Spring floral kaleidoscope.

I am working in the yard a lot right now with nothing much to show for it. The lettuce and pea pods are just starting to poke through the soil. So let's take our inspiration from a picture of the pea pods in the garden a year ago.

There is something about the rainbow scrappy challenge that is allowing me to play and experiment block by block without worrying about how everything will come together. One of my rainbow experiments is an improvisational alphabet. I randomly assigned letters and punctuation to each month of the year and now I am making the letters in the color for that month. And yes, I would like to fix the kink in the question mark, but I'm learning to think its charming.

I saw something that looks a bit like this out in the garden the other day. However, the garden is quite empty right now. Tommy suggested I invite him into the sewing room.

But I think Tommy is hoping for a bunny hop...

that would certainly turn into a bunny bash.

April is the purple month over at the Rainbow Scrappy Challenge. And here's a purple mouse all grown up. This was the easiest one to make because all I had to do was wait for it to grow up.

Here's the mouse as a baby with its litter mates.

And as we know, not all the babies make it to adulthood.

I have finally turned all of those composting strips into scrappy trip blocks that can now join the gazillion or so blocks I had already made. (Let's not forget I started this two years ago as part of Fibermania's quilt along February featuring the scrappy trip around the world design.) This layout isn't final. I'm just introducing the new blocks to the old blocks to see if they will play well with each other.

This is a frame from a video I took of Tommy. He is trying to teach the sewing robot to stop sewing and feed him treats. But instead the sewing robot is pointing a camera at him. He is wondering how he could possibly make his instructions more obvious.