Rainbow Life

A while back, I saw a rainbow quilt made out of scraps on Crazy Mom Quilts' blog, here.  

My blue drawer was getting too full, where I couldn't cram (literally) any more tiny scraps in there.

I went through the drawer and cut a bunch of 2 1/2" squares, with the idea of putting 36 together in a block.

I was in LOVE with the finished block, after it was ironed.

Not so exciting before ironing though.

Weird, I know.

So, thoroughly distracted from my other projects by now, I started on the reds.

I couldn't stop.

Went through all my scraps, and still have a BUNCH left over.

My friend at Confessions of a Fabric Addict blog, here, gave me sound advice to use a charcoal fabric between blocks.  

I had asked her if the blocks should be together or sashed.

The finished top is too wide for even Andy's 6 foot wingspan to hold out straight!

Lighting wasn't too great for this, but these are some blocks I fell in love with.

And more.

See how the un-ironed red ones aren't that exciting?

Until they're ironed.

They were SO fun to put together!

I turned to Facebook friends to let me know which design layout they liked best.

WOW!  The design I ended up doing had hundreds of votes.

Both friends and people on the quilting page.

This one reminded a few of Tetris.

This was the clear favorite, but some really didn't like the black and white squares.

So, I switched it up some.

When I first finished the front, I found out it was long and skinny.

Figures...I had laid it out to fit on our dining room table!

I like to be done with projects, but decided I wouldn't be happy if I didn't make a couple more columns to make it more aesthetically pleasing.

*sigh*

It was so worth the now-finished top!

Now, I've got to figure out the quilting on it.