Rainbow Wrapup

Last year, I participated in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge but never got around to posting my finished quilt tops.

Each month, I made six Birds in the Air blocks and one Crumb block from the chosen color.

Eventually I had quite the rainbow of "birds".

I chose primary colored blocks and made this arrangement:

I added a bright border containing all the colors and the finished top looked like this:

Here's a closeup of the border fabric:

I still had all the pink/turquoise/fuschia blocks to work with, plus some extra primary colored birds so I put them together in a second quilt top:

Here is the border fabric I used for that one:

I was fortunate that both border fabrics were acquired for only $1.00 a yard at my quilt guild's yard sale last year.  Both quilt tops are child sized and were donated to my local chapter of Quilts for Kids.

I still had all the Crumb blocks to play with:

I decided to put them together in a wonky setting:

To get the wonky look, each block is sewn to asymmetrical borders, which were cut from rectangles of a splashy paint print fabric.

Here's an example of the pink block:

I ended up with this youthful quilt top:

In the end, I'm not crazy about it.  I would not have chosen the bright blue sashing if I had been working at home, but I sewed this together at a quilt retreat and the blue sashing was what I had with me.  However, I think a child will find it a fun distraction to cuddle under, so it was donated to Quilts for Kids as well.

Thank you , Angela, at Soscrappy for hosting another year of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  You can see what other scrappy creations are being sewn up for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2020 over at the link-up here.