Rainbow Scrap Project - Sidelined

It's hard to believe Christmas is less than a week away.  The preparations for the holiday have pulled me away from the sewing room.  Well, that and things like waiting on the dryer repair man, baking cookies, and standing in line at the post office.  What time I've been in the sewing room has been focused on making progress with Bonnie Hunter's Grand Illusion mystery.  This weekend the focus will be on getting the binding and label on Scrappy Stars.  It's supposed to be a Christmas gift, so it needs to get done before Tuesday.  

I've done some stitching on the Rainbow Scrap Challenge Sampler, but not enough for it to look much different than last week.  I'm still working on the gray Inverted Star. 

Inverted Star
by Jessica Boschem of Common Threads
available from Craftsy as a free download

It needs a few more HSTs and 4 squares before it can be stitched up.  Some of the colors look almost brown in the photo, they look much more gray in real life. 

I've been playing on the computer with the Twinkle Star blocks that are the planned project for next year's challenge.  The aim is to develop a secondary pattern in the quilt.  I wasn't a big fan of all the white space created when the block corners are just white squares, but sashing the blocks and adding corner stones fixes that problem.  

Here are a few other possibilities.  

There is a little bit of time before I have to settle on a final block for next year's challenge.  

That's it for me this week.  Happy Holidays and may all your holiday preparations go smoothly.  You can check out more scrappy projects over at Soscrappy.