Lime and Beets quilt blocks
a new Scrap Cabin cluster
This week the whirr of the sewing machine sounded for the first time in my new studio. It has been a painfully slow, uphill battle to set up in this space, and there are still boxes to unpack. The sight of them makes my heart sink, or maybe that’s all the white, white, white that I am surrounded by here? I need so much more COLOR. When I fully unpack, I hope to have tipped the scale slightly in a rainbow direction.
So, suffice it to say that pulling out these scraps was a welcome task. I am sewing another cluster of Scrap Cabin quilt blocks, this time in lime and magenta. These are opposite colors on the color wheel, which makes them extra vibrant when used side-by-side.
After pressing my scraps into deliciously intense stacks, I began sewing blocks four at a time. I love how this block uses scraps of all kinds of widths and lengths. It’s so satisfying like that!
The idea is a log cabin block with value contrast: two sides sewn in darker values and two sides sewn in lighter values. Only, I think I erred to use that “lighter” magenta log at the bottom of this block. Time for some reverse sewing.
Nope, don’t look at those boxes! Just ignore them. We’re sewing now, okay?
Four finished blocks, pressed and ready to share!
What do you think? Do lime and beet magenta still read as a dark value cluster? I say “yes”, but only because I was extra careful to use only very light fabrics for the contrast. Lime is, after all, a naturally light shade, just as yellow. It would have been easier to pull off this block with a grass green/red combo, a la Christmas. Noted.
Still, I love how this cluster of Scrap Cabin blocks turned out and will be glad to include it in my very colorful, very rainbow-happy quilt. Design wall, coming soon (fingers crossed).
The Scrap Cabin Sew-Along begins January 1st. Sign up here to receive sew-along emails. The pattern releases tomorrow to make your weekend even more merry and bright!
I love it, but lime greens are a favorite of mine and pinks and greens always play well together.
I am a fan of neutral white walls because I can hang anything and it won't clash with the wall color like in a museum.
Hang finished quilts or even yardage everywhere to inspire you. Please give yourself a wide full height working wall in a neutral gray flannel somewhere you can step back to look at it.
Find a sunny spot for the quilter where maybe you can see out and get some beautiful plants that also provide fresh air during the winter months.
You will soon find your rhythm so give yourself some grace, there has been a lot of change in your life this year.