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I jumped into the March Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC16) color at the last minute.

My 25 little 4" 16-patch blocks needed something to make them big enough for anything more than a doll quilt -- which wouldn't have been so bad, now that I think about it ...

After I framed them with the accent color, yellow, I went to the blogosphere for suggestions of what to do next.

Ramona at Doodlebugs and Rosebuds suggested a dark sashing, but by that point I had settled on a medium purple close to the purple in the yellow frames and with a little vine in the stripe that mimicked the vine in the frame. At least it is darker than the yellow ...

Jan at Colorful Fabriholic thought a touch of olive might be interesting (she has such a way with color!). Well, I found a yellow for the cobblestones -- thanks, Gayle, for suggesting light -- which is sprinkled with squares in various shades of purple AND a yellow-green.

Charlene at Geema's Wonderings and Ozark Cajun both suggested making stars where the sashings intersect. This is something I've been wanting to try for a long time but somehow it never comes to mind when I get to the sashing stage. Since my sashings are cut 2", I decided that a Friendship Star would be less finicky than a sawtooth star. I incorporated Jan's suggestion by using various yellow-green scraps in the Friendship Stars.

Rough Layout of Friendship Star Sashing

While Joy D had a great plan for organizing the 16-patch blocks around a center star medallion, I decided I didn't want to have to think that much on this project. But I'll certainly keep the idea in mind for the future.  In fact, Joy D, I have the perfect center star in the works so you may see your plan come together later this year.

Gayle at mangofeet voted for an on-point setting.  Great idea! Did you know that a block set on point is half again as big as a block set straight?

 I have no space to show the full layout; just take my word, the rows are all together except for the longest one. Of course, now I'm faced with finding a fabric for the side setting triangles.... Any idea?

Thanks, everyone for all your suggestions!

Now on to ORANGE. I've had a love affair with orange fabric ever since I began quilting (thought I hated it before) so I should have absolutely NO problem finding scraps.

Told ya! Look what I found in my purple box.

I've got 10 of these little gems. An interesting idea is rattling the brain cells this morning. Stay tuned.


Linking up with Angela at soscrappy.