Thursday, February 4, 2016

Chocolate Covered Strawberries {RSC February 2016}

This month in the 2016 Rainbow Scrap Challenge our color is brown with pink accents -- that is perfect for February and Valentine's Day! It makes me think about chocolate covered strawberries!

Here's my brown scrap stash:


This is actually more than I thought I had, so hopefully I will make a big dent in this! Here are my fabrics sorted into light, medium, and dark with my pink accent pile pulled too.


This month I'm making blocks 12-22 of the 1920s Farmer's Wife blocks. Unlike January where I only paper pieced one of the blocks, since a good chunk of these have odd angles or are set on point, I plan to paper piece the majority of these blocks this month.

I think adding the pink in keeps the brown from being too drab, and I am planning to use more pink this month as an accent than I did last month with the purple accents in the blue blocks.

Here are the first 2 blocks:


#12 - Broken Sugar Bowl and #13 - Buckwheat

These turned out so cute! The pink is a great accent. The one on the left is cut and pieced as normal, and the one on the right uses the paper piecing patterns and it turned out great!

Now on to making more of these!

Linking up at Scrap Happy Saturday!

15 comments:

  1. I agree that the pink goes really well as an accent with the brown, and your chocolate covered strawberry imagery works perfectly. If only I had some chocolate in the house... ;)

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  2. Love the blocks. What is the 2016 Rainbow scrap challenge.

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  3. Your blocks and fabrics are quite fun.

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  4. Now I'm going to be craving chocolate covered cherries all day! LOL! (Although I don't eat chocolate anymore!!). Great job on your blocks! Love that pink fabric in your "sugar bowl" block.

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  5. The addition of pink brightens up the Browns. Very lovely blocks.

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  6. Your blocks are beautiful! Chocolate covered strawberries, indeed!

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  7. Looking good! The pink adds some nice zing to the brown.

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  8. Very pretty blocks! The pink does add a bit of pzazz to those deep browns.

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  9. Nice collection of Browns and pinks. The Buckwheat block is a real winner!

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  10. Everyone has said what I wanted to say...LOL!!! Aren't ya just loving the sip of pink with the browns though:) Happy scrappy sewing!

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  11. FANTASTIC blocks. Really!! My eyes are happy now.....

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  12. You are right...those did turn out cute. Good luck on FWS...mine is a really old UFO!

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  13. Yum, chocostrawberries! Your blocks look just like the word! Leeanna

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  14. LOVE the photo of your scraps sorted into dark, milk, and white chocolate... especially when you added in the strawberry accent!!

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  15. The pink really does cheer up your brown blocks. Beautiful start the month!

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