Sewing Saturday blues

 For this week's sewing round up, I am showing my lozenge blocks, in dark blues for the color of the month at RSC. I prepare the rectangles cut from scrap bins, and 2" white, and black, squares and sew them all at once

Pretty fabrics right? All scraps in the bin, ready to showcase in this simple block

When I sew the squares onto the rectangles, I sew on the other side of the line to give me tiny 1.5" HST's. My goal has been each month to use these in a new way.

I had a hard time deciding what to do this time... pinwheel's with four of them, or another block. I went to my "parts dept" and found a painted lady to become the center, and did some pinwheel, some other blocks, and cut some extra 2.5" blue fabric squares to go with them, and made them work to go around the face

so cute! But... I had to make it all work, add a little here, a little extra there, finish painting her shoulders, sew it all together with a tiny border and now it's ready to quilt with some sparkly metallic thread.

See the hour glass blocks form a star

the blocks sewn with black corners on dark blue don't show up well but you can see them here, a mix of hourglass, and pinwheels.

On the list to make is also an applique pink rose for my artquilt challenge this month...

Linking to

wendysquiltsandmore peacock party (quilts)
can I get a whoop whoop Fridays 

http://www.inquiringquilter.com/ Wednesday wait loss
Midweek makers wednesdays
blue mondays
design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts
lovelaughquilt.mondays
oh Scrap Sundays 

scrap happy Saturdays