Bowtie Business and a little Unsewing...

A couple of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge WiPs needed some attention this week, and since I am all done with the red blocks I needed to make for July, I pulled them out.

The bowtie blocks are so close to being ready to sew together into a flimsy, and I'm very ready to work on a finish right now!

I decided to stop at 90 blocks, which will make a quilt about 54 x 61, which is a good size for me to finish up.  You can see I just need a few more blocks, and after laying everything out the other day, I think I need to make a few more purples and a few more oranges.  

These will work for that purpose!

I also decided it was time to remake the purple Scrappy Sprouts that I first made way back in February.

At that time, I didn't really have a clear vision for this project, so I mixed the light and dark purples in both blocks.  After making more blocks as the months went on, I realized that I liked making a light block and a dark block for each color, and these didn't fit in!

So, I  pulled the blocks apart into their basic parts, rearranged a little, and ended up with this - 

The dark purple sprout had plenty of squares and HSTs to go back together easily, but you can see that I didn't have enough in the lavendar colors.

So, after hunting around in my stash, I came up with a strip out of a jelly roll that I received for participating in Hands2Help earlier this year.  (I was a really late entrant to that event, but Sarah still sent me this pretty fabric, bless her!  I'll definitely use it to make a quilt donation for next year, but more about that another day!:)

It's really perfect for this block!

And now these two blocks look soooo much better!

And they fit in much better with the rest of the blocks, too!

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