RSC Finishes

 I know we are not quite at the end of the year just yet, but close I thought to show my Rainbow Scrap Challenge finishes for the year. There are not too many completed projects, but that's the way it goes sometimes.  First was my challenge to get rid of my small bag of selvedges which had been hanging about forever.  I used to collect selvedges years ago, and have made all sorts of small items from them, bags, oven mitts, place mats, an apron, and have even  knitted some into small mats.  So this year, 2025, I decided to use up the remaining selvedges and stitched up double handed oven mitts,  according to the colour chosen each month.  I never did find my missing black and brown selvedges, maybe I decided I'd had enough of stitching these and tossed them out!  But I'm so pleased with the ones I made, in all their various colours.  Some will be used for gifts, I can replace my ratty ones, and any remaining will be tucked away for future presents.

Double handed selvedge oven mitts

Another finish was an  easy design in black and white, adding colours each month.  Nice and simple to stitch, and I stitched up four blocks each month.  I thought this might be suitable for an older boy's donation quilt.  This was finished in August, with a burgundy binding, and hasn't been donated yet.

  Black and white boy's donation quilt

When it was orange month for RSC I remembered I had a UFO with a touch of orange, so concentrated on getting it finished during the month.  Using some string pieced blocks and a child's blue feature fabric with touches of orange, I got to work.  This is another donation quilt, for a young boy, and has a nice cuddly grey fleece on the back.

A touch of orange

And when green was the colour of the month, I worked on my  long forgotten green Coin UFO.  I'm so pleased that I managed to complete the top, and then quilt it.  Seems that I need a nudge sometimes to get things across the finish line.  

Green coin quilt, donated to Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

I've worked on various RSC block sets during the year, and after my wardrobe malfunction earlier in the year, these have been tidied up, put in bags, and into a crate, so I know where to find them.  I really need to concentrate of working on these next year.  Will I start any new RSC projects in 2026?  I shouldn't,  but who knows what might take my fancy.

These are all RSC block sets from previous years

And there are several more RSC quilt tops now residing on the spare chair in front of the wardrobe.  A couple are pinned up, ready to quilt, others have the backing folded up with them, and I had planned ahead and  made the bindings for several of these quilt tops too.  

Ready for quilting

As I used to tell Robin, I'll never run out of things to do.  This lot should keep me busy for a while, I think.