Green: Rainbow Scrap Challenge

Last year, I didn't keep up very well with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge hosted by Angela at So Scrappy.  And by "not very well" I mean "only made it for one month."  In 2018, I picked two patterns.  After the first month, it became clear very quickly that two were too many to work on, so I kept up with the car blocks and set the kitties aside for the next year.  Last January, I was all ready to break out the kitties.  I made the blocks in January's color, meaning I now had kittens in two colors.  And then I didn't get back to the cats for the rest of the year.

So this marks my third year making kittens in January's color.  Maybe I can finally break the curse and get past January?  The pattern is Smitten Kitten by Lorna of Sew Fresh Quilts.

I've decided that I'm just going to add yellow and purple to the cats I already have and that should give me enough blocks plus a good variety of colors.  So if I wanted to actually do the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, I would need an additional project.

My bucket of strings is overflowing, so strings seemed like a great place to start.  I decided that log cabins would be the best use of the variety of lengths and widths in the string bucket.  I cut a black & white polka dot fabric into 2 1/2" squares to create a unified center in all the blocks.  Then I just went to town, log cabin style!  They are odd log cabins since each string is a different width.  I started with 5 blocks and when it became clear that I would have strings left over, I made 3 more.  When I got to more than 12 1/2" on each side, I stopped and trimmed.

I'm just going to let each color dictate how many I make and will figure out what to do with them when I'm done. I also decided that I would use as many of the strings of each color as reasonably practical, and then get rid of the leftovers with no regrets.  That felt surprisingly freeing!  I'm looking forward to an empty string bin at the end of the year!