Dark Blue

Another month, another Rainbow Scrap Challenge color. 

I knew I'd have these done early in the month.

I was Gramma nesting, waiting for our new grandson to make his appearance. 

I actually had the strips cut before the month even started. It was a lucky guess that the color would be dark blue.

I had plenty of fabrics to work with, many from very long ago. (So many memories in these scraps.)

I didn't think I would like working with a dark color, but it was actually easier to find outlier colors for these blocks than for some of the others--I guess because there was such good contrast.

I got them all finished in a day or so, and then zoomed on to dark green. You know how it is with nesting. Keep busy, keep busy. Waiting, waiting.

I'm not going to show you the dark green blocks, yet. That would not be appropriate.

In my rush, I forgot to make a collage this month of all of the colors so far. 

But I did make a whole quilt top with half of my RSC18 blocks. How's that for nesting?
Our grandson arrived a week early, or that top might even have been quilted. I will wait to show you the whole thing until after the October blocks are revealed, but here's a peek at a bit of it. The layout is much simpler and more sedate than the ones I played with throughout the year, but I like it. 

For the last week and a half, we've been enjoying cuddling our grandson and seeing how sweet his older brother is with him. Now we are home again. (It is oddly quiet.) My nesting feeling is gone, but wow, what a productive time it was! 

The air is distinctively autumnish here today--right on schedule. What a wonderful time of year to have a bunch of blocks done to make into cozy quilts.

I'm linking up today with Angela at SoScrappy for ScrapHappy Saturday. Tomorrow I'll link up with Cynthia at Quilting is more fun than Housework for Oh Scrap! 

I hope your scraps have been fun for you this month.