A Rainbow Day

There was plenty of hand-sewing to keep me busy yesterday, but I wanted to make April's blocks for this year's Rainbow Scrap Challenge quilt too. April's color is pink, and so I started my sewing day choosing pink scraps in dark and medium values. Smitty was my helper cat in the sewing room. He takes great pride in his work, and it fulfills him.

He can't imagine a more gratifying job than being a sewing cat. His tail is his most important tool. Here, he demonstrates how to most efficiently take advantage of this purrticular talent exclusive to most cats. Sadie lacks this ability. He wants to make sure you to know that.

With his help, I chose pinks for three more blocks.

When they were sewn together, they looked like this:

Here are all the blocks I have for this quilt so far. 

Back upstairs, I took the first stitches in the binding for the Charm Stars quilt. This is where Sadie shines as my helper cat. You know how quilts try to jump off your lap when you're hand-stitching? Sadie holds them down so they can't get too crazy.

She likes to get up close and very purrsonal when she works. She would also like to point out that having no tail is an advantage for this kind of work.

With such a good helper, I was able to turn the first two corners on the binding. 

Usually, I'd say I have only a small part done, although half the corners are done. In this case, I'm actually about halfway around the quilt. I'm hoping to finish it off today.

In other slow-stitching, I filled the first hoop on this Heartland Barns center panel. Now I've moved my hoop to the right, and I'll start on the house...or maybe it's a barn...I forget.

And while I was doing that, the day was ending as it began...with a rainbow.

It was weird spring weather yesterday, with a little of everything. We often get days like that in the Pacific Northwest. We had high winds and rain in the morning, then some hail, and finally, some sunshine at the end.

Today I'll keep working away at my quilt binding. If I make my way into the sewing room, I'm going to sandwich the Posies quilt for quilting. It's a small quilt, and so I can do it on my work table in the sewing room. No need to set up the sawhorse tables in the garage.

This is my Rainbow Scrap Challenge quilt from 2021. It shouldn't take long to quilt. I'm just going to do some simple straight line quilting, and call it good. Maybe I'll do something in the colored borders of each block. I haven't decided for sure. Sometimes I just have to sit at the machine and let my hands decide what to do next.

We're still watching for that warmer weather. I know many of you are too. So, off I go. It's been nice chatting this morning. I hope y'all have some good stuff coming your way today.