Pink and Brown

It’s the New Year, 2021,  and the Rainbow Scrap Challenge is up and running again.  Pink is the colour of the month, and many thanks to Angela of So Scrappy for hosting this again.  How many taking part, I wonder, have been procrastinating like I have about what to do this year for RSC?  I’ve been thinking of various options, changed my mind several times, and then finally decided what to do.  I like to make donation quilts for children, and doing a few blocks each month makes it easy and interesting.  So these are two of my RSC projects for 2021.  There could well be another one later on.

Just for a change, I’m doing an applique block for the girl’s quilt, which will have an alternate block in-between later on.  For this month  I’ve stitched three pink birdies.

Three pink birds

And for a young boy’s quilt, I decided to stitch some simple ship blocks.  I never know when a ship is a boat, or vice versa, something to do the size, I imagine.  Someone clever is sure to know the answer.  But I couldn’t make pink ships/boats for a boy, could I, so I went with brown instead.  Each is sailing on the briny blue sea.    And instead of rushing out to the LQS to get some sea fabric, I decided to make use of what I had, and found two different blues in my stash which will do the trick.   These are quick and easy to make, which is always a bonus.

Blocks for a boy’s donation quilt

And then taking hardly any time at all, I quickly stitched up some pink flag blocks.  This design was a RSC late starter last year, so I am carrying it over to this year as well.

Easy pink flag blocks

It will be fun to see what others will be stitching for their  RSC projects this month. There’s sure to be lots of pretty pink projects appearing on the link-up.