Sunday, April 14, 2013

Scrap Basket Sunday Block a Day

When one is retired and doesn't have to be somewhere everyday, one wakes up in the morning and thinks, "OK, today is Sunday, airport run."  Otherwise, one is surprised when DH says "you're taking me to the airport, aren't you?"  I love only leaving the place twice a week!

I'm also loving reading all the links on Kim's "Scrap Basket Sunday."

Scrap Basket Sunday

Even more, I'm loving playing in my own scrap basket!  Karen at Anna Lena Land sponsors a "block a day" challenge each season.  The idea is, even if you can't make a quilt each week, you can make one block a day!

The Spring Block a Day is the Chevron block.  Can't get much easier than this, and I love the results!  I'm doing mine in a rainbow arrangement, using all polka dots:


There will be 90 blocks, so I need nine rows of 10 each.  The Roy G Biv rainbow has only seven colors, so I'll add brown, black and grey.

Here are my other "Block a Day" quilts.

Bowtie:


Hourglass:


Flying in Squares (Flying Geese):


Tessellating Crosses:


Streaks of Lightning:



And my favorite quilt of all time, Summer Strings:


Wow!  I can't believe how many of Karen's Block a Day quilts I've made! That one block per day thing really works -- thanks, Karen!


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19 comments:

  1. They are all lovely but the summer strings is my favorite too!

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  2. Great idea to break a big project into smaller units and get it done. These are all great!

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  3. Ooooh I am particularly fond of that chevron project!

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  4. The quilts are all fabulous. Doing one block a day would be a good way to get them done. :o)

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  5. Fabby work indeed ... really REALLY like the citrus chevrons :)

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  6. Wow, what a good way to keep making progress!

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  7. Wow! Impressive! I really like the summer strings!

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  8. Yes, I think the summer strings is my favorite too. I'll need to try one of those someday! I love visiting everyone and getting inspiration like this. And your rainbow chevron looks like it's going to be great when you finish it too!

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  9. Agree - Summer stings is my favourite too! - must be the bright (summer) colours!!

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  10. Love the "Flying in Squares" quilt. Like the idea of brown, gray, black for the current Seasonal BOM.

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  11. Impressive and inspiring! I love the name of the quilt too.

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  12. I love the streaks of lightening and the hourglass!

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  13. Gorgeous! I love them all but Summer Strings is a real stunner.

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  15. What great accomplishments. I really like the bow tie and strings quilts. Thanks for sharing your awesome quilts.

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  16. I like the chevron pattern. Can't wait to see how that one turns out! And the summer strings is gorgeous. What am I talking about they're all gorgeous!!!

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  17. What a fun way to use up scraps. Such a great variety of patterns too.

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  18. I love the quilts you have completed in Karen's block a day challenge. I, too, love the string quilt.

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  19. Brilliant - what a great idea! Love what you have been doing with your blocks and scraps :-)

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