July Rainbow Scraps

I didn’t do any work on my two RSC projects during July but caught up this week.

How I love turquoise! My main project this year is the Lego bricks blocks, two of each colour. Once I make the orange ones for August, I’ll have enough to put the quilt top together.

Because I started my second project, Strippy Stars, a few months into 2024, I’m playing catch-up with a few of the colours. This week I decided to do a red one. I am so happy to report that my red strips are nearly depleted!

Clearly I have work to do with the pink strips

I still have to make a purple star and of course orange for August and then these blocks will be ready to turn into a top!

Right now, the plan is to give both of these rainbow quilts to a Ronald McDonald house. You can find the free pattern to make your own Strippy Stars quilt here. Anne-Marie of Stories from the Sewing Room is making my pattern for her RSC this year too! Seeing hers inspired me to make another, this time with light and dark grey squares in the corners and the star points on black. It creates pretty cool secondary patterns.

If you follow me on Instagram, you will have seen my monarch butterfly ‘nursery’ posts. I am thrilled that the milkweed plant I bought this year seems to be in a better spot and has attracted a few caterpillars. Two days ago, they all disappeared, and I was pretty worried, but hoping they were somewhere safe to pupate. Well today, when I wasn’t even looking, just breathing in a beautiful day, I spied one pupa in a cedar tree near the milkweed. What a feat for this caterpillar to have found its way there.

I have turned off comments as this is purely an FYI and amazing Mother Nature post.☺️🐛