Orange, Orange Everywhere

Spring 2019 I made this triangle quilt using the Chopsticks pattern by Jaybird Quilts. My daughter requested this pattern for her dorm room in a "bright color." I decided oranges and pinks fit the bill. I used different gray prints for the middle of the orange triangles, and a common light grey fabric (Connecting Threads light silver chambray) for the narrow borders around the orange triangles. This is the second time I made this pattern and I love it. However, there are a pile of half triangles left over after the edges are trimmed. I hate to toss big pieces of fabric, but they are an awkward shape to use, so I put them into a box ...

Fast forward to February and I still had a box of orange and pink scraps. The color for February at Angela's Rainbow Scrap challenge was orange. I had decided to try making some Checker Blocks using Elven Garden Quilts tutorial. I dug into my box of scraps and quickly made seven orange blocks. The angle cut end pieces for the Chopsticks quilt worked well for the half square triangles in this quilt. However, I wanted the quilt to be rainbow, so I put the breaks on making orange blocks and made some other colors to balance out the orange. I decided to finish the quilt top right away rather than wait for each color to be announced on RSC.

Last week I finished up the quilting and binding on this donation quilt. I quilted it with some wonky ribbon candy and lines.

Meanwhile, I still had a box of orange and pink triangle cut-offs from the original quilt. When sorting through projects in my sewing room as the stay-at-home recommendations rolled in, I decided to make some random blocks and empty the box once and for all. This scrappy orange quilt was the final result and will be a happy quilt to donate. I quilted it with big swirls in hot pink thread.

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