Topaz, amber and canary diamonds...

The color of the month at the Rainbow Scrap Challenge is yellow. Warm, golden, glowing yellow.
This week it was time to make the Gemstones

First pull out strips, shades and patterns that look like gems...

... no pattern, just improv. stitching.
start with some basic shapes, then log cabin around them

This time I started with a slight marquise/oval shape to try too.

baguette

Brilliant cut, diamond shape, square cut

this is more saturated than it looks in this pic. You can see the mitered strips are different widths

they all looked so pretty on the design wall...

for scale, the V-quilt is about 32" X 35" so the large baguette is about 10"

I've done chandelier blocks, gemstones, and blooming snowballs all in yellow. Wonder what the color will be next month?
For now I am practicing quilting designs and thread colors on the little scraps- from- scraps, winter scene, before tackling the cattail piece.

about 12" X 18" right now

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