Color Challenge #16 - Kelly Green

Kelly green fabrics from my stash - quite a few, more than I thought I had!

This is the final Color Challenge week - given by Victoria at 15 Minutes Play.

Besides kelly greens, I added some bright pink and orange, bugs, sky blue, and a cute little dog!

After assembling the block, I square it up with my 12-1/2" ruler. One block a week, for 16 weeks - slow and steady, a great way to make enough for a quilt! Especially if the blocks are 12" finished size.

The Sweet Sixteen Blocks!

Color Challenge #15 - Lime Green!

My favorite color! (just ask my family...) As a result, I had plenty of lime scraps - didn't have to cut any strips from my stash, nor did I have to purchase any fabric for this challenge.

Perfect evening: 15 Minutes lime green scrap play + Big Bang ( + white wine - out of picture!) = happy me!

Lime green "made" fabric - who could pick a favorite from these lovelies? Certainly not I! I love them all!

Lime block - love the aqua/lime print for the "X", don't you? I've shown the block on one of my favorite sewing tools - my rolly chair! I sew some seams, roll over to press, then roll back for more sewing. Better watch out when I'm "on a roll"!

Lime green block - last color challenge coming up this week!

Halls of Ivy

Today is the beginning of a BIG ADVENTURE! My daughter, Emily, and her boyfriend, Matt, took off for Boston! Cambridge, to be precise. They have both quit their jobs, left Chicago, and will be starting business school -

- Emily at Boston University -

- and Matt at Harvard.

Good luck, kids - you'll do great!

Casey speaks out!

This lovely young woman is Casey - she used to be my piano student, and before that, she grew up in my home day care for a few years. So even though she's not my daughter, she is very special to me - like one of my own.

Casey is working for the Peace Corps in Paraguay. She has always been a smart girl, but her intellect and understanding have grown and developed so much during her current experience. Go here to read her current blog post - all I can say is, it's brilliant! (I'm so proud of her, can you tell?)

Garden Walk July 4th - Part Two - a little late!

I have matching flower pots on either side of the front sidewalk, just before you step up onto my front porch. This year's combination of colors, heights, and textures is a success, I think!

Front window box - love these happy colors!

Sort of a patriotic color scheme - red, blue - and green! So ok, the red is actually orange - but it works, no?

Color Challenge #13 Aqua & #14 Maroon

Two more color challenges finished -here is #13 Aqua! I love this block! Aqua is an old favorite color of mine - I had several cute aqua fabrics, including that fun daisy print (don't know the maker, but I found it at JoAnn). Add a pinch of lime green, some deeper green and blue - ta da!

Color Challenge #14, Maroon - and also a closeup of our new garden gate! This block was the most difficult yet. Maroon is NOT a favorite of mine, I am not drawn to it in the quilt store at all. I found exactly one piece in my stash, the batik print with red, pink, and lavender on a maroon ground. I mixed in a red print, some pink, lavender, aqua, and yellowy gold. And now I really like this block!

Color Challenge #10 Grape, #11 Bubble Gum Pink, #12 Mint Green

Three more color challenge blocks - inspired by Victoria's challenge over at 15 Minutes Play.

#10 - Grape! This one was easy and fun for me. I love all purples, and have a good assortment. Good mixers with grape were lime green and aqua.

Challenge #11 - Bubble Gum Pink! This one was also fairly easy, as I did a large (bed size) pink quilt fairly recently, so I had tons of pink scraps. I added some orange, and that was about it.

#12 - Mint Green. This one was a toughie! I did own some mint fabric (quite a bit, actually) that was OLD. The reason it was old? Because it is not my favorite, I guess. I added some orange, pink, and lime green. Three more finished!