Ending May, Beginning June

The end of May took me by surprise this year!   Where did the month go?  Maybe I say that every month - the days and weeks sure seem to go by fast!   I finished out May in my sewing room by completing the monthly Table Scraps Challenge that I always participate in.  This is hosted by The Joyful Quilter - check out more fun small, scrappy projects at the link.

This month our challenge was to make something with pink scraps with a theme of the Kentucky Derby.  Okay - pink I've got covered.  The Kentucky Derby - ???  I started with one last orphan block from the 2020 Color Challenge that never got used up.

This is pink - very pink - too much pink for me!

So I decided to cut the 12.5 inch square into smaller squares, like this:

To connect with those pretty yellow birds (remember those birds - they're important later in the post!) in the pink print, I decided to add some yellow strips to these squares, and came up with this design:

A little more yellow, some quilting and binding, and voila!

This measures 12 x 16, so fits perfectly right here!

So this contains plenty of pink, but what about the Kentucky Derby?

Well, I googled "birds at the Kentucky Derby" (remember the birds in the pink print?) and came up with a horse named Mine that Bird who won the race in 2009, who has a great story.  You can read about it here:

Mine that Bird

I know, it's a bit of a stretch, but it's my story and I'm sticking to it!  😜

To begin June, I got out my light blue scraps and started cutting squares and making HSTs for a light blue patchwork heart.  More on that next week!

Sharing at Joyful Quilter's May Table Scraps link-up 

And at SoScrappy for ScrapHappy Saturday.

Quilting is More Fun than Housework for Oh Scrap!