Saturday, January 31, 2015

Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2015 - January

Even though I haven't finished the blocks for last year's Rainbow Scrap Challenge, I'm going to do it again this year. I'll be making almost four times as many blocks each month this year, but they're considerably easier to put together. I managed to get another set of last year's Dakota Farmer blocks done a few weeks ago, in blues. Two more sets to go for 2014, yellows and oranges, and I'll be ready to put that top together.

I was very interested in Angela's Sampler for this year's challenge but felt I wanted something less complicated. I have two big quilts I have to get done before mid-April and was worried about getting behind, so I'm going to save the directions and maybe do it next year instead.

For this year's challenge, I'm making blocks for a quilt called Twisted Ribbons. It's from a book by Elsie Campbell called Nine Patch and Snowball Quilts. It's an older book, from 2003, but I've wanted to make this particular quilt for a long time. The color for January is blue, and these are the blocks for the first ribbon, made with 15 snowball blocks and 13 nine patch blocks. No borders per se on this quilt, so quick and easy.
Each ribbon segment is made up of one snowball block and one nine patch block. Both blocks will eventually have squares and triangles added to the opposite sides in a different color for an adjoining ribbon. There will be 12 ribbons, which will take me through to the end of the year, but I may change up Angela's colors a little bit. In the quilt in my book, the author combined yellows and oranges in the same ribbon, so I'm not sure what I'll do for that yet.

There's a Mr. Linky on Saturdays on Angela's blog so you can see what other quilters are working on, here.

9 comments:

Chantal said...

Lovely stars but the ribbon is soooo interesting. At first it looks complicated. Can't wait to see this one evolve.

Scrappy quilter said...

I agree lovely stars however that ribbon is going to make a very interesting quilt.

Jennie in GA said...

Oh, my....the ribbons are lovely!

Nanette said...

Your ribbon caught my eye on Angela's link-up, and so interesting close up. Your quilt will be lovely.

Quiltdivajulie said...

The ribbons are most intriguing!! Will be watching . . .

LA Paylor said...

boy oh boy I want to make ribbons now.
I must ask about 9 patch... looks like a 6 patch next to a snowball. I'll be watching to see how the colors mix. What's the size on the ribbon width? I wonder if 12 colors across will make a good king size quilt. LeeAnna at not afraid of color

Laura said...

I love the ribbon! It looks so much more complicated than 9 patches and snowballs. How clever! Can't wait to see the different colored ribbons added to the blue one!

Sheila said...

Love your blue blocks. Ribbon is very interesting. Looking forward to watching your ribbons grow this week.

KatieQ said...

The scrappy stars look great, but the Twisted Ribbon looks like it will be amazing. I look forward to seeing how it progresses.