Orange You Happy?

Knock-knock. Who's there? Orange. Orange who? Orange you happy we got to sew with orange during May? (Groan. I know but I couldn't resist. I have grandkids who are crazy about knock-knock jokes.)

I'm squeaking in during the last week again with my Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks. But. I got them done. 

My crumb blocks were a bit of a challenge this month. I have quite a lot of orange in my stash--but many are pale peachy or browny rust. Since I want lowish contrast blocks, I left those out, which did not leave a lot to work with. There were a few brights (my favorite) and some reddish-orange. I sort of separated them and made three blocks of each color group. There were a few that fit into both categories, so those kind of held everything together. I'm not sure about the pearl bracelet fabrics grabbing attention, but oh well. They kind of echo the dots in the fabric I have for the sashing.

Here they are with their friends. (I chose not to include aqua for these blocks.)

Because I had sorted the colors out for the crumb blocks, making my butterfly blocks this month went faster--brights for the upper wings and red-orange for the lower ones.

And here they are with their friends. (Notice no red with these this year. Maybe later.)

I'm really ready to start looking for background fabric for these so I can finish the blocks. Otherwise there will be a whole lot more sewing at the end of the year. They'll look more uniform with the background triangles and bodies added in. 

Now that my planned Hands2Help quilts from the last few months are done and sent out, I may get my next RSC blocks made before the end of June, and then it will be time to find a new project. Well, maybe finish those butterflies. Hmm.

I'm linking up with Angela at So Scrappy for ScrapHappy Saturday and with Cynthia at Quilting is more fun than Housework for Oh Scrap!

I hope you are having a fun weekend, scrappy or not.