100 Day Project Progress

We are just past the halfway point of the 100 Day Project and I'm having so much fun with my 100 Days of Scrappy Sewing! I only set one rule for myself for this project - at least 15 minutes a day working on any of my scrappy projects, old or new - and that has made it incredibly easy to stick with it.

My Hexie Rainbow was the first project I worked on, and it has been getting a fair bit of attention. 

I have hundreds of black hexies to add to create the frame around the rainbow, so I'm joining them into short rows, then I lay everything out and arrange the short rows into the long rows I need (hopefully without repeating fabrics too close together), stitch them together, and then stitch them to the rainbow. I find a chunk three rows wide is a manageable size for adding to the rainbow.

I stitched up a lot of these striped units. They're one of two new things I've started during Project.

They've now been stitched into a top, but I'm not quite ready to share the whole thing yet. Here's a little sneak peek, though.

I've gotten the childcare littles involved a couple of times, too. Once we used the Accuquilt Go cutter to cut some squares.

And once I took them up to the sewing room to stick stars on the 'magic wall' after they had been fighting over toys for most of the morning. They thought it was amazing!

Those stars are an old project that I'm really enjoying now that I've pulled it out again. The stars are all stitched, they just need to be appliqued to their backgrounds, which I'm doing by hand with a ladder stitch. Getting the littles to put them all on the wall was a great distraction, but also served a purpose, since I wanted to see what I had. Apparently I've stitched a lot of black and grey stars. Now that I know that, I'm making a point of using the bright stars. The squares are 6 ½", which means that so far I have almost enough for a baby quilt, but I want to make it a throw, so I'll happily keep stitching stars to backgrounds.

My Scrappy Triangles blocks have been growing, too. I use them as leaders/enders while working on other things, so it's slow progress. I have 8 quadrants finished so far. Can you spot the oops in this picture? 

I need another 8 quadrants before I sew the blocks together, to give me a better chance of reducing fabric repeats in each block. I've sewn the units for those quadrants into pairs, and now I'm sewing the pairs together into rows.

Last, but certainly not least, I've sewn a bunch of scrappy 4 patches in fun, bright colours. Hmmm, there's another peek at the striped blocks from earlier 😄

This isn't the final layout for these blocks, but it does show them off nicely.

We've made a few additions to my sewing room, including a design wall (or as I told the littles, a magic wall). It's the first time I've ever had a design wall and I love it! I was only half joking when I told the littles it was a magic wall as there is something magical about being able to stick the blocks on the wall to look at them, rather than on the floor. Even Nathan is amazed by it and likes to stick things up. I have one more addition to make to the room, hopefully soon, and then I'll share some new pictures.

In the meantime, I'll be doing lots more scrappy sewing and enjoying every minute of it!