ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC25 - Week 1

Welcome to Week 1 of the 2025 Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This week was filled with art, celebration, and work.  Did that leave time for sewing?

Read on to find out...

SUNDAY - Weekly Morning Art Zoom found me doing some catch-up work on the Ugly Art Club's 5 Minute BINGO Challenge:

After lunch I went upstairs to Zoom with Knittingsuek:

MONDAY - Day Off

Zoom with LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color

TUESDAY - Day Off

As you might have seen a couple weeks ago, I signed up for the Declutter Challenge 2025 with Karen @ Just Get It Done Quilts and did a bit of prep work today:

#declutterchallenge2025

#jgidqdeclutterchallenge2025

#reclaimingmyspace2025

WEDNESDAY - Happy New Year!!!

We went to an Open House at my BIL and SIL's house before they start traveling again.  I'm going to miss our coffee dates, but we may Zoom instead:

THURSDAY - Work

No (Weekly) Quilt Group for me today.  :o((

Scouring my magazine supply, I found the makings of this spread for my 5 Minute BINGO art journal:

FRIDAY - Work

Knit Group without me, as I had to go in early.

After dinner, I went upstairs for my Weekly Evening Art Zoom.  I glued down the pieces for the journal spread shown above and decided to glue (torn) fabric to another Altered Book Journal.  This one will be for Junk Journal January (I'm running a few days behind schedule) and Junk Journal July:

SATURDAY - It's LINK PARTY day for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!  I hope you will join me in visiting Angela @ So Scrappy to see what the RSC Quilters have been up to this week.  As you can see, there was no sewing for me, but I did work with a bit of fabric.  Since I still can't cut with a rotary cutter due to my broken finger, I'm calling that a win.

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!

Winter 2025 - (Ravelry) UFO Club - The List

Welcome back to The Joyful Quilter!! The WINTER 2025 (Ravelry) UFO Club is now OPEN for sign-ups!! Participants MUST list (at least) FIVE quilt projects. Photos should accompany the list. Sign-ups end at midnight EDT on January 7, 2025.

NOTE: All qualifying finishes must be posted BEFORE midnight (EST) on January 31, 2025!!!

Do you have a plan this time, Joyful???

As is typical for me, my strategy is usually to list WAY more projects than I could EVER possibly finish in a single session and hope for the best! The "at least FIVE" project requirement for participation is the bare minimum, but I tend to err on the side MORE is better. I haven't changed. I've explained that I'm a moody quilter. That means I have to "be in the mood" to work on any given project! By varying the size and style of the items included on my list, I have options. Theoretically, these choices increase the chances of finding projects that I want to work on during the quarter.

Here is my project list for the WINTER 2025 (Ravelry) UFO Club:

1. PINK Donation Quilt (2024)

2. Noah's Grad Quilt (2020)

3. Bright Eyes (Faces Workshop 2021)

4. Grape Candy Coated (2023)

5. Stitch Studio Remix (2012)

Quilting by Diane @ Stitch Studio

6. Bottom of the Bin Topper (2024)

7. SAHRR Holiday Edition (2023)

8. Aboriginal Runner (2022)

9. Blue and Green for Parrish (2016)

10. Color Wheel Runner (2023)

11. DOQ Neighborhood Challenge (2023)

12. Yellow JRR on Steroids - A2 Baby! (2023)

13. Bargello Wall Hanging (2017)

14. Bottom of the Barrel PURPLE Race Quilt (2024)

15. Blue & Yellow Donation Leftovers (2021)

16. Stay at Home ROW Robin (2021)

17. Disappearing Hourglass (2023)

18. QFK Challenge (2022)

19. Scrappy Light NEUTRAL Runner/Topper (2023)

20. Sweet Kisses (2021)

21. The Big RED Race (2024)

45" x 48"

22. Short Track RED Race (2024)

 

45" x 45"

23. TSC Rainbow Plus Quilt (2024)

24. QFK JRR on Steroids (2023)

25. Like Deborah (Boschart) Only Not (2016)

SEW...

The list is quite a bit longer than it has been in a while.  I realize there are WAY more projects than I could possibly complete in a 3-month period of time.  That's the way I like it, though.  I'll have plenty to choose from with 25 listed projects for the WINTER 2025 UFO Club.  The list includes some "have to do", some "want to do", and a few "low hanging fruit" to get me going.  My goal is actually only ONE finish for the quarter. More than that is a bonus!

Remember...

There's still time for YOU to join in the finishing fun!  Sign-ups are open through, January 7th @ midnight (EST), so head over to the Quilters Knitting group on Ravelry today. Email if you need help with the process. (You will need to sign-up for Ravelry, the Quilters Knitting group, then state your intentions and projects in the discussion thread linked above.)

Until next time...

Wish me luck!!

RSC25 - {Rainbow Scrap Challenge} - The Plan

Happy New Year!!!

Welcome to my planning post for the 2025 Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  Welcome to a new year.  Welcome to another year of using my scraps down to the very last inch.  It may take a lifetime, but it is SEW much fun!! With that goal in mind, I am beginning my 11th year of participation in the RSC.  Angela hosts this colorful monthly event to encourage us to sew up ALL of our fabric scraps, one color at a time, by assigning each month a color of the rainbow.

What's on your project list for the coming year, Joyful???

I'll tell you what is NOT on the project list.  I won't be adding RSC blocks to my ongoing collections.  There's just not enough "me time" to fit that into the schedule!

During 2025...

 I  plan to continue my focus on the TABLE SCRAPS Challenge in Angela's RSC Color of the Month.  YOU are welcome to join me!  Click on the LINK to find out more about this year's Challenge.  Everything else will be secondary (and I'm not going to beat myself up about it.)

If time allows...

I would like to continue creating donation quilt tops in each of the RSC Colors of the Month, inspired by Jasmine @ Quilt Kisses and her TUTORIAL for the Jumbo Jelly Roll Race quilt, along with other easy pieced patterns:

2024 Short Track RED Race Quilt top.

If I'm feeling REALLY ambitious...

I may try to get them quilted and bound during the month, too!

As always...

If I suddenly feel the urge to make quilt blocks, I reserve the right to alter my course for 2025!

Let's take a look back to 2024 in Joyful Quilterland...

Since we KNOW that I didn't make blocks, just what DID I do with my quilting time???

Like last year, I immersed myself in my art journaling instead of focusing on my quilting.  While NOT engaged in those activities, I worked on sewing small scrap projects for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  The studio is fully functional, but in 2025 I'm hoping to do additional decluttering in order for it to be even MORE comfortable.  Some more organizing really needs to happen, as well.

My fabric scraps made the following:

4  mini quilts/quilted mug rugs

3  table mat/runners

1 quilted scrap basket

3 wall hangings

1 pillow cover

2 quilted pin cushions

1 quilted jacket

3 placemats

For a total of...

Eighteen (18) scrappy projects that I completed as part of the 2024 Rainbow Scrap Challenge (in conjunction with my own TABLE SCRAP Challenge offered here on the blog) and a variety of other events.  Don't forget those four (4) Donation Quilt tops that I pieced!  They count toward my productivity, too!  :o))

You can see all of these in my 2024 Year in Review post.  I did my best to sew with the assigned Color of the Month throughout the calendar year.  These small scrappy projects bring me great joy and entice me to spend more time in the studio!!!

Aside from my scrap usage...

I also completed three (3) UFOs over the course of the year.  My list changed each quarter and I didn't stress which items were (or weren't) completed.  I had one (1) "client quilt" to keep me busy and since the longarm still wasn't feeling well enough to quilt, I was grateful that Britt let me borrow hers for the day in order to quilt it up.  I managed to keep the number of  new starts to a minimum (and maximized my time at Quilt Retreat) so progress was on the UFO List without the benefit of additional finishes.

In spite of my avoidance of completing the unpacking in the studio in 2024, I did a fair amount of decluttering as part of the 100 Day Project.  While my project totals were WAY down this year, I still accomplished a fair amount for my Rainbow Scrap Challenge endeavors.  Wish me luck for a more productive 2025!

A new LINK PARTY will be posted on each Saturday of the year.

Until next time...
SCRAPPY New Year!!!

Sharing with Angela

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The Rainbow Scrap Challenge

FALL 2024 - (Ravelry) UFO Club - The Results

 The FALL 2024 UFO Club is now CLOSED!! Participants MUST have listed (at least) FIVE quilt projects in the discussion below. Photos should have accompanied the list. Sign-ups ended at midnight EDT on October 7, 2024.

NOTE: All qualifying finishes must have been posted BEFORE midnight EST on December 31, 2024!!!

**Membership (24):**

basketcase9702: 1 completed project

monicarose51

fairfaxknitter: 1 completed project

peregrineknit

montricot: 3 completed projects

MissCarlotta: 1 completed project

MorganLaFey

laceyspinner

amalberti: 3 completed projects

doris7264: 2 completed projects

aerieiris

Cindiknits

gathersnomoss: 2 completed projects

djaquilter: 4 completed projects

BillieX3: 3 completed projects

Momma2abunch: 1completed project

robobeagle: 2 completed projects

BethCtoo: 1 completed project

Lallison79

dzirin

sk2p

needleb

bookwormdjibouti

tjsayers: 4 completed projects

Session Totals: 13 quilters have completed 29 projects.

I am pleased to have contributed the following to this quarter's group stats...

QFK Crayon Challenge (2023):

Completed just in time to hang in the Quilt Show.  Whew!

I also completed this one, but it wasn't on my list and didn't "count" toward the totals:

Alas, done is done and I'm not SEW upset about it.

Congratulations to our Rock Star(s) for the quarter, Djaquilter AND Tjsayers, each completed FOUR (4) projects for this session! Our Queen of the Last Minute? That was BillieX3 who shared her completed projects just a few hours short of the 11:59 PM cutoff time for the quarter. Congratulations, Billie!

Thank you to all of our participants and congratulations to our finishers! We appreciate our cheerleaders who encouraged us every step of the way. For anyone who has 5 (or more) quilting UFOs, please join us for the Winter 2025 UFO Club. It's worth joining Ravelry and the Quilters Knitting group in order to have some extra encouragement to finish up some of those languishing projects!

Note:  Sign-ups will be open through January 7, 2024 at 11:59 PM (EST).

Until next time...

Mark another UFO off the list!!