Mile a Minute in Blue

Blue Mile a Minute quilt blocks

Last night I worked on Blue Mile a Minute blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  I was a little more liberated with the blue and used different shapes of scraps.  Actually I think I work with blue so much that there were a lot more shapes to choose from.  After I sewed my nine blocks I think I had enough blue scraps left to continue and make a whole quilt!

Here’s a sample of what I have so far for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

Rainbow Mile a Minute blocks

 

Click on over to soscrappy to see what others are doing with blue and the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

Words that are synonymous with or represent various shades of the color blue: azure, baby blue, beryl, cerulean, cobalt, cornflower blue, corporate blue, cyan, indigo, midnight blue, navy, Prussian blue, robin's egg blue, royal, sapphire, sky blue, slate, steel blue.

“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true”

Inch by Inch Block

Inch by Inch Block

These blue and white blocks are made from scraps that are any multiple of 1 inch (plus seam allowances).  I place my ruller on the scrap and see what size of a piece I can get out of it, and then start building them into 10 inch blocks.  It’s what I call my Inch by Inch block.  "Inch by Inch, row by row, I’m gonna make this little quilt grow."  Many of these fabrics where given to me by my friend Nancy Lindquist former owner of Villa Factory Clothing. 

For the month of July the colour for the Rainbow ScrapChallenge is Blue, go to soscrappy to be inspired with what others are doing with their blue scraps.

I love blue and white and have a huge stash of blue fabric.  I collect blue and white porcelain and seem to be always drawn to the colour blue.

Be sensitive to your sensitive inner capacities to respond to color.  Nathan Cabot Hale

Canada Day

Back Art on Loft Quilt

This quilt makes me think of Canada Day, the back of the quilt is full of Canadian theme prints, maple leaves, ducks, bulrushes, pine cones and postcards, all in a lovely warm flannel fabric.  The front of the quilt is a pattern called Loft from the book Quilts Made Modern by Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr. 

Loft Quilt from Quilts Made Modern

 

My neighbor Candy made this quilt (two quilts in one) as a wedding gift for a friend’s son, a Canadian man who met his American wife in China and her favourite colour is green. 

Calm Water Pantograph by Anne Bright

Detail of Calm Water on back

It is quilted with the Calm Water pantograph by Anne Bright.

Today we celebrate Canada’s 145^th birthday.

 A world without generosity is no more imaginable than a year without its seasons.