Bottled Rainbows {ticker tape quilt-along}

At long last, it's time to do something fabulous with all your teeny tiny scraps!  Please join me in a leisurely quilt-along inspired by my bottled rainbows.  Each week we'll make just one rectangle ticker tape block, starting the first week of March.  Sometime in June we'll be ready to piece and finish this baby.  Take a look!



You'll start wherever you like on the rainbow, making use of your scraps at hand.  Have lots of red, but no teal?   Worry not my dears.  You can put off your harder colors in favor of something more plentiful.  Months from now I bet you'll find yourself some volunteers if your scraps are as proliferous as mine!  Ooh, and for really pesky colors, we just may have to organize a scrappy swap!  You let me know, K?

the nitty gritty.  Each rectangle block finishes at 16 x 20", including a 2.5" sashing in solid Kona cotton.  For the center of each block, you'll want a nice neutral such as white, cream or natural linen.  Finished quilt will measure 64 x 80" - a very generous blanket (or add a 5" border to make it a twin sized quilt!). 

You know you want to! How else are you ever gonna enjoy all those scraps?  If you've never tickered before, I have to tell you that it's a completely user-friendly technique.  You simple cut scraps to size and sew them down on your background fabric.  That's it.  Technically, this is "applique" but without any kind of precision.  This is the same way I made my Mosaic Tree block!

So, will you be joining us?  Feel free to grab a button:

<div align="center"><a href="http://www.stitchedincolor.com/2011/02/bottled-rainbows-ticker-tape-quilt.html" title="Bottled Rainbows {the button}"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_N_GiKhs_VOc/TWcAQv1FYCI/AAAAAAAAALU/27RKne8yCYM/s128/button.jpg" alt="Bottled Rainbows {the button}" style="border:none;" /></a></div>

I'll be updating this page with our progress!

1.  Materials List
2.  How to Swap Scraps
3.  Moving Forward (example block and more details)
4.  Supplies Giveaway 
5.  All about Ticker Tape 
6.  How to Make a Bottled Rainbow Block
7.  Join Right In + Tangerine Block
8.  Your Creations
9.  Raspberry Block 
10.  Joining Blocks 
11.  Plum Block + Your Creations 
12.  Materials for Finishing 
13.  Blue Blocks
14.  Domesticity + Cerise Block
15.  Rainbow Stacks
16.  Green Blocks 
17.  Look at you! 
18.  Teal Block 
19.  Hip, hip, hurrah!
20.  Piecing & Adding Borders
21.  Quilting
22.  On my bed
23.  Baby Bottled Rainbows!