Sunday, May 29, 2011

Rainbow Challenge and Grasshoppers

The color of the month for the 2011 Rainbow Scrap Challenge was Pink.  I have made several pink quilts this year for my various donation projects and I was getting pretty tired of pink.  But since I did have pink scraps, I decided to make a little pink pincushion.  I wanted to practice in case I decided to get into a pincushion swap.  I'm glad I did this practice run because this project wasn't any too special!  Next time, I'll pick a pattern designed to be a pincushion (not just pick a block design) and follow instructions ...
Here is my first effort:









And on my walk, I found quite a few of these terribly voracious plant-consuming grasshoppers:










These are called *lubbers* and they can eat you out of your garden and yard.  Fortunately, I saw these on the railings of a dead-end street and they have plenty of conservation and wetlands to eat up before they get to a housing development.  Sorry about the color of this picture, but it is brownish wet grasses in front and then very green scrub forest.  Just a buffet for the lubbers!

3 comments:

Elly D said...

Looks very cute ;) and more than I've done.

sophie said...

I think the little friendship star is sweet and makes a lovely pincushion. Congratulations on a "finish" for the challenge ... I only just started working with my pink scraps yesterday ... and I'm not sure I'll finish before the end of May.

Quilter Kathy said...

Adorable! Great way to use up scraps!