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!!!

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