RSC - Just a Touch of Orange

 Orange is the colour of the month for RSC stitching, not my favourite colour by any means.  I'm not too keen on bright red either, wonder what that says about me?  I'm still working on my baby quilt and found a scrap of yellow with orangey coloured flowers - just enough for a corner block.  I was looking for something more apricot, but nothing was to be found.

That will do

I laid the blocks out on my design bed, to see what else I needed.  Yes, there were a couple of spaces that needed filling, so I stitched up some three purple blocks, and a teal for the other corner.  

On the design bed

The blocks were then webbed together and I contemplated what to use as a border.  And finally settled on a pale blue.  There, that's the top done and dusted.  Plus I made the binding, I always like to get this done early.   The next step is to get it layered and pinned.  Perhaps next week.

Finished the top

A local charity had put the call out for warm winter things recently.  I hadn't heard of this charity before, but thought I would like to donate a couple of things for local children. 

Donations needed

 You may remember the crate of knitted items I retrieved from the loft recently, full of things for future great-grandchildren?  I could pass two jumpers on, I decided.  Two boys jumpers, one about age 4-5, and the blue hooded one for a toddler.  Seems like there won't be any family babies for a while, I'm told.

Two jumpers for little boys

And I always seem to have a couple of donation quilts waiting to be passed on, so delivered these as well.   Both of these were RSC quilts finished last year.  And they both have a touch of orange too.

Off to keep some local children warm

And speaking of warm, we have been enjoying some lovely, sunny, Autumn days lately, beautiful and calm.  Not today though, it's cloudy,  cool, and getting colder.  The heat pump is on, luckily it doesn't take too long to warm things up.  Guess winter will show it's teeth here soon enough.