April Showers Bring May Flowers

I am not sure that April showers means snow but that is what we have been getting the last few days.
I do have crocuses. hyacinths and daffodils so we are getting flowers. Spring is here!

These are from my flower bed out front. So nice to have them in the house.

I have done a little bit this week in the way of quilting.  Some piecing on the Quilt of Valor I am making as a leader ender.

I am working on the 7th one now. I will be making 12 of these blocks.

I also decided that I needed to have another leader ender project going. This quilt is not on my list of quilts to make this year but I really need to use up a bunch of 2 1/2 inch squares that are over flowing my bin. So I am going to make Sisters Choice by Bonnie Hunter. I have always thought this would be a beautiful quilt to make. So because I have so many green squares I will be making them for the 9 patches in this quilt.

This is the quilt that Bonnie made.

This is my first block. I think I have enough green 2 1/2 inch squares to make about 3 of these quilts in a twin size. I plan to give them as Quilts of Valor and they don't need to be quite as big as the one Bonnie made. I haven't decided for sure what color the points will be. I will either make them yellow or blue, I will decide when I get closer on the 9 patches being all done. Sometimes with leader enders projects they can work up very quickly.

This is my set up for string blocks. I will make 10. I chose orange because So Scrappy did not give us a color this month. I thought about it and decided it didn't really matter what color just as long as I am using up scraps.

These are the 9 patches I am making.

This is the first one completed.

I will sign up for Rainbow Scrap Quilting if she does a linky this week.
I guess there has been a slip up with Rainbow Scrap Challenge and I guessed the wrong color for this month. I chose orange and the color is purple so I guess when she pickes orange I will chose purple and get back on track. Click here to see what others are doing today.

I have both Craftsy blocks laid out. I will be counting these two blocks as Rainbow Scrap blocks and also as Slow Stitching Sunday blocks.

Each of these blocks have all different oranges. I still have a bunch of orange fabrics even though I used quite a bit of fabric in the Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt.  I will be hand stitching these down instead of machine sewing them.

Well, this is all for today. I will post again on Sunday.