch-n-flip method, BONUS TRIANGLES will be made (upper right of photo).

As I was zooming the units back through the machine for the second stitching, Cassie was looking over my shoulder, asking what I was doing.  Educational moment!  I explained what I was doing, WHY I was doing it, and showed her the bonus triangles that get created. 

Earlier today, I had pulled these bonus triangles off the shelf to press and prep for a potential border for my Frost-25 quilt.  She saw them, pointed to them during this explanation and asked if those were bonus triangles.  To which I confirmed yes.  

and she said.....

"WOW!  That's a lot of fabric people waste if they don't double-sew them!"

:0)

Startin' 'em young 

So, off to bed in a bit.  The girls and I are heading out to my sister's house tomorrow; a 5-hour drive.  I plan to pack the Starstruck blocks and some Pineapple Blossom prepped units I've had sitting on my shelf for a couple of years.  In fact, the Pineapple Blossom units were cut and prepped when I was at my sister's house two summers ago.  I'll have to include this fact into the name of that quilt somehow.

Happy Monday night!